August 12-14, 2010, Beijing Language and Culture University
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Program
DAY 1: Thursday 12 August 2010
| 9:20-10:40 | Noam Chomsky (Keynote Speaker, MIT) Poverty of stimulus: unfinished business |
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| Parallel Session 2A | |
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| 11:00-11:40 | Liliane Haegeman & Barbara Ürögdi (University of Ghent & Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Referential CPs and DPs: An operator movement account |
| Parallel Session 2B | |
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| 11:00-11:40 | Theresa Biberauer, Anders Holmberg, Ian Roberts & Michelle Sheehan (University of Cambridge & Newcastle University) Reconciling formalism and functionalism: a minimalist perspective |
| Parallel Session 3A | |
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| 13:20-14:00 | Ian Roberts (University) FOFC and alignment: why there are no SVO languages |
| 14:00-14:40 | Barry Chung-Yu Yang (National United University) Licensing null subjects |
| Parallel Session 3B | |
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| 13:20-14:00 | Jie Zhang & Jiang Liu (University of Kansas) Patterns of tone sandhi productivity in Tianjin Chinese |
| 14:00-14:40 | Chen Qu & Heather Goad (McGill University) Prosodic licensing and tone sandhi in contour tone languages |
| Parallel Session 4A | |
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| 15:00-15:40 | Michael Barrie (University of Ottawa) Overt feature movement |
| 15:40-16:20 | Tommi Leung & Fatima Al-Eisaei (United Arab Emirates University) The independence between movement and reconstruction: Evidence from wh-constructions in Emirati Arabic |
| Parallel Session 4B | |
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| 15:00-15:40 | Artemis Alexiadou & Florian Schäfer (University Stuttgart) There-insertion and the unaccusativity hypothesis |
| 15:40-16:20 | Zhiguo Xie (Cornell University) The possessive equative sentence in Mandarin: its relation to possession and existence |
| Parallel Session 5A | |
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| 16:40-17:20 | Rahul Balusu (The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad) OCP effects in Telugu |
| Parallel Session 5B | |
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| 16:40-17:20 | W.-T. Dylan Tsai (National Tsing Hua University) EPP as a topic feature: evidence from Chinese applicatives, modals, and reflexive adverbials |
DAY 2: Friday 13 August 2010
| Parallel Session 6A | |
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| 8:30-9:10 | Chunyan Ning (Tianjin Normal University) Tinkering sound to produce meaning: Merge and Label from a more biolinguistic perspective |
| 9:10-9:50 | Carlo Cecchetto & Caterina Donati (University of Milan-Bicocca) Relabeling heads: explaining different relativization strategies |
| Parallel Session 6B | |
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| 8:30-9:10 | Julie Anne Legate (University of Pennsylvania) Restrictive agreement |
| 9:10-9:50 | Sandhya Sundaresan (University of Tromsø (CASTL)/University of Stuttgart) Monstrous agreement and anaphora |
| Parallel Session 7A | |
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| 10:10-10:50 | Masao Ochi & C.-T. James Huang (University of Osaka & Harvard University) Classifiers and nominal structure: a parametric approach and its consequences |
| 10:50-11:30 | W.-W. Roger Liao & Jean-Roger Vergnaud (University of Southern California) Phases and DPs |
| Parallel Session 7B: Poster Session | |
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| 10:10-11:30 & through lunch time | Naoyuki Akaso & Tomoko Haraguchi (Nagoya Gakuin University & Nanzan University) Japanese relative clauses: larger than TP |
| Marta Donazzan & Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (Université Paris 8/CNRS UMR 7023 & Université Paris Diderot/CNRS UMR 7110) Nominalizers and relativization strategies: the case of DE in Chinese |
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| Mingle Gao (Beijing Language and Culture University) Syntactic derivation of Chinese resultative compound |
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| Aijun Huang (Macquarie University) 'Insignificance' is significant: acquisition of polarity items in Mandarin Chinese |
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| Haoze Li (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Chinese VP ellipsis and binding principles B & C--a view from single cycle model |
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| Paroma Sanyal (English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad) Prosodic well-formedness in Bangla disyllables |
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| Yosuke Sato & Dwi Hesti Yuliani (National University of Singapore) P-stranding under sluicing in Indonesian, repair by ellipsis and the organization of grammar |
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| Yi (Esther) Su (Macquarie University) The acquisition of disjunction and conditional in child Mandar |
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| Xiaolu Yang (Tsinghua University, Beijing) CP and the left periphery in early child Chinese: the case of sentence final particles |
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| Parallel Session 8A | |
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| 13:20-14:00 | Abdoulaye Laziz Nchare & Arhonto Terzi (New York University) Lexicalizing structure crosscategorially |
| 14:00-14:40 | C.-M. Louis Liu (Harvard University) On adjectives in Mandarin Chinese |
| Parallel Session 8B | |
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| 13:20-14:00 | Peng Zhou, Yi (Esther) Su, Stephen Crain, Liqun Gao & Likan Zhan (Macquarie University & Beijing Language and Culture University) Children's use of prosodic information in ambiguity resolution |
| 14:00-14:40 | Koji Sugisaki & William Snyder (Mie University & University of Connecticut) Children's grammatical conservatism: new evidence |
| Parallel Session 9A | |
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| 15:00-15:40 | Nobuko Hasegawa (Kanda University of International Studies) The view from CP: force and person-feature agreement |
| 15:40-16:20 | Ju-Eun Lee (Soongsil University) Asymmetries in two types of small clauses in English |
| Parallel Session 9B | |
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| 15:00-15:40 | Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard University) Polarity and intervention as interface phenomena |
| 15:40-16:20 | Takeo Kurafuji (Ritsumeikan University) Pair-readings of comparatives with quantifiers |
DAY 3: Saturday 14 August 2010
| Parallel Session 10A | |
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| 8:30-9:10 | Yen-Hui Audrey Li (University of Southern California) Locative object and case |
| 9:10-9:50 | Ayesha Kidwai (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Morphological case is structural: the case of Hindi accusative –ko |
| Parallel Session 10B | |
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| 8:30-9:10 | Peter Jenks (Harvard University) Quantifier float as quantifier raising: evidence from Thai |
| 9:10-9:50 | Hagit Borer & Sarah Ouwayda (University of Southern California) Count plural vs. Cardinal plural in Arabic |
| Parallel Session 11A | |
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| 10:10-10:50 | Nobuaki Akagi, Rosalind Thornton & Takuya Goro (Macquarie University & Ibaraki University) Toward a universal typology of yes-no questions: implications from child Japanese |
| 10:50-11:30 | Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania) Predicting language change |
| Parallel Session 11B: Poster Session | |
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| 10:10-11:30 & through lunch time | Duk-Ho An (Konkuk University) On the curious nature of genitive case in Korean |
| Yoshio Endo (Kanda University of International Studies) A syntactic view of head movement: a cartographic approach to adverbial clauses |
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| Doreen Georgi & Martin Salzmann (University of Leipzig & University of Zurich) Unifying double agreement and possessor agreement |
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| Alessandra Giorgi (University of Venice) The syntax of commas: an analysis of two types of parentheticals |
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| Li (Julie) Jiang & Suhua Hu (Harvard University & Minzu University of China) Su—The determiner and complementizer in Yi |
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| Masakazu Kuno (Waseda University) Phases, cyclicity and feature percolation |
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| Hideki Maki, Lina Bao, Wurigumula Bao, Qing-Yu Wu, Asako Uchibori, Fumikazu Niinuma, Megumi Hasebe & Juri Yoshimura (Gifu University, Nihon University & Morioka University) Deep genitive in modern Inner Mongolian |
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| Fuyun Wu (Shanghai International Studies University) Adding syntactic heads to the left edge of relative clauses does not necessarily mean processing difficulty—evidence from Mandarin Chinese |
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| Gang Wu (South China University of Technology) A study of referential nominal phrases: GP, QP and DP |
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| Parallel Session 12A | |
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| 13:20-14:40 | Keiko Murasugi (Nanzan University & University of Connecticut) The Linguistic Constellations: Relating Acquisition Phenomena with Parameter Setting |
| 14:40-15:20 | Adriana Belletti (University of Siena) Relatives, relative to children and adults. Comparative evidence with main focus on Italian |
| Parallel Session 12B | |
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| 13:20-14:00 | Raghavachari Amritavalli (The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad) Person checking in nominative and ergative languages |
| 14:00-14:40 | Thomas McFadden (University of Tromsø) The distribution of for in English infinitives: case vs. cartography |
| Parallel Session 13A | |
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| 15:00-15:40 | Hedzer Hugo Zeijlstra & Sabine Iatridou (University of Amsterdam & MIT) Negation and negative indefinites in deontic modal constructions |
| 15:40-16:20 | Hsiu-Chen Daphne Liao (Harvard University) The semantics of Chinese wh-phrases in their non-interrogative uses |
| Parallel Session 13B | |
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| 15:00-15:40 | K. A. Jayaseelan (The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad) On two types of movements |
| 15:40-16:20 | Ken Safir (Rutgers University) The typology of 'movement' as an epiphenomenon |
| 16:40-17:20 | Luigi Rizzi (University of Siena) The cartography of syntactic structures: criteria, freezing and interface effects |
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