20.866, Confs: Linguistic Theories;Syntax;Typology/UK

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Date: 13-Mar-2009
From: Glenda Newton < gen21 at cam.ac.uk >
Subject: Theoretical Approaches to Disharmonic Word Orders
 

	
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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:35:03
From: Glenda Newton [gen21 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: Theoretical Approaches to Disharmonic Word Orders

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Theoretical Approaches to Disharmonic Word Orders 

Date: 30-May-2009 - 01-Jun-2009 
Location: Newcastle, United Kingdom 
Contact: Glenda Newton 
Contact Email: gen21 at cam.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://research.ncl.ac.uk/linearization/index.php 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Syntax; Typology 

Meeting Description: 

The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers working on
disharmonic (i.e. mixed head-initial and head-final) word orders from both
theoretical and empirical perspectives. The conference is funded by the AHRC
through the project 'Structure and Linearisation in Disharmonic Word Orders'
(AH/E009239/1) 

Saturday 30th May

9:30-10:30	Invited Speaker: Guglielmo Cinque (University of Venice)
- TBA

10:30-10:50	Break

10:50-11:40	Michael Barrie (University of Ottawa)
- Antisymmetry and Hixkaryana

11:40-12:30	Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University)
- Deriving disharmonic word orders via movement

12:30-14:00	Lunch

14:00-14:50	Sonia Cyrino (Unicamp)
- On Aux+Vparticiple structures and word order

14:50-16:40	Josef Bayer (University of Konstanz)
- The FINAL-OVER-FINAL CONSTRAINT meets the HEAD-FINAL FILTER

16:40-17:00	Break

17:00-17:50	Federica Cognola (University of Padua)
- OV/VO word order in Mocheno main declarative clauses

17:50-18:50	Invited Speaker: Matthew Dryer (Buffalo)
- TBA

Sunday 31st May

9:30-10:30	Invited Speaker: James Huang (Harvard University)
- TBA

10:30-10:50	Break

10:50-11:40	Redouane Djamouri, Waltraud Paul, John Whitman (EHESS - CNRS,
Paris/Cornell University)
- Harmonic Disharmony: The case of Chinese

11:40-12:30	Roland Hinterhölzl (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin)
- Global Harmony: Why German is consistently inconsistent

12:30-14:00	Lunch

14:00-14:50	Mark de Vos (Rhodes University)
- Afrikaans mixed adposition orders as a PF-linearization effect: Disharmony is
asuperficial side effect 
of deeper harmony

14:50-16:40	Balkiz Ozturk (Bogazici University)
- Postverbal constituents in SOV languages

16:40-17:00	Break

17:00-17:50	Hisao Tokizaki & Yasutomo Kuwana (Sapporo University)
- A Stress-Based Theory of Disharmonic Word Orders

17:50-18:40	Joseph Emonds
- Some Concepts and Consequences of Nespor and Vogel's 1982 Complement Law

Monday 1st June

9:30-10:30	Invited Speaker: Richard Kayne (New York University)
- TBA

10:30-10:50	 Break

10:50-11:40	Takashi Toyoshima (Dept. Human Sciences & Dept. Brain Science &
Engineering Kyushu Institute of Technology)
- Traversal Parameter at the PF Interface: Graph-Theoretical Linearization of
Bare Phrase Structure

11:40-12:30	Jan-Wouter Zwart (University of Groningen)
- The FOFC asymmetry: a layered derivation perspective

12:30-13:30	Discussion






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