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Rethinking Comparative Syntax (ReCoS)

Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
 

Conference programme

The venue for all talks will be the St John's College, see here for details.

Pre-conference talks (Thursday, 4 May 2017)

On Thursday, 4 May 2017, members of the ReCoS programme and the Cambridge linguistics department will present their ongoing research on topics on comparative syntax.

Schedule for Thursday, 4 May 2017 (CamCoS 6 prequel)Palmerston Room, Cripps Building, St John's College

Time Speaker and title
13:00–13:40

James Baker

How Georgian is (not) like Basque: a comparative case study of split-S languages

13:40–14:20

Julio Song

Emergent [V] flavors and minimized flexibility of lexical categories

14:20–15:00

Jamie Douglas

Subject (in) accessibility

15:00–15:30 Break
15:30–16:10

Kari Kinn

Predicate nouns and nominal structure in Heritage and Non-Heritage Norwegian

16:10–16:50

Marieke Meelen

...so I've heard: conjunct/disjunct & evidentiality in Tibeto-Burman

16:50-17:30

Theresa Biberauer, Anders Holmberg & Ian Roberts

Comparative syntax rethought?

Day 1 (Friday, 5 May 2017)

The slots in the main session will consist of 30-minute talks and 10 minutes for questions. The speed session will feature five shorter talks in 60 minutes.

Schedule for Friday, 5 May 2017 (CamCoS 6 day 1)Old Divinity School, St John's College

Time Speaker and title
9:00–9:40

Rodrigo Ranero (University of Maryland) & Gesoel Mendes (University of Maryland)

Restrictions on Adjunct Extraction: Microvariation in Mayan

9:40–10:20

Monica Alexandrina Irimia (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) & Cristina Guardiano (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)

DOM under comparatives

10:20–10:40 Coffee break
10:40–11:20

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

12:00–12:40

Víctor Acedo-Matellán (University of Cambridge) & Cristina Real-Puigdollers (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Talmy, not Snyder: the comparative syntax of creation predicates

12:40–14:00 Lunch break
14:00–14:40

Byron Ahn (Princeton University)

(In Search of) Universals in Reflexive Syntax

14:40–15:20

Julie Goncharov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) & Monica Alexandrina Irimia (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)

Modal comparatives: a cross-linguistic investigation

15:20–15:40 Coffee break
15:40–16:20

Michelle Yuan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Object agreement and clitic doubling across Inuit: Evidence from Inuktitut ABS objects

16:20–17:00

Edith Aldridge (University of Washington)

Extraction Competition in Ergative and Accusative Languages

17:00–17:15 Short break
17:15–18:15

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

Conference dinner

Day 2 (Saturday, 6 May 2017)

The second day of CamCoS 6 will feature 6 talks by invited speakers. 

Schedule for Saturday, 6 May 2017 (CamCoS 6 day 2)Old Divinity School, St John's College

Time Speaker and title
9:00–10:00

George Tsoulas (York)

Nominal extended projections: Comparative Syntax and Crosslinguistic Semantics

10:00–11:00

Andrew Simpson (USC)

Parallels in the structure of phases in clausal and nominal domains

11:00–11:30 Coffee break
11:30–12:30

Walter Bisang (Mainz)

A historical account of radical pro-drop

12:30–14:00

Lunch break 

14:00–15:00

Jason Merchant (Chicago)

On categorizers and selection

15:00–16:00

Maria Polinsky (Maryland)

Disassembling grammatical architecture: A view from languages in contact

16:00–16:30

Coffee break

16:30-18:00

David Adger (QMUL), Caroline Heycock (Edinburgh), Jen Smith (Glasgow) & Gary Thoms (Glasgow)

A tale of two contractions: negative and auxiliary contraction across Scots dialects