17.515, Confs: Syntax/ NY, New York, USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-17-515. Thu Feb 16 2006. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 17.515, Confs: Syntax/ NY, New York, USA

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Date: 14-Feb-2006
From: Chris Collins < cc116 at nyu.edu >
Subject: Tales of the Missing Link 

	
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:47:38
From: Chris Collins < cc116 at nyu.edu >
Subject: Tales of the Missing Link 
 



Tales of the Missing Link 

Date: 03-Mar-2006 - 03-Mar-2006 
Location: New York, New York, USA 
Contact: Chris Collins 
Contact Email: cc116 at nyu.edu 
Meeting URL: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Linguistics/events/tales.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

Date: Friday, March 3, 2006
Time: 9:25am - 4:00pm
Location: NYU, Silver Center 713

This conference will focus on recent work in linking constructions, including phenomena in Khoisan languages, Japanese, Chinese, French, Thai, Modern Persian, Kurdish, Zazaki, and the Niger-Congo languages.

The questions that will be investigated at this conference include the following: How are linkers different from prepositions? What role do linkers play in word order? What role do linkers play in Case assignment? What kinds of cross-linguistic variation characterize each of the domains where linkers are found? 

Date: Friday, March 3, 2006
Time: 9:25am - 4:00pm
Location: NYU, Silver Center 713

This conference will focus on recent work in linking constructions, including at least the following phenomena:

The verbal linker found in the non-central Khoisan languages and Kinande 
The nominal linkers found in Japanese (-no/-i/-na), Chinese (de), French (de) and Thai (thii) 
The Ezafe constructions found in Modern Persian, Kurdish and Zazaki 
The associative constructions found in the Niger-Congo languages 

The questions that will be investigated at this conference include the following:

How are linkers different from prepositions? From Case markers? Are linkers semantically empty? 
What role do linkers play in word order? Do they provide landing sites for movement? 
What role do linkers play in Case assignment? 
What kinds of cross-linguistic variation characterize each of the domains where linkers are found? Which languages allow multiple linker constructions, and are there special constraints on these? 
How does agreement work in linker constructions? 

Preliminary Schedule:

Richard Larson         ''On DP and VP''  
Vick Carstens          TBA 
Chris Collins          ''Cross-Linguistic Variation in Khoisan Linkers'' 
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour  ''Some thoughts on the (missing) Ezafe''
Marcel den Dikken      discussant
Mark Baker             discussant





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