Program
28th COLLOQUIUM ON GENERATIVE GRAMMAR
May 31-June 1, 2018 – URV, Campus Catalunya, aula magna
Thursday, May 31
8:30-9:30
REGISTRATION
9:15-9:30
OPENING
9:30-10:30
Invited Speaker: Alec Marantz – NeLLab, New York University
Re-establishing the autonomy of syntax: Abstract morphemes build interpretable structures
10:30-11:05
Adina Camelia Bleotu & Jelke Bloem, University of Bucharest, University of Amsterdam
Can you star sentences with weird dots or butter bread with honey? The pseudo behaviour of true denominals and the true behaviour of pseudo denominals
11:05-11:35
COFFEE BREAK
11:35-12:10
Txuss Martín & Cristina Real Puigdollers – Universitat Pompeu Fabra
The Adposition Case Case
12:10-12:45
Lucia Tovena & Mara Panaitescu, Université Paris 7, University of Bucharest
Relational distributive prepositions
12:45-13:20
Ludovico Franco & Paolo Lorusso, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, University of Florence
The selectional properties of motion-to and state-in adpositions in Italian: on the expression of proper locations and beyond
13:20-15:00
LUNCH
15:00-15:35
Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo, Universitat de Girona
Categorizing prefixes? Syntactic decomposition of the negative prefix in-
15:35-16:10
Fenna Bergsma, Goethe Universität, Germany
Case mismatches in free relative constructions
16:10-16:45
Jose Camacho, Rutgers University
Un tal Ernestico/A certain Ernestico: on the structure of proper names
16:45-17:45
COFFEE BREAK – POSTER SESSION 1 – Sala de Juntes
17:45-18:20
M. Pilar Colomina & Lorena Castillo, CLT-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
A labeling theory approach to subject positions in Romance
18:20-18:55
Anna Gavarró & Jingtao Zhu, CLT-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Early comprehension of word order: Evidence from Mandarin
19:00
TARRAGONA WALKING TOUR - Medieval Tarraco
20:30
CONFERENCE DINNER - Restaurant Les Voltes
Friday, June 1
9:30-10:30
Invited Speaker Elena Castroviejo – University of the Basque Country EPV/EHU, Ikerbasque
Degree lessons from manner and evaluation
10:30-11:05
Giuliano Armenante & Alexander Wimmer, Universität Tübingen
An argument for time-variables in the syntax: Evidence from temporal adjectives with possessives
11:05-11:35
COFFEE BREAK
11:35-12:10
Carlos Muñoz Pérez, Universidad de Buenos Aires & CONICET
Representational economy constrains the shape of chains
12:10-12:45
Christiane Müller, Damon Tutunjian & Anna-Lena Wiklund, Lund University
The role of coherence and finiteness in extraction from adjunct islands: An acceptability study of Swedish and English
12:45-13:20
Aritz Irurtzun, CNRS-IKER
Deriving the lack of verbal wh-words from LF legibility conditions
13:20-15:00
LUNCH
15:00-16:00
Invited Speaker Andrew Nevins – University College London / Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Stress to Prominence in Portuguese
16:00-16:35
Sebastià Salvà i Puig, CLT-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
"La som vista": Split auxiliary selection with affected subjects in Old Majorcan Catalan
16:35-17:35
COFFEE BREAK – POSTER SESSION 2 – Sala de Juntes
17:35-18:10
Anna Paradís, CLT-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
The left-most, the right one: Catalan clitic placement in non-finite domains
18:10-18:45
Louise Raynaud, Georg-August Universität Göttingen
Referential features in Person Licensing and Binding
Saturday, June 2: DELTA TRIP & HUMAN TOWERS EXPERIENCE
ALTERNATE
Patricia Cabredo-Hoffher and Urtzi Etxeberria, CNR-Paris 8, CNRS-IKER
Distributive numerals in Basque
POSTER SESSION 1 – May 31, 2018
Alexander Grosu and Koji Hoshi,
Tel Aviv University, Keio University
A defense of four properties of Japanese Internally Headed Relative Constructions
Bernat Castro López, CLT-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Denial "cómo" ("how") and its role in "cómo es que"
Dennis Ott and Angel Gallego, University of Ottawa, CLT-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Why Topics Are (Not) Special
Gianina Iordachioaia, University of Stuttgart
English deverbal compounds with and without arguments
Giorgia Zorzi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Identity in meaning in gapping: mismatch in manner adverb incorporation
Isabel Crespí, CLT-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Indirect object passives in Spanish and Catalan: Really indirect?
Javier Fernández-Sánchez and Alfredo García Pardo, University of Gdansk, University of Southern California
Fake Expletive Qué-Questions (FEQs) in Spanish
Jennifer Tan, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Co-occurrence of Tagalog evidentials
Josep Ausensi Jiménez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
On the unergative - unaccusative distinction: the view from the way-construction in English
Mai Ha Vu &Karoliina Lohiniva, University of Delaware, University of Geneva
In-situ Hungarian wh-hell: Evidence against an intervention account
Marijana Marelj, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, University of Utrecht
In the Realm of COs - Kin or just Lookalikes?
POSTER SESSION 2 – JUNE 1, 2018
Antonio Martín Gómez, Purdue University
The Syntax and Lexicon of Clitic Climbing Constructions in L2 Spanish
Chang Liu, Université Paris 8/UMR 7023 CNRS
A non-unified analysis of Existential constructions in Mandarin Chinese
Dalina Kallulli, University of Vienna
Root features and argument structure: from deponents to diminutives
Dennis Ott, University of Ottawa
Some Properties of French Sluicing and Their Theoretical Implications
Elena Soare, Université Paris 8
Iresultative predicates: the case of the Romanian Supine
Ivona Kucerova, McMaster University
Comitative constructions as a window into derivational timing of anaphors and logophors
Laura Vela-Plo, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Comparison within the nominal domain
Seid Tvica, Georg-August Universität Göttingen
The Rich Agreement Hypothesis from a typological perspective
Svitlana Antonyuk, University of Vienna
Unaccusativity and Thematic Hierarchy in Russian Ditransitives
ORGANIZERS
Isabel Oltra-Massuet, Maria Bargalló, Maria Dolores Jiménez, Elga Cremades, Jordi Ginebra, Kai Voltmer, Anna Maria Montserrat, Olga Galofré
With the support of: ROLLING- Group on Research on Language and Linguistics 2017 SGR165, Grant FFI2016-80142-P Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, URV-Facultat de Lletres, URV- Department of English and German Studies, URV- Departament de Filologia Catalana, URV- Departament de Filologies Romàniques