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Directory         1.     Viola Schmitt , GLOW 34 Message 1: GLOW 34 Date: 05-Feb-2011 From: Viola Schmitt <vs.violaschmittgmail.com> Subject: GLOW 34 E-mail this message to a friend GLOW 34 Date: 27-Apr-2011 - 01-May-2011 Location: Vienna, Austria Contact: Martin Prinzhorn Contact Email: martin.prinzhornunivie.ac.at Meeting URL: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/glow34.linguistics/ Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Meeting Description: GLOW 34 will be hosted by the department of linguistics, University of Vienna Colloquium: April 28-30, 2011, Workshops: April 27 2011, May 1, 2011 Colloquium Topic: How much syntax is there in grammar? Subject areas: Phonology, Semantics, Morphology, Syntax, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics In addition there will be three workshops: Intervention Effects from a Semantic Perspective April 27, 2011 Workshop on the Phonological Marking of Focus and Topic April 27, 2011 Identity in Grammar May 1, 2011 See also http://homepage.univie.ac.at/glow34.linguistics/index.html Thursday, April 28 2010 8.30 Registration 9.00 Parsimonious Merge: The Intricate Syntax of French Causatives and its Clitic Distribution [Vincent Homer & Dominique Sportiche (UCLA)] 10.00 Optional Se-Constructions in Romance: Syntactic Encoding of Conceptual Information [Cinzia Campanini & Florian Schäfer (University of Stuttgart)] 11.00 Coffee break 11.30 On Possibility Modals and NPI Licensing [I-Ta Chris Hsieh (University of Connecticut Storrs)] 12.30 (Partially) free to vary [Anamaria Falaus(University of the Basque Country)] 13.30 Lunch break 14.30 Mapping phonology to syntax: evidence from two wh-in-situ languages [Lisa Cheng (Leiden University) & Laura Downing (ZAS)] 15.30 Linguistic rhythm guides syntactic structure building -- reading data and an OT-style processing model [Gerrit Kentner (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)] 16.30 Coffee break 17.00Patterns of Prosodic Prominence in English Intransitive Sentences [Aron Hirsch & Michael Wagner (McGill University)] 18.00 GLOW business meeting 20.00 Party at Schutzhaus auf der Schmelz ( Auf der Schmelz 4, 1150 Wien) Friday, April 29 2010 9.00 Functional categories: FLN or FLB? [Rose-Marie Dechaine (University of British Columbia) & Mireille Tremblay (Université de Montréal)] 10.00 Optimality is not a Race: Against a Performance-Based View of Reference-Set Computation [Thomas Graf (UCLA)] 11.00 Coffee break 11.30 Connecting to Illocutionary Force. A Theoretical and Experimental Study of the German Discourse Particle `denn' [Josef Bayer, Markus Bader (University of Konstanz), Jana Häussler (University of Potsdam) & Simon Hopp (University of Konstanz)] 12.30 What is dependent Case dependent on? A case study from Slavic [Ivona Kucerova (McMaster University)] 13.30 Lunch break 14.30 Poster session 1 [see below] 15.30 Reducing PRO: a Defective Goal Analysis [Inna Livitz (New York University)] 16.30 Coffee break 17.00 Locating Agreement in Grammar [Rajesh Bhatt & Martin Walkow (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)] 18.00 Poster session 2 [see below] Saturday, April 30 2010 9.00 Some formal conditions on logical syntax [Winfried Lechner (University of Athens)] 10.00 A new argument for Small Clauses [Keir Moulton (McGill University)] 11.00 Coffee break 11.30 Decomposing Blackfoot Proclitics [Heather Bliss (University of British Columbia) & Bettina Gruber (Utrecht University)] 12.30 Vagueness, Universal Quantification and the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface [Heather Burnett (UCLA)] 13.30 Lunch break 14.30 The Spurious NP ellipsis of Hungarian [Eva Dékány (University of Tromsoe CASTL)] 15.30 On COMP-t Effects in Spanish: A New Argument for Rescue by PF- Deletion [Julio Villa-Garcia (University of Connecticut Storrs)] 16.30 Coffee break 17.00 Rescue by PF deletion, intervention effects, and head movement [Zeljko Boskovic (Universtiy of Connecticut Storrs)] Ranked Alternates 1 Impossible predicates [Peter Graff & Jeremy Hartman (MIT)] 2 Getting rid of uninterpretable features: blind movement and Justification [Gary Thoms (Strathclyde University)] Poster Session 1 Agent-oriented adverbs =Individual-level predicates(e) [Bryan Leferman (University of the Basque Country)] The Composition and Interpretation of Tough-Movement [Shoichi Takahashi (Nihon University)] Children's understanding of the logical words 'not', 'every', and 'or' [Anna Notley, Rosalind Thornton & Stephen Crain (Macquarie University)] If-clauses and (c)overt adverbs of quantification revisited [Elena Herburger (Georgetown University) & Simon Mauck (Maagha Press)] How much syntax is there in Metalinguistic Negation? [Ana Maria Martins (University of Lisbon)] Nalle Wörter werden Brüder: explaining a universal lexical gap [Hedde Zeijlstra (University of Amsterdam)] The syntax and semantics of `be like' - quotatives [Bill Haddican (CUNY Queens College/University of York), Eytan Zweig (University of York) & Daniel Ezra Johnson The Syntax-Information Structure Interface in Korean [Reiko Vermeulen (Ghent University)] Arguments against a purely feature geometric analysis of pronominal meanings [Sarah Zobel(Georg-August Universität Göttingen)] Piecing together predicate transfer [Orin Percus (University of Nantes)] A new perspective on (long) A'-dependencies [Eefje Boef (Meertens Instituut) & Irene Franco (Universiteit Leiden)] No syntax for focus marking [Giorgos Spathas (University of Utrecht)] Towards a unified analysis of modal existential wh- constructions and purpose clauses [Radek Simik (Potsdam University)] A syntactic feature-calculus and double-access analysis for indexical shift in Tamil [Sandhya Sundaresan (University of Tromsoe CASTL)] Poster Session 2 Template-induced Tone Sandhi in Northern Chinese Dialects - A Top-down Approach [Te-hsin Liu National Taiwan Normal University)] Degree Cognate Objects with Unaccusative Verbs in English and Spanish [Isabel Oltra-Massuet(CCHS-CSIC)] Decomposing merge and move to make room for adjunction [Tim Hunter (Yale University)] Strong Resultative as a PathP Construction [Takeru Suzuki (Tokyo Gkugei University)] Dative-nominative alternations and the place of Case in Grammar [Artemis Alexiadou(University of Stuttgart), Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete) & Christina Sevdali (University of Ulster)] German Pertinence Datives revisited [Solveig Bosse (University of Delaware)] Syntax Drives Morphological Impoverishment of Clitics [Martin Walkow (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)] Relative Clauses from the Input. Syntactic Considerations from a Corpus- based Analysis of Italian [Adriana Belletti & Christiano Chesi (University of Siena)] The ordering of operations in the morphological component: two case studies [Erik Schoorlemmer (MIT)] To phrase or not to phrase: on the (non-)congruence of focus and prosody [Laura J. Downing (ZAS)] Syntax is not an Innocent Bystander: 'Autonomous' Morphemes are Underlearned [Andrew Nevins & Cilene Rodrigues (UCL)] Ordering Restrictions in Two Dialects of Aymara [Sara Mackenzie (McGill University)] All datives originate low: direct and indirect evidence [Dimitris Michelioudakis (University of Cambridge)] New! 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