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Date: 19-Aug-2005
From: Chris Johns < c.s.r.johns at dur.ac.uk >
Subject: The Structure of Parametric Variation 

	
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Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 15:24:56
From: Chris Johns < c.s.r.johns at dur.ac.uk >
Subject: The Structure of Parametric Variation 
 

Date: 05-Sep-2005 - 07-Sep-2005 
Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom 
Contact: Michelle Sheehan 
Contact Email: parametric at ncl.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/parametric 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories 

Meeting Description: 

Over the past twenty-five years, the notion of parameter of Universal Grammar
has been the central element in accounting for the observed variation and
predicting the possible variation among grammatical systems. The aim of the
conference, which is funded by the AHRC through the project 'Null Subjects and
the Structure of Parametric Theory' (AR14458), is to bring together researchers
working on the nature of parametric variation. 

Sunday, 4th September
18.00-21.00 Drinks Reception 

Monday 5th September, Percy Building
10.00-11.00 Invited Speaker: Giuseppe Longobardi (Trieste) On the Form and
Functioning of Mapping Parameters

11.15-12.00 Marcello Modesto (São Paulo) The null subject parameter is not the
only parameter for null subjects 

12.00-12.45 Marco Nicolis (Siena) On some classical correlations: pro drop, free
inversion, that-t effects 

14.00-14.45 Marika Lekakou (UCL) Middles across languages: the parameter of
imperfective aspect

14.45-15.30 Jacqueline Van Kampen & Arnold Evers (Utrecht) A single value filter
on parameter setting 

16.00-16.45 Maia Duguine (Ehu-U, Basque Country/Hitt) Deletion, agreement and
focus. How to account for null arguments in Basque 

16.45-17.30 Ad Neeleman (UCL) & Kriszta Szendroi (Utrecht) Radical pro-drop and
the morphology of pronouns 

17.45-18.45 Invited speaker: Martin Haspelmath (MPI for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Leipzig) The World Atlas of Language Structures as a tool for
comparative linguists

Tuesday 6th September
10.00-11.00 Invited Speaker: Richie Kayne (NYU) Title TBC

11.15-12.00 Gianollo, Guardiano & Longobardi (Trieste) Is a 'history and
geography of human syntax' meaningful? 

12.00-12.45 Phoevos Panagiotidis (Cyprus College) Diachronically persistent
configurations as macro-parametric choices 

14.00-14.45 Hedde Zeijlstra (Tuebingen) Deriving parameters: on the syntactic
flexibility of functional categories

14.45-15.30 Martine Coene (Uia-Antwerp) & Larisa Avram (Bucharest) Can children
tell us anything we did not know about parameter clustering ? 

16.00-16.45 Geoff Horrocks (Cambridge) & Melita Stavrou (Thessaloniki)
Parametric variation in the lexicalization of semantic properties: the role of
grammatical aspect in shifting a verb's basic aktionsart. 

16.45-17.30 Gerardo Fernández-Salgueiro (Michigan, Ann Arbor) Further-raising: a
new property clustering around the null-subject parameter? 

19.30 Conference dinner at Assembly Rooms 
 
Wednesday 7th September, Percy Building 
9.00-10.00 Invited Speaker: Mark Baker (Rutgers) A Macroparameter Meets
Mapudungun: Splintering or Confirmation?

10.00-10.45 Sjef Barbiers (Meertens Institute) Word-order alternations in
three-verb clusters as non-parametric variation 

11.15-12.00David Adger (Queen Mary, London) Variation without parameters 

12.00-12.45 Gillian Ramchand & Peter Svenonius (Tromsö) Mapping a parochial
lexicon onto a universal semantics 

14.00-16.30 Round table discussion, chaired by Anders Holmberg (Newcastle) and
Ian Roberts (Cambridge)





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