LINGUIST List 17.3612

Wed Dec 06 2006

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Directory         1.    Jeroen van Craenenbroeck, Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe
Message 1: Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe
Date: 06-Dec-2006
From: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck <jeroen.vancraenenbroeckkubrussel.ac.be>
Subject: Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe



Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe Short Title: ConSOLE XV


Date: 11-Jan-2007 - 13-Jan-2007 Location: Brussels, Belgium Contact: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.crissp.be

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Meeting Description:

The Center for Research In Syntax, Semantics & Phonology (CRISSP) in Brussels is pleased to host the 15th annual Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe, from January 11 to 13, 2007.

ConSOLE is organized by a different European university every year and provides a forum for students of linguistics from all over the world to present their research.

Thursday 11 January, 2007: Arts & Sciences Colleges, Vlekho Campus, room 050

8.30-9.15 Registration

9.15-9.30 Opening remarks

9.30-10.30

Arnim Von Stechow (Universität Tübingen) Decomposition in Syntax and Resultatives: BECOME and CAUSE again.

10.30-10.45 Coffee break

10.45-11.25

Pavel Caha (CASTL, University of Tromsø) The Superset Principle and the Spell out of Non-terminals: Don`t Try Morphological Analysis in the Privacy of your own Morphology

11.25-12.05

Marina Pantcheva (CASTL, University of Tromsø) Why Do Persian Class 2 Prepositions Appear to Be Nouns

12.05-12.45

Mihaela Tanase Dogaru (University of Bucharest) Pseudo-Partitives and (Silent) Classifiers in Romanian

12.45-14.00 Lunch

14.00-14.40

Te-hsin Liu (University Paris 8) A Fresh Look at the Paradoxal Nature of Chinese Contour Tones

14.40-15.20

Gustavo Beritognolo (McGill University) Hiatus in Argentinian Spanish

15.20-15.35 Coffee break

15.35-16.15

Stéphanie Weiser (University Paris X - Nanterre, MoDyCo) The Negation of Action Sentences - Are There Negative Events?

16.15-16.55

Gerhard Schaden (University Paris 8, CNRS UMR 7023) A Formal Definition of Temporal Default Relations

16.55-17.35

Aritz Irurtzun (EHU-U. Basque Country, University of Bordeaux 3 & IKER-CNRS) & Maia Duguine (EHU-U. Basque Country & University of Nantes) On the Independence of Focus and GIVENness

Friday 12 January 2007: Catholic University of Brussels, room A/O/1

9.00-10.00

Kyle Johnson (University of Massachusetts Amherst) tba

10.00-10.15 Coffee break

10.15-10.55

Pavel Caha & Björn Lundquist (CASTL, University of Tromsø) Verbal Passives in Attributive Position. Contradictio in Adiecto?

10.55-11.35

Eva Dobler (McGill University) Again and the Structure of Result States

11.35-12.15

Antonia Rothmayr (University of Vienna) It Takes Two, Baby! CAUSE and the Prerequisites for Eventivity

12.15-13.30 Lunch

13.30-14.10

Márton Sóskuthy (Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem (ELTE) Budapest) Voicing and the Skeleton

14.10-14.50

Alexandre Vaxman (Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Institut de Phonetique, Universite de Provence , Aix-en-Provence, France) A Glance at the Coda-Mirror

14.50-15.05 Coffee break

15.05-15.45

Bert Le Bruyn (Utrecht University Uil-OTS) Covert i-type-shifts in Dutch?

15.45-16.25

Annemie Verbist (Leiden University LUCL) The Role of Perceptual Salience in the Acquisition of Principle B: Evidence from Cochlear Implanted Children

16.25-17.05

Cécile Monjauze (Université François Rabelais UFR Lettres et Langues, Laboratoire Langage et Handicap Tours) Linguistic Long-term Effects of Benign Rolandic Epilepsy: Analysis of Syntactic Complexity in Spontaneous Language

17.05-17.20 Coffee break

17.20-18.20

Jean Lowenstamm (Université de Paris) Competition for insertion, Merger of √ with category defining heads, and Related issues (Umlaut raises its ugly Head, again)

Saturday 13 January, 2007: Catholic University of Brussels, room A/O/1

9.00-10.00

Joachim Sabel (Université Catholique de Louvain) A C-I Interface Constraint on Remnant Movement

10.00-10.15 Coffee break

10.15-10.55

Islam Youssef (CASTL, University of Tromsø) Assimilation of Vocalic Features: Emphasis Spread in Cairene Arabic

10.55-11.35

Shakuntala Mahanta (Utrecht University Uil-OTS) Local vs. Non-local Consonantal Intervention in Vowel Harmony

11.35-12.15

Radek Šimík (University of Groningen) Definiteness Effects in Relative Clauses

12.15-13.30 Lunch

13.30-14.10

Maia Duguine (EHU-U. Basque Country & University of Nantes) Deriving Silent Arguments

14.10-14.50

Seungwan Ha (Boston University) On Ellipsis Features and Right Node Raising

14.50-15.05 Coffee break

15.05-15.45

Carlos de Cuba & Tomoko Kawamura (Stony Brook University) Intensionality and Extraction as Reflexes of Syntactic Structure

15.45-16.25

Ourania Sinopoulou (University of Athens) Multiple Questions and Apparent wh-in situ: Evidence from Greek

16.25-17.05

Robert Truswell (University College London) Locality of Movement and the Individuation of Events

17.05-17.20 Closing remarks

Alternates

Cem Keskin (Utrecht University Uil-OTS): The Romans' Destruction the City.

Lan Kim (Simon Fraser University): On the Ditransitive Construction in Korean