LINGUIST List 4.361

Tue 11 May 1993

Confs: V-initial languages and agreement

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1. "CRIT CREMERS, RU LEIDEN, ATW", Program of the Workshop on V-initial Languages and Agreement

Program of the Workshop on V-initial Languages and Agreement

2-4 June, 1993
Leiden University
The Netherlands

Organized by the Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics (HIL)

WEDNESDAY, June 2 place: building 1175, room 003

9.00 Reception with coffee
9.30 Opening Teun Hoekstra (Leiden)

10.15 Abdelkader Fassi Fehri (Rabat):
 [SPEC,AGR], Agreement and Case in VS-Languages

11.05 Hagit Borer (UMASS):
 From VSO to SVO: A Language in Transition

12.00-13.30 lunch break

13.30 James McCloskey (Santa Cruz):
 Subjects and Subject Positions in Irish

14.20 Alain Rouveret (Paris VIII):
 Asymmetric Coordination Structures and the Tense-
 Agreement Connection in Welsh

15.10-15.30 tea break

15.30 Sandra Chung (Santa Cruz):
 Against VP-Internal Subjects in Chamorro

16.20 General discussion

THURSDAY, June 3 place: building 1175, room 003

9.00 Joseph Aoun (USC, Los Angeles):
 Agreement Patterns in Arabic

9.50 Samir Khalaily (Leiden):
 The Split Complementizer Hypothesis and Its Relevance
 to Case and Agreement in Standard Arabic
10.40-11.00 coffee break

11.00 Gertjan Postma (Leiden):
 Head-First in European Portuguese

11.50 General discussion
12.30-13.45 lunch break

13.45 Nora England (Iowa):
 t.b.a.

14.35 Ray Freeze (Salt Lake City):
 Aspect and Agreement in Non-finite Clauses in
 K'ekchi' (Maya)
15.25-15.40 tea break

15.40 Willem Adelaar (Leiden):
 Some Fronting Strategies in Verb-Initial Languages
16.30 General discussion

FRIDAY, June 4 place: building 1175, room 147

9.00 Carol Georgopoulos (Salt Lake City):
 Agreement and V-1 (or: There Are VOS-Languages Too!)

9.50 Jamal Ouhalla (London):
 The Construct State in Berber
10.40-11.00 coffee break

11.00 Klara Lindhout (Leiden)
 Agreement in Hungarian Nominal and Verbal
 Projections

11.50-12.30 general discussion
12.30-13.45 lunch break

 place: building 1170, room 002

13.45 Pim Wehrmann (Leiden):
 P as a Non-lexical Category

14.35 Sjef Barbiers (Leiden):
 Verb First, Noun First and Minimalism
15.25-15.40 tea break

15.40 Alec Marantz (MIT):
 The Meanings of Fronting

16.30 General discussion

address for further information:
Dept. of General Linguistics
Leiden University
PO Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
tel: +71-272101
fax: +71-272615
e-mail: Letthoekstrarulcri.leidenuniv.nl