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Programme of the 25th GLOW Colloquium

Amsterdam, April 9-11, 2002

Topic: Microvariation

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Monday April 8

17:00 - 20:00 Reception & Registration (Meertens Instituut)

Tuesday April 9
(location: KNAW Tinbergen Zaal)

9:00 - 10:00 David Adger (York) & Gillian Ramchand (Oxford)
Microvariation in Celtic Relatives

10:30 - 11:30 Koldo Sainz (Victoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country)
Microvariation and V-movement: Irish vs Scots Gaelic

11:30 - 12:30 Daniela Isac (UQAM, Montreal)
Surrogate Imperative Forms: Negation as a Licensor of Force

14:00 - 15:00 Sjef Barbiers & Martine Greijmans (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam)
Microvariation in the syntax of one-insertion

15:00 - 16:00 Sonia Cyrino (Londrina, Brasil) & Gabriela Matos (Lisbon)
Syntactic Microvariation in VP ellipsis in European and Brazilan Portuguese

16:30 - 17:30 Ora Matushansky (MIT)
DP-internal degree QR in non-adjectival modification

17:30 - 18:30 Peter Svenonius (Tromsø)
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Wednesday April 10
(location: KNAW Tinbergen Zaal)

9:00 - 10:00 Anna Cardinaletti (Bologna / Venice) & Lori Repetti (Stony Brook)
Clitics in Northern Italian Dialects: Phonology, Syntax and Microvariation

10:30 - 11:30 Paul Boersma (Amsterdam) & Paola Escudero (McGill Montreal / Utrecht)
Optimality-theoretic modelling of microvariation in phonological perception and production

11:30 - 12:30 Tanja Schmid (Stuttgart) & Ralf Vogel (Potsdam)
Dialectal Variation in German 3-verb clusters

14:00 - 15:00 Curt Rice (Tromsø)
When nothing is good enough: dialectal variation in Norwegian imperatives

15:00 - 16:00 Anthi Revithiadou (Rhodes)
Patterns of cliticization in Greek and its dialects

16:30 - 17:30 Guglielmo Cinque (Venice)
Complement and Adverbial PPs: Implications for Clause Structure

17:30 - 18:30 business meeting

19:00 - 24:00 Dinner, Evening Programme & Party (location: Theater de Krakeling)
talks by Richard Kayne, Alan Prince & Henk van Riemsdijk

Thursday April 11 (syntax)
(location: KNAW Tinbergen Zaal)

9:00 - 10:00 Artemis Alexiadou (Potsdam) & Elena Anagnostopoulou (Crete)
Person and Animacy Splits: from Hierachies to Features

10:30 - 11:30 Vassilios Spyropoulos (Reading)
Null-subject languages and subject-clitics

11:30 - 12:30 Isabelle de Crouzas & Ur Shlonsky (Geneva)
Optional subject clitics, pro licensing and null topics

14:00 - 15:00 Cecilia Poletto (Padova) & Jean-Yves Pollock (Amiens)
On the left periphery of Romance Interrogatives

15:00 - 16:00 Anna Roussou (Patras) & Ianthi Tsimpli (Thessaloniki / Cambridge UK)
Postverbal subjects and microparametric variation

16:30 - 17:30 Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (Leiden) & Marjo van Koppen (Leiden)
Merge versus Long Distance Agree: the case of complementizer agreement

17:30 - 18:30 Knut Tarald Taraldsen (Tromsø)
Complex passives in Germanic and Romance

Thursday April 11 (phonology)
(location: KNAW Vergaderzaal)

9:00 - 10:00 Mark Hale, Madelyn Kissock & Charles Reiss (Concordia, Montreal)
Phonological accounts of microvariation in pronunciation

10:30 - 11:30 Olga Vaysman (MIT)
Two dialects of Nganasan: what they tell us about prosody

11:30 - 12:30 Darya Kavitskaya (Yale)
Glottal stops and compensatory lengthening

14:00 - 15:00 Robert Kennedy (Tucson Arizona)
Stress and reduplication in the Ponapeic languages

15:00 - 16:00 Teresa Cabre & Pilar Prieto (Barcelona)
Prosody and analogy in variation and language change. Lexical diphtongisation in Catalan and Spanish

16:30 - 17:30 Martin Krämer (Ulster)
Dialectal variation in Italian s-voicing as constraint interaction

17:30 - 18:30 Eric Bakovic (San Diego)
The consequences of microvariation in Eastern Nilotic

Schematic Programme:

 
Tue April 9
Wed April 10
Thu April 11
Syntax
Thu April 11
Phonology
9:00 - 10:00
Adger & Ramchand
Cardinaletti & Repetti
Alexiadou & Anagnostopoulou
Hale, Kissock & Reiss
10:30 -11:30
Sainz
Boersma & Escudero
Spyropoulos
Vaysman
11:30 - 12:30
Isac
Schmid & Vogel
de Crouzas & Shlonsky
Kavitskaya
14:00 - 15:00
Barbiers & Greijmans
Rice
Poletto & Pollock
Kennedy
15:00 - 16:00
Cyrino & Matos
Revithiadou
Roussou & Tsimpli
Cabre & Prieto
16:30 - 17:30
Matushansky
Cinque
van Craenenbroeck
& van Koppen
Krämer
17:30 - 18:30
Svenonius
business meeting
Taraldsen
Bakovic

 

Evening Programme (10 April): Richard Kayne, Alan Prince & Henk van Riemsdijk (invited)

Alternates:

• Nicola Munaro (Venice) (syntax 1)
The microvariation of counterfactuality: on the interaction between X°- and XP—raising in the CP phase

• Peter Ackema (Utrecht) & Ad Neeleman (UC Londen) (syntax 2)
Microvariation as a Consequence of Context-Sensitive Spell-out

• Moritz Neugebauer (Cologne) (phonology)
Feature geometry in constraint-based grammar: evidence from German