11.1178, Confs: Syntax/Semantics Research Workshop, Tel Aviv

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Date:  Tue, 23 May 2000 12:19:09 +0300
From:  Aldo Sevi <aldoo at post.tau.ac.il>
Subject:  Syntax/Semantics: Research Workshop on Relative Clause Constructions

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Date:  Tue, 23 May 2000 12:19:09 +0300
From:  Aldo Sevi <aldoo at post.tau.ac.il>
Subject:  Syntax/Semantics: Research Workshop on Relative Clause Constructions

RESEARCH WORKSHOP OF THE ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
THE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF RELATIVE CLAUSE CONSTRUCTIONS

DATE:   June 14-16, 2000
PLACE:   Tel Aviv University
                 Webb Building, Room 103
ORGANIZERS:  Alexander Grosu, Fred Landman
                             Linguistics Department, Tel Aviv University

e-mail contact:  aldoo at post.tau.ac.il

The support of the Israel Science Foundation, the Porter School of
Cultural Studies at Tel Aviv University, the offices of the Dean, the
rector, and the president of Tel Aviv University, and the Israel
Association for Theoretical Linguistics is gratefully acknowledged.

Program

Wednesday, June 14, 2000
09:00 - 10:15  Registration, coffee and welcome
10:15 - 11:15  Alexander Grosu
   Tel-Aviv University
   On the transparency of 'transparent' free relatives
11:15 - 11:30  Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30  Christopher Kennedy
   Northwestern University
   Comparative and relative clauses compared
12:30 - 14:15  Lunch Break
14:15 - 15:15  Susan Rothstein
   Bar-Ilan University
   Complementizer deletion and domain selection
15:15 - 16:15  Linda Escobar
   Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
   Event relatives and the structure of prepositional objects
16:15 - 16:30   Tea Break
16:30 - 17:30  Daphna Heller
   Rutgers University
   On the relation of connectivity and specificational pseudoclefts
17:30 - 18:30  Barbara Partee and Vladimir Borschev
   Umass Amherst       VINITI, Moscow
   Genitives, possessives, relational nouns and the
argument/modifier distinction
Reception

Thursday, June 16, 2000
08:45 - 09:15  Coffee
09:15 - 10:15  Pauline Jacobson
   Brown University
   Pied-piping semantics in relative clauses


10:15 - 11:15  David Swinburne
   Tel Aviv University
   Dependent paratheticals and the syntax/pragmatics interface
11:15 - 11:30  Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30  Uli Sauerland
   Universität Tübingen
   A third type of relatives: Evidence from reconstruction
12:30 - 14:15  Lunch Break
14:15 - 15:15  Georges Rebuschi
   Université Paris III and TYGRE
   Correlative sentences and correlative pronouns: the Basque
viewpoint
15:15 - 16:15  Sigrid Beck and Yael Sharvit
   University of Connecticut at Storrs
   Part-whole structures in questions and QVE-effects
16:15 - 16:30  Tea Break
16:30 - 17:30  Ruth Kempson, Wilfried Meyer-Viol, David Swinburne
   Kings' College London    Tel-Aviv university
   Relatives as one happy family
Dinner

Friday, June 16, 2000
08:45 - 09:15  Coffee
09:15 - 10:15  Maria Bittner
   Rutgers University
   Individuals and possibilities: centering ambiguities in
correlatives
10:15 - 11:15  Yael Sharvit
   University of Connecticut at Storrs
   Against 'long' movement of the superlative operator
11:15 - 11:30  Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30  Henk van Riemsdijk
   Tilburg University
   T.B.A

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