32.282, Confs: Language Acquisition/Online

Thu Jan 21 16:14:28 UTC 2021

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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 11:14:01
From: Pilar Barbosa [pbarbosa at ilch.uminho.pt]
Subject: Null Objects from a Crosslinguistic and Development Perspective

Null Objects from a Crosslinguistic and Development Perspective 
Short Title: Null Objects 

Date: 29-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2021 
Location: University of Minho (Zoom), Portugal 
Contact: Pilar Barbosa 
Contact Email: pbarbosa at ilch.uminho.pt 
Meeting URL: http://cehum.ilch.uminho.pt/null 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description: 

While null subjects have been reasonably well studied in Principles and
Parameters theory, null objects have received considerably less attention.
Different languages impose different restrictions on the use of missing
objects. While unspecified object drop is a widely attested phenomenon,
definite/anaphoric object drop is more restricted. Yet, it can be found in
typologically different languages ranging from those that lack agreement
inflection altogether, such as the Asian radical pro-drop languages (Huang,
1984), to those that have agreement inflection, but lack agreement with the
object, such as Finnish, Hebrew, Portuguese, the Slavic languages, etc. At the
same time, data from language acquisition have been taken to suggest that the
nonrealization of an object is an option widely available in early stages of
language development, even when the adult language severely restricts object
drop (Pérez-Leroux, Pirvulescu, & Roberge, 2008; Pérez-Leroux, Pirvulescu,
Roberge, & Castilla, 2013). Thus, investigating what features of the grammar
contribute to restricting or favoring object drop in particular languages is
fundamental to an adequate theory of missing arguments. This meeting aims to
provide a forum for discussion of aspects pertaining to the issue of the
licensing of null objects not only from a cross-linguistic perspective but
also in language development.

Program Information: 

The conference will be held online (Zoom) on January 29-30. If you want to
attend please register for free until January 26. You will, then, receive the
access information.

Registration: http://cehum.ilch.uminho.pt/null#registration

Friday, January 29, 2021
9.45 – 10.00   Welcome

10.00 – 10.50  Keynote 1 - Esther Rinke (Goethe Universität Frankfurt)
Does Animacy Matter for the Realization of Null Objects in European
Portuguese? Evidence from Monolingual and Bilingual Language Acquisition and
Use

10.50 – 11.20  Pedro Guijarro Fuentes & Ana Madeira
L2 Deficits or Delays? Acquisition of Residual Object Drop in L2 Spanish

11.20 –11.50 Have a break

11.50 – 12.20 Eva-Maria Roessler
On Null Object Licensing in Guaraní – An Account of Person-Split Pro-Drop
(Tupí-Guaraní Family, *Paraguay/Brazil)

12.20 – 12.50 Alexander Letuchiy
Is it Possible to Catch the Object Argument of A-labile Verbs and in
Antipassive Constructions?

12.50 – 13.20 Matthew L. Maddox 
Licensing Contexts for Null Objects in Rioplatense Spanish and Brazilian
Portuguese

13.20 – 14.30 Have a break

14.30 – 15.00 Scott Schwenter
Parallel Acceptability of Null Direct Objects in European and Brazilian
Portuguese

15.00 – 15.30 Rosane Lira, Letícia Corrêa & Maria Lobo
The Effect of Animacy and Schooling in the Production of Co-referential
Objects in the Acquisition of two Varieties of Portuguese

15.30 – 16.00 Almike Vazquez-Lozares
Case is Key: The Relevance of Case in Basque-Spanish Null Objects

16.00 – 16.30 Have a break

16.30 – 17.00 Robert Külpmann
The Role of Sentence Type in German Argument Omission

17.00 – 17.50 Keynote 2: Sonia Cyrino (Universidade de Campinas)
On the Syntax of Null Objects in Brazilian Portuguese

Saturday, January 30, 2021 
10.00 – 10.50 Keynote Marta Ruda (Jagiellonian University in Krakow) 
Null Arguments and Diagnostic Issues. Argument Ellipsis vs. Null Pronouns 

10.50 – 11.20 Takeo Kurafuji 
Some Extensions of a Choice Function Analysis of Null Arguments 

11.20 – 11.50 Usama Soltan 
On Null Objects in Egyptian Arabic: Evidence for Argument Ellipsis

11.50 – 12.20 Have a break 

12.20 – 12.50 Jingtao Zhu 
Testing the Variational Model: Null Subjects and Null Objects in L1 Chinese 

12.50 - 13.20 Vasiliki Liarou 
Object Drop in Greek

13.20 - 14.10 Keynote Vera Dvorak (Rutgers University, NJ & ServiceNow, CA) 
Generic and Indefinite Null Objects (comparing Czech to Italian and English) 

14.10 Closing words

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