Going Romance 24 Program

 

Program

Thursday December 9th. Gravensteen 011

 

9.00 – 9.15

 

Registration

 

 

9.15 – 9.20

 

Opening

 

9.20 – 10.15

Key-note speaker: João Costa

(Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Growing Romance: the acquisition perspective on the interfaces
10.15 –10.50 

Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati

(University of Milan Bicocca, Sapienza and University of Rome)

 

Pseudorelatives as the missing link of relativization

 (pdf)

 

10.50- 11.10

 

Break

 

11.10 - 11.45 Irene Franco

(LUCL Leiden)

Clitic climbing and partial pro-drop in Old Italian Stylistic Fronting ( pdf )
11.45 – 12.20

Manuela Pinto

(Utrecht University)           .

The Acquisition of Subject Pronouns in Italian: A Theoretical Approach ( pdf )
12.20 – 12.55

Stefano Rastelli

(University of Pavia)

Knowledge and processing of auxiliaries in a second language: An eye-tracking study on auxiliary selection in L2 Italian ( pdf)

 

12.55-14.10

 

Lunch

 

14.10 – 14.45

Andrés Saab and Pablo Zdrojewski

 (LUCL Leiden/ Universidad Nacional del Comahue and University of Buenos Aires)

Anti-repair effects under ellipsis: diagnosing (post)-syntactic clitics in Spanish ( pdf )
14.45 – 15.20

Milan Rezac and Mélanie Jouitteau

(CNRS/Paris VIII and CNRS/Paris VII)

The content of arbitrary indexicals in French: Evidence from Reflexivity ( pdf )
15.20 – 15.55

Chiara Gianollo

(University of Konstanz)

The syntax of genitives from Late Latin to Old French ( pdf )

 

15.55 - 16.15

 

Break

 

16.15 – 16.50

Bert Le Bruyn and Henriette de Swart

(UIL-OTS Utrecht)

Recoordinating bare coordination ( pdf )
16.50 – 17.25

Heather Burnett

(University of California, Los Angeles)

Floating Quantifiers and the Semantic Structure of Telic Predicates in Québec French ( pdf )
17.25 – 18.00

Anamaria Falaus,

(U. Nantes)

Epistemic determiners and imperatives: the unlikely reconciliation ( pdf )
   

Friday December 10th. Gravensteen 011

 

 

9.00 – 9.35

David Embick

(University of Pennsylvania)

Contextual conditions on stem alternation: Illustrations from the Spanish conjugation ( pdf )
9.35 – 10.10

João Costa*, Ana Maria Martins! and Fernanda Pratas* (*Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CLUNL/FCSH) and Universidade de Lisboa (FLUL/CLUL))

VP ellipsis: new evidence from Capeverdean ( pdf
10.10 – 10.45

Marc van Oostendorp

(Meertens Instituut Amsterdam/LUCL Leiden)

Against [- voice] in French and Walloon ( pdf )

 

10.45 – 11.05

 

Break

 

 
11.05 - 11.40

Julie Goncharov

(University of Toronto)

High Appl and Aspect in Romance languages ( pdf )
11.40 -  12.15             

Pavel Iosad

(University of Tromsø/CASTL)

Final devoicing and vowel lengthening in the north of Italy: a representational approach ( pdf )

12.15 – 12.50

Dafina Ratiu

(U. Nantes)

Obligatory sluicing isn’t sluicing ( pdf )
 

12.50- 14.15

 

Lunch

 

 
14.15 – 15.10 Key-note speaker: Tobias Scheer

(Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis)

Lenition of branching onsets: Celtic, Gorgia Toscana, Gallo-Romance (dialectal evidence from the ALF)
15.10 - 15.45

  Francesc Torres-Tamarit and Clàudia Pons-Moll

(CLT, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and UB/ CLT, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

 

Voiced stop gemination: its serial interactions with syllabification and morpheme spellout ( pdf )

 

15.45 – 16.15

 

Break

 

16.15 – 16.50

Stefano Canalis and Luigina Garrapa

(University of Padua and University of Lecce)

Stressed vowel duration in Italian: what paroxytones and proparoxytones have in common ( pdf )
16.50 – 17.25

Poliana Camargo Rabelo

(Universidade de Brasília)

(Controlled) null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese ( pdf )
17.25 – 18.00 Dalina Kallulli

(University of Vienna)

Reflexives that (do not) behave themselves: Denominalcorpses, deponent cousins, and other disposable delights ( pdf )
     

  Saturday December 11th. Lipsius 148  

 

 
9.00 - 9.55

Key-note speaker: Rita Manzini

(University of Florence)

From Romance clitics to the theory of Case
9.55 – 10.30

Ivan Ortega-Santos

(University of Memphis)

Contrastive focus at the right edge ( pdf )
10.30 – 11.05

Viviane Deprez, Kristen Syrett and Shigeto Kawahara

(Rutgers University)

Licensing questions with intonation: The case of French wh- in situ ( pdf )

 

11.05 - 11.25

 

Break

 

 
11.25 – 12.10

Francesco Costantini

(University of Venice)

The argument structure of the causative construction ( pdf )
12.10 – 12.55 Key-note speaker: Ana Arregui

(University of Ottawa)

Revisiting aspect and modality in Romance
12.55 – 14.00  

Lunch

 
14.00 – 14.35

Antonio Fábregas and Rafael Marín

(Universitetet i Tromsø and Université Lille 3)

Aspect cross-categorially: states in nominalizations ( pdf )
14.35 – 15.10

Fernanda Pratas

(Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CLUNL/FCSH))

‘Know’ is not ‘believe’ or ‘remember’: Capeverdean clues on stativity ( pdf )
15.10 – 15.45

Jacopo Garzonio and Cecilia Poletto

(University of Padua and University of Venice)

 Optional negative concord? ( pdf )

  Alternates

1. Clàudia Pons-Moll and Maria Ohannesian (UB & CLT, UAB and CLT, UAB). Formalizing inclusion in inflectional and derivational paradigms ( pdf )

2. Cinzia Campanini  and Florian Schäfer ( Universität Stuttgart). Optional SI/SE-constructions in Romance: a low applicative analysis ( pdf )

3. Fabienne Martin ( Universität Stuttgart). Stage level and individual level readings of Quality Nouns. A study in aspectual morphosemantics ( pdf )

 
Last Modified: 16-11-2010