25.808, Confs: Semantics, Syntax, Morphology/Belgium

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Subject: 25.808, Confs: Semantics, Syntax, Morphology/Belgium

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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:43:52
From: Jeroen Van Craenenbroeck [jeroen.vancraenenbroeck at kuleuven.be]
Subject: GLOW Semantics Workshop: Understanding Possession

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GLOW Semantics Workshop: Understanding Possession 

Date: 05-Apr-2014 - 05-Apr-2014 
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck 
Contact Email: glowbrussels at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://www.glow37.org/semantics 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The 37th annual meeting of GLOW will be hosted by CRISSP, a research center of KU Leuven HUBrussel. The GLOW Semantics workshop will take place in Brussels (Belgium) on Saturday April 5, 2014. Its theme is ‘Understanding Possession’.

Invited Speakers:

Chris Barker (New York University)
Kilu von Prince (ZAS Berlin) 

Program:

9.00-10.00
Invited Speaker: 
Kilu von Prince (ZAS)
tba

10.00-10.20
Coffee Break	

10.20-10.55
Marcel den Dikken (CUNY Graduate Center)
On the morphosyntax of (in)alienably possessed noun phrases

10.55-11.30
Balkiz Öztürk Basaran (Boğaziçi University) & Eser Erguvanli Taylan (Boğaziçi University)
Possessive constructions in Turkish: PPs in disguise

11.30-11.45
Coffee Break	

11.45-12.20
Chiara Gianollo (Universät Köln)	
Internal and external possession in the diachrony of Greek

12.20-12.55
Neil Myler (NYU), Einar Freyr Sigurðsson (University of Pennsylvania) & Jim Wood (Yale University)
Predicative possession builds on top of attributive possession: Evidence from Icelandic

12.55-13.55
Lunch	

13.55-14.30
Ellen Brandner (University of Konstanz)
On possessive (reflexive) pronouns, equatives, and the structural basis of Principle A

14.30-15.05
Bronwyn M. Bjorkman (University of Toronto) & Elizabeth Cowper (University of Toronto)
Possession and necessity: From individuals to worlds

15.05-15.20
Coffee Break	

15.20-16:20
Invited Speaker: 
Chris Barker (NYU)
tba

Alternate 1
Giorgos Spathas (University of Stuttgart)	
Disentangling own: Evidence from association with focus

Alternate 2
Neil Myler (NYU)
Predicative possession constructions vary in the 1st-merge position of the possessor: An existence proof from Cochabamba Quechua

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