Programme

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Wednesday November 12
9:00 Welcome
Chair : Jonathan Ginzburg
9:15 Imke Kruitwagen, James A. Hampton, Yoad Winter and Joost Zwarts (Utrecht University & City St George's, University of London)
Understanding Non-Maximal Reciprocity
10:00 Philippe de Groote and Timothée Bernard (LORIA & Université Paris Cité)
Worlds, events and perspectives
10:45 Coffee Break
Chair : Caterina Donati
11:00 Arne Goelz (University of Nova Gorica)
Reevaluating Evaluativity
11:45 David Blunier and Ludyvine Couteau (Université de Poitiers)
Reduplication as intensification. Evidence from French Sign Language
12:30 LUNCH (provided)
Chair : Anne Abeillé
14:00 Invited Talk
Rui Chaves (University at Buffalo, SUNY)
Meaning as a constraint in English Coordination of Unlikes
15:00 Achille Fusco and Tommaso Sgrizzi (University of Florence & IUSS Pavia)
Structural Size at the Syntax/Semantics Interface in the Non-Finite Domain of Italian
15:45 Coffee Break
Chair : Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
16:00 Francesco Costantini (University of Udine)
Subjunctive Conjectural Questions in Italian
16:45 Jan Casalicchio, Anna Pineda, and Michelle Sheehan (Universitat de Barcelona, Newcastle University & Università di Siena)
Intervention in Romance cliticization: parameters of variation
Thursday November 13
9:00 Welcome
Chair : Elena Soare
9:15 Gianina Iordachioaia and Jeannique Darby (University of Graz & University College Volda)
Event complexity in zero nominals
10:00 David Blunier (Université de Poitiers)
Un étrange cas d'ellipse, mais pas que: diagnosing a new elliptical construction in French
10:45 Coffee Break
Chair : Berthold Cryssmann
11:00 Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Cecilia Poletto, Manfred Sailer and Nicolas Lamoure (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Emphatic negation and discourse disalignment
11:45 Markus Bader, Sascha Bargmann, Jana-Elina Jordan, Fenja Plate-Günes and Gert Webelhuth (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Exceptional narrow scope of German existential indefinites
12:30 LUNCH (provided)
Chair : Laurent Roussarie
14:00 Invited Talk
Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (Université Paris 8 & SFL, CNRS)
Probing syntactic and semantic properties of grammaticalization
15:00 Jean-Pierre Koenig and Karin Michelson (University at Buffalo)
Grammatical metonymy and the structure of noun phrases in Oneida (Northern Iroquoian)
15:45 Coffee Break
Chair : Marta Abrusan
16:00 Uli Sauerland and Kazuko Yatsushiro (ZAS)
Long-Distance logophors and the camera perspective
16:45 Makoto Kaneko (Osaka University)
A contrastive analysis of Japanese and French / English exhortative sentences expressing an injunctive meaning
19:00 SOCIAL DINNER : À 19h00, les participants inscrits à l’avance sont invités au Konvives, un charmant restaurant français authentique situé à seulement 2 minutes à pied du lieu de la conférence. Un départ groupé aura lieu 5 minutes avant 19h00, mais si vous avez votre 'coupon pour le dîner social', vous pouvez également vous y rendre par vos propres moyens.
Friday November 14
Chair : Gerhard Schaden
9:00 Invited Talk
Corien Bary (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Reportative evidentiality and the development of a method to measure commitments
10:00 Coffee Break
Chair : Claire Beyssade
10:15 Jeanne Lecavelier and Alexander Wimmer (Universität Potsdam & Universität Stuttgart)
How do remind-me questions work again?
11:00 Valentin D. Richard (Universiteit van Amsterdam & LORIA)
Raising Alternatives to Express Dependence: A Compositional Issue
11:45 Coffee Break
Chair : Bridget Copley
12:00 Julie Goncharov (Universität Göttingen)
De re in context
12:45 Emma Kious and Anne Abeillé (Université Paris Cité)
Interpreting the gender of French human nouns: an experimental approach
13:30 Closing

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Patrick Elliott and Luise Schwarzer (Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf & University of Konstanz) The DP-CP connection: Lessons from coordination
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Stefan Müller (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) TAG is not a Construction Grammar, it is a Transformational Grammar, or is it? A comment on the nature of grammatical relations
Florence Zhang-Yukun (Yale University) The Problem of Silent YEAR: A Mandarin Perspective
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