27.966, Confs: General Ling, Lang Acq, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/France

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Subject: 27.966, Confs: General Ling, Lang Acq, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/France

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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:16:28
From: Maia Duguine [maia.duguine at ehu.eus]
Subject: NonFinite Subjects 2016

NonFinite Subjects 2016 
Short Title: NFS 

Date: 01-Apr-2016 - 02-Apr-2016 
Location: Nantes, France 
Contact: Maia Duguine 
Contact Email: nonfinitesubjects at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/site/nonfinitesubjects/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (LLING) organizes the NonFinite
Subjects Conference, to be held at the University of Nantes, Nantes (France)
on April 1-2, 2016

The conference aims at providing a forum for discussion of recent, high
quality research on the subject position of non-finite structures.

Invited Speakers:

Misha Becker, University of North Carolina 
Hazel Pearson, ZAS Berlin
Michelle Sheehan, Anglia Ruskin University 
Sandhya Sundaresan, University of Leipzig

This workshop focuses on recent findings that shake the standard assumptions
on the syntax and semantics of the subject position of non-finite structures.
By scrutinizing data that does not quite fit standard approaches to non-finite
subjects, we seek to question the premises and basic tenets underlying
standard approaches in order to develop more explanatory analyses of the
distribution and interpretation of non-finite subjects. Please check the
conference website for a detailed meeting description.

Program:

April 1

8:00- 8:30 
Inscription

8:30- 8:40
Opening words

8:40- 9:40 
INVITED SPEAKER: Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University)
On the typology of Control

9:40-10:20 
Pilar Barbosa (Universidade do Minho)
Overt subjects of non-inflected infinitives in the consistent null subject
languages: the status of Agr and the mode of composition of subjects

10:20-11:20 Coffee break and posters

11:20-12:00 
Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)
“Arbitrary PRO” is a radical null subject

12:00-12:40 
Thomas McFadden (Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft) and Sandhya
Sundaresan (University of Leipzig)
Subject alternations in non-finite clauses and OC PRO vs. pro

12:40-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:10 
Elena Soare (UMR 7023 - Université de Paris 8)
Subjects in Romanian supine constructions

15:10-15:50 
Thomas Grano (Indiana University)
Two sources of grammatical deviance in non-controlled nonfinite subjects

15:50-16:10 Coffee break

16:10-16:50 Asako Matsuda (Ochanomizu University)
First Person, Second Person and PRO

16:50-17:50 
INVITED SPEAKER: Hazel Pearson (ZAS Berlin)
Against a de se-as-de re approach to obligatory control

20:00 Conference dinner

Posters:

Elina Di Santo (Roma Tre University)
Non-finite subjects and mixed projections in Finnish

Julianne Doner (University of Toronto)
Does the EPP hold in non-finite clauses?: Cross-linguistic evidence

Sean Gleason (Yale University)
The case syntax of non-finite subjects: Considerations from Latin

Kim Groothuis (University of Cambridge)
Controlled subjects in Sardinian inflected infinitives

Celina Agostinho (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Ana Lúcia Santos
(Universidade de Lisboa) and Inês Duarte (Universidade de Lisboa)
Comprehension of control in obligatory control contexts: Choice of controller
by children aged 3 to 5 years

April 2

9:00-10:00 
INVITED SPEAKER: Misha Becker (University of North Carolina)
Subject selection in Raising and Control: Psycholinguistic evidence

10:00-11:00 Coffee break and posters

11:00-11:40 
Filomena Gamas (Universidade de Lisboa), Inês Duarte (Universidade de Lisboa)
and Ana Lúcia Santos (Universidade de Lisboa)
First steps in obviation and Control.

11:40-12:20 Marcel Pitteroff (University of Stuttgart), Artemis Alexiadou
(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Silke Fischer (University of Stuttgart)
An experimental investigation of Partial Control in German.

12:20-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Krisztina Szecsenyi (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest; Research
Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Dative and nominative subjects in Hungarian infinitival clauses: an LF-based
account

15:00-15:40 Jan Casalicchio (Università di Trento)
 Rethinking the role of Agreement and Tense in non-finite clauses with overt
subjects. Evidence from Romance gerunds and infinitives

15:40-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-16:40 
Jamie Douglas (University of Cambridge)
Control into infinitival relatives: 'Optional' Obligatory Control?

16:40-17:40 
INVITED SPEAKER: Sandhya Sundaresan (University of Leipzig)
Proxy control: A new species of obligatory control under modality.

Posters:

Teresa Parodi (University of Cambridge)
The object is too far to understand: subjects and objects in non-finite degree
clauses in child Spanish

Mathias Schenner (Freie Universität Berlin) and Jakob Mache (Obafemi Awolowo
University Ile-Ife)
On the interpretation of subjects in directive root infinitives in German

Katsumasa Ito (University of Tokyo) and Yoshiki Mori (University of Tokyo)
Genitive subjects as non-finiteness indicator in Japanese

Eszter Ótott-Kovács (University of Szeged)
Truncation and overt subjects: Two types of non-finite clauses in Kazakh

Xiaoshi Hu (Université Paris 7)
Diagnosing the internal structure of French causative constructions

Erik Zyman (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Finite raising to object and the mechanics of Agree

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