Main Session Programme,  Research Beehive, Old Library Building, Newcastle University

Wednesday 26th March, GLOW Colloquium, 

 

 

Phonology

Syntax

9-10

Christian Uffmann (University of Tromsø /CASTL and University of Sussex)

R-bitrariness and Phonologically Grounded Phonetics

Ur Shlonsky (University of Geneva)

On the immovability of subjects

10-11

Stavroula Tsiplakou & Evanthi Papanicola (University of Cyprus)

Hardening in Cypriot Greek: a compound story

Milan Rezac (University of Nantes, LLING)

Phi in syntax

11-11.30

break

11.30-12.30

Peter Jurgec (University of Tromsø/CASTL)

Long-Distance Derived Environment Effects and Stratal Identity

Hamid Ouali (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

On Փ-feature “inheritance”: The nature of Agreement and Anti-Agreement

12.30-2

lunch

2-3

David Teeple (UC Santa Cruz)

Biconditional Constraints on the Correlates of Prominence

Liliane Haegeman(University Lille III)

The syntax of adverbial clauses and the licensing of Main Clause Phenomena

3-4

Lee Shinsook (Korea University) and Cho Mi-Hui (Kyonggi University)

Directionality in Non-local and Local Place Assimilation

Jakub Dotlacil (UIL OTS) and Oystein Nilsen (UIL OTS/ University of Tromsø/CASTL)

'The others' compared to 'each other' -- Consequences for the analysis of reciprocity

4-4.30

break

4.30-5.30

Pavel Iosad (University of Tromsø/CASTL)

All that glisters is not gold: against autosegmental approaches to initial consonant mutation

Kristine Bentzen (University of Tromsø/CASTL)

Remnant movement vs. copying and partial deletion: Evidence from Scandinavian

5.30-6.30

David Pesetsky (MIT)

Same Recipe, Different Ingredients: Music Syntax is Language Syntax

6.30-7.00

break

7.00-8.00

Arto Anttila (Stanford University) Invited speaker

TBC

 

Thursday 27th March, GLOW Colloquium

 

9-10

Marcel den Dikken (CUNY Graduate Center)

Small Clauses, Phases, and Phase Extension -- The Case of Scope and Object Shift

10-11

Clemens Mayr (Harvard University) and Viola Schmitt (University of Vienna)

Extraction from coordinate structures and anaphoric parallelism

11-11.30

break

11.30-12.30

Ora Matushansky (UiL OTS/CNRS/Université Paris 8)

More of the same

12.30-2

lunch

2-3

Florian Schaefer (University of Stuttgart)

Two types of external argument licensing: The case of causers

3-4

Eva Dobler (McGill University)

Creating as causing something to exist somewhere

4-4.30

break

4.30-5.30

Jonathan Bobaljik and Susi Wurmbrand (University of Connecticut)

Word order and scope: transparent interfaces and the 3/4 signature

5.30-6.30

Glow business meeting

6.45-7.45

Invited Speaker: Luigi Rizzi (University of Siena)

TBC

8.00-late

Conference dinner

Kings Hall, University Campus

 

Friday 28th March, GLOW Colloquium

 

9-10

Ivano Caponigro (UCSD) and Maria Polinsky (Harvard University)

Everything is relative: Evidence from Northwest Caucasian

10-11

Thomas Leu (New York University)

The syntax internal to Germanic Determiners

11-11.30

break

11.30-12.30

Miki Obata and Samuel David Epstein  (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Phasing Out Improper Movement as Featural Crash

12.30-2

lunch

2-3

Omer Preminger (MIT)

Long-Distance Agreement in Basque, Locally Speaking

3-4

Antje Lahne (University of Leipzig)

On Modelling Long-Distance Agreement

4-4.30

break

4.30-5.30

Rajesh Bhatt  (UMass, Amherst and Umass) and Shoichi Takahashi (Amherst/University of Tokyo)

When to reduce and when not to: crosslinguistic variation in phrasal comparatives

5.30-6.30

Idan Landau (Ben Gurion University)

What Case Transmission Tells Us About Control

 

Main Session Alternate Papers

 

Ranked syntax alternates

Dalina Kallulli (University of Vienna)

A Unified Account of Lack of Superiority and Principle C Effects

Gillian Ramchand (University of Tromsø/CASTL)

On Taking Verbs Lightly

 

 

Ranked phonology alternates

Martin Krämer (University of Tromsø/CASTL)

RS and the Definition of the Foot

Clàudia Pons (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Shattering paradigms. An attempt to formalize pressures within subparadigms

 

Workshops on Tuesday 25th March, Percy Building

Workshop on categorical phonology and gradient facts

 

10.00-10.45

Sarah Collie (University of Edinburgh)

Word frequency and English stress preservation

10.45-11.30

Karthik Durvasula (University of Delaware)

Multiple Categorical Sources for Surface Partially-nasal Stops and the Nature of their Variability

11.30-12.00

break

12.00-12.45

Marie-Hélène Côté (University of Ottawa)

Is syllabification categorical or gradient?

12.45-2.15

lunch

2.15-3.00

Pavel Iosad (University of Tromsø/CASTL)

Liquids and spirants: a phonological perspective

3.00-3.45

Carlo Geraci (Univeristà degli Studi di Milano Bicocca)

Real World & Copying Epenthesis: Classifier Predicates in Italian Sign Language

3.45-4.15

break

4.15-5.00

Ingvar Lofstedt (UCLA)

M-Parse relativized by frequency

5.00-5.45

Michael Gagnon, Charles Reiss, Linnaea Stockall and Alexis Wellwood (Concordia University)

Categorical skepticism concerning gradience in Hungarian harmonic and disharmonic root vowels

 

 

Ranked alternates

Hijo Kang (Stony Brook University)

Categorical vowel harmony and its gradient application

Sylvia Blaho, Bruce Moren and Curt Rice (University of Tromsø/CASTL)

Gradience and modularity

 

Workshop on Evidentiality

 

10.00-10.45

Edward Garrett (Eastern Michigan University, Lansing) and Leah Bateman (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

 Impersonal Subjects Have No Taste

10.45-11.30

Leah Bateman (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Semantic Restrictions on the Interaction of Imperfective and Evidentials in

Tibetan

11.30-12.00

break

12.00-12.45

Magdalena Schwager (Frankfurt University)

On What Has Been Said in

Tagalog: Reportative 'daw'

12.45-2.45

lunch

2.45-3.45

Invited speaker: Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin)

Evidence and Evidentials

3.45-4.15

break

4.15-5.00

Mathias Schenner (ZAS Berlin)

Evidential Strategies at the Semantics/Pragmatics Boundary: Reportatives in German

5.00-5.45

Tyler Peterson (University of British Columbia)

Examining the Mirative and Metaphorical Uses of Evidentials

 

 

Alternate

Eva Maria Remberger (Cambridge University): The Evidential Shift Of Want

 

 

 

Workshop on DP types and feature syntax

 

10.00-10.45

Judy Bernstein (William Paterson University) and  Raffaella Zanuttini (Georgetown University)

Teasing apart reference and agreement: micro-parametric variation in English DPs

10.45-11.30

Artemis Alexiadou (University of Stuttgart), Gianina Iordachioaia (University of Stuttgart/ Tübingen) and Elena Soare (University of Paris 8)

Nominal and verbal parallelisms: evidence from argument supporting nominalizations

11.30-12.00

break

12.00-12.45

Daniela Isac (Concordia University)

Definite DPs, modification and situation variables

12.45-2.15

lunch

2.15-3.00

Alejandro Cuza (University of Illinois at Chicago), Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes (Plymouth University), Tiffany Judy and Jason Rothman (University of Iowa)

Adult Feature Acquisition, Interface Vulnerability and the DP in L2 Spanish

3.00-3.45

Marijke De Belder (CRISSP/University & College of Brussels/FUSL)

Size Matters: Towards a syntactic decomposition of countability

3.45-4.15

break

4.15-5.00

Melita Stavrou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and Arhonto Terzi (Technological Educational Institute of Patras)

Cardinal numerals and other numerical expressions

5.00-5.45

Zeljko Boskovic (University of Connecticut)

Affixal articles and the selective wh-island effect

 

 

Ranked alternates

Erik Schoorlemmer (Leiden University)

Triggering Double Definiteness: type mismatches in the nominal domain

Isac Daniela and Allison Kirk (Concordia University)

More arguments for the CP/DP parrallelism: Focus & Topic in the nominal domain in Ancient Greek

 

 

Workshops on Saturday 29th March, Percy Building

Workshop on Language Contact

 

9-10

Invited Speaker: Donald Winford (Ohio State University)

Processes of creole formation and related contact-induced language change

10-11

Marcela Cazzoli-Goeta (Durham University), Jason Rothman (University of Iowa) and Martha Young-Scholten (Newcastle University)
Perspectives on Spanglish in mind, space and time

11-11.30

break

11.30-12.30

Norman Yeo (York University)

Syntax and Semantics in Contact: A case of distributivity in Singapore English

12.20-2

lunch

2-3

Enoch Oladé Aboh (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Language Transfer and the Role of Vulnerable Interfaces

3-4

David Willis, Anne Breitbarth and Christopher Lucas (University of Cambridge)

Contact isn’t special: Case studies from the development of negation

4-4.30

break

4.30-5.30

Rita Manzini  and Leonardo M. Savoia (University of Florence)

Causatives in Arb¸resh (Italo-Albanian) varieties

 

Workshop on Linearization

 

9-10

Caterina Donati (University of Urbino), Chiara Branchini (SILIS Roma), Cristina Pierantozzi (University of Hamburg)

Challenging Linearization: Simultaneous Mixing

10-11

Meaghan Fowlie (McGill)

Multiple Multiple Spellout

11-11.30

break

11.30-12.30

Barbara Citko (University of Washington)

How and Why Do Wh-Questions Linearize?

12.30-2

lunch

2-3

Cecchetto Carlo (University of Milan-Bicocca)

Backwards Dependencies Constrain Linearization (But not too much)

3-4

William Idsardi (University of Maryland, Linguistics) and Eric Raimy
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Three types of linearization and the temporal aspects of speech

4-4.30

break

4.30-5.30

Martin Haiden (Université de Tours)

On templates, linear order, and the acquisition of parameter settings

5.30-6.30

Klaus Abels (UCL)

Cross Serial Dependencies and Linearization

 

 

Ranked alternates

Martina Gracanin-Yuksek (METU)

Linearizing Multidominance Structures

Hisao Tokizaki and Yasutomo Kuwana (Sapporo University)

Non-Existent Word Orders and Left-Branching Structure