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<p>We are glad to inform you that the 8th Workshop on Syntax & Semantics<br>
(WoSS8) will take place at the CNRS 'Pouchet' building, 59 rue Pouchet 75017 Paris, on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th November 2011.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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The institutions behind WoSS are :<br>
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The University of Nantes<br>
The University of the Basque Country in Vitoria-Gasteiz (EHU)<br>
The Universities of Catalonia (UAB, UB, UPF, URV)<br>
The Universities of Paris 3, Paris 7, Paris 8<br>
The Universities of Madrid (IUOG, UAM, UCM)<br>
The University of Sienna<br>
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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:<br>
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Paolo ACQUAVIVA (University College Dublin)<br>
Bob BORSLEY (Univerity of Essex)<br>
Philippe SCHLENKER (Institut Jean Nicod-NYU)<br>
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This two-day event is scheduled as follows:<br>
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Thursday, November 17<br>
9:15-10:00 Registration & Welcome <br>
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10:00-11:00 Invited Speaker: Paolo ACQUAVIVA (University College Dublin)<br>
Morphological roots and lexical concepts<br>
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11:00-11:30 Coffee break<br>
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11:30-12:00 Emilio SERVIDIO (University of Siena) <br>
Emphatic polar particles in Italian<br>
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12:00-12:30 Julio BARBOSA & Paula ARMELIN (Universidade de São Paulo) <br>
Parametric variation, event framing and morphophonological constraints: a comparative study of datives and double object constructions<br>
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12:30-14:00 Lunch break<br>
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14:00-15:00 Invited Speaker: Robert D. BORSLEY (University of Essex)<br>
Don't Move!<br>
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15:00-15:30 Vincent RICHARD (Université Paris 1) <br>
"Weather-it": a borderline case in control theory<br>
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15:30-16:00 Coffee break<br>
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16:00-16:30 Patrycja MATERA (Université Paris 3, LACITO & Paris 8 UMR 7023) <br>
Imperfectives, Generics and Non-Selected Dative Subject-like arguments in Polish<br>
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16:30-17:00 Tong WU (Université Paris 3) <br>
Notes on language contact within the Minimalist architecture<br>
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17:00-17:30 Candice COYER (University of Siena) <br>
Early null objects in French-speaking children<br>
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Friday, November 18<br>
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9:30-10:30 Invited Speaker: Philippe SCHLENKER (Institut Jean-Nicod & NYU)<br>
Anaphora: Insights from Sign Language<br>
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10:30-11:00 Matthijs WESTERA (University of Amsterdam) <br>
The inevitable active lexicon<br>
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11:00-11:30 Coffee break<br>
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11:30-12:00 Jérémy ZEHR (Université de Nantes) <br>
Is vagueness a presuppositional phenomenon? <br>
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12:00-12:30 Jens FLEISCHHAUER (Heinrich-Heine University Dusseldorf) <br>
Verb gradation and the Syntax-Semantics Interface<br>
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12:30-14:00 Lunch break<br>
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14:00-14:30 Yoonhee CHOI & Margot COLINET (Université Paris 7) <br>
A compositional analysis of French 'n'importe quel N' and 'amwu-N-na' free choice noun phrases<br>
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14:30-15:00 Lidia BOGATYREVA (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) <br>
Russian instrumental nominals as a counterpart of bare nominals in Romance<br>
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15:00-15:30 Luciana SANCHEZ-MENDES (USP - Brazil and Paris 8)<br>
Degree Modification on the Verbal Domain in Karitiana<br>
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15:30-16:00 Coffee break<br>
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16:00-16:30 Jinhong LIU (Université de Nantes) <br>
The Culmination of Accomplishment Verbs in Chinese<br>
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16:30-17:00 Pavel RUDNEV (University of Groningen) <br>
Syntax and semantics of constituent interrogatives in Standard Avar: a base-generation approach<br>
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17:00 Closing Session & Business Meeting<br>
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20:30 Conference Dinner<br>
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The 8th WORKSHOP ON SYNTAX & SEMANTICS (WoSS8) thanks the following organizations for their material and financial support:<br>
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Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)<br>
Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (U. Paris 7)<br>
L'École Doctorale de Sciences du langage (U. Paris 7)<br>
L'École Doctorale Cognition Langage Interaction (U. Paris 8)<br>
UMR 7023 Structures Formelles du Langage (U. Paris 8)<br>
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Organizing Committee<br>
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Xiaoliang HUANG (Université Paris 7)<br>
Christophe ONAMBELE (Université Paris 8)<br>
Marie PHILIPPE (Université Paris 8)<br>
Géraldine WALTHER (Université Paris 7)<br>
Grégoire WINTERSTEIN (Université Paris 7) <br>
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