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Tue 26 Jul 1994

Confs: Conference on Configurations

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1. CANAC MARQUIS REJEAN, Program: Conference on Configurations

 Configurations
 Universit du Qu bec Montr al
25-27 Octobre 1994
Programme Pr liminaire/Preliminary Program

Tuesday/Mardi 25 octobre
DR-208

8.00 Inscription/Registration
9.00 Mot de bienvenue du recteur/
 Welcome by the President
 of the University
 Claude Corbo

I. Word-structure/syntax
 Pr sidente de s ance/Chair:
 Anne-Marie Di Sciullo, UQAM

9.15 Invited Speaker: Emmon Bach
 University of Massachusetts
 at Amherst
 On the Grammar of Complex Words

10.15 Non-Projecting Features
 and X0-adjunction
 Jila Ghomeshi
 University of Toronto

10.45 Pause

II. Word-structure/syntax
 Pr sidente de s ance/Chair:
 Maria-Louisa Rivero, Ud'Ottawa

11.00 Invited Speaker: Keren Rice
 University of Toronto
 is a Template required?
 The Internal Structure of Inflection
 in the Slave (Athapaskan) Verb

12.00 D jeuner/Lunch

III. Word-structure/Semantic
 Pr sidente de s ance/Chair:
 Lynn Drapeau, UQAM

14.00 Invited Speaker: Eward Keenan
 University of California
 Los Angeles
 When Morphology is Structural

15.00 Pause

IV. Word-structure/Semantic
 Pr sident de s ance/Chair:
 Yves-Charles Morin, UdeM

15.15 Deriving Atomicity from Configuration
 Anne-Marie Di Sciullo
 Universit du Qu bec Montr al

15.45 Des Structures [V N] du Fongbe
 Aim Avolonto
 Universit du Qu bec Montr al

16.15 Projection of the Category Preposition
 Elizabeth Klipple
 Universit du Qu bec Montr al




Wednesday/Mercredi 26 Octobre
DR-208

I. XP Structure
 Pr sidente de s ance/Chair:
 Anne Rochette, UQAM

9.00 Invited Speaker: Tim Stowell
 University of California
 Los Angeles
 The Decomposition of Clause Structure
 at Logical Form

10.00 Syntaxe des Adverbes et Structures
 Syntagmatiques
 Laenzlinger Christopher
 Universit de Gen
ve

10.30 Pause

II. Adjunction
 Pr sident de s ance/Chair:
 Daniel Valois, Universit de Montr al

10.45 Minimalism and Adjunction
 Denis Bouchard
 Universit du Qu bec Montr al

11.15 An Alternative of Right-Adjunction
 in the Analysis of Rationale Clauses
 Manuel Espa$ol-Echevarria
 University of California
 Los Angeles

11.45 Deducing the X'-Structure of Adjunction
 Geoffrey Poole
 Harvard University

12.15 D jeuner/Lunch

III. Adjunction
 Pr sidente de s ance/Chair:
 Claire Lef
bvre, UQAM

14.00 Invited Speaker: Michael Rochemont
 University of British Columbia
 Rightward and Leftward Movement

15.00 OVS en Kirundi et la contrainte d' quidistance
 Juv nal Ndayiragije
 Universit du Qu bec Montr al

15.30 Pause

IV. Adjunction
 Pr sident de s ance/Chair:
 Mark Baker, McGill University

15.45 The Case of &-Adjunction to VP
 Ed Zoerner
 University of California
 at Irvine

16.15 Against Extraposition as Adjunction:
 Evidence from Hindi
 Anoop Mahajan
 University of California
 Los Angeles

17.00 Vin d'honneur/Reception
 DR-200


Thursday/Jeudi 27 octobre
DR-208
I. X' structure and adjunction
 Pr sidente de s ance/Chair:
 Lisa Travis, McGill University

9.15 Invited Speaker: Richard Kayne
 City University
 New York
 The Antisymmetry of Syntax

10.15 LCA, Double Clitics and their Hosts
 Aronto Terzi
 University of Ottawa

10.45 Pause

II. Movement and adjunction
 Pr sidente de s ance/Chair:
 Monique Lemieux, UQAM

11.00 In Defense of Right-Adjunction
 for Head Movement
 Pilar Barbosa
 Massachusetts Institute
 of Technology

11.30 Right Movement is not Possible
 Right Adjunction Is
 Rita Manzini
 University College London

12.00 D jeuner/Lunch

III. Configuration and Binding
 Pr sident de s ance/Chair:
 Mohamed Guerssel, UQAM

14.00 Invited speaker: Tom Roeper
 University of Massachusetts
 at Amherst
 Dynamic Morphology: The Interaction of
 "Abstract" Clitics, Complementation, and Binding

15.00 On the Configurational Character of
 Cognitive Values Interpretation
 Pierre Pica
 Universit du Qu bec Montr al

15.30 Pause

IV. Configuration and syntactic/semantic relations
 Pr sident de s ance/Chair:
 John Lumsden, UQAM

15.45 Invited Speakers: Ken Hale and Jay Keyser
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 Uniqueness in Lexical Syntactic Relations

16.45 Configurational Theta-Theory
 Jeff Gruber
 Universit du Qu bec Montr al

V. Configuration and syntactic/semantic relations
 Pr sidente de s ance/Chair:
 Madeleine St-Pierre, UQAM

17.15 On the Syntax and Semantics of With and Without
 Mireille Tremblay
 Universit du Qu bec Montr al

17.45 The Active-Passive Configuration
 Teun Hoeskstra
 University of Leiden

Alternate papers/Substituts:

1. Quelques probl
mes empiriques sur la directionalit
 Petros Degif
 Universit du Qu bec Montr al

2. Adjunction and Uniformity
 Daiko Takahashi
 University of Connecticut

3. On the Formation of Adjectival Passives
 in Italian
 Antonietta Bisetto
 Universita degli studi di Venezia


 Organizing Committee

Anna-Maria Di Sciullo, R jean Cannac Marquis, Jeff Gruber,
Elizabeth Klipple, Juv nal Ndayiragije and Pierre Pica from the
Modularity Project at the University of Quebec in Montreal.
 Sponsoring

 The conference on Configurations is jointly sponsored by the
Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada as well as by the
University of Quebec in Montreal.

 Registration

 The Conference registration will be $25 for students and $45
for faculty and other participants.

For Information contact:

Anne-Marie Di Sciullo
Telephone: 514/987-3519
Telefax : 514/987-4652
e-mail : R36650er.UQAM.ca

Rejean Cannac Marquis
Telephone: 514/987-4204
Telefax : 514/987-4652
e-mail : C2554er.UQAM.ca

Elizabeth Klipple
Telephone: 514/987-4776
Telefax : 514/987-4652
e-mail : R11521er.UQAM.ca