LINGUIST List 23.1376: Confs: Morphology, Syntax, Ling Theories/Spain

LINGUIST List 23.1376
Mon Mar 19 2012 Confs: Morphology, Syntax, Ling Theories/Spain Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org>
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Date: 16-Mar-2012 From: Jaume Mateu <cgg22uab.cat> Subject: 22nd Colloquium on Generative Grammar E-mail this message to a friend 22nd Colloquium on Generative Grammar Short Title: CGG 22 Date: 21-Mar-2012 - 23-Mar-2012 Location: Barcelona, Spain Contact: Jaume Mateu Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://filcat.uab.cat/clt/cgg22/index.html Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Syntax Meeting Description: The Colloquium on Generative Grammar is a conference organized every year since 1991 in a different university of the Iberian Peninsula where linguists from all over the world present and discuss current proposals on the study of the language faculty within the Generative Grammar framework. It hosts formal analyses in all subdomains of grammar and their interfaces. The 22nd edition will be hosted by the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, with the collaboration of the Departments of Catalan Philology and Spanish Philology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The 22nd Colloquium on Generative Grammar will be held at the Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres from 21st to 23rd March, 2012. Contact person: Jaume Mateu Email: cgg22uab.cat Wednesday, 21 March -Venue: Auditori de la Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres 8:45-9:15 Registration and reception 9:15-9:30 Welcoming 9:30-10:10 Ricardo Etxepare (IKER-CNRS): Basque primary adpositions from a clausal perspective 10:10-10:50 Juan Romeu (CCHS-CSIC): A cartographic approach to spatial elements 10:50-11:30 Valeria Bandecchi (University College Dublin): Prepositional Phrases and manner-of-motion verbs in Italian 11:30-12:00 Coffee Break 12:00-12:40 Egor Tsedryk (Saint Mary's University): Finite control as movement: the case of Russian 12:40-13:20 Peter Herbeck (CLT-UAB/ Bergische Universität Wuppertal): How much pro-drop is control? Evidence from Spanish, Catalan, and Italian 13:20-15:00 Lunch break 15:00-15:40 Adina Camelia Bleotu (Università Ca'Foscari Venezia): The Light (Verb) in the Stormy Weather 15:40-16:20 Grant Armstrong (University of Wisconsin-Madison) : 'Internalization' as a grammatically relevant notion in Spanish 16:20-16:50 Coffee Break 16:50-17:50 Invited Speaker: Javier Gutiérrez Rexach (Ohio State University) Exclamatives in embedded contexts 21:00 Conference dinner Thursday, 22 March -Venue: Auditori de la Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres 9:20-10:00 Maribel Romero (University of Konstanz):The Absolute/Comparative Ambiguity: The View from Modal Superlatives 10:00-10:40 Silvia Gumiel-Molina (Universidad de Alcalá ) and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez (Universidad de Alcalá ): Scalarity and stativity: the ser/estar alternation in Spanish 10:40-11:20 Urtzi Etxeberria (IKER-CNRS );Aritz Irurtzun (IKER-CNRS ): The emergence of scalar items: association with focus of the additive particle ere in Basque 11:20-12:00 Coffee Break and Poster Session 1 12:00-12:40 Helena López Palma (Universidade da Coruña ): Romance fractional numerals 12:40-13:20 Elena Castroviejo (CSIC-LyCC); Isabel Oltra-Massuet (CSIC-LyCC); Isabel Pérez-Jiménez (Universidad de Alcalá): Gradable bare PPs and the syntax-semantics interface 13:20-15:00 Lunch Break 15:00-15:40 Lena Baunaz (University of Geneva): French complementizer que under scrutiny 15:40-16:20 Yusuke Imanishi (MIT) : A Non-Uniform Merge of Argument WH: A Case Study in Kaqchikel 16:20-17:00 Inês Duarte (Universidade de Lisboa); Anabela Gonçalves (Universidade de Lisboa); Ana Lúcia Santos (Universidade de Lisboa): Inflected infinitive revisited: on the different nature of dependent tense and temporal orientation 17:00-17:20 Coffee Break 17:20-18:00 Petra Sleeman (ACLC, University of Amsterdam); Aafke Hulk (ACLC, University of Amsterdam): L1 and 2L1 acquisition of noun ellipsis in Dutch and in French 18:00-19:00 Business Meeting Friday, 23 March -Venue: Auditori de la Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres 10:00-11:00 Invited Speaker: Donca Steriade (MIT) The cycle without containment 11:00-11:40 Maria Giavazzi (École Normale Superieure): Assibilation in Standard Finnish: a case of stress-conditioned contrast neutralization 11:40-12:00 Coffee Break 12:00-12:40 Giuliano Bocci (University of Geneva) and Cinzia Avesani (CNR-ISTC): On word-order alternations in Italian and the syntax-prosody interface 12:40-13:20 Lílian Teixeira de Sousa (Unicamp/ Fapesp) and Sonia Cyrino (Unicamp): Exploring prosody-syntax interface: the final-clause não in Brazilian Portuguese 13:20-15:00 Lunch break 15:00-15:40 Hyon Sook Choe (Yeungnam University, Korea): The comparative construction and a double complement structure 15:40-16:20 Emilio Servidio (Università di Siena):Two constructions for polarity focus in Italian 16:20-17:00 Coffee Break and Poster Session 2 17:00-17:40 Héctor Fernández Alcalde (UAM /CCHS-CSIC): Datives, prepositions, and argument structure in Spanish 17:40-18:20 Mercedes Tubino (Universidad de Sevilla): Spanish dative causees: against an applicative analysis 18:20 Concluding remarks Alternates: - Katarzyna Miechowicz-Mathiasen (Adam Mickiewicz University): ''Case, Tense and Clausal Arguments in Polish'' - Hidekazu Tanaka (University of York), George Tsoulas (University of York) and Norman Yeo (University of York): ''The vP edge: objects and phase theory'' Poster Session 1: Anamaria Benţea (Université de Geneve): Making Sense of Object Relative Clauses: A ''Case'' Study with Romanian Children Anna Gavarró (UAB) and Horacio Dotti (Universidad Nacional del Litoral): The analysis of short passive: evidence from agrammatism Ager Gondra (Purdue University ): The syntactic structure of the Basque DP David Lobina (Universitat Rovira i Virgili): Much ado about knotting: conceptual structure and the emergence of the language faculty Poster Session 2 Ekaterina Chernova (Universitat de Girona): Exploring echo structures in multiple wh-fronting languages Ludovico Franco (Università Ca'Foscari, Venezia): The many moods of Iranian Ezafe Francesco-Alessio Ursini (CCD-Macquarie University) and Nobuaki Akagi (CCD-Macquarie University): On The Syntax of Spanish Spatial Prepositions Giorgio Magri (CNRS / University Paris Diderot): No need for a theory of the distribution of readings of English bare plurals This Year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $67,000. 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