Programme CamCoS 6
St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP
Thursday 4 May (Palmerston Room, Cripps Building, St John's College)
1-1.40pm: James Baker - How Georgian is (not) like Basque: a comparative case study of split-S languages
1.40-2.20pm: Julio Song - Emergent [V] flavors and minimized flexibility of lexical categories
2.20-3pm: Jamie Douglas - Subject (in)accessibility
COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS
3.30-4.10pm: Kari Kinn - Predicate nouns and nominal structure in Heritage and Non-Heritage Norwegian
4.10-4.50pm: Marieke Meelen - ... so I've heard: conjunct/disjunct & evidentiality in Tibeto-Burman
4.50-5.30pm: Theresa Biberauer, Anders Holmberg & Ian Roberts – Comparative Syntax rethought?
Friday 5 May 2017 (Old Divinity School, St John's College)
9–9:40am: Rodrigo Ranero (University of Maryland) & Gesoel Mendes (University of Maryland) –Restrictions on Adjunct Extraction: Microvariation in Mayan
9:40–10:20am: Monica Alexandrina Irimia (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) & Cristina Guardiano (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) – DOM under comparatives
COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS
10:40–11:20am: Yosuke Sato (National University of Singapore) & Jian Gang Ngui (National University of Singapore) – Combinatorial Underspecification and the Boundary of Cross-Linguistic Variation
11:20–12:00: Jooyoung Kim (University of Delaware), Gabriella Hermon (University of Delaware) and Peter Cole (University of Delaware) – WH in Situ: Implicational Universals
12:00–12:40pm: Víctor Acedo-Matellán (University of Cambridge) & Cristina Real-Puigdollers (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) – Talmy, not Snyder: the comparative syntax of creation predicates
LUNCH
2:00–2:40pm: Byron Ahn (Princeton University) – (In Search of) Universals in Reflexive Syntax
2:40–3:20pm: Julie Goncharov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) & Monica Alexandrina Irimia (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) – Modal comparatives: a cross-linguistic investigation
COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS
3:40–4:20pm: Michelle Yuan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) – Object agreement and clitic doubling across Inuit: Evidence from Inuktitut ABS objects
4:20–5:00pm: Edith Aldridge (University of Washington) – ϕ-feature Competition in Ergative and Accusative Languages
SHORT BREAK
5:15–6:15pm: SPEED SESSION
- Adam Singerman (University of Chicago) – Syntactic disharmony in subordinate clauses in Tupari, a Tupian language of Brazil
- Peter Smith (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt) & Sam Issah (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt) – Focus in Dagbani and the availability of Resumptive Pronouns
- Cora Pots (KU Leuven) – Restructuring non-finite verb clusters in Dutch
- Danniel Carvalho (UFBA) – Canonical and non-canonical gender agreement in Brazilian Portuguese
- Yongsuk Yoo (University of Connecticut), Euiyon Cho (Dongguk University) & Myung-Kwan Park (Dongguk University) – The Real(is) Distinction in Before and After Clauses: A Cross-linguistic Study
CONFERENCE DINNER
Saturday 6 May 2017 (Old Divinity School, St John's College)
9-10am: Liliane Haegeman (Ghent) – Adverbial clauses and the syntax of V2
10-11am: Andrew Simpson (USC) – Parallels in the structure of phases in clausal and nominal domains
COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS
11.30am-12.30pm: Walter Bisang (Mainz) – A historical account of radical pro-drop
LUNCH
2-3pm: Jason Merchant (Chicago) – On categorizers and selection
3-4pm: Maria Polinsky (Maryland) – Disassembling grammatical architecture: A view from languages in contact
COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS
4.30-6pm: David Adger (QMUL), Caroline Heycock (Edinburgh), Jen Smith (Glasgow) & Gary Thoms (Glasgow) – A tale of two contractions: negative and auxiliary contraction across Scots dialects