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<p>Dear Colleagues,<br>
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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.<br>
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It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the conference. <br>
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Best regards,<br>
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WoSS8 Organizing Committee<br>
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PROGRAM<br>
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Thursday, November 17<br>
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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>
12:00-12:30 Julio BARBOSA & Paula ARMELIN (Universidade de São Paulo)<br>
Parametric variation, event framing and morphophonological constraints:<br>
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>
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>
16:30-17:00 Tong WU (Université Paris 3)<br>
Notes on language contact within the Minimalist architecture<br>
17:00-17:30 Candice COYER (University of Siena)<br>
Early null objects in French-speaking children<br>
17:30-18:00 Paula Armelin (Universidade de São Paulo)<br>
Syntax revisiting Morphophonological controversies: predicting the distribution of –inho and –zinho diminutives in Brazilian Portuguese<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>
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>
14:30-15:00 Lidia BOGATYREVA (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)<br>
Russian instrumental nominals as a counterpart of bare nominals in Romance<br>
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>
16:30-17:00 Pavel RUDNEV (University of Groningen)<br>
Syntax and semantics of constituent interrogatives in Standard Avar: a base-generation approach<br>
17:00-17:30 Jiyoung CHOI (Université de Nantes )<br>
A study of so-called inchoative states in Korean<br>
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17:30 Closing Session & Business Meeting<br>
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20:30 Conference Dinner<br>
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