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
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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 XPraising 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
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