Program
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Wednesday, 5 June 2013
8:30 Registration
8:55 Opening
9:00/10:00 Keynote Speaker: Richard S. Kayne (NYU) The silence of Projecting Heads
Kayne The Silence of Projecting Heads Bilbo TTSV
Chair: Beatriz Fernández (UPV/EHU)
10:00/10:40
Mafioso parameters and the limits of syntactic variation
Theresa Biberauer (Univ. of Cambridge), Ian Roberts (Univ. of Cambridge) & Michelle L. Sheehan (Univ. of Cambridge)
Chair: Francisco Ordoñez (Stonybrook Univ.)
10:40/11:20
Towards a (non-syntactic) theory of variation
Evelina Leivada (Univ. de Barcelona) & Cedric Boeckx (ICREA, Univ. de Barcelona)
Coffee Break
11:40/12:20
How can merge-based efficiency-compliant mechanism deal with a ‘head-initial vs. head-final’ variation?
Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio Univ.)
Chair: Arantzazu Elordieta (UPV/EHU)
12:20/13:00
The head parameter as encoded into functional categories
Jun Abe (Tohoku Gakuin Univ.)
Lunch
15:00/15:40
Microvariation in Welsh pronouns and agreement
David Willis (Univ. of Cambridge)
Willis Welsh pronouns Bilbo TTSV
Chair: Ane Odria (UPV/EHU)
15:40/16:20
Syntactic variation in Romance v
Angel Gallego (Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona)
Coffee Break
16:40/17:20
Unexpected variation between EP and BP – rethinking parameters
Manuela Ambar (Univ. de Lisboa)
Chair: Ane Odria (UPV/EHU)
Thursday, 6 June 2013
9:00/10:00 Keynote Speaker: Esther Torrego (IKERBASQUE, UPV/EHU) Comp connections: Then and now
Chair: Itziar Laka (UPV/EHU)
10:00/10:40
Formal features and ergative variation
Edith Aldridge (Univ. of Washington)
Aldridge Ergative variation Bilbo TTSV
Chair: Aritz Irurtzun (CNRS-IKER UMR 5478)
10.40/11:20
Towards a parameter hierarchy for alignment
Michelle L. Sheehan (Univ. of Cambridge)
Sheehan Parameter Hierarchy for Alignment Bilbo TTSV
Coffee Break
11:40/12:20
Micro- and macro-parameters in Mayan syntactic ergativity
Robert Henderson (McGill Univ.), Jessica Coon (McGill Univ.) & Lisa Travis (McGill Univ.)
Henderson, Coon & Travis Mayan syntactic ergativity Bilbo TTSV
Chair: Ane Berro (UPV/EHU)
12:20/ 13:00
Locating variation in person restrictions: When they arise and how to get out of them
Martin Walkow (UCLA)
Walkow Person Restrictions Bilbo TTSV
Lunch
15:00/16:00 Keynote Speaker: Hagit Borer (Queen Mary, Univ. of London) Heads and segments
Borer Heads and Segments Bilbo TTSV
Chair: Robert A. Freidin (Princeton Univ.)
Coffee Break
16:20/17:00
A tale of two datives
Ulyana Savchenko (Univ. of Toronto) & Yves Roberge (Univ. of Toronto)
Savchenko & Roberge A tale of two datives Bilbo TTSV
Chair: Pablo Albizu (UPV/EHU)
17:00/17:40
The Generalized Applicative Hypothesis
Dimitris Michelioudakis (Univ. of Cambridge)
Friday, 7 June 2013
9:00/9:40
Syntactic variation in nominal root compounding
Leah S. Bauke (Goethe University)
Bauke Nominal root compounding Bilbo TTSV
Chair: Maia Duguine (UPV/EHU)
9:40/10:20
Toward microparameters of mass and count Amy Rose Deal (Univ. of California)
10:20/11:00
Language variation and the nature of parametric dependencies
Cedric Boeckx (ICREA, Univ. de Barcelona) & Evelina Leivada (Univ. de Barcelona)
Chair: Aritz Irurtzun (CNRS-IKER UMR 5478)
Coffee Break
11:20/12:00
The historical reality of parametric variation
Giusepe Longobardi (Univ. of Trieste), Cristina Guardiano (Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia), Giuseppina Silvestri (Univ. di Trieste), Andrea Ceolin (Univ. di Trieste), Luca Bortolussi (Univ. di Trieste), Andrea Sgarro (Univ. di Trieste)
Chair: Aritz Irurtzun (CNRS-IKER UMR 5478)
12:00/13:00
Keynote Speaker: Milan Rezac (CNRS-IKER UMR 5478)
Phi constructions: Scope, locality and autonomy of syntactic variation
Lunch
15:00/15:40
A unified account for Italian pro-drop and German topic-drop
Nobu Goto (Mie Univ.)
Goto Italian pro-drop Bilbo TTSV
Chair: Maia Duguine (UPV/EHU)
15:40/16:20
Parametric view on Tense Projection
Ryosuke Shibagaki (Nanzan Univ.) & Hideki Kishimoto (Kobe Univ.)
Shibagaki & Kishimoto Tense Projection Bilbo TTSV
Coffee Break
16:40/17:20
Partial wh-movement revisited: a microcomparative perspective
Eefje Boef (ZAS Berlin)
Chair: Bill Haddican (City Univ. of New York)
Boef Partial wh-movement Bilbo TTSV
17:20/18:00
Why is Integrated Parenthetical integrated?
Yasuyuki Fukutomi (Fukushima Univ.)
