8th WORKSHOP ON SYNTAX & SEMANTICS (WoSS8)

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We are glad to inform you that the 8th Workshop on Syntax & Semantics
(WoSS8) will take place at the CNRS 'Pouchet' building, 59 rue Pouchet 75017 Paris, on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th  November 2011.

WoSS is a series of rotating workshops organized by PhD students from neighbouring universities (see list below) for PhD students working in different domains of generative linguistics, in a broad sense, e.g. syntax, semantics, pragmatics, morphology, phonetics, phonology, language acquisition, computational linguistics, etc.

The institutions behind WoSS are :

The University of Nantes
The University of the Basque Country in Vitoria-Gasteiz (EHU)
The Universities of Catalonia (UAB, UB, UPF, URV)
The Universities of Paris 3, Paris 7, Paris 8
The Universities of Madrid (IUOG, UAM, UCM)
The University of Sienna

This year's WoSS is co-organized by University Paris Diderot (Paris 7) and University Paris Vincennes St-Denis (Paris 8). The invited speakers are:

Paolo ACQUAVIVA (University College Dublin)
Bob BORSLEY (Univerity of Essex)
Philippe SCHLENKER (Institut Jean Nicod-NYU)

This two-day event is scheduled as follows:

Thursday, November 17
9:15-10:00     Registration & Welcome    

10:00-11:00    Invited Speaker: Paolo ACQUAVIVA (University College Dublin)
               Morphological roots and lexical concepts

11:00-11:30    Coffee break

11:30-12:00    Emilio SERVIDIO (University of Siena)      
               Emphatic polar particles in Italian

12:00-12:30    Julio BARBOSA &  Paula ARMELIN (Universidade de São Paulo) 
               Parametric variation, event framing and morphophonological constraints: a comparative study of datives and double object constructions

12:30-14:00    Lunch break

14:00-15:00    Invited Speaker: Robert D. BORSLEY (University of Essex)
               Don't Move!

15:00-15:30    Vincent RICHARD (Université Paris 1)    
               "Weather-it": a borderline case in control theory

15:30-16:00    Coffee break

16:00-16:30    Patrycja MATERA (Université Paris 3, LACITO & Paris 8 UMR 7023)     
               Imperfectives, Generics and Non-Selected  Dative   Subject-like arguments in Polish

16:30-17:00    Tong WU (Université Paris 3)   
               Notes on language contact within the Minimalist architecture

17:00-17:30    Candice COYER (University of Siena)   
               Early null objects in French-speaking children

Friday, November 18

9:30-10:30     Invited Speaker: Philippe SCHLENKER (Institut Jean-Nicod & NYU)
               Anaphora: Insights from Sign Language

10:30-11:00    Matthijs WESTERA (University of Amsterdam)       
               The inevitable active lexicon

11:00-11:30    Coffee break

11:30-12:00    Jérémy ZEHR (Université de Nantes)                 
               Is vagueness a presuppositional phenomenon? 

12:00-12:30    Jens FLEISCHHAUER (Heinrich-Heine University Dusseldorf)     
               Verb gradation and the Syntax-Semantics Interface

12:30-14:00    Lunch break

14:00-14:30    Yoonhee CHOI & Margot COLINET (Université Paris 7)  
               A compositional analysis of French 'n'importe quel N' and 'amwu-N-na' free choice noun phrases

14:30-15:00    Lidia BOGATYREVA (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)       
               Russian instrumental nominals as a counterpart of bare nominals in Romance

15:00-15:30    Luciana SANCHEZ-MENDES (USP - Brazil and Paris 8)
               Degree Modification on the Verbal Domain in Karitiana

15:30-16:00    Coffee break

16:00-16:30    Jinhong LIU (Université de Nantes)    
               The Culmination of Accomplishment Verbs in Chinese

16:30-17:00    Pavel RUDNEV (University of Groningen)      
               Syntax and semantics of constituent interrogatives in Standard Avar: a base-generation approach

17:00          Closing Session & Business Meeting

20:30          Conference Dinner

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The 8th WORKSHOP ON SYNTAX & SEMANTICS (WoSS8) thanks the following organizations for their material and financial support:

Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (U. Paris 7)
L'École Doctorale de Sciences du langage (U. Paris 7)
L'École Doctorale Cognition Langage Interaction (U. Paris 8)
UMR 7023 Structures Formelles du Langage (U. Paris 8)

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Organizing Committee

Xiaoliang HUANG (Université Paris 7)
Christophe ONAMBELE (Université Paris 8)
Marie PHILIPPE (Université Paris 8)
Géraldine WALTHER (Université Paris 7)
Grégoire WINTERSTEIN (Université Paris 7) 

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