12.2715, Confs: Romance Ling, University of Amsterdam

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Date:  Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:04:09 +0100
From:  "J. Quer" <j.quer at hum.uva.nl>
Subject:  Going Romance 2001

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Date:  Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:04:09 +0100
From:  "J. Quer" <j.quer at hum.uva.nl>
Subject:  Going Romance 2001

PROGRAM

GOING ROMANCE 2001

Fifteenth Symposium on Romance Linguistics

Universiteit van Amsterdam, 6 - 8 December 2001

Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics - OTS (UiL OTS)

Thursday 6 December

Location: P.C. Hoofthuis, Spuistraat 134, Amsterdam
Room: 104
Registration fee: on site, HFL 80 (including workshop and lunch on Thursday
and Friday)

 9.15-9.30
	Opening: Speaker TBA
 9.30-10.30
      Prof. Luigi Rizzi (Università di Siena), invited speaker
      Title TBA
 10.30-11.10
	Dorian Roehrs (Indiana University) & Marie Labelle (University
        du Quebec Montreal)
	The Left Periphery in Child French: Evidence for a Simply-split CP

 11.10-11.30
	coffee & tea break

 11.30-12.10
      Sandra Paoli (University of Manchester; University of Padua)
	Mapping out the sentence: Evidence from North-western Italian Varieties
 12.10-12.50
      Andrea Moro (University H. San Raffaele, Milano)
	Notes on Vocative Case: a case study in clause structure

 12.50-14.15 lunch

 14.15-14.55
      Luis Alonso-Ovalle (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
	Spanish Of-clauses
 14.55-15.35
      Claudia Borgonovo (University Laval)
	Negation and mood

 15.35-16.00
	coffee & tea break

16.00-16.40
	Mary Aizawa Kato (Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP))
	Null Objects, Null Resumptives and VP Ellipsis in European and
        Brazilian Portuguese

 16.40-17.40
      Prof. Karen Zagona (University of Washington), invited speaker
      Complement Clause Tenses and the Notion of 'Temporal Path'

18.00-19.00
	Drinks

Friday 7 December

Location: P.C. Hoofthuis, Spuistraat 134, Amsterdam
Room: 104

 9.30-10.30
      Prof. João Costa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), invited speaker
      Null vs. Overt Spec,TP in European Portuguese
 10.30-11.10
      Karen Lahousse (K.U. Leuven; University Paris-8)
	Stylistic inversion: how simple can it be ?

 11.10-11.30
      coffee & tea break

 11.30-12.10
      Edward Göbbel (Universität Tübingen)
	Prosodically Conditioned Word Order Variation in Romanian
 12.10-12.50
	Daniela Isac (Université du Québec à Montréal)
	Identificational Focus vs Contrastive Focus: a Syntactic Distinction

 12.50-14.15
      lunch

 14.15-14.55
	Judith Meinschaefer (Universität Konstanz)
	Argument realization in French psych verb nominalizations. A view from
lexical semantics
 14.55-15.35
	Monique Dufresne (UQAM; Queen's University) & Fernande Dupuis (UQAM)
	On the consequence of the grammaticalisation of the aspect in French

15.35-16.00
      coffee & tea break

16.00-16.40
	Ana Maria Martins (University of Lisbon)
	Deficient pronouns and linguistic change in Portuguese and Spanish

  16.40-17.40
      Prof. Richard Kayne (New York University), invited speaker
	Partitives and Bare Plurals in French

 18.30-22.00
      Dinner

Alternates :
1. Cecilia Poletto (CNR Padova) & Raffaella Zanuttini (Georgetown University)
	The left periphery as a window on discourse structure. A case study from
Central Rhaetoromance
2. Paul Law (Freie Universität, Berlin)
	Past participle agreement with pronominal clitics and auxiliary selection
in Italian and French
3. Cecilia Goria (University of Manchester)
	Combining the Minimalist Program and Optimality Theory: the case of
Subject Clitics in Piedmontese

Saturday 8 December: Workshop on Determiners (see seperate program). This
workshop is organized in collaboration with the French CNRS (PICS project
"Sémantique formelle et données du français").

Organizing Committee:
Frank Drijkoningen (Universiteit Utrecht - UiL OTS), Denis Delfitto
(Universiteit Utrecht - UiL OTS), Aafke Hulk (Universiteit van Amsterdam -
ACLC), Brigitte Kampers-Manhe (Universiteit Groningen), Josep Quer
(Universiteit van Amsterdam - ACLC), Petra Sleeman (Universiteit van
Amsterdam - ACLC), Els Verheugd (Universiteit van Amsterdam - ACLC).

Acknowledgements:
The organizers gratefully acknowledge financial support from:
ACLC, Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication, Amsterdam
KNAW, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam
NWO, the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research, Den Haag
UiL-OTS, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics - OTS, Utrecht

Information:
Going Romance 2001
Department of French, University of Amsterdam
Spuistraat 134
1012 VB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: +31-20-5252610
Fax: +31-20-5254429
Email: going.romance at hum.uva.nl

For further information:
http://home.hum.uva.nl/oz/goingromance

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Josep Quer

Romaanse Taalkunde/Spaans
Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
P.C. Hoofthuis, k. 311
Spuistraat 134
NL-1012 VB Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Phone: +31.20.5254613
Fax: +31.20.5254429
E-mail: j.quer at hum.uva.nl

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