April 5th, 2006

Adjuncts/modifiers

Programme

 

Organisers: M. Teresa Espinal (UAB) & Jaume Mateu (UAB-UOC)

Invited speaker: Juan Uriagereka (University of Maryland)

ROOMS 11-13, 1st FLOOR

 

8:30-9:00 Registration

 

9:00-10:00 Invited speakers of the Workshop on acquisition (Carson Schütze-University of California Los Angeles) & the Workshop on prosodic phrasing (Elisabeth Selkirk-University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

 

10:00-10:40 Hedde Zeijlstra (University of Tuebingen) The syntactic status of adverbials.

 

10:40-11:20 Norbert Corver (Utrecht University) Taking MP’s ‘measure.

 

11:20-11:50 Coffee

 

11:50-12:30 Aniko Csirmaz (Carleton College) Times and durative adverb modification.

 

12:30-13:10 György Rákosi (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics) Thematic arguments and thematic adjuncts: evidence from Hungarian datives.

 

13:10-13:50 Geoffrey Horroks (Cambridge University) & Melita Stavrou (Aristotle University Thessaloniki) On the status and role of cognate objects.

 

13:50-15:00 Lunch

 

15:00-15:40 Niina Ning Zhang (National Chung Cheng University) How is an adjunct conjoined with an argument?

 

15:40-16:20 Joseph Emonds (Kobe-Shoin University) & Arancha Mateos (Central Newcastle High School) Could adjuncts be simpler? Juxtaposition and syntactic feature valuation.

 

16:20-17:00 Michael Wagner (Cornell University) Prosodic asymmetry in English modification structures.

 

17:00-17:30 Coffee break

 

17:30-18:30 Invited speaker: Juan Uriagereka (University of Maryland) Adjunct types

 

Alternates:

1.  Arhonto Terzi (Technological Educational Institute of Patras) Locative prepositions as modifiers of an empty noun

2.  Heather Lee Taylor (University of Maryland) Moving out of IF-clauses: if an IF clause is sentence initial...

 

Write to cg.adjuncts@uab.es if you have any queries about the workshop.