27.1491, Confs: Syntax/UK

Wed Mar 30 13:49:38 UTC 2016

LINGUIST List: Vol-27-1491. Wed Mar 30 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.1491, Confs: Syntax/UK

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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:49:24
From: Jenneke van der Wal [gjv23 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: 5th Cambridge Comparative Syntax Conference

5th Cambridge Comparative Syntax Conference 
Short Title: CamCoS 5 

Date: 05-May-2016 - 07-May-2016 
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom 
Contact: Theresa Biberauer 
Contact Email: mtb23 at cam.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://recos-dtal.mml.cam.ac.uk/conference 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

After the success of the four previous CamCoS conferences (see:
http://recos-dtal.mml.cam.ac.uk/conference) and to celebrate the final month
of the ERC-funded Rethinking Comparative Syntax (ReCoS) project, we are
delighted to announce CamCoS 5. 

This 2.5-day conference will take place in Cambridge 5–7 May 2016. The first
half-day will feature talks by Cambridge-based researchers, focusing in
particular on the major results of the ReCoS project. This will be followed by
a full-day general session on comparative generative syntax, for which
abstracts are solicited (see below). The final day of the conference will
centre on the presentations of our eminent invited speakers.

The invited speakers for CamCoS 5 are:

Mark Baker (Rutgers)
Guglielmo Cinque (Venice)
Diane Massam (Toronto)
Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz)
Luigi Rizzi (Geneva)

Programme:

The conference programme can be found on our website:
http://recos-dtal.mml.cam.ac.uk/conference/camcos5/camcos-5-conference-program
me

Please register online for the conference (earlybird rates before April
25th!):
http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&dept
id=164&catid=1187&prodid=1599

Schedule for Thursday, 5 May 2016 (CamCoS 5 prequel)

13:30–13:50 
Ian Roberts
Introduction

13:50–14:30 
András Bárány
The interaction(s) of Case and Agreement

14:30–15:10 
Jenneke van der Wal
Obligatory marking of prominence: parameters of Bantu agreement

15:10–15:30 Break

15:30–16:10 
Michelle Sheehan and Jamie Douglas
Extraction restrictions and asymmetries: (partial) syntactic ergativity in
Mayan

16:10–16:50 
Sam Wolfe: (The Limits of) Variation in Verb Second Systems
Data from Romance and beyond

16:50–17:20 Break

17:20–18:00 
Theresa Biberauer
NONE>ALL>SOME: The case for emergent parametric variation

18:00-18:40 
Anders Holmberg
How to say no in Chinese

Schedule for Friday, 6 May 2016 (CamCoS 5 day 1)

9:00–9:40 
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (KU Leuven) and Marjo van Koppen (Utrecht University)
A microparameter in a nanoparametric world

9:40–10:20 
Pritha Chandra (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)
A Parameter Hierarchy for Indo-Aryan Ergativity

10:20–10:40 Coffee break

10:40–11:20 
Susi Wurmbrand (University of Connecticut)
Variation in the binding of indexicals—Feature sharing and a return to
traditional binding

11:20–12:00 
Adrian Stegovec (University of Connecticut)
Between YOU and ME: Two crosslinguistic generalizations on syntactic person
restrictions

12:00–12:40 
Nico Baier (University of California Berkeley)
The Heterogeneity of Anti-Agreement

12:40–14:00 Lunch break

14:00–14:40 
Yosuke Sato (National University of Singapore)
An In-Situ Syntax of Sluicing in Indonesian: Implications for Elliptical
Repair and Interface Economy

14:40–15:20 
David Erschler (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Typology of sluicing in wh- and non-wh-questions

15:20–15:40 Coffee break

15:40–16:20 
Filomena Sandalo (University of Campinas) and Dimitris Michelioudakis
(University of York)
Classifiers and plurality: Evidence from a deictic classifier language

16:20–17:00 
Anna Pineda (IKER-CNRS)
What lies behind causativization of verbs of motion in Romance languages?

17:00–17:30 Refreshment break

17:30–18:30 
Speed session

Paula Fenger (University of Connecticut)
The case of impersonal pronouns

Nina Radkevich (University of York)
Deverbal Nominalizations in Lak and Case Licensing

Zuzanna Fuchs (Harvard University)
An ellipsis analysis of discontinuous DPs in Georgian

Monica Alexandrina Irimia (University of York) and Sonia Cyrino (University of
Campinas)
Syntactic positions for DOM: The case of Brazilian Portuguese and Romanian

Kajsa Djärv (University of Pennsylvania)
Towards a typology of copular sentences

Schedule for Saturday, 7 May 2016 (CamCoS 5 day 2)

10:00–11:00 
Diane Massam (University of Toronto)
(Un)ergativity and the Split DP hypothesis

11:00–12:00 
Mark Baker (Rutgers University)
On principles, parameters, universals, and typology in case and agreement
systems

12:00–14:00 Lunch break

14:00–15:00 
Jim McCloskey (University of California Santa Cruz)
Microparameters in a tiny space: Standing at the edge

15:00–16:00 
Guglielmo Cinque (University of Venice)
A microparametric approach to word order typology

16:00–16:30 Coffee break

16:30–17:30 
Luigi Rizzi (University of Siena)
 “Further explanations″ of cartographic properties: Locality and labeling

17:30–18:00
Discussion

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