Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Bellaterra, Barcelona 17-19 December 2009
PROGRAM
Thursday – 17 December 2009
8:30-9:20
Registration
9:20-9:30
Welcoming remarks
9:30-10:30
Invited speaker
John McCarthy
U Massachusetts, Amherst
Sources of phonological structure
10:30-10:50
Coffee & Pastries
10:50-11:30
Tanja Temmerman
Leiden University (LUCL)
On the Syntax of Dutch and English Fragment Answers
11:30-12:10
Neven Wenger
University of Frankfurt
Defective C and Finiteness
12:10-12:50
Stefan Keine
Universität Leipzig
Intransitive Argument Encoding in Transitive Clauses: Phi-less Nominals in Nez Perce and Niuean
12:50-15:00
Lunch
15:00-15:40
Francesc Torres-Tamarit
Centre de Lingüística Teòrica (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Split palatal nasals in Catalan: evidence for the features as entities approach within OT-CC
15:40-16:20
Xiaoli Dong
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics
Hidden Phonotactic Knowledge of L2 Listeners
16:20-16:40
Coffee break
16:40-17:20
Martin Walkow
The Role of Indeterminacy in Licensing Inner Negation Polar Questions
17:20-18:00
Anamaria Falaus
University of Nantes, LLING
On 'some' singular indefinites in Romance
19:00
Reception
Friday – 18 December 2009
Joan Mascaró
Stress-dependent vowel harmony
Coffee & pastries
Eva Zimmermann
University of Leipzig
Non-concatenative allomorphy as argument against paradigmatic Realize Morpheme
Eva Melkonyan
McGill University
Understanding phonologically conditioned allomorphy: an Armenian case study
Islam Youssef
Universitetet i Tromsø, CASTL
Aspects of Dorsality in Baghdadi Arabic
Jorie Koster-Moeller
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Internal Composition of Modified Concealed Questions
Aviad Eilam & Catherine Lai
University of Pennsylvania
Sorting Out the Implications of Questions
16:20-17:00
Allison Kirk
Leiden University
Residual V2 in New Testament Greek Wh-questions
17:00-17:20
Bethany Lochbihler
Licensing and Locality in Person Phenomena
18:00-18:40
Andrea Márkus
Mapping from 3 to 3: is it one-to-one?
Prior to conference dinner
Tour of the Medieval Center of Barcelona
21:00
Conference dinner
Gran Cafè Restaurant
Saturday– 19 December 2009
M. Teresa Espinal
Bare nominals in Catalan and Spanish. Their structure and meaning
Luka Crnic
Proportional quantifiers and partitivity
Regine Brandtner
Stuttgart University
Events and their results- pragmatic constraints on copredication
12:10-12:20
Short break
12:20-13:00
Evangelia Leivada
University of Cyprus
(Lexical and Inner Aspect) in Greek Idioms
13:00-13:40
Matthew Barros
Department of Linguistics at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Sluicing and the Distribution of the Brazilian Portuguese Null Copula
13:40-16:30
Lunch & Poster Session
16:30-17:10
William Dalton
Covert phonetics, overt phonology: findings from child consonant harmony
17:10-17:50
Ronny Keulen
University of Leuven
A broader view on phonological change in a Limburgian dialect
17:50-18:10
18:10-19:10
Peter Svenonius
Icelandic passives and middles: Event structure and case licensing
19:10-20:20
ConSOLE Business Meeting
Sunday, 20 December 2009
Morning Visit to Barcelona
Poster Session (Saturday during an extended lunch)
Universitetet i Tromsø
Two types of postpositions in Hungarian
Andreea Nicolae**
Harvard University
Almost as a VP Modifier
Kyle Duarte***
The Mechanics of Fingerspelling: Analyzing Ethiopian Sign Language
Walter Pedersen
Degree Achievements and 'again'
Gregory Scontras
Group Comparison: Evidence from Plural Superlatives
Sandhya Sundaresan
University of Tromsø/Stuttgart
A phase-based account of the PRO/anaphor distinction
Andreas Blümel
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
Participial Constructions as Head Raising
Hiroki Narita
Unbounded Iteration in Coordination and the Copy Theory of Movement
Eva Dobler
Morpho-phonological effects of cyclic Spell Out
Benjamin Kratz
Universität Frankfurt
My topic is d-linked
Maia Duguine
EHU/UPV & Université de Nantes
Towards a unique account of pro-drop
* 1st alternate for syntax/semantics oral presentation ** 2nd alternate for syntax/semantics oral presentation *** 1st alternate for phonology oral presentation
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