Program

Testing

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Frank Sode The semantics of factive complements and Pesetsky’s If Copy Rule

Goethe University Frankfurt (abstract) (slides)

Michaela Čakányová Czech Nominal Complementizers ze & aby

Palacký University Olomouc (abstract) (slides)

Cristina Ruiz-Alonso el + embedded clauses: A spell-out of inherent case as nominal shell?

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (abstract) (slides)

Giuseppe Rugna The determiner hypothesis of relative complementizers: accounting for

Università degli Studi di Firenze the finiteness and case restrictions of Italian relative che

(abstract) (slides)

Invited Speaker: Maria Rita Manzini Balkan Complementation: Complementizers, Prepositions, Particles

Università degli Studi di Firenze (abstract) (handout)

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Testing

Jan Wislicki & Adam Gapczynski Direct quotation supports an implicational verbs’ hierarchy

University of Warsaw (abstract) (slides)

Friederike Moltmann Semantic support for the nominal nature of clausal complementation

CNRS (abstract) (handout)

Hedde Zeijlstra Clausal CPs are DPs: reinstalling c-selection

University of Göttingen (abstract) (slides)

Rebecca Jarvis Presuppositionality and syntactic nominalization in English

UC Berkeley finite clausal complements

(abstract) (handout)

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Michael Everdell & Paul B. Melchin O’dam has nominal and sentential clausal complements

The University of Texas at Austin & (abstract) (handout)

University of Ottawa

Invited Speaker: Keir Moulton Locating nominal properties of clauses:

University of Toronto lessons from pseudo-relatives and sentential subjects

(abstract) (handout)