14.2901, Confs: General Linguistics/Nijmegen, Netherlands

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Subject: 14.2901, Confs: General Linguistics/Nijmegen, Netherlands

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Date:  Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:53:10 +0000
From:  going_romance17 at let.kun.nl
Subject:  Going Romance 2003

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Date:  Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:53:10 +0000
From:  going_romance17 at let.kun.nl
Subject:  Going Romance 2003

Going Romance 2003
Date: 20-NOV-03 - 22-NOV-03
Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands
Contact: Twan Geerts
Contact Email: going_romance17 at let.kun.nl
Meeting URL: http://www.kun.nl/frans/going


Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics
Call Deadline: 01-SEP-03


Meeting Description:
Seventeenth Symposium on Romance Linguistics
University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

General Sessions: November 20-21
Workshop on Diachronic Phonology: November 22

Invited Speakers
Morris Halle & David Embick
Tobias Scheer & Philippe Ségéral
Pilar Barbosa
Denis Delfitto

For more information, check http://www.kun.nl/frans/going PROGRAMME
GOING ROMANCE 2003

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Thursday November 20th
Location: GN3, Gymnasion, Heyendaalseweg 144
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09.15-09.25	
Opening

09.30-10.30	
Pilar Barbosa

10.30-11.10	
João Costa & Ana Maria Martins
Clitic Placement across Grammar Components

11.30-12.10
Charlotte Galves & Marica Clara Paixão de Sousa
Clitic Placement and the Position of Subjects in the History of
European Portuguese

12.10-12.50
Ruth E. Vasconcellos Lopes & Sonia L. Cyrino
The Null Object in Brazilian Portuguese

14.15-14.55
Corinne Helland
Attrition and Syntactic Subjects in Catalan

14.55-15.35
Karen Lahousse
NP Subject Inversion in French: Two Old Problems Revised

16.00-16.40
Eva Berkes
egation and the Planning Hypothesis

16.40-17.20
Ricardo Etxepare
On some Cases of So-called Constituent Negation in Spanish

17.20-18.00
Gertjan Postma
Pas and the Negative Polarity of Bare Singulars in Old French

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Friday November 21st

Main session
Location: Lecture theatre CC5, Mercatorpad 1
Parallel session: Phonology
Location: E 2.01, Erasmus building, Erasmusplein 1
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09.30-10.30
Denis Delfitto
Facts in the Syntax and Semantics of Italian

10.30-11.10
Philippe Schlenker
Towards a Unified Morpho-Semantics for the Indicative/Subjunctive
Contrast in French

11.30-12.10
Sergi Garcia Romero
The Semantics of Free Choice Items

12.10-12.50
Jasper Roodenburg
How Bare are French Nouns?

14.00-14.40
Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo
Subject Inversion in Spanish Relative Clauses

14.40-15.20
Main:
Sergio Baauw
The Interpretation of Contrastive Stress by Spanish Children

Parallel:
Walcir Cardoso
An Integrated Approach to ''Variation'' in OT: Evidence from Brazilian
Portuguese and Picard

15.45-16.25
Main:
Tanja Kupisch
Acceleration in Bilingual First Language Acquisitions

Parallel:
Paula Fikkert & João Freitas
Phonological Contrasts in the European Portuguese Vowel System:
Evidence from Acquisition

16.25-17.05
Main:
Juan Martín
Aspectual Quantization and [±] Accusative Case Checking in
Romancepeaker

Parallel:
Iggy Roca
OT Strata and Structure Preservation in Spanish Phonology

17.05-18.05
Morris Halle & David Embick
Latin Inflections

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Saturday November 22nd: workshop
Location: E 2.01, Erasmus building, Erasmusplein 1
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09.45-10.45
Tobias Scheer & Philippe Ségéral
A Look at the Gallo-Romance Trouble with Muta cum Liquida through the
Positional Prism

10.45-11.25
Kim Schulte
Vowel Centralization in Romanian Verbs of Slavic Origin: Deliberate
Exploitation of an Indigenous Sound Change?

11.25-12.05
Chiara Frigeni
Metathesis and Assimilation in Liquids from Latin to Campidanian
Sardinian: a Similarity Account

13.30-14.10
Delphine Seigneur-Froli & Claudine Pagliano
On the Rumanian kt>pt Shift: Coda Lenition or Melodic Contamination

14.10-14.50
Mario Saltarelli
Durational (A)symmetries and the Theory of Quantity. Evidence for
Romance and Germanic

15.00-15.50
Special session


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