LINGUIST List 17.3537

Thu Nov 30 2006

Confs: Syntax,Italian Lang/UK

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Message 1: 2nd Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting
Date: 29-Nov-2006
From: Roberta D'Alessandro <rd325cam.ac.uk>
Subject: 2nd Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting



2nd Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting Short Title: CIDSM 2


Date: 26-Jan-2007 - 27-Jan-2007 Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom Contact: Roberta D'Alessandro Contact Email: < click here to access email >

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Subject Language(s): Italian

Meeting Description:

2nd Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting.

26 January

8:15-9:00 registration 9:00-9:15 Opening

9:15-10:00 Invited speaker, Edgar Radtke (Heidelberg)'Per la ridefinizione di problemi sintattici delle parlate meridionali'

10:00-10:30 Luisa Amenta (Palermo),'Le frasi condizionali in siciliano'

10:30-11:00 Silvio Cruschina (Cambridge), 'Marking yes/no questions'

11:00-11:30 coffee break

11:30-12:00 Roberta D'Alessandro & Theresa Biberauer (Cambridge),'Syntactic doubling and the encoding of voice in Abruzzese'

12:00-12:30 Andrea Cattaneo (NYU),'Deictic 'g(h) and Phase Edges'

12:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:00 Rita Manzini e Leonardo Savoia (Firenze), 'Are there silent clitics?'

15:00-15:30 Diego Pescarini (Padova),'Clitici sincretici: livellamento e contro-livellamento'

15:30-16:00 Nicoletta Penello (Padova),'When syntax meets pragmatics: one clitic is not enough'

16:00-16:30 coffee break

16:30-17:15 Invited speaker, Francesco Avolio, t.b.a.

27 January

9:15-10:00 Invited speaker, Nicola Munaro (Venezia),'On the left periphery of Northern Italian dialects'

10:00-10:30 Federico Damonte (Padova), 'Prepositional complementizers as functional heads: The distribution of finite and non-finite complements in some Salentino dialects'

10:30-11:00 Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (Brussels),'Transitivity in the Venetian left periphery: a challenge for cartography'

11:00-11:30 coffee break

11:30-12:00 Mario Saltarelli (USC),'Mass nouns and the Structure of the Nominal Phrase: Evidence from the Marsican Dialects'

12:00-12:30 Yves d'Hulst (Leiden),'Italian isoglosses and compositional agreement'

12:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:00 Cecilia Poletto (Padova) & Gloria Cocchi (Urbino), 'Complementizers : zero, one or two?'

15:00-15:30 Mair Parry (Bristol) 'The position of the Subject in the early vernaculars of Italy'

15:30-16:00 Paolo Chinellato (Venezia),'Negative Markers and Bilingual Aphasia: Evidence from Italian and Northern Italian Dialects'

16:00-16:30 coffee break

16:30-17:15 Invited speaker, Richard Kayne (NYU),t.b.a.

Alternates:

1. Emanuele Lanzetta & Lucio Melazzo (Palermo) 'Left periphery and Locality. A Case Study in Sicilian'

2. Andrea Sanso' (Pavia) 'Indefinite man-constructions in ancient Italian dialects. Grammaticalization and areality'

3. Giorgio Iemmolo (Pavia) 'La marcatura differenziale dell'oggetto nei dialetti meridionali, con particolare riguardo al siciliano'