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Going Romance 2014 Lisbon, 4-6 December – PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Thursday, December 4th
8.30-9.15 Registration 9.15 Opening 9.20-10.20 Keynote speaker: Roberta d'Alessandro (Universiteit Leiden)
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10.20-10.55 Pseudo-relatives and their left periphery: A unified account
Jan Casalicchio (Univ. Trento)
10.55-11.20 - Coffee break 11.20-11.55 The impact of embedded pronouns on children's relative clause comprehension
Yair Haendler & Flavia Adani (Univ. Potsdam)
11.55-12.30 On the (in)compatibility of possessives and relative clauses in Spanish
Luis Eguren (Univ. Autónoma de Madrid)
12.30-13.05 On the nature of complementizers: Insights from Italian subject relative clauses
Emanuela Sanfelici & Cecilia Poletto (Goethe-Univ. Frankfurt)
13.05-14.30 - Lunch break - 14.30-15.05 The opacity of subjects in Italian: an experimental investigation on the role of external-syntax factors in cumulative effects
Ciro Greco (Univ. Gent), Marco Marelli (Univ. Trento) & Liliane Haegeman (Univ. Gent)
15.05-15.40 Omitted subjects in coordinate and subordinate adverbial sentences in European Portuguese
Nádia Canceiro (Univ. Lisboa)
15.40-16.15 Overt subjects [-R] in infinitive complements from Spanish and Italian as bound variable pronouns
María Inés Corbalán (Univ. Estadual de Campinas)
16.15-16.40 - Coffee break - 16.40-17.15 Negative discord in a concord language: An experimental investigation of NC and DN in Catalan
Viviane Déprez (Rutgers Univ.), Susagna Tubau (Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona), Anne Cheylus (CNRS), M. Teresa Espinal (Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona)
17.15-17.50 Person features and functional heads: Evidence from an exceptional optative sentence in Spanish
Cristina Sánchez López (Univ. Complutense de Madrid)
17.50-18.25 Illusory specificity: The case of Spanish algunos
Urtzi Etxeberria (CNRS-IKER) & Anastasia Giannakidou (Univ. Chicago)
Going Romance 2014 Lisbon, 4-6 December – PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Friday, December 5th
9.00-10.00
10.00-10.35
10.35-11.00
11.00-11.35
11.35-12.10
12.10-12.45
12.45-14.10
14.10-14.45
14.45-15.20
15.20-15.55
15.55-16.20
16.20-16.55
16.55-17.30
17.30-18.30
20.00
Alternates:
Keynote speaker: Guido Mensching (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
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Case, pro-features, and nominal linkers: Evidence from Romanian genitives
Monica Alexandrina Irimia, Giuseppe Longobardi, Dimitris Michelioudakis & Nina Radkevich (Univ. York)
- Coffee break Integrating reflexively marked medio-passives into a formal typology of Voice
Florian Schäfer (École Normale Supérieure, Univ. Stuttgart)
The Spanish quedar-passive and its relevance for the typology of adjectival passives
Alfredo García-Pardo (Univ. Southern California)
A parametric geometry for person morphemes
Alejo Alcaraz (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea)
- Lunch break Bilingual delay in the acquisition of direct object clitics in the Spanish of bilingual Spanish-French children
Melanie Elliott & Mihaela Pirvulescu (Univ. Toronto)
Variation and change in the Romance faire-infinitif
Sonia Cyrino (Univ. Estadual de Campinas) & Michele Sheehan (Univ. Cambridge)
On Italian Complex PPs
Jacopo Garzonio & Silvia Rossi (Univ. Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
- Coffee break Why are distributive readings dispreferred?
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS-LLF, Univ. Paris 7), Emilia Ellsiepen (Goethe-Univ. Frankfurt) & Barbara Hemforth (CNRS-LLF, Univ.Paris 7)
Against deficiency-based typologies: Manner-alternation parameters in Italian and English
Raffaella Folli(Univ. Ulster) & Heidi Harley (Univ. Arizona)
Keynote speaker: Alain Rouveret (Université Paris 7)
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- Conference dinner Exempt Anaphors and Logophoricity in French, Isabel Charnavel (Harvard Univ.)
Monoeventive vs. bieventive anticausative, Margot Vivanco (Univ. Complutense de Madrid)
Going Romance 2014 Lisbon, 4-6 December – PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Saturday, December 6th – PLENARY SESSION
9.00-10.00
Keynote speaker: Luigi Rizzi (Università di Siena)
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Saturday, December 6th – WORKSHOP 1: Constituent order variation
10.05-10.40
10.40-11.15
11.15-11.40
11.40-12.15
12.15-12.50
12.50-13.25
13.25-14.30
14.30-15.05
15.05-15.40
15.40-16.15
16.15-16.40
16.40-17.15
17.15-17.50
Alternate:
Decomposing negation: The order of adverbs and negations and the Big NegP hypothesis
Jacopo Garzonio (Univ. Ca’ Foscari Venezia) & Cecilia Poletto (Goethe-Univ. Frankfurt)
Non-local dependencies in the syntax: raising, control and cliticization
Mihaela Marchis (Univ. Hamburg) & Carolina Petersen (Univ. Maryland)
- Coffee break Microvariation across nominal structures in Southern Italian Romance. A parametric Approach
Cristina Guardiano (Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
C’est-clefts versus il y a-clefts in French
Lena Karssenberg & Karen Lahousse (KU Leuven)
Explicative clauses in Portuguese: A specifying coordination approach
Madalena Colaço & Gabriela Matos (Univ. Lisboa)
- Lunch break When Discourse met Null Subjects
Ángel Jiménez- Fernández (Univ. Sevilla)
On the status of subject pronouns in French and the null-subject property
Michael Zimmermann & George Kaiser (Univ. Konstanz)
Subject topics and null expletive constructions in Brazilian Portuguese
Mary Kato (Univ. Estadual de Campinas) & Eugenia Duarte (Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
- Coffee break Resetting Agree in Romanian: changes in the position of constituents
Alexandru Nicolae (Univ. Bucureşti)
(Wide) focus and the syntacticization of discourse in Spanish
Geoffrey Poole (Newcastle Univ.)
Pied-piping requirement and constituent order change, Rosabel San Segundo Cachero (Univ. Oviedo)
Going Romance 2014 Lisbon, 4-6 December – PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Saturday, December 6th
WORKSHOP 3: Crosslinguistic microvariation in language acquisition
10.05-10.40
10.40-11.15
11.15-11.40
11.40-12.15
12.15-12.50
12.50-13.25
13.25-14.30
The L2 acquisition of Spanish locative and existential constructions by Catalan and Italian speakers
Silvia Perpiñán (Western Univ. London Ontario)
Development of locative prepositions: The role of linguistic cues
Terzi Arhonto (TEI W. Greece) & Vina Tsakali (Univ. Crete)
- Coffee break Subject clitics in child French
Megan Gotowski (UCLA)
Early and late successive bilingual acquisition within microparametric domains: Null objects in 1st and 2nd generation Brazilians in Portugal
Tammer Castro (Univ. Tromsø), Jason Rothman (Univ. Reading) & Telma Oliveira (Univ. Minho)
Input effects across two generations: The realization of objects in 1st and 2nd generation speakers of European Portuguese in Germany
Cristina Flores (Univ. Minho), Esther Rinke (Goethe-Univ. Frankfurt) & Pilar Barbosa (Univ. Minho)
- Lunch break -
WORKSHOP 2: Subordination in Old Romance
14.30-15.05
15.05-15.40
15.40-16.15
16.15-16.40
16.40-17.15
17.15-17.50
17.50-18.25
Imperatives, relative clauses, and Old Romance subordination: Some considerations from Latin
Sean M. Gleason (Yale Univ.)
The fine-grained structure of Romance complementizers
Lena Baunaz & Eric Lander (Univ. Gent)
Embedded questions are DPs and not CPs
Olga Kellert (Georg-August-Univ. Göttingen)
- Coffee break Recomplementation and root phenomena in Romance
Alba Cerrudo Aguilar (Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona)
Complementation, F and inflected infinitives: The case of Valego
Koldo Sainz
Inflected infinitives in the synchrony and diachrony of Portuguese
Alexandra Fiéis & Ana Madeira (Univ. Nova de Lisboa)