21.1134, Confs: Syntax, Phonology, Ling Theories, General Ling/Spain

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Subject: 21.1134, Confs: Syntax, Phonology, Ling Theories, General Ling/Spain

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Date: 08-Mar-2010
From: Josep Quer < cgg20 at upf.edu >
Subject: 20th Colloquium on Generative Grammar

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Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:59:58
From: Josep Quer [cgg20 at upf.edu]
Subject: 20th Colloquium on Generative Grammar

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20th Colloquium on Generative Grammar 
Short Title: CGG20 

Date: 18-Mar-2010 - 20-Mar-2010 
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact: Josep Quer 
Contact Email: cgg20 at upf.edu 
Meeting URL: http://parles.upf.es/glif/pub/cgg20/ 

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

Meeting Description: 

The Colloquium on Generative Grammar is a conference organized every year since 1991 in a different university of the Iberian Peninsula where linguists from all over the world present and discuss current proposals on the study of the language faculty within the Generative Grammar framework. It hosts formal analyses in all subdomains of grammar and their interfaces.

The 20th edition will be hosted by GLiF (Grup de Lingüística Formal-URLING) at the Department of Translation and Language Sciences of the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. 

Call for Participation:

Online registration and payment is now operative! Participants are kindly requested to register before the conference by filling in the online form at the conference website: 

http://parles.upf.es/glif/pub/cgg20/

Updated Programme:

Thursday March 18 (Main Session)

9:00-09:45 
Registration 

9:45-10:00 
Welcome 

10:00-11:00 
Invited Speaker: Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam), In Search of a Determiner: A View from 'Genuine' Bare Noun Languages 

11:00-11:20 
Coffee break 

11:20-12:00 
Reiko Vermeulen (University of Ghent), A Comparative Approach to the Syntax of Topics in Japanese and Korean 

12:00-12:40 
Lobke Aelbrecht (University of Ghent), VP Ellipsis and VP Topicalization: The Common Core 

12:40-13:20 
Hidehito Hoshi (Doshisha/Harvard University), Projections of Formal Features and Interface Conditions 

13:20-14:50 
Lunch break + Poster Session 1 

14:50-15:30 
Luis Vicente (University of Potsdam), Revisiting Spanish Retrospective Imperatives 

15:30-16:10 
Remus Gergel (University of Tübingen), How 'rather' is Structured: Consequences of a Diachronic Change at LF 

16:10-16:30 
Coffee break 

16:30-17:10 
Nora Boneh & Lea Nash, (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem & University of Paris 8), Getting High: the Case of French Non-core Datives 

17:10-17:50 
María Luisa Rivero & Ana Arregui (University of Ottawa), Variation in Slavic Imperfectives 

18:00 
Drinks 
Friday March 19th 

Thematic Session: Perspectives on the Interface between Information Structure and Phonology 

9:15-10:15 
Invited Speaker: Caroline Féry (University of Potsdam), Information Structure and Prosody in a Typological Perspective 

10:15-10:55 
M.Teresa Espinal & Pilar Prieto (CLT, Autonomous University of Barcelona & ICREA-Pompeu Fabra University), Intonational Encoding of Double Negation in Catalan 

10:55-11:15 
Coffee break 

11:15-11:55 
Diane Lillo-Martin & Ronice Quadros (University of Connecticut & Federal University of Santa Catarina), Interfaces and WH-Questions in Sign Languages 

11:55-12:55 
Invited speaker: Onno Crasborn (Radboud University Nijmegen) Prosody and the Non-Dominant Hand in Sign Language of the Netherlands 

12:55-14:25 
Lunch break + Poster Session 2 

Main Session:

14:25-15:05 
Panel: Generative Grammar in Iberia: 20 years Later. With João Costa (New University of Lisbon), Olga Fernández Soriano & Violeta Demonte (Autonomous University of Madrid, CSIC-CCHS), Maria Rosa Lloret (University of Barcelona), Joan Mascaró (Autonomous University of Barcelona), and Vidal Valmala (University of the Basque Country).

15:05-15:45 
Piotr Ceglowski (Adam Mickiewicz University), Derivational Mechanics of Extraction out of Determiner Phrases in Polish 

15:45- 16:25  
Benjamin Kratz (University of Frankfurt), The Internal Structure of Which-phrases

16:25-16:45 
Coffee break 

16:45-17:25 
Isabel Oltra-Massuet (Rovira i Virgili University/Autonomous University of 
Barcelona), Deverbal Adjectives Derived from Nouns in English and Romance

17:25-18:05 
Idan Landau (Ben Gurion University), Predication vs. Aboutness in Copy Raising 

18:05 
Business meeting 

Evening: Conference dinner 

Saturday March 20th (Main Session) 

9:30-10:10 
Maria Cabrera, Clàudia Pons-Moll & Francesc Torres-Tamarit (University of Barcelona & CLT, Autonomous University of Barcelona), Left is More: Rhotic Metathesis in Algherese Catalan 

10:10-10:50
Shakuntala Mahanta (IIT Guwahati), Phonological Bias in the Learning of Opaque Segments in Vowel Harmony 

10:50-11:30 
Jie Ren, Liqun Gao & James L. Morgan (Brown University & Beijing Language and Culture University), Experimental Studies on Mandarin Speakers' Knowledge of the Sonority Sequencing Principle 

11:30-11:50 
Coffee break 

11:50-12:30 
Andrei Antonenko (Stony Brook University), Binding and Defective Domains: Principle A by Phase 

12:30-13:10 
Hedde Zeijlstra (University of Amsterdam), One Way to Agree 

13:10-14:40 
Lunch break 

14:40-15:20 
Carlo Cecchetto & Caterina Donati (University of Milano-Bicocca & University of Rome-La Sapienza), Heads, Labels and Relativization: Explaining Pseudorelatives 

15.20-16.00 Francisco José Fernández Rubiera (University of Georgetown) 
Clitics, Syntactic Edges and Finiteness: Post- and Preverbal Clitics in Asturian 

16:00-16:20 
Coffee break 

16:20-17:00 
William Haddican, Anders Holmberg & Nanna Haug-Hilton (University of York, University of Newcastle & University of Groningen), Object Movement (a)symmetries in Norwegian and the Split Probe Hypothesis 

17:00-18:00 
Invited speaker: João Costa (New University of Lisbon), Discourse-free Syntax 

18:00-18:10
Closing 

Poster Session 1:

Anne Breitbarth (University of Ghent), The Independence of Negative Concord and Jespersen's Cycle 

Joan Borràs-Comes (Pompeu Fabra University), The Role of Pitch Range in Establishing Intonational Contrasts in Catalan 

Violeta Demonte, Héctor Fernández-Alcalde & Isabel Pérez-Jiménez (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-CCHS), Agreement Mismatches in Spanish and the Nature of Nominal Features 

Yurena María Gutiérrez González & Pablo Damián Zdrojewski (Autonomous University of Barcelona & CONICET-National University of Comahue), Focus and Doubled DPs: Interactions and Intersections 

Poster Session 2:

Eva Dekany (University of Tromsø, CASTL), K: Hidden and in Plain Sight. The Case of Hungarian Postpositions 

Anna Bartra-Kaufmann (CLT, Autonomous University of Barcelona), Complex Predicates in Old Romance and Grammaticalization Processes 

Silvia Martínez-Ferreiro & Anna Gavarró (CLT, Autonomous Universityof Barcelona), Some Agrammatic Evidence for a Hierarchy of Functional Projections 

Violeta Martínez-Paricio (University of Tromsø, CASTL), Spanish Liquid Neutralization beyond Sonority Sequencing

Stefan Keine (University of Leipzig), Switch-Reference as an Interface Conspiracy

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