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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 17:07:26
From: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck [jeroen.vancraenenbroeck at kuleuven.be]
Subject: The syntax and semantics of clausal complementation
The syntax and semantics of clausal complementation
Short Title: BCGL 13
Date: 16-Dec-2020 - 18-Dec-2020
Location: Brussels (Online), Belgium
Contact: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
Contact Email: jeroen.vancraenenbroeck at kuleuven.be
Meeting URL: https://www.crissp.be/bcgl-13-the-syntax-and-semantics-of-clausal-complementation/
Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax
Meeting Description:
CRISSP is proud to present the thirteenth installment of the Brussels
Conference on Generative Linguistics (BCGL), devoted to the syntax and
semantics of clausal complementation.
The conference will take place on December 16-18, 2020, and has been moved
online due to local COVID 19-regulations.
We are pleased to announce that the following invited speakers have agreed to
give a talk at BCGL 13:
Keir Moulton (University of Toronto)
David Pesetsky (MIT)
Anna Roussou (University of Patras)
Program Information:
**Wednesday December 16, 2020**
10.50-11.00
Welcome and opening words
11.05-11.40
Imke Driemel (Universität Leipzig) and Maria Kouneli (Universität Leipzig)
‘Say’-based complementation: Insights from Kipsigis
11.45-12.20
Kajsa Djärv (University of Konstanz)
Composing attitude reports: why knowing people is not believing them
12.25-13.00
Jan Wiślicki (University of Warsaw)
S-selection and presupposition in quotational complementation
13.00-14.00
Lunch break
14.00-14.10
Lightning talk: Evgeniia Khristoforova (University of Amsterdam)
Deficient subject agreement in control complement clauses in Russian Sign
Language
14.15-14.25
Lightning talk: Francesco Costantini (University of Udine)
On assertive force and the structure of complement clauses
14.30-14.40
Lightning talk: Mikhail Knyazev (Institute for Linguistic Studies RAS, St.
Petersburg)
An implicational hierarchy for declarative complement clauses: nominal
structure without nominal properties
14.40-15.10
Break-out rooms
15.10-15.25
Break
15.25-16.00
Sadhwi Srinivas (John Hopkins University) and Geraldine Legendre (John Hopkins
University)
Content-denoting clausal complements to deverbal nouns can be arguments:
Evidence from English and Kannada light verb constructions
16.05-16.40
Tatiana Bondarenko (MIT)
Two paths to explain
16.45-17.45
Invited talk: Keir Moulton (University of Toronto)
TBA
**Thursday December 17, 2020**
11.05-11.
Lena Baunaz (University of Zurich) and Eric Lander (Stockholm University)
Romance and Balkan factive islands in a nanosyntactic light
11.45-12.20
Qianqian Ren (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Clausal subordination and coordination in the nominal domain in Mandarin
Chinese
12.25-13.00
Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University) and Jutta Hartmann (Universität
Bielefeld)
Exfoliation and control
13.00-14.00
Lunch break
14.00-14.35
Idan Landau (Ben Gurion University)
Gerundive Complements of P: Either property or proposition
14.40-15.15
Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee (University of Southern California) and Ka-Fai Yip (Yale
University)
Indirect evidence as a licensing condition of hyperraising in Cantonese and
Vietnamese
15.15-15.30
Break
15.30-15.40
Lightning talk: Christos Vlachos (University of Patras) and Konstantina Balasi
(University of Patras)
Wh-clauses as nominal complements: Evidence from Greek
15.45-15.55
Lightning talk: Teruyuki Mizuno (University of Connecticut)
On the Q-particles in embedded declaratives and the clausal complementation in
Japanese
16.00-16.10
Lightning talk: Tom Roberts (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Argument saturation and the syntactic status of embedded clauses
16.10-16.40
Break-out rooms
16.45-17.45
Invited talk: Anna Roussou (University of Patras)
TBA
**Friday December 18, 2020**
11.45-12.20
Richard Faure (Université Côte d’Azur)
Argument CPs as frozen in situ DPs in Classical Greek
12.25-13.00
Mirko Garofalo (University of Iceland)
The role of D-features and case for clausal arguments: an account from
Icelandic
13.00-14.00
Lunch break
14.00-14.10
Lightning talk: Irina Stoica (University of Bucharest)
CPs as subjects – the view from manner of speaking verbs
14.15-14.25
Lightning talk: Despina Oikonomou (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Variable “mood selection” with communication verbs in Greek: Bi-eventive modal
anchoring
14.30-14.40
Lightning talk: Deniz Satik (Harvard University)
Exfoliating the implicational universal in complementation
14.40-15.10
Break-out rooms
15.10-15.25
Break
15.25-16.00
Asia Pietraszko (University of Rochester)
An argument for true c-selection in clausal complementation
16.05-16.40
Ken Safir (Rutgers University)
On the Directions of Selection
16.45-17.45
Invited talk: David Pesetsky (MIT)
TBA
Registration for BCGL 13 is required for everyone except the invited speakers.
You can register via this form
(https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScRbJP20KCxVHzXre85vJQlwGBYgGcM8vSuO
Lat_492r9u6mA/viewform). All registered participants will receive an email
with the Zoom-links of the conference sessions shortly before the start of
BCGL 13.
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