FACING MOVEMENT

Saturday, 23^rd august 2008

 9:00-10:00 Registration

10:00-10:30 C.Cecchetto & C. Donati Movement, Labels and Locality

10:30-11:00 A. Kjeldahl Restructuring and Pseudo-Coordination

11:00- 11:30 N. Yamato The restriction on remnant movement and the structure of relative clauses in Japanese
 

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11:45-12:15 K.K. Grohmann Consequences of Movement: Copy Modification

12:15-12:45 A. Schippers On the (un)availability of long-distance A'-movement

12:45-13:15 V. Papa Comparatives: Movement or Chains?

 lunch

 15:00-15:30 N. Slavkov Long-distance wh- movement or sequential questions: Medial wh-constructions in the L2 English of French and Bulgarian speakers

15:30-16:00 M. Scheidnes Syntactic movement in the production of French Wh-questions: The role of computational complexity versus L1 transfer in adult L2 acquisition.

16:00-16:30 J. Gutierrez Spelling out of features along LD Wh-questions: data from the acquisition of non-native English by Basque/Spanish bilinguals

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 16:45-17:15 S. Matteini Facing Movement in L2 Acquisition: a study on Parameter Resetting within the DP Domain

17:15-17:45 M. Nicolis Detecting Movement: Expletive pro, Syntactic Doubling and pro Subextraction

17:45-18:15 M. Komachi On the Reconstruction Asymmetry in the Parasitic Gap Constructions

 

Sunday, 24^th august 2008

10:00-10:30 A.J. Gallego Verb Movement as Minimality Repair

10:30-11:00 I. Franco Verb movement in the Germanic languages: V1 and V2 as different phenomena

11:00-11:30 Z. Ilkin & P. Sturt Evidence for local scrambling: An on-line study of dependency formation in Turkish

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11:45-12:15 E. Dugarova Intervention effects in English and Russian speakers' L2 Chinese wh-questions

12:15-12:45 C. Vlachos Wh-in-situ: The case of Greek

12:45-13:15 B. Capello Left periphery and low IP area: clause external and clause internal Focus and Topic in a dialectal  variety of Genoese

 

Alternates

E. Birger Acquisition of Unaccusatives: Re-examining the Unergative Misanalysis Hypothesis