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Message 1: Going Romance 2002
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 17:38:26 +0100
From: Going Romance 2002 <Going.Romance2002let.rug.nl>
Subject: Going Romance 2002
Program
Going Romance 2002
Sixteenth Symposium on Romance Linguistics
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
28, 29, 30 November 2002
http://www.let.rug.nl/~going/
Thursday November 28
Location: Zernikezaal, Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5,
Groningen
08.45 - 09.15 Registration
Registration fee: 30 Euro (including workshop)
Workshop only: 15 Euro
09.15 - 09.30 Opening and welcome: Ger de Haan, Dean of
the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen
09.30 - 10.30 Alessandro Zucchi (Universit� di Salerno),
invited speaker - To be announced
10.30 - 11.10 Daniela Isac (Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al)
& Charles Reiss (Concordia University) - Romance and something else
11.10 - 11.30 Coffee & Tea break
11.30 - 12.10 Jaume Mateu (Universitat Aut�noma de Barcelona) -
Digitizing the syntax-semantics interface: The case of aux-selection
in Italian and French
12.10 - 12.50 Jon Franco (University of Deusto-Bilbao) &
Susana Huidobro (State University of New
York) - A non Case-based case for the three way
typology of Psych Verbs
12.50 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 14.45 Susann Fischer (University of Potsdam) &
Artemis Alexiadou (Universit�t Stuttgart) -
Stylistic Fronting in Old Catalan and Icelandic:
X vs. XP movement
14.55 - 15.35 Mara Frascarelli (Universit� degli Studi Roma
Tre) - Dislocation, clitic resumption and minimality. A comparative
analysis of left and right topic constructions in Italian
15.35 - 16.00 Coffee and Tea break
16.00 - 16.40 Alexandra Cornilescu (University of Bucharest) -
On Clitic Doubling and Parasitic Gaps in Romanian
16.40 - 17.40 Marie-Th�r�se Vinet (University of
Sherbrooke), invited speaker - The discourse/P-syntax interface:
tu (pas) in Quebec French
17.45 - 18.45 Reception
Friday November 29
Location: Geertsemazaal, Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5,
Groningen
09.30 - 10.30 Prof. Heles Contreras (University of
Washington), invited speaker - A Restricted View of Head Movement
10.30 - 11.10 Laura Dominguez (Boston University) -
The effects of Phonological Cues on the Syntax
of Focus constructions in Spanish
11.10 - 11.30 Coffee and Tea break
11.30 - 12.10 Jo�o Costa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) &
Lino Mioni (Universidade de Coimbra) - Ungrammatical VSO in Italian: a
morphosyntactic approach
12.10 - 12.50 Karen Lahousse (Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven) - Licensing NP subject inversion in French
12.50 - 14.15 Lunch
A: Syntax
Location: Geertsemazaal, Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5,
Groningen
14.15 - 14.45 Caterina Donati (Universit� di Urbino) -
Deriving generalized pied-piping
14.55 - 15.35 Laura Malena Kornfeld (Universidad de
Buenos Aires) & Andr�s Saab (Universidad del
Comahue) - Nominal Ellipsis and Morphological Structure in
Spanish
15.35 - 16.00 Coffee and Tea break
16.00 - 16.40 Daniela Isac (Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al) -
Focus on negative concord
16.40 - 17.20 Manuela Ambar (Universidade de Lisboa),
Manuela Gonzaga (Universidade de Lisboa e
CLUL) & Esmeralda Negr�o (Universidade de
S�o Paulo) - Tense, Quantification and Clause Structure in EP and BP
-Evidence from a comparative study of sempre
B1: Phonology
Location: Van der Leeuwzaal, Academiegebouw, Broerstraat
5, Groningen
14.15 - 14.45 Cl�udia Pons Moll (Universitat de Barcelona) -
Segmental and featural strategies to satisfy OCP in
Balearic Catalan.
An Optimality-theoretical account
14.55 - 15.35 David Silva (University of Texas at Arlington) -
At Europe's Edge: The Status of Azorean Portuguese
in a Typology of Romance Vowel Systems
15.35 - 16.00 Coffee and Tea break
B2: Phonology and Acquisition
Location: Van der Leeuwzaal, Academiegebouw, Broerstraat
5, Groningen
16.00 - 16.40 Jeffrey Steele (University of Toronto) -
The role of phonetic cues in the
(mis)construction of L2 phonological inputs
16.40 - 17.20 Paola Crisma (Universit� di Trieste) & Silvana
Del Tin (Universit� di Padova) - Auxiliary omission in the acquisition
of Italian
18.30 - 22.00 Dinner
Alternates Main Session:
1. Raffaella Folli (University of Cambridge) & Heidi
Harley (University of Arizona) - Obligatory obligation:
On the composition of Italian causatives
2. C�cile De Cat (University of York) - On the status of
French subject clitics
Workshop on Acquisition
Incorporated in Going Romance
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Saturday November 30
Location: Openbare Bibliotheek, Oude Boteringestraat 18,
Groningen
Registration fee: 15 Euro.
09.15 - 09.30 Opening and welcome
09.30 - 10.30 Prof. Celia Jakubovicz (Universit� de Paris
VII), invited speaker -
What Specific Language Impairment in French
(Romance) can tell us about the computational
component of the language faculty and its
development
10.30 - 11.10 Miwa Isobe (Keio University) & Koji
Sugisaki (University of Connecticut) -
The Acquisition of Pied-piping in French and its
Theoretical Implications
11.10 - 11.30 Coffee and Tea break
11.30 - 12.10 Cristina Dye (Cornwell University) -
Optional infinitives are not an option: New evidence from
Romance
12.10 - 12.50 Anna Gavarr� (Universitat Aut�noma de
Barcelona), Ken Wexler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) &
Vicen� Torrens (U.N. de Educaci�n a Distancia) -
Feature checking and object clitic omission in
child Catalan and Spanish
12.50 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 14.45 Jacqueline van Kampen (Universiteit Utrecht) -
Learnablity order and discourse function in the
acquisition of the
French pronominal system
14.55 - 15.35 C�cile De Cat (University of York) -
Early pragmatic competence and the null subject
phenomenon
15.35 - 16.00 Coffee and Tea break
16.00 - 16.40 Ana Teresa P�rez-Leroux (University of
Toronto), Cristina Schmitt (Michigan State University) & Alan Munn
(Michigan State University) -
The development of inalienable possession NPs
in English and Spanish
16.40 - 17.25 Concluding Discussion
17.25 - 17.30 Closure
Alternates Workshop:
1. Mar�a Blume (Cornwell University) -
Influence of Discourse and Referential Contexts on
Morphosyntax: An experimental study with Spanish-
speaking children and adults
2. Karen Miller (Michigan State University) -
The Scope of Spanish Bare Singulars in Child Language
3. Carolina Holtheuer (Michigan State University) &
Cristina Schmitt (Michigan State University) -
Acquisition of ser and estar: syntax, lexical semantics
and discourse