Programme
8:45-9:00
Registration
9:00-9:10
Welcome
9:10-10:10
Invited speaker: Adam Ledgeway (Cambridge)
10:10-10:40
Marc Olivier, Raffaella Folli & Christina Sevdali (Ulster)
10:40-11:10
COFFEE BREAK
11:10-11:40
Maria Rita Manzini (Florence) & Anna Roussou (Patras)
11:40-12:40
Invited speaker: Pilar Barbosa (Minho)
Identity avoidance effects in inflected infinitival complements of perception verbs
12:40-14:15
LUNCH
14:15-15:15
Invited speaker: Alexandru Nicolae (Bucharest)
Complement size and restructuring. The view from Romanian
15:15-15:45
Eva Remberger (Vienna)
DO-constructions in Sardinian: The syntax and semantics of an impersonal causative
15:45-16:15
Paolo Lorusso (Udine) & Linda Badan (Ghent)
A cross-linguistic comparison of clausal embedding with causative and perception verbs
16:15-17:15
POSTER SESSION + COFFEE BREAK
17:15-17:45
Anna Cardinaletti, Sara Cerutti & Francesca Volpato (Ca’ Foscari, Venice)
17:45-18:45
Invited speaker: Maria Teresa Guasti (Milano Bicocca)
20:15
SOCIAL DINNER
Friday, 27 May
9:00-10:00
Invited speaker: Francisco Ordóñez (Stony Brook)
Generalized DOM, two Specs for causees and Dependent case: variation in Spanish dialects
10:00-10:30
Catarina Soares & Jim Wood (Yale)
Prepositional Infinitives in European Portuguese as Voice Alternations
10:30-11:00
Jan Casalicchio (Palermo) & Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle)
More on passives of causatives in Italian: data from corpora and an acceptability judgement task
11:00-11:30
COFFEE BREAK
11:30-12:00
Georg Kaiser (Konstanz) & Klaus von Heusinger (Köln)
On the emergence of argument encoding in causatives constructions in Romance
12:00-13:00
Invited speaker: Pierluigi Cuzzolin (Bergamo)
Remarks on the complementizers introducing causatives and perception verbs
13:00-14:30
LUNCH BREAK
14:30-15:30
Invited speaker: Esther Rinke (Frankfurt)
15:30-16:00
Ana Lúcia Santos (Lisbon)
Object control verbs as causatives and the interpretation of inflected infinitives
16:00-16:30
Anabela Gonçalves (Lisbon)
Faire-Inf with causative verbs and Restructuring in European Portuguese
16:30-17:00
COFFEE BREAK
17:00-17:30
Fabienne Martin (Humboldt Berlin), Chiara Dal Farra (Milano Bicocca), Yining Nie (Humboldt Berlin), Silvia Silleresi (Milano Bicocca)
Who did it? How alternating verbs are interpreted under faire
17:30-18:30
Invited speaker: Adriana Belletti (Siena)
Causative and Reflexive passives: The case of si-causative passive in (child) Italian
18:30-19:00
CONCLUSIONS AND FAREWELL
Alternate Speakers
Alternate
Marta Donazzan (Nantes) & Clémentine Raffy (Paris 8)
Let it happen in Spanish and French : probing causation at the interface
Alternate
Alexandra Fiéis & Ana Madeira (Univ. Nova Lisbon)
Control, restructuring and temporal interpretation: a view from Portuguese
Posters
Irene Amato (Leipzig)
Elisa Di Domenico (Perugia)
Marta Donazzan (Nantes) & Clémentine Raffy (Paris 8)
Alexandra Fiéis & Ana Madeira (Univ. Nova Lisbon)
Ilaria Venagli (Konstanz), Michaela Mae Vann (Ca’ Foscari Venice), Tanja Kupisch (Konstanz), Virginia Valian (Hunter College & CUNY) & Giulia Bencini (Ca’ Foscari Venice)