15.1802, Confs: Syntax/Libon, Portugal

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Subject: 15.1802, Confs: Syntax/Libon, Portugal

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Date:  Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:50:40 -0400 (EDT)
From:  jcosta at fcsh.unl.pt
Subject:  Lisbon Workshop on Alternative views on the Functional Domain

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Date:  Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:50:40 -0400 (EDT)
From:  jcosta at fcsh.unl.pt
Subject:  Lisbon Workshop on Alternative views on the Functional Domain

Lisbon Workshop on Alternative views on the Functional Domain

Date: 08-Jul-2004 - 09-Jul-2004
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Contact: Joao Costa
Contact Email: jcosta at fcsh.unl.pt

Linguistic Sub-field: Syntax

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2004


Meeting Description:

Lisbon Workshop on Alternative Views on the Functional Domain
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
July, 8-9 2004


PROGRAM

July 8

9.30 - 10.00 -    A critique of the split-CP hypothesis
                  Frederick Newmeyer (University of Washington)

10.00 - 10.30 -    Do cartographies reflect the grammatical knowledge?
                   Jordi Fortuny (Universitat de Barcelona)

10.30 - 11.00 -    Obligatory complementizers and clause structure
                   Dirk Bury (University College London)

coffee break

11.30 - 12.00 -    What is a strong functional head?
                   João Costa & Ana Maria Martins (Universidade
                   Nova de Lisboa & Univ. Lisboa)

12.00 - 12.30 -    Categorial deficiency, head movement and phrase structure
                   Phoevos Panagiotidis (Cyprus College)

12.30 - 13.00 -    Auxiliary Verbs, V-to-I and the Temporal Domain
                   Karen Zagona (University of Washington)

Lunch

15.00 - 15.30 -   The nominal feature of functional
		   Abbas Benmamoun (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

15.30 - 16.00 -   Lexical shells and the functional extended domain of spatial
                  adpositions
                  Máire Noonan (McGill University)

16.00 - 16.30 -  Distribution of Number and Classifier in languages,
                 underspecification, and parametrization
                 Abdelkader Fassi Fehri & Marie-Thérèse Vinet (Mohammed V
                 University & Université de Sherbrooke, Canada)

coffee break

17.00 - 17.30 -    Toward a simplified Agreement Field: evidence from Veneto
                   Dialects
                   Paolo Chinellato (University of Venice)

17.30 - 18.00-   Alignment constraints and the word order relation between
                 Subject Clitics in the Northern Italian Dialects and
                 preverbal negation
                 Cecilia Goria (Nottingham)


July 9

9.30 - 10.00 -  Topic as an interpretive notion
                Heles Contreras (University of Washington)

10.00 - 10.30 - Interaction of Feature Assignment and Discourse Factors
                Olga Zavitnevich-Beaulac (Université du Québec à  Montréal)

10.30 - 11.00 - Disagreeing on Agree: Agree, the EPP and super-raising
                Gerardo Fernandez Salgueiro (University of Michigan)

coffee break

11.30 - 12.00 - Thematic Structure and Functional Structure: evidence
                from ''verbal extensions''
                Federico Damonte (University of Padova)

12.00 - 12.30 - Constraints on Idiom Formation  (in Brazilian Portuguese)
                Miriam Lemle, Aniela Improta França & Aleria Lage
               (Universidade Federal do Rio de
               Janeiro)

12.30- 13.00 - Noun Incorporation, Root-derivation, and Null Objects in Italian
               Frederico Ghegin (University of Padova)

Lunch

15.00 -15.30 -  The Necessity of an Articulated Functional Domain: Evidence
                from the Acquisition of Functional Morphology in child Swahili
                Kamil Ud Deen (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)

15.30 - 16.00 - The Functional Domain of the Nominal System in CVC: the puzzle
                of Bare Nouns
                Nélia Alexandre & Nuno Soares (Universidade de Lisboa)

16.00 - 16.30 - TP in Capeverdean: an almighty functional projection?
                Fernanda Pratas (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

coffee break

17.00 - 17.30 - Multiple [+F] assignment and the theory of focus
                Aritz Irurtzun (EHU - Univ. Basque Country)

 17.30 - 18.00 - How far can we go without a focus projection in our syntax?
                 Evidence from Greek
                 Stella Grillia (ULCL/Leiden University)

 18.00- 18.30 -  Inherent Case Realization in Hungarian: a Reanalysis of
                 Postpositions
                 Anna Asbury (OTS/Utrecht University)

Alternates:

Discourse/semantics factors and functional categories: the case of
Russian multiple questions- Denis Liakin (Concordia University)

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