Program (see links for abstracts)

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Thursday, June 19th

(Session Chair: Luke Adamson)

9:30 – 10:00 Coffee, welcome

10:00 – 11:00 On clausal complementation, once more (Invited speaker talk), Nikos Angelopoulos (CNRS/Institute for Mediterranean Studies)

11 – 11:15 coffee break

11:15 – 11:45 A unified theory of placement restrictions of finite complement clauses, Richard Faure (Tours)

11:45 – 12:15 Different sizes, different meanings? Structural variation in Spanish complement clauses, Max Bonke (Köln)

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12:15 – 2:00 Lunch

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(Session Chair: André Meinunger)

2:00 – 3:00 The role of kinds in attitude formation (Invited speaker talk), Kalle Müller (Wuppertal)

3:00 – 3:15 coffee break

3:15 – 3:45 A DP analysis of complement clauses in Mandarin Chinese, Qingwen Ye (CNRS) and Richard Faure (Tours)

3:45 – 4:15 The DP-CP connection: lessons from mismatching coordinations, Patrick D. Elliott (Düsseldorf) and Luise Schwarzer (NTNU)

4:15 – 4:45 Prepositional object clauses and nouniness: Cross-linguistic, empirical and theoretical issues, Lutz Gunkel (IDS) and Jutta M. Hartmann (Bielefeld)

 

 

Friday, June 20th

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(Session Chair: Kazuko Yatsushiro)

9:30 – 10:00 Coffee

10:00 – 11:00 Combinatorial restrictions on emotive nominals: CP and DP complements (Invited speaker talk), Kajsa Djärv (Edinburgh) joint work with Luke Adamson

11 – 11:15 coffee break

11:15 – 11:45 Deverbal clause-embedding adjectives in German, Barbara Stiebels (Leipzig)

11:45 – 12:15 On nominal constructions under question-embedding predicates, Jeanne Lecavelier (Potsdam)

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12:15 – 2:30 Lunch

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(Session Chair: Artemis Alexiadou)

2:30 – 3:30 Allosemy and the content reading in nominalization (Invited speaker talk), Johanna Benz (UPenn/Princeton)

3:30 – 3:45 coffee break

3:45 – 4:15 A manner adverbial analysis of clausal embedding, Takanobu Nakamura (ZAS) & Yuta Tatsumi (Meikai University)

4:15 – 4:45 Perception-Verb Complements in Kanakanavu, Chunming Wu (Minnan Normal) & Henry Y. Chang (Academia Sinica)