22.1241, Confs: Linguistic Theories/Spain

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Subject: 22.1241, Confs: Linguistic Theories/Spain

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Date: 14-Mar-2011
From: Angel Jimenez [ajimfer at us.es]
Subject: 21st Colloquium on Generative Grammar

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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:49:59
From: Angel Jimenez [ajimfer at us.es]
Subject: 21st Colloquium on Generative Grammar

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21st Colloquium on Generative Grammar 
Short Title: CGG21 

Date: 07-Apr-2011 - 09-Apr-2011 
Location: Seville, Spain 
Contact: Angel Jimenez 
Contact Email: cgg21 at us.es 
Meeting URL: http://congreso.us.es/cggsevilla21 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories 

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 21st Colloquium on Generative Grammar will be held in 
Seville (Spain), 7-9 April.

Invited speakers:
Pilar Barbosa (Universidade do Minho)
Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT)
Josep Quer (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge) 

21st Colloquium on Generative Grammar
University of Seville and University Pablo de Olavide
7th-9th April 2011

Programme

Thursday April 7th 

08.45-09.15 Registration

09.15-10.00 Welcome 

10.00-11.00 Invited Speaker: Pilar Barbosa (Universidade do Minho): 
Title: Partial pro-drop as null NP-anaphora

11.00-11.20 Coffee break

11.20-12.00 Anke Assmann, Doreen Georgi & Philipp Weisser (U. of 
Leipzig) A Derivational Account of Possessor Advancement

12.00-12.40 Gertjan Postma (Meertens Institute Amsterdam) Modifying the 
Hearer - The nature of the left periphery of main clauses in Frisian and 
Dutch

12.40-13.20 Valentina Bianchi (U. di Siena) On 'focus movement' in Italian

13.20-14.00 Jaume Mateu (U. Autònoma de Barcelona) Conflation vs. 
Incorporation Processes in Small Clause Results

14.00-15.00 Lunch break + Poster Session 1
Isabel Oltra-Massuet (CSIC-CCHS) On Impossible Words
Lena Baunaz & Genoveva  Puskas (U. of Geneva) The True Nature of 
French Mood
Manuel Delicado-Cantero (The Australian National University) & Melvin
Gonzalez-Rivera (The College of Wooster) Agreement and Specificity in 
Spanish Binominal DPs

15.00-15.40 Violeta Demonte & Isabel Pérez (CSIC - CCHS) Adjective 
agreement in conjoined structures. Linearization-based agreement 
independent from prosodic

15.40-16.20 Bettina Gruber (Utrecht U.) & Heather Bliss (UBC) Anchoring
Participants: The case of Blackfoot proclitics

16.20-17.00 Cinzia Campanini & Florian Schäfer (U. Stuttgart) Optional
Se-Constructions in Romance: Syntactic Encoding of Conceptual 
Information

17.00-17.20 Coffee break

17.20-18.80 Andrew Radford (U. of Essex) On Complementiser Spellout in 
English

18.10-18.40 Karen Lahousse U. of Leuven) Binding and the syntax - 
information structure interface 

18.40-19.20 Éva Dekany (U. of Tromso, CASTL) The ellipsis that wasn't 
there: classifiers and adjectives in the Hungarian spurious NP ellipsis

19.20 Drinks 

Friday April 8th

9.00-10.00 Invited Speaker: Shigeru Miyagawa (Massachussetts Institute of
Technology)
Title: Minimal Parametric Variation

10.00-10.40 Ángel Gallego (U. Autònoma de Barcelona) Clitic movement 
and feature inheritance

10.40-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-11.40 Ana Maria Brito (FLUP) & Gabriela Matos (FLUL) Argument 
wh-clauses in European Portuguese and Spanish 

11.40-12.20 Balkiz  Öztürk Basaran (Bogaziçi U.) Low, High and Higher
Applicatives: Evidence from Pazar Laz

12.20-13.00 Carlos de Cuba (U. of Calgary) & Jonathan  MacDonald (U. of 
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Recursive CPs and referentiality 

13.00-13.40 Héctor Campos (Goergetown University) & Melita Stavrou 
(Aristotle University) Appositive nominals in Spanish and Greek

13.40-14.40 Lunch break + Poster Session 2
Juan Romero (U. de Extremadura) On the role of animacy in argument 
structure alternations
Elena Koulidobrova (U. of Connecticut) Null subjects in ASL:Shattering the 
old parallels

14.40-15.20 Mary Kato (U. de Campinas) Deriving ''wh-in-situ'' through 
movement in Brazilian Portuguese 
15.20-16.00 Mª Rosa Lloret (U. de Barcelona) & Jesús Jiménez (U. de 
Valencia) Obscure vocalic changes and Positional Markedness 
16.00-16.40 Roberta D'Alessandro (LUCL/Leiden University) Ergativity in 
Romance? Agreement mismatch and delayed Agree in Italo-Romance

16.40-17.00 Coffee break

17.00-17.40 Milan Rezac (UMR 7023 CNRS/Paris 8) & Mélanie Jouitteau 
(UMR 7110 CNRS/Paris 7) The nature of arbitrary indexicals in French: 
Evidence from Condition B

17.40-18.20 Andreas Blümel (Goethe University Frankfurt) Successive-
cyclic Movement as intermediate labelling Indeterminacies 

18.20-19.20 Invited speaker: Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge):
Title: Demonstratives as the external argument of n

19.20 Business meeting

Evening: Conference dinner

Saturday April 9th 

9.00-9.40 Anna Gavarró & Xavier Parramon (U. Autònoma de Barcelona) 
Passives and resultatives in the acquisition of Catalan

9.40-10.20 Gabriella Toth (Karoli Gaspar U.) Some notes on achievement 
verbs

10.20-11.00 Mara Frascarelli & Francesca Ramaglia (U. di Roma 3) 
'Phasing' prominence: an IS-based approach to markedness

11.00-11.20 Coffee break

11.20-12.20 Invited speaker: Josep Quer (Universidad Pompeu Fabra):
Title: Licencing empty arguments in sign languages

12.20-13.00 Andrew Nevins & Cilene Rodrigues (UCL) 'Autonomous' 
Morphomes are Underlearned in Romance

13.00-13.40 Paola Crisma (U. di Trieste) On the so-called 'indefinite article'

13.40-14.40 Lunch break (Poster Session)
Sonia Cyrino (U. de Campinas) On richness of tense and verb movement in 
Brazilian Portuguese
Ricard Viñas-de-Puig (East Carolina U.)  Is there eventive information in the
lexicon? Evidence from Ibero-Romance experience predicates
Laia Mayol (U. Autònoma de Barcelona) & Elena Castroviejo (CSIC) 
Constraints on cancellation: the QUD and levels of meaning
Adam Szczegielniak (Warsaw University/Harvard University) Amount 
Relative Clauses and Certain Comparative Constructions

14.40-15.20 João Costa & Maria Lobo (U. Nova de Lisboa) Assessing 
children's knowledge of null objects in European Portuguese

15.20-16.00 Krzysztof Migdalski (U. of Wroclaw) On the Decline of Tense 
and the Emergence of Wackernagel Clitics in Slavic

16.00-16.20 Coffee break

16.20-17.00 Marcel Pitteroff & Artemis Alexiadou (U. of Stuttgart) The
Properties of German sl-middles

17.00-17.40 Carmen Dobrovi Sorin (CNRS-LLF, Paris)  Partitive 
quantification and agreement

17.40-18-20 Carlo Cecchetto (U. of Milan-Bicocca), Caterina Donati (U. di 
Roma - La Sapienza) & Maria Teresa Guasti (U. of Milan-Bicocca)  Relative 
clauses in language acquisition: labels and intervention

18.20-19.00 Gary Thom (Strathclyde  U.) What moves how in which Slavic
languages? Blind wh-movement and Justification

19.00-19.10 Closing

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