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Thu Nov 4 1999

Confs: Romance Languages: "Going Romance"

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  • Jeroen van de Weijer, Romance languages

    Message 1: Romance languages

     Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 14:28:06 CET
    From: Jeroen van de Weijer <vdweijer2000hotmail.com>
    Subject: Romance languages


    The Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics (HIL) and the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS (UiL OTS) are pleased to present the preliminary programme of

    Going Romance 1999 Thirteenth Symposium on Romance Linguistics Leiden University, December 9-11

    with a workshop on Negation on December 11.

    The program appears on the web, please see http://www.leidenuniv.nl/hil/confs/gr1999 and is also reproduced below.

    Registration: The registration fee will be NLG 50.00, to be paid at the conference site. Please notify us by e-mail (ziegelaarrullet.leidenuniv.nl) if you wish to participate.

    Organizing committee: Reineke Bok-Bennema (Groningen), Denis Delfitto (UiL/OTS Utrecht), Yves D'Hulst (HIL/Leiden), Jenny Doetjes (UiL/OTS Utrecht), Frank Drijkoningen (Uil OTS Utrecht), Pieter Muysken (HIL/Leiden), Johan Rooryck (HIL/Leiden), Petra Sleeman (HIL/Amsterdam)

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    Going Romance Preliminary programme of both the conference and the workshop on negation

    Thursday 9 december 1999 building 1103, room 329 (Nonnensteeg)

    9.15 Opening and welcome by Pieter Muysken, Leiden University

    9.30 - 10.30 Invited speaker; Gemma Rigau, Universitat Auto`noma de Barcelona: On Temporal Presentational Constructions in Romance

    10.30 - 11.10 Raffaella Folli, University of Oxford: Causative/Inchoative alternations in Italian

    11.10 - 11.30 Coffee/tea

    11.30 - 12.10 Ana Lu'cia Santos, Universidade do Minho: On the status of the by-phrase: evidence from full passives and absolute past participles in Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan

    12.10 - 12.50 Jaume Mateu Fontanals, Universitat Auto`noma de Barcelona: Locative and locatum verbs revisited. Evidence from Romance

    12.50 - 14.15 Lunch

    14.15 - 14.55 Javier Gutie'rrez-Rexach, Ohio State University: Spanish exclamatives and the semantics of the left periphery

    14.55 - 15.35 Michela M. Ippolito, MIT: The Syntax of Temporal Subordinate Clauses

    15.35 - 16.00 Coffee/tea

    16.00 - 16.40 Monique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis and Mireille Tremblay, Queen's University: On the modularity of grammar and its restrictive effect on change

    16.40 - 17.40 Invited speaker; Cecilia Poletto, Universita` di Padova: Criteria for Wh-movement: from Wh-in situ to Wh-doubling

    Friday 10 december 1999 building 1173, room 008 (Witte Singel 25)

    9.30 - 10.30 Invited speaker; Eduardo Raposo, University of California at Santa Barbara: to be announced

    10.30 - 11.10 Maria J. Maza, University of Newcastle upon Tyne: Phonetic data and functional explanation in phonology: The case of laxness vowel harmony in Granada Spanish

    11.10 - 11.30 Coffee/tea

    11.30 - 12.10 Manuela Ambar and Rita Veloso, Universidade de Lisboa: On the nature of wh phrases: extraction, Wh-in situ and word order evidence from Portuguese, French, Hungarian and Tetum

    12.10 - 12.50 Brechtje Post, University of Nijmegen/University of Cambridge: An autosegmental-metrical account of French intonation

    12.50 - 14.15 Lunch

    14.15 - 14.55 Alexandra Cornilescu, University of Bucharest: On Focusing and Wh-Movement in Romanian

    14.55 - 15.35 Nicola Munaro, Universita` di Padova: Indefinite relatives as defective Wh-elements: evidence from the North-Western Italian dialects

    15.35 - 16.00 Coffee/tea

    16.00 - 16.40 Juan Carlos Castillo, University of Iowa/University of Maryland: Weak Pronouns in Old Spanish

    16.40 - 17.20 Jean-Marie Marandin, Universite' Paris VII: French Subject Inversion in Subjunctive Clauses

    18.30 Conference dinner

    Alternates: Linda Escobar (Universitat Auto`noma de Barcelona), In favour of a more complete typology of anaphoric expressions: the Spanish reflexive consigo M. Teresa Espinal (Universitat Auto`noma de Barcelona), Property-denoting objects in idiomatic constructions.



    Workshop on Negation

    Saturday 11 december 1999 building 1175, room 147 (Cleveringaplaats 1)

    9.15 Opening and welcome by Henrie"tte de Swart, Utrecht University

    9.30 - 10.30 Invited speaker: Francis Corblin, Universite' Paris IV: On multiple expression of negation in some Romance languages

    10.30 - 11.05 Svetlana Vogeleer, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles: What is negated in French negative sentences with avant-('before') and jusqu'a`-('until') complements?

    11.05 - 11.30 Coffee/tea

    11.30 - 12.05 Akira Watanabe, University of Tokyo: Decomposing the Neg-Criterion

    12.05 - 12.35 Comments and discussion

    12.35 - 14.00 Lunch

    14.00 - 14.35 Anto'nio Branco, University of Lisbon and Berthold Crysmann, University of the Saarland: Negative Concord and linear constraints on quantification

    14.35 - 15.10 Gabriela Matos, Universidade de Lisboa: Negative Concord and the Minimalist Approach

    15.10 - 15.40 Comments and discussions

    15.40 - 16.00 Coffee/tea

    16.00 - 16.35 Invited speaker: Paul Rowlett, University of Salford: to be announced

    16.35 - 17.35 General discussion led by Francis Corblin, University Paris IV

    Alternate: Elena Guerzoni, MIT: Italian N-words as NPIs.

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