WoSS8 Reminder

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Dear Colleagues,

The 8th Workshop on Syntax & Semantics (WoSS8) will be held at the CNRS 'Pouchet' building, 59 rue Pouchet 75017 Paris, on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th November 2011.

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the conference. 

Best regards,

WoSS8 Organizing Committee

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PROGRAM

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
17:30-18:00 Paula Armelin (Universidade de São Paulo)
Syntax revisiting Morphophonological controversies: predicting the distribution of –inho and –zinho diminutives in Brazilian Portuguese

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
17:00-17:30 Jiyoung CHOI (Université de Nantes )
A study of so-called inchoative states in Korean

17:30 Closing Session & Business Meeting

20:30 Conference Dinner

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