23.756, Confs: General Linguistics, Syntax/Belgium

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Date: 13-Feb-2012
From: Rachel Nye [rachel.nye at ugent.be]
Subject: Generative Initiatives in Syntactic Theory 5: Generalizing Relative Strategies

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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:34:22
From: Rachel Nye [rachel.nye at ugent.be]
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: rachel.nye at ugent.be 
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

08.45-09.15 
Coffee + registration

09.15-09.30 
Welcome/opening remarks

09.30-10.15 
Boban Arsenijević (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Verb prefixation of the Slavic type in terms of concord and relativization.

10.15-11.00 
Dominique Sportiche (UCLA/ENS): Adjunct/argument asymmetries and relative clause types.

11.00-11.30 
Coffee

11.30-12.15 
Carlo Cecchetto (Università di Milano Bicocca) and Caterina Donati (Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'): Relative structures (and other strong islands) reduced to relabeling.

12.15-14.00 
Lunch

14.00-14.45 
Anna Roussou (University of Patras): Complements, relatives, and nominal properties.

14.45-15.30 
Rita Manzini (Università degli Studi di Firenze): Complement clauses as (free) relatives, complementizers as wh-pronouns: refining the picture.

15.30-16.00 
Coffee

16.00-16.45 
Iliyana Krapova (Università di Venezia Ca' Foscari) and Guglielmo Cinque (Università di Venezia Ca' Foscari): "Clausal Complements" of Nouns as reduced relative clauses.

16.45-17.30 
Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam): Factive constructions and predicate fronting in Gungbe.

Friday March 23

09.00-09.30 
Coffee

09.30-10.15 
Hilda Koopman (UCLA): Noun phrases as relatives: the view from below.

10.15-11.00 
Jason Zentz (Yale University): Movement in adverbial clauses: Evidence from Akɔɔse wh-agreement.

11.00-11.30 
Coffee

11.30-12.15 
Hamida Demirdache (Université de Nantes) and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria (University of the Basque Country): tba

12.15-14.00 
Lunch

14.00-14.45 
Rajesh Bhatt (UMass) and Roumyana Pancheva (USC): tba

14.45-15.30 
Barbara Tomaszewicz (USC): tba

15.30-15.40 
Closing remarks

15.40-16.20 
Publication 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 at ugent.be or lieven.danckaert at ugent.be.

Convenors: 

Liliane Haegeman (UGent), Boban Arsenijević (UPF), Lieven Danckaert (UGent), Rachel Nye (UGent) and the GIST team.

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