Programme
Thursday (16.02)
*** Aula Magna of Palazzo Marucelli ***
9.30-9.45 Welcome and Introduction
Chair: Maria Rita Manzini
9.45-10.25 Alessandra Tomaselli & Andrea Padovan (University of Verona) -
Feature Borrowing in Germanic-Romance Language Contact
10.25-11.05 Leonardo Maria Savoia, Benedetta Baldi (University of Florence)
Enclisis and mesoclisis in Italian varieties. A morpho-syntactic analysis
11.05-11.45 Cristina Guardiano (Universit of Reggio-Emilia), Vincenzo Stalfieri (University of Reggio-Emilia), Paola Crisma (University of Trieste), Giulia Fabbris (University of Trieste), & Michele Longo (University of Trieste)
Diachronic syntax and syntactic microvariation: an unlikely pair
11.45-12 Break
Chair: Maria Rita Manzini
12-13 Invited speaker: Cecilia Poletto (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Università di Padova)
Against complementizers
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
Chair: Alessandra Zappoli
14:00-14:40 Ilaria Frana (University of Enna)
X-marking and The Italian Reportative Conditional
14:40-15:20 Carla Contemori (University of Texas at El Paso), Elisa Di Domenico (University for Foreigners of Perugia)
Disentangling parsing and grammar in subject pronouns' interpretation in Italian
15:20-16:00 Greta Mazzaggio, Penka Stateva (University of Nova Gorica)
On the Italian Molto and Tanto and the differences with the Slovenian Precej and Veliko.
16:00-16:30 Break
Chair: Valentina Bianchi
16:30-17:10 Michelangelo Falco (Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics, ZAS), Roberto Zamparelli (CIMeC, University of Trento)
Referencially Dependent DPs: Ellipsis vs. Italian Pro-forms
17:10-17:50 Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS-LLF Paris Cité University)
Two structures for Romance superlatives
17:50-18:30 Judy Bernstein (William Paterson University)
On the DP status of vocative expressions in Romance
Friday (17.02)
*** Aula Magna of Palazzo Marucelli ***
Chair: Giuseppe Rugna
08:50-9:30 Idan Landau (Ben Gurion University)
Force Mismatch in Clausal Ellipsis
9:30-10:10 Anna Roussou, Christos Vlachos (University of Patras)
Wh-complement clauses and (non-)local selection
10:10-10:25 Coffee Break
Chair: Francesca Foppolo
11-11:40 Nicola Munaro (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
Left-right asymmetries in conditional clause attachment and multiple complementizers
11:40-12.20 Giuliano Bocci (University of Siena), Valentina Bianchi (University of Siena), Silvio Cruschina (University of Helsinki)
The sound of wh-chains and the ghost of focus: the prosody of Italian direct wh-questions
Chair: Leonardo Maria Savoia
12:20-13:20 Invited speaker: Andrea Calabrese (University of Connecticut)
Italian Irregular Present Forms. On the analysis of irregular allomorphy in a general theory of PF.
13:20-14:20 Lunch Break
Chair: Greta Mazzaggio
14:20-15:00 Andrea Moro (Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS)
Conjunctions and feature deficiency in the left periphery
15:00-15:40 Giusepe Rugna, Maria Rita Manzini (University of Florence)
A FormCopy Analysis of wh-doubling and wh-copying
15:40-16:20 David Diem (University of Konstanz)
Alemannic verb doubling is the overt realization of a head movement chain
16:20-16:40 Coffee Break
Chair: Gloria Cocchi
17:15-17:55 Magdalena Lohninger (University of Vienna)
A typology of composite probes
17:55-18:35 Paola Crisma (University of Trieste), Giulia Fabbris (University of Trieste), Cristina Guardiano (University of Reggio-Emilia), Giuseppe Longobardi (University of York)
Parameter setting: subset and default
18:35-19:00 Business Meeting
***Social Dinner***
(20.00)
Restaurant: "Borderline", Corso Italia, 35.
Saturday (18.02)
*** Aula Magna Plesso via Laura ***
Chair: Cristiano Chesi
9:00-9:40 Franc Marušič, Rok Žaucer (University of Nova Gorica)
Slovenian adverbial endings argue for a specific adverbial syntax
9:40-10:20 Giuseppe Samo, Paola Merlo (University of Geneva)
Intervention effects in relative clauses: a study in Quantitative Computational Syntax
10:20-10:40 Break
Chair: Daniele Panizza
10:40-11:20 Lena Baunaz (University of Geneva), Eric Lander (University of Gothenburg)
Modal negators and the negative functional sequence
11:20-12:00 Egor Tsedryk (Saint Mary's University)
Strict negative concord without uninterpretable negative features
Chair: Ludovico Franco
12:00-13:00 Invited speaker: Marcel den Dikken (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics)
Schemes for Themes
13:00-13:10 Concluding remarks