LINGUIST List: Vol-23-1376. Mon Mar 19 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.
Subject: 23.1376, Confs: Morphology, Syntax, Ling Theories/Spain
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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:56:19
From: Jaume Mateu [cgg22 at uab.cat]
Subject: 22nd Colloquium on Generative Grammar
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22nd Colloquium on Generative Grammar
Short Title: CGG 22
Date: 21-Mar-2012 - 23-Mar-2012
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Contact: Jaume Mateu
Contact Email: cgg22 at uab.cat
Meeting URL: http://filcat.uab.cat/clt/cgg22/index.html
Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; 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 22nd edition will be hosted by the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, with the collaboration of the Departments of Catalan Philology and Spanish Philology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
The 22nd Colloquium on Generative Grammar will be held at the Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres from 21st to 23rd March, 2012.
Contact person: Jaume Mateu
Email: cgg22 at uab.cat
Wednesday, 21 March -Venue: Auditori de la Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres
8:45-9:15
Registration and reception
9:15-9:30
Welcoming
9:30-10:10
Ricardo Etxepare (IKER-CNRS): Basque primary adpositions from a clausal perspective
10:10-10:50
Juan Romeu (CCHS-CSIC): A cartographic approach to spatial elements
10:50-11:30
Valeria Bandecchi (University College Dublin): Prepositional Phrases and manner-of-motion verbs in Italian
11:30-12:00
Coffee Break
12:00-12:40
Egor Tsedryk (Saint Mary's University): Finite control as movement: the case of Russian
12:40-13:20
Peter Herbeck (CLT-UAB/ Bergische Universität Wuppertal): How much pro-drop is control? Evidence from Spanish, Catalan, and Italian
13:20-15:00
Lunch break
15:00-15:40
Adina Camelia Bleotu (Università Ca'Foscari Venezia): The Light (Verb) in the Stormy Weather
15:40-16:20
Grant Armstrong (University of Wisconsin-Madison) : 'Internalization' as a grammatically relevant notion in Spanish
16:20-16:50
Coffee Break
16:50-17:50
Invited Speaker: Javier Gutiérrez Rexach (Ohio State University)
Exclamatives in embedded contexts
21:00
Conference dinner
Thursday, 22 March -Venue: Auditori de la Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres
9:20-10:00
Maribel Romero (University of Konstanz):The Absolute/Comparative Ambiguity: The View from Modal Superlatives
10:00-10:40
Silvia Gumiel-Molina (Universidad de Alcalá ) and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez (Universidad de Alcalá ): Scalarity and stativity: the ser/estar alternation in Spanish
10:40-11:20
Urtzi Etxeberria (IKER-CNRS );Aritz Irurtzun (IKER-CNRS ): The emergence of scalar items: association with focus of the additive particle ere in Basque
11:20-12:00
Coffee Break and Poster Session 1
12:00-12:40
Helena López Palma (Universidade da Coruña ): Romance fractional numerals
12:40-13:20
Elena Castroviejo (CSIC-LyCC); Isabel Oltra-Massuet (CSIC-LyCC); Isabel Pérez-Jiménez (Universidad de Alcalá): Gradable bare PPs and the syntax-semantics interface
13:20-15:00
Lunch Break
15:00-15:40
Lena Baunaz (University of Geneva): French complementizer que under scrutiny
15:40-16:20
Yusuke Imanishi (MIT) : A Non-Uniform Merge of Argument WH: A Case Study in Kaqchikel
16:20-17:00
Inês Duarte (Universidade de Lisboa); Anabela Gonçalves (Universidade de Lisboa); Ana Lúcia Santos (Universidade de Lisboa): Inflected infinitive revisited: on the different nature of dependent tense and temporal orientation
17:00-17:20
Coffee Break
17:20-18:00
Petra Sleeman (ACLC, University of Amsterdam); Aafke Hulk (ACLC, University of Amsterdam): L1 and 2L1 acquisition of noun ellipsis in Dutch and in French
18:00-19:00
Business Meeting
Friday, 23 March -Venue: Auditori de la Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres
10:00-11:00
Invited Speaker: Donca Steriade (MIT)
The cycle without containment
11:00-11:40
Maria Giavazzi (École Normale Superieure): Assibilation in Standard Finnish: a case of stress-conditioned contrast neutralization
11:40-12:00
Coffee Break
12:00-12:40
Giuliano Bocci (University of Geneva) and Cinzia Avesani (CNR-ISTC): On word-order alternations in Italian and the syntax-prosody interface
12:40-13:20
Lílian Teixeira de Sousa (Unicamp/ Fapesp) and Sonia Cyrino (Unicamp): Exploring prosody-syntax interface: the final-clause não in Brazilian Portuguese
13:20-15:00
Lunch break
15:00-15:40
Hyon Sook Choe (Yeungnam University, Korea): The comparative construction and a double complement structure
15:40-16:20
Emilio Servidio (Università di Siena):Two constructions for polarity focus in Italian
16:20-17:00
Coffee Break and Poster Session 2
17:00-17:40
Héctor Fernández Alcalde (UAM /CCHS-CSIC): Datives, prepositions, and argument structure in Spanish
17:40-18:20
Mercedes Tubino (Universidad de Sevilla): Spanish dative causees: against an applicative analysis
18:20
Concluding remarks
Alternates:
- Katarzyna Miechowicz-Mathiasen (Adam Mickiewicz University): ''Case, Tense and Clausal Arguments in Polish''
- Hidekazu Tanaka (University of York), George Tsoulas (University of York) and Norman Yeo (University of York): ''The vP edge: objects and phase theory''
Poster Session 1:
Anamaria Benţea (Université de Geneve): Making Sense of Object Relative Clauses: A ''Case'' Study with Romanian Children
Anna Gavarró (UAB) and Horacio Dotti (Universidad Nacional del Litoral): The analysis of short passive: evidence from agrammatism
Ager Gondra (Purdue University ): The syntactic structure of the Basque DP
David Lobina (Universitat Rovira i Virgili): Much ado about knotting: conceptual structure and the emergence of the language faculty
Poster Session 2
Ekaterina Chernova (Universitat de Girona): Exploring echo structures in multiple wh-fronting languages
Ludovico Franco (Università Ca'Foscari, Venezia): The many moods of Iranian Ezafe
Francesco-Alessio Ursini (CCD-Macquarie University) and Nobuaki Akagi (CCD-Macquarie University): On The Syntax of Spanish Spatial Prepositions
Giorgio Magri (CNRS / University Paris Diderot): No need for a theory of the distribution of readings of English bare plurals
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