18.1354, Confs: General Ling/Spain

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Date: 03-May-2007
From: Susana Huidobro < shuidobro at mac.com >
Subject: Workshop on Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations

 

	
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Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 11:15:14
From: Susana Huidobro < shuidobro at mac.com >
Subject:  Workshop on Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations 
 

Workshop on Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations 

Date: 23-May-2007 - 25-May-2007 
Location: Vitoria-Gasteiz, the Basque Country, Spain 
Contact: Susana Huidobro 
Meeting URL: http://www.ehu.es/argumentstructure/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Workshop on Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations
University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
May 23-25, 2007. 

Wednesday, May 23. 
9:30-9:55	        Registration
9:55-10:00	Welcoming remarks:  Prof. Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria

SESSION 1 
10:00-11:00	Invited Speaker: John Bowers, Cornell University
                                             ''Argument Categories''

11:00-11:20 	Coffee Break

SESSION 2
11:20-12:00	''An L-syntax for Adjuncts''
			             Ángel Gallego, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

12:00-12:40	''The Syntax of Argument Structure''
			            Leonard Babby, Princeton University

12:40-13:20	''Unintentionally out of control''
			            Knut Tarald Taraldsen, University of Tromsø

13:20-15:30	Lunch

SESSION 3. 
15:30-16:30	Invited Speaker: Beñat Oyharçabal, IKER-CNRS
                              ''Argument Structure Building: Applicative and
Causative Heads in Basque''

16:30-17:10	''A Principled Order to Postsyntactic Operations''
                                Karlos Arregi & Andrew Nevins, 
                                Unviersity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign &
Harvard University.	

Thursday, May 24.

SESSION 4. 
09:30-10:30	Invited Speaker: Javier Ormazabal & Juan Romero 
                                 University of the Basque Country & University
of Extremadura
                               ''The derivation of Dative Alternations''
		
10:30-11:10	''Applicative structure and Mandarin ditransitives''
			          Waltraud Paul & John Whitman, 
                                  CRLAO, EHESS & Cornell University 

11:10-11:30	Break 

SESSION 5. 
11:30-12:10	''Icelandic Passives and Middles and the Structure of v''
			          Peter Svenonius, University of Tromsø
 
12:10-12:50	''Argument Structure of Russian Adjectives''	
                                   Anna Grashchenkova & Pavel Grashchenkov, 
                                   Russian State University for Humanities &
Institute for Oriental Studies.

12:50-13:30	''On the appearence of Figure-like arguments''
			            Paolo Lorusso, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

13:30-15:30	Lunch

SESSION 6
15:30-16:30	Invited Speaker: Hamida Demirdache, University of Nantes
                                    ''The present and the past in French Child
Language: Evidence for temporal     
                                     argument structure''
		
16:30-17:10	''Nativist vs. Input-based Accounts of Verb Argument Acquisition:
The Case of  
                          Hebrew''.
		                       Sigal Uziel-Karl, 
                                       Haifa University & Kibbutzim College of
Education, Tel Aviv.

Friday, May 25
SESSION 7.  
9:30-10:30	Invited Speaker: Jaume Mateu, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
			               ''Aspect and Argument Structure in Auxiliary Selection''

10:30-11:10	''Minimalist variability in the verb phrase''
			              Jonathan MacDonald, Valencia, Spain.

11:10-11:30	Break 

SESSION 8. 
11:30-12:10	''Atelicity and anticausativization''
			             Sergei Tatevosov & Ekaterina Lyutikova, 
                                     Moscow State University

12:10-12:50	''Nominalization, event, aspect, and argument structure: a syntactic
approach''
                                     Petra Sleeman & Ana Maria Brito
                                     ACLC, University of Amsterdam & Faculdade
de Letras da Universidade do  
                                     Porto; Centro de Linguística da
Universidade do Porto

12:50-13:00 	Break

13:00-14:00	Invited Speaker: Gillian Ramchand, University of Tromsø.
			              ''Selection and Conflation in Denominal Verbs''

Alternates: 
''Aspectual composition in causatives''
Maria Babicheva & Mikhail Ivanov, Moscow State University. 

''Existential/locative/possessive sentences revisited. Evidence from Polish
(Slavic)''. 
Joanna Blaszczak, University of Potsdam, Germany






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