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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

U Massachusetts, Amherst

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

9:30-10:30

 

Invited speaker

Joan Mascaró

Centre de Lingüística Teòrica (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Stress-dependent vowel harmony

10:30-10:50

 

Coffee & pastries

 

 

 

10:50-11:30

 

 

Eva Zimmermann

University of Leipzig

Non-concatenative allomorphy as argument against paradigmatic Realize Morpheme

11:30-12:10

 

 

Eva Melkonyan

McGill University

Understanding phonologically conditioned allomorphy: an Armenian case study

12:10-12:50

 

 

Islam Youssef

Universitetet i Tromsø, CASTL

Aspects of Dorsality in Baghdadi Arabic

12:50-15:00

 

Lunch

 

 

 

15:00-15:40

 

 

Jorie Koster-Moeller

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Internal Composition of Modified Concealed Questions

15:40-16:20

 

 

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

 

Coffee break

 

 

 

17:20-18:00

 

 

Bethany Lochbihler

McGill University

Licensing and Locality in Person Phenomena

18:00-18:40

 

 

Andrea Márkus

Universitetet i Tromsø, CASTL

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

9:30-10:30

 

Invited speaker

M. Teresa Espinal

Centre de Lingüística Teòrica (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Bare nominals in Catalan and Spanish. Their structure and meaning

10:30-10:50

 

Coffee & pastries

 

 

 

10:50-11:30

 

 

Luka Crnic

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Proportional quantifiers and partitivity

11:30-12:10

 

 

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

McGill University

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

 

Coffee break

 

 

 

18:10-19:10

 

Invited speaker

Peter Svenonius

Universitetet i Tromsø, CASTL

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)                                                                               


Eva Dekany*

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

McGill University

Degree Achievements and 'again'

Gregory Scontras

Harvard University

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

Harvard University

Unbounded Iteration in Coordination and the Copy Theory of Movement

Eva Dobler

McGill University

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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