Session 5 - Luigi Rizzi: Theoretical and comparative syntax
This parallel session will be structured around six major issues that arise in the domains of theoretical and comparative syntax. Abstracts are solicited which address one or more of the following issues:
1. On elementary syntactic mechanisms. A fundamental property of human languages is that they permit the formation of an unbounded number of messages. What are the elementary ingredients of syntactic computations, giving rise to the open-ended character of language? What is the role of recursion and how is it expressed? How are syntactic dependencies (e.g. between an antecedent and a gap) to be characterized? What principles constrain syntactic computations?
2. On the nature of syntactic representations. If syntactic mechanisms may well be quite simple (and in certain models like Minimalism, they are extremely elementary), syntactic representations can be rich and complex (and in certain lines of research such as the cartographic studies, they are characterized by a high degree of structural articulation). What is the right format for the structural maps of clauses and phrases in natural language syntax?
3. Invariance and variation in natural language syntax. How should linguistic theory express syntactic universals? How should it express cross-linguistically variable properties, and capture the limits on syntactic variation?
4. On the syntax – morphology connection. Is it possible and useful to draw a sharp dividing line between syntactic and morphological processes? Do morphological requirements drive certain syntactic processes (e.g., verb movement), or does morphology simply registers the fact that certain syntactic computations have applied?
5. Syntax and the interfaces with sound and meaning. Recursive syntax is seen, in some models, as the computational heart of a system for the expression of sound-meaning pairings over an unbounded domain. So, syntactic representations must be readily accessible and readable to systems of perception and articulations, and to systems of concepts and intentions, to be used for communication and the expression of thought. How are syntactic structures interpreted at the interface with the sound system, i.e. for the assignment of prosodic contours? How does the system operate at the interface between syntax and semantics/pragmatics, e.g. for expressing argumental semantics (thematic roles etc.), and discourse-related articulations such as topic – comment, focus – presupposition, etc.?
6. Types of evidence bearing on syntactic hypotheses. Much classical syntactic description and theorization is based on corpus analysis and/or on metalinguistic judgments (grammaticality, ambiguity, etc.). These kinds of evidence have permitted an extraordinary growth of syntactic modeling and analysis. Nevertheless, the necessity of enriching the empirical basis of syntactic studies is felt as more and more compelling by syntacticians, in order to put more severe and diversified empirical constraints on syntactic models. The experimental study of production and perception, of first and second language acquisition, and of language-related pathologies, as well as the use of brain imaging techniques have all been brought to bear on syntactic models. What enrichment may syntacticians expect from interdisciplinary projects in these domains? And what may syntactic models have to offer for advances in these areas of the study of language as a cognitive capacity?
22.07.2013 10:30-12:30
Chair: Luigi Rizzi10:30 - 11:00 Anna CARDINALETTI
The big DP hypothesis: Reconciling the internal and external syntax of cliticization11:00 - 11:30 Christopher LAENZLINGER
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The CP/DP (Non-)Parallelism Revisited11:30 - 12:00 Akira WATANABE
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Count Syntax and the Partitivity12:00 - 12:30 Giuliana GIUSTI
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Genitive Case and the Nominal Phase
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22.07.2013 14:00-16:00
Chair: Ur Shlonsky14:00 - 14:30 Georg HÖHN
Unagreement is an Illusion: The distribution of person features in the extended nominal projection14:30 - 15:00 Ji-Hye KIM et al.
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TSC (Tensed S Condition) and Korean Anaphors: An Experimental Study of Binding Domain and VP ellipsis in Korean15:00 - 15:30 Anamaria BENTEA et al.
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Atoms of intervention in the acquisition of A'-dependencies15:30 - 16:00 Carlo CECCHETTO et al.
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Rethinking adjunction and complementation. Making sense of an unexpected garden path
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22.07.2013 16:30-18:00
Chair: Paola Merlo16:30 - 17:00 Zheng SHEN
Syntactic Treatment of the Relative Reading with NP Internal Focus in Superlatives17:00 - 17:30 Louise MYCOCK et al.
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Intonation-only marking of narrow Focus: a Lexical-Functional Grammar Analysis17:30 - 18:00 Koichiro NAKAMURA
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Ga-marked phrases act as exhaustive identificational focus
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23.07.2013 14:00-15:30
Chair: Stephanie Durrleman14:00 - 14:30 Eric HAEBERLI et al.
On the Interaction between Syntax and Morphology: New Evidence from the Loss of Verb Movement in the History of English14:30 - 15:00 Michelle SHEEHAN et al.
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Mafioso Parameters and the Limits of Syntactic Variation15:00 - 15:30 Genoveva PUSKAS et al.
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The left periphery of non-indicative clauses: a cross-linguistic study
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23.07.2013 16:30-18:30
Chair: Christopher Laenzlinger16:30 - 17:00 Wei-Tien Dylan TSAI
Rethinking Formal Licensing17:00 - 17:30 Yoshio ENDO
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Two Types of Why17:30 - 18:00 Amy Rose DEAL
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Short and long scrambling in Nez Perce18:00 - 18:30 Jacopo GARZONIO et al.
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Non and its companions: on the big NegP hypothesis
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25.07.2013 14:00-16:00
Chair: Genoveva Puskas14:00 - 15:00 Luigi RIZZI
Theoretical and comparative syntax - some current issues15:00 - 15:30 Guglielmo CINQUE et al.
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DP and CP: a Relativized Minimality approach to one of their non parallelism(s)15:30 - 16:00 Ur SHLONSKY
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Labels, phases and VSO order
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25.07.2013 16:30-18:30
Chair:16:30 - 17:00 Ameen ALAHDAL
On C/T-v relation: Feature inheritance and feature sharing17:00 - 17:30 Anna GREENWOOD
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Questioning anti-c-command: A comparative study of parasitic gaps17:30 - 18:00 Thomas LEU
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Generalized x-to-C18:00 - 18:30 James MCCLOSKEY
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Focus and the Grammar of Exceptives in Irish
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25.07.2013 18:30-19:30
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18:30 - 19:30 Ameen ALAHDAL
A Phase-based Account of Movement-contingent Agreement18:30 - 19:30 Anna RICCIO
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Transitivity alternation and lexicon-syntax interface in Italian18:30 - 19:30 Ching Hsin CHANG
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La relative: une etude comparative18:30 - 19:30 Ching-Yu YANG
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On the Shou Construction in Mandarin Chinese: a Non-Unified Approach18:30 - 19:30 Ciro GRECO
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The Hybrid Status Of Criterial Subjects: Locality Effects In Italian Wh-Questions18:30 - 19:30 Dongsik LIM et al.
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Event complexity and subjecthood of dative arguments of Korean psych-predicates18:30 - 19:30 ETHER SOSELIA
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Argument Coding By Genitive In Georgian18:30 - 19:30 Hideki KISHIMOTO
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Coordination and Movement of Honorific Heads in Japanese18:30 - 19:30 Hisao TOKIZAKI
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Branching direction and the morphology-syntax connection18:30 - 19:30 I-hao WOO
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Chinese resultative constructions: A comparative analysis18:30 - 19:30 Isabella PEDERNEIRA
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Learning about the syntax-semantics interface18:30 - 19:30 Isabelle CHARNAVEL
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A Unified Analysis of Iddi Terms (terms expressing identity and difference) based on French data (même 'same', différent 'different', autre 'other'...)18:30 - 19:30 Kuanming TENG
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Negative Imperatives in Taiwanese Southern Min18:30 - 19:30 Mario SALTARELLI
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The Indexical Syntax of Demonstratives18:30 - 19:30 Michelle SHEEHAN
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Towards a parameter hierarchy for alignment18:30 - 19:30 Mikhail DYMARSKIY
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Syntax Modeling and Process of Generating an Utterance18:30 - 19:30 Oleh KSHANOVSKY
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Verb Serialization As Cognitive Universal (Slavonic and Iranian data)18:30 - 19:30 Saeko URUSHIBARA
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A Morphosyntactic reflex of root and epistemic modals: Evidence from a Japanese negative future element18:30 - 19:30 Sarah OUWAYDA
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Mass Plurals, Neither Mass Nor Plural18:30 - 19:30 Shruti SHRUTI SIRCAR
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Null and Overt Subjects in the Speech of Bengali children18:30 - 19:30 Xosé SOTO ANDIÓN
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The Semantics of CAER18:30 - 19:30 Yasuyuki FUKUTOMI
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Light Noun-in-situ in Japanese
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26.07.2013 10:30-12:30
Chair: Eric Haeberli10:30 - 11:00 Isabelle CHARNAVEL et al.
Binding Anaphors: what is the scope of Condition A and why?11:00 - 11:30 Rezvan MOTAVALLIAN
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On obligatory Control in Persian11:30 - 12:00 Byron AHN
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Universality and Subject-Oriented Reflexivity12:00 - 12:30 Gabriela SOARE
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The Syntax of Some Imposter DPs
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26.07.2013 14:00-16:00
Chair: Giuliano Bocci14:00 - 14:30 Raffaella ZANUTTINI et al.
Referential Dependencies across Discontinuous Subjects14:30 - 15:00 Dominique SPORTICHE
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No Phrasal Match: all restrictive relative clauses are head raising15:30 - 16:00 Hilda KOOPMAN
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The cartography of objects: on preverbal and postverbal objects
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27.07.2013 08:30-10:30
Chair: Luigi Rizzi08:30 - 09:00 Po-jen HSIEH
Temporal Measure Phrase in Chinese: A DegvP Analysis09:00 - 09:30 Katharina TURGAY et al.
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Positioning of adverbials in spoken German09:30 - 10:00 Rahul BALUSU
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Transitivizing light verbs in Telugu10:00 - 10:30 Amrit R. AMRITAVALLI
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Result phrases and dative experiencers in Kannada
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