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    Message 1: Lisbon Workshop on Alternative views on the Functional Domain

     Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:50:40 -0400 (EDT)
    From: jcosta <jcostafcsh.unl.pt>
    Subject: Lisbon Workshop on Alternative views on the Functional Domain


    Lisbon Workshop on Alternative views on the Functional Domain

    Date: 08-Jul-2004 - 09-Jul-2004 Location: Lisbon, Portugal Contact: Joao Costa Contact Email: jcostafcsh.unl.pt

    Linguistic Sub-field: Syntax

    Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2004

    Meeting Description:

    Lisbon Workshop on Alternative Views on the Functional Domain Universidade Nova de Lisboa July, 8-9 2004

    PROGRAM

    July 8

    9.30 - 10.00 - A critique of the split-CP hypothesis Frederick Newmeyer (University of Washington)

    10.00 - 10.30 - Do cartographies reflect the grammatical knowledge? Jordi Fortuny (Universitat de Barcelona)

    10.30 - 11.00 - Obligatory complementizers and clause structure Dirk Bury (University College London) coffee break

    11.30 - 12.00 - What is a strong functional head? Jo�o Costa & Ana Maria Martins (Universidade Nova de Lisboa & Univ. Lisboa)

    12.00 - 12.30 - Categorial deficiency, head movement and phrase structure Phoevos Panagiotidis (Cyprus College)

    12.30 - 13.00 - Auxiliary Verbs, V-to-I and the Temporal Domain Karen Zagona (University of Washington)

    Lunch

    15.00 - 15.30 - The nominal feature of functional Abbas Benmamoun (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

    15.30 - 16.00 - Lexical shells and the functional extended domain of spatial adpositions M�ire Noonan (McGill University)

    16.00 - 16.30 - Distribution of Number and Classifier in languages, underspecification, and parametrization Abdelkader Fassi Fehri & Marie-Th�r�se Vinet (Mohammed V University & Universit� de Sherbrooke, Canada)

    coffee break

    17.00 - 17.30 - Toward a simplified Agreement Field: evidence from Veneto Dialects Paolo Chinellato (University of Venice)

    17.30 - 18.00- Alignment constraints and the word order relation between Subject Clitics in the Northern Italian Dialects and preverbal negation Cecilia Goria (Nottingham)

    July 9

    9.30 - 10.00 - Topic as an interpretive notion Heles Contreras (University of Washington)

    10.00 - 10.30 - Interaction of Feature Assignment and Discourse Factors Olga Zavitnevich-Beaulac (Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al)

    10.30 - 11.00 - Disagreeing on Agree: Agree, the EPP and super-raising Gerardo Fernandez Salgueiro (University of Michigan)

    coffee break

    11.30 - 12.00 - Thematic Structure and Functional Structure: evidence from ''verbal extensions'' Federico Damonte (University of Padova)

    12.00 - 12.30 - Constraints on Idiom Formation (in Brazilian Portuguese) Miriam Lemle, Aniela Improta Fran�a & Aleria Lage (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

    12.30- 13.00 - Noun Incorporation, Root-derivation, and Null Objects in Italian Frederico Ghegin (University of Padova)

    Lunch

    15.00 -15.30 - The Necessity of an Articulated Functional Domain: Evidence from the Acquisition of Functional Morphology in child Swahili Kamil Ud Deen (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)

    15.30 - 16.00 - The Functional Domain of the Nominal System in CVC: the puzzle of Bare Nouns N�lia Alexandre & Nuno Soares (Universidade de Lisboa)

    16.00 - 16.30 - TP in Capeverdean: an almighty functional projection? Fernanda Pratas (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

    coffee break

    17.00 - 17.30 - Multiple [+F] assignment and the theory of focus Aritz Irurtzun (EHU - Univ. Basque Country)

    17.30 - 18.00 - How far can we go without a focus projection in our syntax? Evidence from Greek Stella Grillia (ULCL/Leiden University)

    18.00- 18.30 - Inherent Case Realization in Hungarian: a Reanalysis of Postpositions Anna Asbury (OTS/Utrecht University)

    Alternates:

    Discourse/semantics factors and functional categories: the case of Russian multiple questions- Denis Liakin (Concordia University)