41st Incontro di Grammatica Generativa Università per Stranieri di Perugia February 26 – 28, 2015 Aula XI THURSDAY 26 10.30 – 11.00 11.00 – 11.10 11.10 – 12.10 12.10 – 12.50 12.50 – 13.30 13.30 – 14.30 14.30 – 15.10 15.10 – 15.50 15.50 – 16.30 16.30 – 17.10 17.10 – 17.30 17.30 – 18.10 18.10 – 18.50 18.50 – 19.30 Registration Welcome Invited speaker Hagit Borer (QMU London) The Domain of Content Ur Shlonsky (Geneva) Two notes on ne-cliticization Luca Cilibrasi, Vesna Stojanovic and Patricia Riddell (Reading) Morpheme stripping in the lexicon and in the sublexicon LUNCH Poster session 1 Sacha Alexeyenko (Osnabrück) Adjectival Manner Modification: The Source of the Modified Event Valentina Aristodemo and Carlo Geraci (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris) Comparatives and visible degree scales in Italian Sign Language Carmen Dobrovie- Sorin and Ion Giurgea (LLF / CNRS, Bucharest) Quantity Superlatives vs. proportional quantifiers: a comparative perspective COFFEE BREAK Stefano Rastelli (Greenwich) Actional shift across aspectual morphology in L2 Italian: an event phase- sentence matching study. Francesca Foppolo (Milano Bicocca) The bilingual advantage revealed in monolinguals that are early exposed to L2. Paolo Lorusso (Firenze) Auxiliaries and Verb Classes: A longitudinal analysis of the Auxiliary Split in L1 Italian. FRIDAY 27 09.00 – 10.00 10.00 – 10.40 10.40 – 11.20 11.20 – 11.40 11.40 – 12.20 12.20 – 13.00 13.00 – 14.00 14.00 – 14.40 Invited speaker Anna Cardinaletti (Venezia) Some new observations on the cartography of topic and focus Frédérique Berthelot (Geneva) The Subject Condition: Escaping it the French way Nicola Munaro (Venezia) Complementizer Doubling and clausal topics in (early) Italo- Romance COFFEE BREAK Theresa Biberauer and Ian Roberts (Cambridge) Movement without diacritics: getting maximal use of minimal means SandraVillata and Julie Frank (Geneva) Processing and Grammar constraints in Extraction from Weak Island LUNCH Poster session 2 14.40 – 15.20 15.20 – 16.00 16.00 – 16.40 16.40 – 17.00 17.00 – 17.40 Maria Scappini, Francesco Vespignani1 and Denis Delfitto (Verona, Trento1) On the non-incremental processing of negation: A pragmatically licensed sentenceverification study with Italian adults Chiara Gianollo (Köln) The syntax of Latin Negation Sam Wolfe (Cambridge) A new perspective on the nature of V2 and the evolution of Romance clausal structure COFFEE BREAK 18.20 – 19.00 19.00 Emanuela Sanfelici, Alexander Thiel, Corinna Trabandt and Petra Schulz (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main) The Janus face of German “V2 relative clauses”: insights from acquisition Nicholas Catasso and Roland Hinterhölzl (LMU Munich, Venezia) On the proper analysis of V2 relatives in German: Evidence from the distinction SubjunctiveIndicative in Italian Guillaume Enguehard (Paris 7) Segmental representation of Livonian stød Premio Marica DeVincenzi/ Business Meeting 20.30 Social dinner 17.40 – 18.20 SATURDAY 28 09.00 – 9.40 09.40 – 10.20 10.20 – 11.00 11.00 – 11.20 11.20 – 12.00 12.00 – 12.40 12.40 – 13.40 13.40 – 13.50 Andrew Nevins and Neil Myler (UCL, Boston University) Inalienable Possession and the Morphosyntax of ‘Brown-Eyed’ Maya Duguine (Basque Country UPV/EHU) Chain Formation and Parasitic Gaps Ion Giurgea (Bucharest) Locative PPs inside and outside DPs. The view from Romanian COFFEE BREAK Ian Roberts (Cambridge) On the interpretation of Certain Arbitrary Elements Eric Lander and Liliane Haegeman (Ghent) The nanosyntax of Spatial Deixis Invited Speaker Richard Kayne (New York University) Deletion and Movement Farewell Alternates: . Raffaella Zanuttini (Yale). Ecco un enigma: The structure of presentatives. Lena Karssenberg and Karen Lahousse (KU Leuven). Two types of clefts in French: information structure, existential presupposition and syntax. Poster Session 1 (Thursday 26, 14.30) Nikos Angelopoulos and Dimitris Michelioudakis (UCLA, York) PP licensing and Compounding: Evidence for Prepositions as Probes Leah S Bauke (Bielefeld/ Wuppertal) How to interpret roots and larger pieces of structure - a phase-theoretic perspective Giulia Bellucci (Firenze) The Romance Causee as an oblique subject Adina Camelia Bleotu (Venezia) A Spanning Account of Denominals in English and Romanian Martina Caccia (IUSS Pavia) Comparing different aspects of morphosyntactic abilities in a group of children with developmental dyslexia. Marta Castella (Utrecht) Bare Predicates and Extrinsic Properties Jaehoon Choi (Ghent) Jussive particles in Korean and the pragmatics-syntax interface Jovana Gajic (Göttingen) Serbo-Croatian n-words and their scope Simone Gastaldon, Chiara Zanini, Giorgio Arcara, Francesca Peressotti and Francesca Franzon (Padova) Referential Numerosity and Morphosyntactic Number Agreement: A Psycholinguistic Study on Italian qualche/alcuni Georg Höhn, Giuseppina Silvestri and Maria Olimpia Squillaci (Cambridge) Unagreement between Italian and Southern Italian dialects Shenai Hu1, Carlo Cecchetto and Maria Teresa Guasti (Verona1, Milano Bicocca) Production of head-final relative clauses: new data from Wenzhounese Yuhi Inoue (UCLA) Genitive Objects in Kansai Japanese Dalina Kallulli (Vienna) From QPs to non-novel indefinites to person agreement to topic agreement Frances Kane, Raffaella Folli and Christina Sevdali (Ulster) Irish genitive possessors- The ‘pseudoconstruct state’ Maria-Margarita Makri (York) What 'not' might mean: Expletive Negation in attitude contexts. Alessia Serafini, Francesca Franzon, Giorgio Arcara, Davide Bertocci and Chiara Zanini (Padova) Wouldn’t you agree with a bunch of lemons? A self-paced reading test on Agreement in quantification expressions. Sandra Villata, Luigi Rizzi and Julie Franck (Geneva) Intervention effects in wh-islands and non-islands: Experimental evidence Roberto Zamparelli and Michelangelo Falco (Trento) Licensing ellipsis in DP: the role of NP raising Poster Session 2 (Friday 27, 14.00) Nicoletta Biondo (Trento) How the movement of temporal adverbs can affect tense processing. Ana Calindro (São Paulo, Cambridge) Ditransitive sentences in Brazilian Portuguese: from a VP shell to a pP shell Janayna Carvalho (Stüttgart) A recipe on how to save a derivation: The Locative Impersonal in Brazilian Portugues Pamela Franciotti (Siena) The acquisition of passive in L2 Italian: evidence from comprehension and production Irene Franco (Leiden) Stylistic Fronting: a phase-based analysis Pavel Grashchenkov and Ekaterina Lyutikova (Moscow) Featural Composition of Voice Matteo Paolo Greco and Andrea Moro (IUSS Pavia) Surprise Negation and Ethical Dative Cristina Guardiano and Melita Stavrou (Modena-Reggio Emilia, Thessaloniki) Adjective-Noun combinations in the Greek of Italy. Polydefiniteness revisited Dara Jokilehto (Geneva) Roman Reduplication Margherita Pallottino (Geneva) Habitual sentences and Direct Objects in Italian. Francesca Panzeri and Francesca Foppolo (Milano Bicocca) Not only task matters, position also Cecilia Poletto and Esther Rinke (Frankfurt) RestrP left periphery: a case study on the distribution of restrictive relatives Aurélia Robert-Tissot (Zurich) Topic drop in French text messages Farhad Sadri Mirdamadi, Julie Franck and Ur Shlonsky (Geneva). The Persian Object Marker –ra and its effect on wh-object fronting Michelle Sheehan and Sonia Cyrino (Cambridge, Campinas)Variation and change in the Romance faire-infinitif Marcelo Amorim Sibaldo (Pernambuco) The structure of an exclamative construction in Brazilian Portuguese Petra Sleeman and Tabea Ihsane (Amsterdam, Geneva) Gender mismatches in partitive constructions, phases and locality