LINGUIST List 23.756
Wed Feb 15 2012
Confs: General Linguistics, Syntax/Belgium
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Date: 13-Feb-2012
From: Rachel Nye <rachel.nye
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Subject: Generative Initiatives in Syntactic Theory 5: Generalizing Relative Strategies
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Generative Initiatives in Syntactic Theory 5: Generalizing Relative Strategies
Short Title: GIST5
Date: 22-Mar-2012 - 23-Mar-2012
Location: Ghent, Belgium
Contact: Rachel Nye
Contact Email:
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Meeting URL:
http://www.gist.ugent.be/relatives
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Syntax
Meeting Description:
Relative clauses are usually thought of as a class of non-interrogative embedded clauses, the most prototypical members of which are headed relative clauses and free relatives.
In the generative tradition, these are standardly analysed as being derived through displacement of some phrasal category, be it the antecedent of the relative clause (Vergnaud 1974), an operator (Chomsky 1977) or both (Cinque 2009). Semantically, this operation enables the moved item to take scope at the propositional level.
Over the last decades, various other types of non-interrogative embedded clauses have also been analysed as relative clauses. For instance, an operator movement analysis has been proposed for adverbial clauses such as temporal clauses (most notably when-clauses, see Geis 1970; Larson 1987; Haegeman 2009) and conditionals (among others Lycan 2001; Bhatt & Pancheva 2006; Haegeman 2011).
In addition, some types of complement clauses have been argued to be derived through operator movement (see for instance Arsenijević 2009; Kayne 2008, 2010; Haegeman & Ürögdi (2010a,b). More specifically, it has been proposed that factive complements and clausal complements to nouns are amenable to an analysis in terms of (null) operator movement.
The goal of this workshop is to provide a stage for presentations by, and discussion among, researchers who have implemented a relative clause analysis for syntactic structures that are not typically considered to be relative clauses.
Thursday March 22
08.45-09.15Coffee + registration
09.15-09.30Welcome/opening remarks
09.30-10.15Boban Arsenijević (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Verb prefixation of the Slavic type in terms of concord and relativization.
10.15-11.00Dominique Sportiche (UCLA/ENS): Adjunct/argument asymmetries and relative clause types.
11.00-11.30Coffee
11.30-12.15Carlo Cecchetto (Università di Milano Bicocca) and Caterina Donati (Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'): Relative structures (and other strong islands) reduced to relabeling.
12.15-14.00Lunch
14.00-14.45Anna Roussou (University of Patras): Complements, relatives, and nominal properties.
14.45-15.30Rita Manzini (Università degli Studi di Firenze): Complement clauses as (free) relatives, complementizers as wh-pronouns: refining the picture.
15.30-16.00Coffee
16.00-16.45Iliyana Krapova (Università di Venezia Ca' Foscari) and Guglielmo Cinque (Università di Venezia Ca' Foscari): "Clausal Complements" of Nouns as reduced relative clauses.
16.45-17.30Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam): Factive constructions and predicate fronting in Gungbe.
Friday March 23
09.00-09.30Coffee
09.30-10.15Hilda Koopman (UCLA): Noun phrases as relatives: the view from below.
10.15-11.00Jason Zentz (Yale University): Movement in adverbial clauses: Evidence from Akɔɔse wh-agreement.
11.00-11.30Coffee
11.30-12.15Hamida Demirdache (Université de Nantes) and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria (University of the Basque Country): tba
12.15-14.00Lunch
14.00-14.45Rajesh Bhatt (UMass) and Roumyana Pancheva (USC): tba
14.45-15.30Barbara Tomaszewicz (USC): tba
15.30-15.40Closing remarks
15.40-16.20Publication meeting
All who are interested in this topic are warmly invited to attend. The deadline for registration is 1st March. For details of registration and practical information, as well as a full description of the workshop and a short bibliography please visit our website:
http://www.gist.ugent.be/relatives Please direct any email queries to rachel.nye
ugent.be.
Convenors:
Liliane Haegeman (UGent), Boban Arsenijević (UPF), Lieven Danckaert (UGent), Rachel Nye (UGent) and the GIST team.
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