Program

• Program (as of October 4)

• November 16 (Sat) 1st Day

9:00-9:30                                   Registration

9:30-9:35                                   Opening Remarks

9:35-10:35 (Keynote Speech)   "On the subject of subject depictives and subject-oriented adverbials"

Marcel den Dikken (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest & Centre of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon)

(10 minute break)

10:45-11:20                               "Issues on adjectives and nouns in predication and modification"

Isabelle Roy (Nantes Université/CNRS)

11:20-11:55                               "Comparative syntax of genitive subjects in Standard Japanese and Hichiku Japanese"

Kazushige Moriyama (Naruto University of Education) & 

Hideki Kishimoto (Kobe University)

(Lunch Break)

14:25-15:00                               "Adjunction as categorization: On the syntactic quirkiness of word-level modification"

Chenchen Song (Zhejiang University)

15:00-15:35                               "From modification to predication: The development of change of state complex predicates in Old Spanish"

Margot Vivanco (Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha) & 

Cristina Sánchez-López (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

15:35-16:10                               "Result creation and modification in Hungarian"

Éva Kardos (University of Debrecen)

(10 minute break)

16:20-16:55                               "Modification versus predication and binding: Prenatal particle verb and prefix verb structures in German"

Patrick Brandt (Leibniz-Institute for the German Language)

16:55-17:30                               "We thought and thought, and eventually solved this: One predicate modifies the other"

Dalina Kallulli (University of Vienna) & 

Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)

• November 17 (Sun)  2nd Day

9:00-9:35                                   "Apposition and the limits of predication"

Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh)

9:35-10:10                                 "Predication in disguise: Which-constructions in Hong Kong Cantonese code-mixing speech"

Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee (City University of Hong Kong)

(10 minute break)

10:20-10:55                               "Adjectives in an adjective-deficient language: Wolof"

Victor Acedo-Matellán (University of Oxford) & 

Isabelle Roy (Nantes Université/CNRS)

10:55-11:30                               "Keeping the syntax of predication and modification distinct: The view from Tamil"

Madhusmitha Venkatesan (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)

(10 minute break)

11:40-12:40  (Invited Talk)       "Language variation and the labeling of modification structures"

Mamoru Saito (Notre Dame Seishin University) 

12:40-12:45                               Closing Remarks

Alternate Paper 1:                     "The syntax of relative complement clauses in Persian complex DPs"

Negin Ilkhanipour (University of Tehran) & 

Ayaka Sugawara (Waseda University) 

Alternate Paper 2:                     "Predicates-over-modifiers parameter and the syntax of interrogative/quantity verbs in Tsou"

Henry Chang (Academia Sinica)