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INTERFACE LEGIBILITY AT THE EDGE
June 25-27, 2006
Conference held under the patronage of
Professor
Dr. Alexandra Cornilescu
Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages
University of Bucharest
Program
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June 25, 2006
Location : University of Bucharest,
Str. Edgar Quinet
8h00 - 8h30 Registration
8h30 - 8h45 Opening
remarks: Dr. Anna-Maria Di Sciullo
8h45 - 9h00 Opening
address: Dr. Alexandra Cornilescu
Session Chair: Anna-Maria Di Sciullo (UQAM)
9h00 - 9h50 Invited speaker: Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS)
The Romanian Left Periphery 
9h50 - 10h00 Break
Session Chair: : Mihaela Dogaru (U of Bucharest)
10h00 - 10h30
Martine Coene
(Univ. of Antwerp
- CNTS & Univ. of Leiden - ULCL)
Steven Gillis (University
of Antwerp - CNTS)
Paul Govaerts (Univ.
of Antwerp - CNTS
& Eargroup/Deurne-Antwerp)
The fragile left
edge of noun phrases in first language acquisition
10h30 - 11h00
Ion Giurgea (University of Paris 8)
Split DP Topicalization and the role of
interfaces
11h00 - 11h30
Tabea Ihsane
(University
of Geneve)
On the edge of DP: the left periphery and the
structure of arguments
11h30 - 13h00 LUNCH
Session Chair: Ileana
Baciu (U of Bucharest)
13h00 - 13h30
Theresa Biberauer (Cambridge
University)
Changes at the edge: tracking the rise of a
canonical subject position
in Germanic
13h30 - 14h00
Marc Richards
(University
of Cambridge)
On the (non)-interpretability of the edge:
defectiveness, activeness and legibility
14h00 - 14h30
Grete Dalmi (Eszterhazy College
- Eger)
What's on the edge of
small clauses?
14h30 - 14h45 Break
Session Chair: Alexandra Cornilescu (U of Bucharest)
14h45 - 15h15
Dana Isac (Concordia University)
Polar explorations: Polarity, Focus and Force
15h15 - 15h45
Patrick McConvell (AIATSIS - Canberra)
Synchronic Move and diachronic reordering driven by
switch-topic in
Australian indigenous languages: interface illegibility as a motor of
change
15h45 - 16h15
Aritz
Irurtzun (CNRS & University of Bordeau)
Complementizer choice, Focus movement,
contrastivity and presuppositionality
16h15 - 16h30 Break
Session Chair: Anna-Maria Di Sciullo (UQAM)
16h30 - 17h20
Invited speaker: Tim Stowell (UCLA)
Parentheticals at the Edge: The syntax of
parentheticals and phases
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Location : University
of Bucharest, Str.
Edgar Quinet
Session Chair: Ann-Maria Di Sciullo (UQAM)
9h00 - 9h50
Invited speaker: Ian Roberts (Cambridge University)
Clitics, Phases and Incorporation
9h50 - 10h00 Break
Session Chair: Mihaela Pirvulescu (U of Toronto)
10h00 - 10h30
Elena Soare (University of Paris 8)
PRO, predication and the nature of non-finite
relatives in Romance
10h30 - 11h00
Yves Roberge
(University
of Toronto)
Selection and the Interpretation of Null Objects
11h00 - 11h30
Elisabeth van der Linden (Universiteit van Amsterdam) and
Petra Sleeman (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Clitic dislocation in 2L1 acquisition:
cross-linguistic influence at the edge
of phases
11h30 - 12h00
Jose Camacho (Rutgers
University)
On the asymmetry of root vs. embedded clauses.
Evidence from Shipibo
second-position clitics
12h00 - 14h00 LUNCH
Session Chair: Anna-Maria Di Sciullo (UQAM)
14h00 - 14h50
Invited speaker: Alexandru Grosu (Tel Aviv
University)
On the pre-theoretical notion "phrasal head":
ignoring the left periphery is
always at your own risk
14h50 - 15h00 Break
Session Chair: Camelia Constantinescu (U of Bucharest)
15h00 - 15h30
Yves D'Hulst
(Leiden University)
Compositional
person features and antisymmetric speech acts
15h30 - 16h00
Anna-Maria Di
Sciullo (University of Quebec at Montreal)
Edges, heads, and truth value
16h00 - 16h30
Nicola Munaro (University
of Venice)
Looking for the atoms of the left periphery: on
the interface legibility
of interjections and
particles
16h30 - 16h40 Break
Session Chair: Anna-Maria Di Sciullo (UQAM)
16h40 - 17h30
Invited
speaker: Margaret Speas (University
of Massachusetts)
Generalized Functional Heads
19h00 Dinner
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Location : University
of Bucharest, Str.
Edgar Quinet
Session Chair: Anna-Maria Di Sciullo (UQAM)
9h00 - 9h50
Invited
speaker: Donka Farkas (University
of California - Santa Cruz)
Context Structure and Polarity Particles
9h50 - 10h00 Break
Session Chair: Larisa Avram (U of Bucharest)
10h00 - 10h30
Gabriela
Alboiu (York University)
A-related Edge features
10h30 - 11h00
Ayesha Kidwai
(Jawaharlal Nehru
University - New
Delhi)
Rosmin Mathew (Jawaharlal Nehru University
- New Delhi)
Root and Embedded Left Peripheries: Evidence from
Malayalam and Meiteilon
11h00 - 11h30
Eric Mathieu
(University
of Ottawa)
Edgy Stylistic Fronting
11h30 - 13h30 LUNCH
Session Chair: Anna-Maria Di Sciullo (UQAM)
13h30 - 14h20
Invited Speaker: James Higginbotham (USC College)
Joining Forces
14h20 - 14h30 Break
Session Chair: Virginia Hill (University
of New Brunswick -
Saint John)
14h30 - 15h00
Nino Grillo (University of Siene & OTS)
Berit Gehrke
(OTS)
Results at the edge: an event-structure-based
account of passivization
15h00 - 15h30
Aniko Csirmaz
(Carlton College
- Northfield)
Interface interactions - Aspect and Case
15h30 - 16h00
Dana Isac and
Charles Reiss (Concordia University)
Against logophoric reflexives in picture NPs
16h00 : Closing remarks (information
on excursion)
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