17.3476, Confs: Romance Lang/General Ling/Brasil

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Subject: 17.3476, Confs: Romance Lang/General Ling/Brasil

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Date: 16-Nov-2006
From: Francisco Ordóñez < fordonez at notes.cc.sunysb.edu >
Subject: Romania Nova 2 

	
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Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:08:05
From: Francisco Ordóñez < fordonez at notes.cc.sunysb.edu >
Subject:  Romania Nova 2 
 



Romania Nova 2 

Date: 20-Nov-2006 - 24-Nov-2006 
Location: Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil 
Contact: Francisco Ordóñez 
Contact Email: fordonez at notes.cc.sunysb.edu 
Meeting URL: http://www.unicamp.br/iel/romanianova/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Romance 
Meeting Description: 

The commission of ¨Romania Nova¨, ALFAL invites papers to its second 
workshop to be held in Universidade Federal de Alagoas in the V Econtro 
Nacional de Língua Falada e Escrita.  The research comission of Romania 
nova is interested in promoting and creating a space for comparative studies of the Romance languages spoken in the Americas. The areas of discussion can be phonology, morphology, syntax, sociolinguistics and historical linguistics.  The abstracts are invited for 30 minute talks (plus 10 minutes for discussion).
For more information consult our web site at

http://www.unicamp.br/iel/romanianova/ 

Workshop Romania Nova II

V ELFE (Encontro Nacional de Língua Falada e Escrita)

Universidade Federal de Alagoas/ Maceió,Brazil

November 21.  Tuesday.  Hotel Maceió Mar, Room 6.

10:30 to 11:00

Syntactic derivations and the interpretation of Bare Nouns- European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese
Fátima de Oliveira (Universidade do Porto)	         
Inês Duarte  (U. de Lisboa) 			             
Matilde Miguel (U. de Lisboa)		           
Anabela Gonçalves (U. de Lisboa)		           
Maria João Freitas (U. de Lisboa)		            
		
11:00 to 11:30

Demonstrative systems in Spanish and in Romance: some remarks on diachronic and dialectal variation
Francesc Roca (Universitat de Girona)  

11:30 to 12:00

Remarks on Genitive Phrases in Brazilian and European Portuguese
Juanito Avelar   (UNICAMP)		

12:00 to 14:00

Lunch

14:00 to 14:30

Event  Structure of Simple Nouns and Denominal Verbs in Spanish  
Gabriela Resnik (U. Nacional de General Sarmiento) 

14:30 to 15:00 
Word order in wh-questions in Brazilian Portuguese and Caribbean Spanish
Mary Kato (UNICAMP)		
Francisco Ordoñez (SUNY)		
	
15:00 to 15:30
Grammaticalization and epistemicity markers in Argentinian Spanish  
Ángela Di Tullio (Un. Nacional del Comahue)	
Laura Kornfeld  (U. N. de General Sarmiento/ UBA/CONICET)

15:30 to 16:00

General Discussion

November 22.  Wednesday.  Hotel Maceió Mar 6.

10:30 to 11:00

Athematic Participles in Brazilian Portuguese: A Syncretism in the Making  
Paulo Chagas de Souza (USP)	

11:00 to 11:30

What happens to bare nouns in Brazilian Portuguese? Hypothesis to discuss 
Noun Phrases in Portuguese and Tupi languages  
Suzi Oliveira de Lima  (USP)	           
Thiago Coutinho-Silva (USP) 	

11:30 to 14:00

Lunch

14:00 to 14:30

Event nominalization suffixes: blocking effects or vocabulary items competition? 
Ana Paula Scher  (USP)		

14:30 to 15:00 
Complex predicates with light verbs and deverbal nominalizations in European
and Brazilian Portuguese
Inês Duarte  (U. of Lisbon) 		 
Matilde Miguel (U. of Lisbon)				
Anabela Gonçalves (U. of Lisbon)	

15:00 to 15:30
Morphosyntactic and lexical-semantic properties of re- in Argentinian Spanish  
Laura Kornfeld (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento)
Inés Kuguel (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento)

15:30 to 16:00

General Discussion

November 23.  Thursday.  Hotel Maceió Mar 6.

10:30 to 11:00

(Hyper)-Raising in Brazilian Portuguese: the role of minimality and inherent case
Jairo Nunes  (USP)					

11:00 to 11:30

Searching for cues to the trigger of dative case
Marilza de Oliveira (USP)			

11:30 to 12:00

Impersonal nominative se and number agreement in Spanish dialects in Latin America
Francisco Ordoñez (SUNY)		
Esthela Trevino (UAM)		

12:00 to 14:00

Lunch

14:00 to 14:30

Accusative Case, Subject Agreement:the Latin American Spanish existential 
construction with haber 
Andrés Saab(UniversidadNacional del  Comahue, CONICET) 	

14:30 to 15:00 

On the licencing of ellipsis in Brazilian Portuguese and American Spanish  
Sonia Cyrino (UNICAMP)		

15:00 to 15:30
There Are Two Sources of IP-Deletion as in Brazilian Portuguese. Only one 
allows P-stranding
Andrew Nevins (Harvard)		
Cilene Rodrigues (UNICAMP)			

15:30 to 16:00

General Discussion





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