Program

the conference will take place in the teather hall of the Nova Gorica High School, located in the very center of Nova Gorica. The address is: Rejčeva 1b. You can see the location on this map of Nova Gorica or on one of the following web sites Najdi.si, Google maps, or Geopedia.


Thursday, January 15, 2009
19:00 Early registration/Welcome/Drinks


Friday, January 16, 2009
08:30 Registration
09:10 Opening Remarks: TBA
09:30-10:30
Invited Speaker: Paul Hirschbühler (University of Ottawa)
Explorations in the world of locative alternation
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:45
Session I Syntax chair: Dragana Surkalović (U of Tromsø)
Marijke De Belder (CRISSP HUBrussel & Utrecht University) On the Syntax of Titles
Julie Fadlon (Tel Aviv University) The Psychological Reality of Hidden Lexical Entries: Evidence from Hebrew
Ankelien Schippers (University of Groningen) Spelling out intermediate copies
12:45-
14:00		 Lunch
14:00-15:20
Session II Semantics chair: Sašo Živanović (U of Ljubljana)
Luka Crnič (MIT) Accommodating Collectivity
Dafina Ratiu (LLING Nantes) Coordintated Questions vs. Matching Questions in Romanian
15:20-15:35 Coffee Break
15:35-17:35
Session III Syntax chair: Bert Le Bruyn (Utrecht U)
Eefje Boef (Meertens Instituut) Long-Distance Relativization in Varieties of Dutch
Tanja Temmerman (Leiden University) (Embedded) Left Dislocation, Reconstruction and Operator Movement in Sounthern Dutch
Jorie Koster-Moeller (Pomona College)
17:35 End of the first day activities


Saturday, January 17, 2009
09:00 Coffee
09:30-10:50
Session IV
Syntax/Semantics chair: Camelia Constantinescu (Leiden U)
Mailin Ines Antomo (J.W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Interpreting Embedded Verb Second in German Adverbial Clauses
Gianina Iordachioaia (Universität Stuttgart & Universität Tübingen) Negative concord as resumption of negative quantifiers
10:50-11:05 Coffee Break
11-05-12:25
Session V Syntax chair: Penka Stateva (U Nova Gorica)
Susana Huidobro (Stony Brook University & University of the Basque Country) Datives: what Galician and Spanish can tell us
Txuss Martín (New York University) Deconstructing Dative Clitics
12:25-
13:45		 Lunch
13:45-15:05
Session VI Phonology chair: Jonathan Kaye (U of Nova Gorica & U of Ljubjana)
Dániel Szeredi (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) Possible Theoretical Relevance of Subphonemic Vowel Reduction in Hungarian
Noam Faust & Nicola Lampitelli (Université Paris 7) How vowels point to syntactic structure: evidence from Hebrew and Italian
15:05-15:20 Coffee Break
15:20-17:20
Session VII Syntax chair: Vrinda Chindabaram (Princeton U)
Susannah Kirby (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) A-chains, Arguments, and Maturation in Child Passives
Stefan Keine (Universität Leipzig) Constraining Impoverishment by Markedness Scales
Víctor Acedo Matellán (Universitat de Barcelona) Adjectival Resultatives Cross-linguistically: a Morphophonological Account
17:20-17:35 Coffee Break
17:35-18:35
Invited Speaker: John Harris (University College London)
The phonology of being understood
19:00 Reception/Party


Sunday, January 18, 2009
09:00-9:30 Coffee
09:30-10:50
Session VIII Syntax chair: Artur Stepanov (U Nova Gorica)
Anne Kjeldahl (University of Aarhus & University of Konstanz) Verbal Copying as a Restructuring Effect
Doreen Georgi (Universität Leipzig) Codependencies in Argument Encoding
10:50-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:20
Session IX Syntax chair: Tatjana Marvin (U of Ljubljana)
Yuko Asada (Sophia University, Tokio) Against the Complex Predicate Analysis of Secondary Predication
Mina Sugimura (McGill University) Root vs. n: A Study of Japanese Light Verb Construction and Its Implications for Nominal Architecture
12:20-12:30 Coffee Break
12:30-13:30
Invited Speaker: Richard K. Larson (Stony Brook University)
The Nature of "Attributive Markers"
13:30 Conference Ends