16.1208, Confs: Semantics/Syntax/College Park, MD, USA
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Subject: 16.1208, Confs: Semantics/Syntax/College Park, MD, USA
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Date: 14-Apr-2005
From: Lydia Grebenyova < lgrebeny at umd.edu >
Subject: Mayfest 2005: Wh-fest
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Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 21:50:27
From: Lydia Grebenyova < lgrebeny at umd.edu >
Subject: Mayfest 2005: Wh-fest
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Mayfest 2005: Wh-fest
Date: 13-May-2005 - 15-May-2005
Location: College Park, MD, United States of America
Contact: Lydia Grebenyova
Contact Email: lgrebeny at umd.edu
Meeting URL: http://ling.umd.edu/events/mayfest/2005
Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax
Meeting Description:
What is Mayfest? Every year the Linguistics Department of the University of
Maryland organizes a state-of-the-art linguistics workshop. This year's Mayfest
is a Wh-fest, devoted to various phenomena in wh-studies, with a special focus
on syntactic and semantic issues.
When: May 13-15, 2005
Where: University of Maryland at College Park, Marie Mount Hall, Maryland Room
FRIDAY, MAY 13th, 2005
8:30-9:30 Breakfast and Registration
9:30-10:50 Norvin Richards (MIT)
The Agreement sequence for successive-cyclic movement in Tagalog and
English
11:00-12:20 Hajime Hoji (USC)
Scrambling, PF and LF adjunction, and null operator movement in Japanese
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:20 Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz)
TBA
3:30-4:50 ?eljko Bo?kovi? (UCONN)
On the locality and driving force of wh-movement
5:00-6:20 Grant Goodall (UC San Diego)
Deviation from canonical word order in wh-questions
7:00 - Dinner reception
SATURDAY, MAY 14th, 2005
8:30-9:30 Breakfast and Registration
9:30-10:50 Joseph Aoun (USC) and Audrey Li (USC)
The syntax and interpretation of pronominals
11:00-12:20 Arthur Stepanov (U of Potsdam)
The Hows and Whys of How and Why: Merger and licensing of wh-adjuncts
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:20 Ileana Comorovski (U Nancy 2)
Specificational Wh-questions
3:30-4:50 Paul Hagstrom (Boston U)
What do questions mean?
5:00-6:20 Ivano Caponigro (U of Milan-Bicocca and U of Maryland)
Free relatives or what the semantic investigation of non-interrogative
wh-constructions cross-linguistically can tell us about the meaning of wh-words
6:30 - Dinner out at local restaurants
SUNDAY, MAY 15th, 2005
8:30-9:30 Breakfast and Registration
9:30-10:50 Barbara Citko (Brandeis U)
Does Across-the-Board Left Branch Extraction (ATB LBE) Exist?
11:00-12:20 Marcel den Dikken (CUNY)
Back to hell - Further thoughts on wh-the-hell and its repercussions
for the syntax of wh-questions
12:20-12:30 Closing Remarks
Abstracts of the talks are available at:
http://ling.umd.edu/events/mayfest/2005/program.html
Meeting URL: http://ling.umd.edu/events/mayfest/2005/index.html
If you'd like to attend Mayfest 2005, please register at:
http://ling.umd.edu/events/mayfest/2005/registration.html
The registration is free of charge!
The Organizing Committee:
Lydia Grebenyova (lgrebeny at umd.edu)
Ivan Ortega-Santos (ivortega at umd.edu)
Eri Takahashi (takahash at umd.edu)
Heather Taylor (hltaylor at wam.umd.edu)
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