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Date:  Tue, 23 Jan 1996 13:27:36 GMT
From:  lang7 at mailer.york.ac.uk (D Adger)
Subject:  SPECIFIERS Conference Program
 
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Date:  Tue, 23 Jan 1996 13:27:36 GMT
From:  lang7 at mailer.york.ac.uk (D Adger)
Subject:  SPECIFIERS Conference Program
 
Please contact the organisers (lang7 at tower.york.ac.uk) for information
about accommodation. The conference fee will be nominal.
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Specifiers Conference
21st - 23rd March
King's Manor
University of York
 
Programme: (This programme can also be found in
 
http://www.york.ac.uk/~lang7/program.html)
 
(NB party and dinner times to be arranged)
 
Thursday 21st March
 
9.45 - 10.45 Rita Manzini "Complex adverbials and the theory of
Specifiers/Adjuncts"
 
10.45 - 11.00 Gunther Grewendorf & Joachim Sabel "Multiple Specifiers
vs. Adjunction: explaining (cross-linguistic) variation of Locality-
and A/A'-Distinctions"
 
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
 
11.30 - 12.45 Thierry Etchegoyhen "Identificational processes in
Relative Clauses: [Spec, CP] as an A-position"
 
12.45 - 2.15 Lunch
 
2.15 - 3.00 Andreas Kathol "[Spec, CP] in Standard German reconsidered"
 
3.00 - 3.45 Ronnie Cann "Specifiers as secondary heads"
 
3.45 - 4.15 Coffee
 
4.15 - 5.00 Anna-Maria DiSciullo "Configurational Asymmetry and the
role of Specifiers in configurational morphology"
 
Friday 22nd March
 
9.45 - 10.45 Peggy Speas "The projection and interpretation of null
specifiers"
 
10.45 - 11.00 Jairo Nunes "Spec-head relation for feature checking:
a departure from optimality"
 
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
 
11.30 - 12.15 Artemis Alexiadou & Elena Anagnostopoulou "EPP-checking,
[Spec, IP] and V-raising"
 
12.15 - 2.15 Lunch
 
2.15 - 3.00 Teun Hoekstra, Nina Hyams & Misha Becker "The role of the specifier
 
and finiteness in Early Grammar"
 
3.00 - 3.45 Noriaki Yusa "On why Japanese learners of English are
poor at detecting Subjacency and ECP violations"
 
3.45 - 4.15 Coffee
 
4.15 - 5.00 Bonnie Schwartz "to be announced"
 
Saturday 23rd March
 
9.30 - 10.30 Teun Hoekstra "Specifiers in nominal and verbal structures"
 
10.30 - 11.15 Elabbas Benmamoun "Spec-head agreement, Case and the
PF interface"
 
11.15 - 11.45 Coffee
 
11.45 - 12.00 Alessandra Giorgi & Fabio Pianesi "Feature representation
and the projection of specifiers"
 
12.00 - 1.30 Lunch
 
1.30 - 2.30 Jane Grimshaw "to be announced"
 
2.30 - 3.15 Nigel Duffield "Parameterising specifiers beats
specifying parameters"
 
3.45 - 4.15 Coffee
 
4.15 - 5.00 Edit Doron & Caroline Heycock "Filling and licensing
multiple specifiers"
 
Alternates: Annabel Cormac "Without specifiers"
	    Andrew Simpson "Wh-licensing, movement and the locality
			    of feature checking"
	    Lynn Nichols "Obligatory Logical Movement and specifiers
			  of functional projections"
	    Lynn Santelmann "The acquisition of spec-head relationships
			     in Child Swedish: evidence for UG and
			     language-specific effects"
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