Conference programme
Pre-conference talks (Thursday, 8 May 2014)
On Thursday, 8 May 2014, members of the ReCoS programme and the Cambridge linguistics department will present their ongoing research on topics on comparative syntax. The venue for these talks is The Old Library in Darwin College, Silver Street Cambridge CB3 9EU (map; see Conference venue for details).
You can download a PDF version of the programme.
| Time | Speaker and title |
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| 14:00–14:45 |
Ian Roberts The ReCoS project: An introduction |
| 14:45–15:30 |
Theresa Biberauer and Freddy Hu Chinese particles revisited: Implications for the typology of syntactic categories |
| 15:30–16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00–16:45 |
David Willis Variation and change in modals and negative concord in Welsh dialect syntax |
| 16:45–17:30 |
Georg Höhn Of articles, person markers and anchoring: Some initial thoughts |
| 17:30–18:00 | Refreshment break |
| 18:00–18:45 |
Anders Holmberg Principled compounding |
| 18:45–19:30 |
Discussion |
Day 1 (Friday, 9 May 2014)
The general session takes place in GR-06/07 in the English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP (map; see Conference venue for details) from 9:00 to 18:30. There will be eight talks followed by a “speed session”.
The slots in the main session will consist of 30-minute talks and 10 minutes for questions. The slots in the speed session will consist of 5-minute statements of empirical problems followed by 5 minutes of questions.
| Time | Speaker and title |
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| 9:00–9:40 |
Ricardo Etxepare (IKER UMR5478) |
| 9:40–10:20 |
Anna Pineda (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) |
| 10:20–10:40 | Coffee break |
| 10:40–11:20 |
Pilar Barbosa (University of Minho) |
| 11:20–12:00 |
Sonia Cyrino (University of Campinas) and Maria Teresa Espinal (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) On the Morphosyntax of bare nominals in Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan and Spanish |
| 12:00–12:40 |
Adriana Fasanella (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Distributional configuration of morphs results in fusional and agglutinative patterns |
| 12:40–14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00–14:40 |
Mara Frascarelli (University of Rome 3) and Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández (University of Seville) |
| 14:40–15:20 |
Steve Nicolle (Canada Institute of Linguistics) Obligatory and optional left-dislocation topics in eastern Bantu languages |
| 15:20–15:40 | Coffee break |
| 15:40–16:20 |
Júlia Bácskai-Atkári (University of Potsdam) Comparative Deletion and Comparative Clause Formation Cross-Linguistically |
| 16:20–17:00 |
Adriana Fasanella and Jordi Fortuny (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) |
| 17:00–17:30 | Refreshment break, with wine sponsored by Cambridge University Press |
| 17:30–18:30 |
Speed session |
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Tonjes Veenstra (ZAS Berlin) An African perspective on clause typing and embedded questions |
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Seid Tvica (University of Amsterdam) |
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Sameerah Saeed (Newcastle University) |
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Trang Phan (University of Ghent) |
Day 2 (Saturday, 10 May 2014)
The second day of CamCoS 3 will feature 6 talks by invited speakers. The venue will again be GR-06/07 in the English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP (map; see Conference venue for details).
| Time | Speaker and title |
|---|---|
| 09:00–10:00 |
Phil Branigan (Memorial University of Newfoundland) |
| 10:00–11:00 |
Dunstan Brown (University of York; joint work with Marina Chumakina, University of Surrey) Rethinking adposition agreement: the Archi postposition eq'en |
| 11:00–11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30–12:30 |
Nigel Duffield (Konan University) |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00–15:00 |
Iris Berent (Northeastern University) |
| 15:00–16:00 |
Hagit Borer (Queen Mary University of London) Categorizing Roots |
| 16:00–16:30 |
Coffee break |
| 16:30–17:30 |
Daniel Harbour (Queen Mary University of London) |
| 17:30–18:30 |
Discussion |