Program

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26TH | THURSDAY, JUNE 27TH | FRIDAY, JUNE 28TH | POSTER SESSION | PDF VERSION

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26TH
08.30 – 0.900 Registration
09.00 – 09.30 Welcome
09.30 – 10.30 Invited Speaker
Inés Fernández Ordóñez (UAM–RAE)
Dialect Syntax in the Audible Corpus of Spoken Rural Spanish (COSER)
10.30 – 10:50 Coffee break
10.50 – 11.30 Anna Pineda (CLT-UAB)
Monotransitivization in Catalan and Spanish dialects
11.30 – 12.10 Juan Romero (Universidad de Extremadura) & Javier Ormazábal (Universidad del País Vasco)
Is there Accusative case in Spanish?
12.10 – 12.30 Coffee break
12.30 – 13.10 Silvia Perpiñán (Western University)
Variation as the result of divergent Second Language Acquisition
  LUNCH
15.30 – 16.10 Javier Fernández Sánchez & Marina Roman Castells (CLT –UAB)
A peripheral mirage within non-finite IPs
16.10 – 16.50 Anna Gavarró (CLT-UAB)
An outline of past participle agreement in Catalan
16.50 – 17.20 Coffee break
17.20 – 18.20 Invited Speaker
Anna Bartra (CLT-UAB)

Diachronic and synchronic variation in the determiner domain

 

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THURSDAY, JUNE 27TH
09.30 – 10.30 Invited Speaker
Eulàlia Bonet (CLT–UAB)
Variation in the exponence of determiners and other prenominal elements
10.30 – 10:50 Coffee break
10.50 – 11.30 Jan Casalicchio (Università di Padova)
The role of verb movement in the analysis of predicative gerunds and prepositional infinitives
11.30 – 12.10 Juan Pablo Comínguez (Rutgers University)
Microvariation in Caribbean Spanish interrogative wh-movement
12.10 – 12.40 Coffee break/Poster session
12.40 – 13.20 Juan Romeu (CCHS-CSIC) & M. Mar Bassa Vanrell (University of Texas at Austin)
Microvariation of dins in Catalan
  LUNCH
15.30 – 16.10 Yurena María González-Gutiérrez (CLT –UAB)
Una SOLA cosa
16.10 – 16.50 Paz González (Leiden University Center for Linguistics-Leiden University)
The microvariation of aspectual grammaticalization
16.50 – 17.10 Coffee break
17.10 – 18.10 Invited Speaker
Francisco Ordóñez (Stony Brook University)

Microparametric syntax of impersonal SE
21.00 CONFERENCE DINNER

 

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FRIDAY, JUNE 28TH
10.00 – 10:40 Ángel J. Jiménez Fernández (Universidad de Sevilla)
Microvariation at the IS-syntax interface: the case of focus fronting
10.40 – 11.10 Coffee break
11.10 – 11.50 Aritz Irurtzun (CNRS-IKER)
Polarity questions with fronted foci in the Spanish of the Basque Country
11.50 – 12.30 Rodrigo Guitérrez-Bravo (El Colegio de México), Carlos Martín Sobrino (El Colegio de México) & Melanie Uth (Universität zu Köln)
Contrastive focus in Yucatecan Spanish
12.20 – 12.50 Coffee break
12.50 – 13.50 Invited Speaker
Roberta D'Alessandro (Leiden University)

Microvariation and syntactic theory
13.50 – 14.00 Concluding remarks

 

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POSTER SESSION (THURSDAY 27th, 16:10 – 16:40)

Carlos Sánchez (CLT-UAB) & Cristina Buenafuentes (UAB): Variación dialectal y diacronía: consecuencias diatópicas del cambio sintáctico en español

Silvia Serret (CLT-UAB): La sintaxis dialectal de los modalizadores complejos

Alejo Alcaraz (Universidad del País Vasco): The derivation of passive alternations

Francesc González i Planas (Universitat de Girona): Recomplementación citativa y variación morfosintáctica en las completivas asertivas del catalán y el castellano

 

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ALTERNATES

Juan Romeu (CCHS-CSIC) & M. Mar Bassa Vanrell (University of Texas at Austin): Estar or not estar in Catalan and Spanish

Isabel Pérez Jiménez (Universidad de Alcalá), Silvia Gumiel Molina (Universidad de Alcalá) & Norberto Moreno Quibén (CCHS-CSIC): Copula selection and adjectives in Catalan and Spanish

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