10.1800, Confs: Romance Ling: Going Romance 1999/ Holland

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Date:  Thu, 25 Nov 1999 11:33:20 +100
From:  "Jeroen van de Weijer" <vdweijer at letmail.let.leidenuniv.nl>
Subject:  Romance Ling: "Going Romance 1999"/ Holland

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Date:  Thu, 25 Nov 1999 11:33:20 +100
From:  "Jeroen van de Weijer" <vdweijer at letmail.let.leidenuniv.nl>
Subject:  Romance Ling: "Going Romance 1999"/ Holland

The Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics (HIL) and the
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS (UiL OTS) are pleased to
present the programme of

Going Romance 1999
Thirteenth Symposium on Romance Linguistics
Leiden University, December 9-11

with a workshop on Negation on December 11.

The program appears on the web; please see
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/hil/confs/gr1999
and is also reproduced below.

Registration: The registration fee will be NLG 50.00, to be
paid at the conference site. Please notify us by e-mail
(ziegelaar at rullet.leidenuniv.nl) if you wish to participate.

Organizing committee: Reineke Bok-Bennema (Groningen), Denis
Delfitto (UiL/OTS Utrecht), Yves D'Hulst (HIL/Leiden), Jenny
Doetjes (UiL/OTS Utrecht), Frank Drijkoningen (Uil OTS Utrecht),
Pieter Muysken (HIL/Leiden), Johan Rooryck (HIL/Leiden), Petra
Sleeman (HIL/Amsterdam)

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Going Romance
Preliminary programme of both the conference and the workshop on
negation

Thursday 9 december 1999
building 1103, room 329 (Nonnensteeg)

9.15 Opening and welcome by Pieter Muysken, Leiden University

9.30 - 10.30 Invited speaker; Gemma Rigau, Universitat Auto`noma
de Barcelona: On Temporal Presentational Constructions in Romance

10.30 - 11.10 Raffaella Folli, University of Oxford:
Causative/Inchoative alternations in Italian

11.10 - 11.30 Coffee/tea

11.30 - 12.10 Ana Lu'cia Santos, Universidade do Minho:
On the status of the by-phrase: evidence from full passives and
absolute past participles in Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan

12.10 - 12.50 Jaume Mateu Fontanals, Universitat Auto`noma de
Barcelona: Locative and locatum verbs revisited. Evidence from
Romance

12.50 - 14.15 Lunch

14.15 - 14.55 Javier Gutie'rrez-Rexach, Ohio State University:
Spanish exclamatives and the semantics of the left periphery

14.55 - 15.35 Michela M. Ippolito, MIT: The Syntax of Temporal
Subordinate Clauses

15.35 - 16.00 Coffee/tea

16.00 - 16.40 Monique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis and Mireille
Tremblay, Queen's University: On the modularity of grammar and
its restrictive effect on change

16.40 - 17.40 Invited speaker; Cecilia Poletto, Universita` di
Padova: Criteria for Wh-movement: from Wh-in situ to Wh-doubling

Friday 10 december 1999
building 1173, room 008 (Witte Singel 25)

9.30 - 10.30 Invited speaker; Denis Bouchard
Determiners in Romance and in Germanic

10.30 - 11.10 Maria J. Maza, University of Newcastle upon Tyne:
Phonetic data and functional explanation in phonology: The case
of laxness vowel harmony in Granada Spanish

11.10 - 11.30 Coffee/tea

11.30 - 12.10 Manuela Ambar and Rita Veloso, Universidade de
Lisboa: On the nature of wh phrases: extraction, Wh-in situ and
word order evidence from Portuguese, French, Hungarian and Tetum

12.10 - 12.50 Brechtje Post, University of Nijmegen/University of
Cambridge: An autosegmental-metrical account of French intonation

12.50 - 14.15 Lunch

14.15 - 14.55 Alexandra Cornilescu, University of Bucharest: On
Focusing and Wh-Movement in Romanian

14.55 - 15.35 Nicola Munaro, Universita` di Padova:
Indefinite relatives as defective Wh-elements: evidence from the
North-Western Italian dialects

15.35 - 16.00 Coffee/tea

16.00 - 16.40 Juan Carlos Castillo, University of Iowa/University
of Maryland: Weak Pronouns in Old Spanish

16.40 - 17.20 Jean-Marie Marandin, Universite' Paris VII:
French Subject Inversion in Subjunctive Clauses

18.30 Conference dinner

Alternates:
Linda Escobar (Universitat Auto`noma de Barcelona), In favour of
a more complete typology of anaphoric expressions: the Spanish
reflexive consigo M. Teresa Espinal (Universitat Auto`noma de
Barcelona), Property-denoting objects in idiomatic constructions.

Workshop on Negation

Saturday 11 december 1999
building 1175, room 147 (Cleveringaplaats 1)

9.15 Opening and welcome by Henrie"tte de Swart, Utrecht
University

9.30 - 10.30 Invited speaker: Francis Corblin, Universite' Paris
IV: On multiple expression of negation in some Romance languages

10.30 - 11.05 Svetlana Vogeleer, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles:
What is negated in French negative sentences with
avant-('before') and jusqu'a`-('until') complements?

11.05 - 11.30 Coffee/tea

11.30 - 12.05 Akira Watanabe, University of Tokyo:
Decomposing the Neg-Criterion

12.05 - 12.35 Comments and discussion

12.35 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 14.35 Anto'nio Branco, University of Lisbon and Berthold
Crysmann, University of the Saarland: Negative Concord and linear
constraints on quantification

14.35 - 15.10 Gabriela Matos, Universidade de Lisboa:
Negative Concord and the Minimalist Approach

15.10 - 15.40 Comments and discussions

15.40 - 16.00 Coffee/tea

16.00 - 16.35 Invited speaker: Paul Rowlett, University of
Salford: to be announced

16.35 - 17.35 General discussion led by Francis Corblin,
University Paris IV

Alternate: Ana Maria Brito, Universidade do Porto
The Split Inflection Parameter, Verb Movement and Subject
Positions

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