20.3966, Confs: Romance, Historical Ling, Ling Theories, Syntax, Phonolgy/France

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Subject: 20.3966, Confs: Romance, Historical Ling, Ling Theories, Syntax, Phonolgy/France

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Date: 18-Nov-2009
From: Haike Jacobs < h.jacobs at let.ru.nl >
Subject: Going Romance 2009

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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:37:17
From: Haike Jacobs [h.jacobs at let.ru.nl]
Subject: Going Romance 2009

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Going Romance 2009 

Date: 03-Dec-2009 - 05-Dec-2009 
Location: Nice, France 
Contact: Twan Geerts 
Contact Email: goingromance23 at let.ru.nl 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Phonology; Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Romance 
Meeting Description: 

Going Romance is the European conference series that focuses on Romance languages from the perspective of current linguistic theorizing. In the two decades of its existence, it has developed into the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are discussed. This year, for the first time, the conference is really going Romance and will be held in Nice, France. Organized by the Radboud University Nijmegen and the Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, it will take place in the Maison du Séminaire, 3-5 December 2009. 

This year's invited speakers will be:

-Donca Steriade
-Luigi Rizzi
-Anne Zribi-Hertz

The conference lasts for three days, with two days for the general session. 

Thursday December 3rd 

9:00 - 9:15 
Opening 

Jean-Marc Lardeaux, Vice-Président à la Recherche de l'Université Nice 

Jean-Yves Boursier, Doyen de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de l'Université de Nice 

9:15 - 10:10 
Key-note speaker: Anne Zribi-Hertz, French DPs without Lexical Nouns: Reopening the CELUI File. 

Session A: Syntax; Session B: Psycholinguistics 

10:10 - 10:45 
A) Isabel Pérez-Jiménez and Norberto Moreno-Quibén, The Boundary between Coordination and Subordination. Free Exceptives in Spanish 

B) Armanda Costa, Gabriela Matos and Paula Luegi, Anaphoric Relations Processing Involving Subject Gaps in European Portuguese 

10:45 - 11:20 
A) Geoffrey Poole, Focus and the Development of N-Words in Spanish 

B) Francesca Filiaci, Anaphoric Reference of Null and Overt Subject Pronouns in Italian and Spanish 

Break 

Session A: Syntax; Session B: Acquisition 

11:40 - 12:15 
A) Anna Gavarró and Silvia Martínez-Ferreiro, Cartography and Agrammatic Syntactic Production in Ibero-Romance 

B) Virginia Hill and Mihaela Pirvulescu, Syncretism in the Pragmatic Field in First Language Acquisition 

12:15 - 12:50 
A) Mercedes Pujalte, Conditions on the Introduction of Non Core Arguments: the Case of the Dative Alternation in Spanish 

B) Katérina Palasis, From Morphological Affixes to Syntactic Arguments: What Forces Children to Reinterpret Nominative French Clitics 

Lunch 

Session A: Syntax; Session B: Phonology 

14:00 - 14:35 
A) Daniel Valois, Heather Burnett and David-Etienne Bouchard, Degree Fronting in Québec French and the Syntactic Structure of Gradation Quantifier DPs 

B) Clàudia Pons, The Left Edge of the Stem is a Prominent Position: Some Evidence from Majorcan and Alguerese Catalan 

14:35 - 15:10 
A) Anna Gazdik, Multiple Questions in French. An LFG Account 

B) Tobias Scheer, Who is Afraid of Crazy Rules? 

15:10 - 15:45 
A) Lea Nash and Nora Boneh, The Syntax-pragmatic Interface: the Case of French Coreferential Datives 

B) Judith Meinschaefer, Metrical Microvariation and Catalexis in Romance 

Break 

Session A: Syntax; Session B: Morphology 

16:00 - 16:35 
A) Federico Damonte, On the Variation of the Southern Calabrian Particle mu 

B) Florence Villoing, Elena Soare and Karen Ferret, Affixal Rivalry between French -age and -ée : the Role of Grammatical Aspect in Nominalizations 

16:35 - 17:10 
A) Roberta D'Alessandro, Agreement without Order. Eccentric Agreement in Italo-Romance 

B) Cosima Scholz, El pinchadiscos - Romance Verb Noun Compounds. Rules under Construction. 

17:10 - 17:45 
A) Artemis Alexiadou and Cinzia Campanini, Plural Determiners and the Occasional Construction in English and Italian 

B) Mihaela Marchis, Compounding across Languages 

17:45 - 18:20 
A) Gabriela Bilbiie and Grégoire Winterstein, Contrast in Romanian Coordination: the Conjunction IAR 

B) Valentina Papa, How Many Comparatives? 

Friday December 4th 

Session A: Syntax; Session B: Semantics 

9:00 - 9:35 
A) Ángel J. Gallego, P-Sequences in Romance 

B) Alda Mari, The Polysemy of the Italian Future and Different Types of Knowledge 

9:35 - 10:10 
A) Martin Walkow, A Unified Analysis of the Person Case Constraint and 3-3-Effects in Barceloni Catalan 

B) Elena Castroviejo and Laia Mayol, A Question of Misfortune 

10:10 - 10:45 
A) Andrea Tarantola and Valentina Papa, 'Past' is 'Irrealis' in Capeverdean Tenseless Sentences 

B) Isabelle Charnavel, On the Distribution of même/différent in French and Temporal Pluractionality 

10:45 - 11:20 
A) Sonia Cyrino and Theresa Biberauer, Appearances are Deceptive: Jespersen's Cycle from the Perspective of the Romania Nova and Romance-BA 

B) Fabienne Martin, Epistemic Modality in the Past 

Break 

Session A Syntax; Session B: Phonology

11:40 - 12:15 
A) Eva-Maria Remberger and Ion Giurgea, Postverbal Subjects in Romance Null-Subjects Languages: Information-structural Conditions & Variation 

B) Lucia Molinu and Franck Floricic, Impératifs Monosyllabiques et 'Contraintes de Minimalité' 

12:15 - 12:50 
A) Monica Irimia, Three Structural Positions for Resultative Secondary Predicates 

B) Alexei Kochetov and Laura Colantoni, The Phonologization of Coarticulation 

Lunch 

14:00 - 14:55 
Key-note speaker: Luigi Rizzi, TBA 

Session A: Syntax; Session B: Acquisition 

14:55 - 15:30 

A) Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Sandro Sessarego, The Valuation of Gender Agreement in DP: Evidence from Afro-Bolivian Spanish 

B) John Ryan, The Next Chapter in the Imperative Analog Hypothesis (IAH): A Case for 
Agentivity versus Eventivity 

15:30 - 16:05 
A) Andrés Leandro Saab, On Verbal Duplication in River Plate Spanish. Anti-Adjacency and Head Copy Deletion 

B) Joana Cerejeira, Asymmetries in the Acquisition of Root Subject and Object wh-questions: European Portuguese Data 

Break

Syntax

16:20 - 16:55 
Cedric Boeckx and Ángel J. Gallego, Cliticization and Agree Syntax 

María Mare, Complex Verbal Heads in Latin: a Syntactic Approach 

16:55 - 17:30 
Gabriela Matos and Madalena Colaço, The Status of Conj in Parenthetical Coordination 

Roberta D'Alessandro and Theresa Biberauer, The Structural Make-up of Feature Bundles: Insights from the Case of Angore 

17:00 - 18:05 
João Costa, Topic-prominence is not a Factor of Variation between Brazilian and European Portuguese 

Artemis Alexiadou and Mihaela Marchis, Clitic Doubling of Indirect Objects: Two Types of Clitics and the Syntax of Clitic Doubling 

Saturday December 5th 

9:00 - 9:55 
Key-note speaker: Jean-Philippe Dalbera, Contribution de la Dialectologie à la Sémantique Lexicale et à l'étymologie 

9:55 - 10:30 
Christine Meklenborg Salvesen, Remnant Movement in Old French 

Tobias Scheer and Philippe Ségéral, A Unified Account for the Behavior of Gallo-Romance Glides in Strong Position 

10:30 - 11:05 
Anna Bartra-Kaufmann, Complex Predicates in Old Romance and Grammaticalization Processes 

Michèle Oliviéri, Typology or Reconstruction: the Benefits of Dialectology for Diachronic Analysis 

Break 

11:25 - 12:20 
Key-note speaker: Donca Steriade, Correspondence Theory vs. the Morphome: an Analysis of the Changes from Latin to Romance Agentive Nouns 

12:20 - 12:55 
Alexandru Nicolae and Adina Dragomirescu, Relics of Auxiliary Selection in Romanian 

Leonardo Savoia and Rita Manzini, (Definite) Denotation and Case: Romance Historical Linguistics and Minimalist Theory 

12:55 - 14:00 
Lunch 

14:00 - 14:35 
Filomena Sandalo and Charlotte Galves, Changes in Clitic-placement in the History of European Portuguese: a case of Grammaticalization? 

14:35 - 15:10 
Silvia Regina Cavalcante and Maria Clara Paixão de Sousa, Subject Position and SE Constructions in the History of Portuguese 

15:10 - 15:30 
Break 

15:30 - 16:05 
Bernard Laks and Dominique Nouveau, Nasalization and Denasalization Processes in the History of French (with some Remarks on Romance Languages) 

16:05 - 16:40
Heather Burnett, Semantic Effects of Syntactic Change: The Emergence of Polyadic Quantification in French

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