2nd May, 2017

9:30 – 10:00 Registration

Chair: Iliana Krapova

10:00 – 11:00 a/bare finite complements in Southern Italian varieties: Mono-clausal vs biclausal syntax and a case study on the progressive.

M. Rita Manzini (Università degli Studi di Firenze)

11:00 – 11:40 Gone unexpectedly: Pseudo-Coordination and the expression of surprise in Sicilian.

Silvio Cruschina (University of Vienna)

11:40 – 12:00 Coffee break

Chair: Nicola Munaro

12:00 – 12:40 Present vs. Preterite Paradigms of the Pseudo-Coordination in Deliano.

Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)

12:40 – 13:20 Analytic verb constructions in contact.

M. Olimpia Squillaci (University of Cambridge)

13:20 – 14:30 Lunch

Chair: Alessandra Giorgi

14:30 – 15:10 Theory-driven approaches and empirical advances. The case of multiple

agreement in Southern Italian dialects.

Anna Cardinaletti (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) and Giuliana Giusti (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)

15:10 – 15:50 Pseudocoordination, Multiple Agreement Constructions, and Morphosyntactic Variation.

Daniel Ross (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

15:50 – 16:20 Poster taster session

16:20 – 16:50 Poster session + Coffee break

Chair: Giuliana Giusti

16:50 – 17:30 Complex verb constructions in Ainu as predominantly biclausal structures.

Anna Bugaeva (Tokyo University of Science/NINJAL)

17:30 – 18:30 Multiple Agreement and the Lexeme Consistency Principle.

Greville Corbett (University of Surrey)

21:00 Dinner: trattoria Alla Madonna - Rialto

3rd may, 2017

Chair: Anna Cardinaletti

9:30 – 10:30 Pseudo-coordination in a hybrid system: (parametric) insights from Afrikaans.

Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge)

10:30 – 11:10 Two types of pseudo-coordination in English pose a learnability problem.

Mark De Vos (Rhodes University)

11:10 – 11:50 SIT as a progressive marker in pseudocoordination?

Daniel Ross (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Helge Lødrup (University of Oslo)

11:50 – 12:10 Coffee break

Chair: Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro

12:10 – 12:50 Pseudo-coordination in Scandinavian and Semitic involving a finite verb form and an infinitive.

Janne Bondi Johannessen (University of Oslo) and Lutz Edzard (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and University of Oslo)

12:50 – 13:30 Partial versus Full Agreement in Turkish possessive and clausal DPcoordination.

Deniz Tat (Leiden University) and Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University)

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch + Poster session

Chair: Roland Hinterhölzl

14:30 – 15:10 Norwegian pseudocoordinations with the verb drive ‘carry on’: Control, raising, grammaticalization.

Helge Lødrup (University of Oslo)

15:10 – 15:50 On absence of serial adjectives.

Moreno Mitrovic (University of Cyprus) and Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus)

15:50 – 16:30 Business meeting


Poster Session (May, 2nd 15:50-16:50 and May 3rd 13:30-14:30)

Adina Camelia Bleotu (University of Bucharest)

The properties of the ‘(a) lua și X’ (‘take and X’) construction in Romanian. Evidence in favour of a more fine-grained distinction among pseudocoordinative structures.


Moreno Mitrovic (University of Cyprus)

(Pseudo-)coordinations under logical closure.


Masaharu Shimada (University of Tsukuba) and Akiko Nagano (Tohoky University)

Three functional positions for aspects: Evidence from Kyushu Japanese.


Svatava Skodova (Institute of Czech Studies)

Pseudo-coordination of a verb jít/go in the syntax of contemporary Czech.


Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro and Asmaa El Hansali (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)

Multiple agreement verbal constructions with ‘go’ in the Arabic and Sicilian dialects.