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Mon Jan 13 2003

Confs: Syntax of Verb Initial Languages

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  • carnie, Syntax of Verb Initial Languages, AZ USA

    Message 1: Syntax of Verb Initial Languages, AZ USA

     Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:35:24 +0000
    From: carnie <carnieu.arizona.edu>
    Subject: Syntax of Verb Initial Languages, AZ USA




    Workshop on the Syntax of Verb Initial Languages

    Location: Tucson, Arizona Date: 21-FEB-03 - 23-FEB-03

    Contact Person: Andrew Carnie Meeting Email: carnieu.arizona.edu Linguistic Subfield(s): Syntax

    Meeting Description:

    Partly supported by the Dept of Linguistics, University of Arizona and the National Science Foundation.

    Invited Speakers (Partial List -- more speakers will be announced later)

    James McCloskey, UCSC Sandra Chung, UCSC Judith Aissen, UCSC Jamal Ouhalla, UC Dublin Lisa deMena Travis, McGill Felicia Lee, UBC Henry Davis, UBC Diane Massam, Toronto Arthur Holmer, Lund U. Program:

    Friday, February 21

    1-1:45 Joseph Aoun, University of Southern California, Resumption and superiority

    1:45-2:30 Kenji Oda, University of Toronto, V1 and Wh-Questions: A typology.

    2:30- 3:15 Sandra Chung, University of California Santa Cruz, Restructuring in a Verb-Initial Language

    3:15-3:30 Coffee Break

    3:30-4:15 Felicia Lee, University of British Columbia, Force first: Verbal morphology and clause typing

    4:15-5:00 Dirk Bury, University of London, Preverbal particles in Verb Initial Languages.

    5-5:45 Henry Davis, University of British Columbia, Coordination and Constituency in St'at'imcets (Lilooet Salish).

    7 Dinner

    Saturday, February 22, 2003

    9-9:45 Hilda Koopman, University of Los Angeles, The clausal architecture of Maasai

    9:45-10:30 Mary Laughren, Robert Pensalfini, and Tom Mylne, University of Queensland, Accounting for Verb Initial in an Australian Language

    10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

    10:45-11:30 David Gil, Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Verb Initial Order and the Noun Verb Distinction.

    11:30-12:15 Melanie Jouitteau, University of Nantes/Naoned, Nominal Properties of vPs in Breton, Implications for the Typology of VSO langages

    12:15-1:30 Lunch break

    1:30-2:15 Lisa deMena Travis, McGill University, VP-internal structure in a VOS language

    2:15-3:00 Arthur Holmer, Lund University, Final particles and anti-symmetry in VOS languages

    3:00-3:45 Loren Billings, National Chi Nan University, Ordering clitics and post-verbal R-expressions in Tagalog: a unified analysis?

    3:45-4 coffee break

    4-4:45 Yuko Otsuka, University of Hawaii, Two derivations of VSO: A comparative study of Niuean and Tongan

    4:45-5:30 Diane Massam, University of Toronto, Predicate initial languages: What is a predicate?

    7:30 Party

    Sunday, February 23

    9-9:45 Jamal Ouhalla, University College Dublin, Person and EPP: VSO and anti agreement in Berber

    9:45-10:30 Monica Macaulay, University of Wisconsin: Pronominal & Full Argument Positions in Chalcatongo Mixtec

    10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

    10:45-11:30 Judith Aissen, University of California Santa Cruz, Case and agent focus in K'ichee'

    11:30-12:15 James McCloskey, University of California Santa Cruz, Partial Raising in Irish and the Notion of Subjecthood

    12:15-12:45 Sheila Dooley-Collberg, Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley, University of Arizona. Remarks on papers.

    1:30 Trip to Desert Museum or Hike.