Conference programme

The venue for all talks will be the Fisher Building in St John's College, see here for details.

Pre-conference talks (Thursday, 5 May 2016)

On Thursday, 5 May 2016, members of the ReCoS programme and the Cambridge linguistics department will present their ongoing research on topics on comparative syntax.

Schedule for Thursday, 5 May 2016 (CamCoS 5 prequel)

Time	Speaker and title
13:30–13:50	Ian Roberts Introduction
13:50–14:30	András Bárány The interaction(s) of Case and Agreement
14:30–15:10	Jenneke van der Wal Obligatory marking of prominence: parameters of Bantu object marking
15:10–15:30	Break
15:30–16:10	Jamie Douglas and Michelle Sheehan Extraction restrictions and asymmetries: (partial) syntactic ergativity in Mayan
16:10–16:50	Sam Wolfe (The Limits of) Variation in Verb Second Systems: Data from Romance and beyond
16:50–17:20	Break
17:20–18:00	Theresa Biberauer NONE>ALL>SOME: The case for emergent parametric variation
18:00-18:40	Anders Holmberg How to say no in Chinese

Day 1 (Friday, 6 May 2016)

The slots in the main session will consist of 30-minute talks and 10 minutes for questions. The speed session will feature five shorter talks in 60 minutes.

Clicking on a title will take you to the abstract for that talk.

Schedule for Friday, 6 May 2016 (CamCoS 5 day 1)

Time	Speaker and title
9:00–9:40	Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (KU Leuven) and Marjo van Koppen (Utrecht University) A microparameter in a nanoparametric world
9:40–10:20	Pritha Chandra (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) A Parameter Hierarchy for Indo-Aryan Ergativity
10:20–10:40	Coffee break
10:40–11:20	Susi Wurmbrand (University of Connecticut) Variation in the binding of indexicals—Feature sharing and a return to traditional binding
11:20–12:00	Adrian Stegovec (University of Connecticut) Between YOU and ME: Two crosslinguistic generalizations on syntactic person restrictions
12:00–12:40	Nico Baier (University of California Berkeley) The Heterogeneity of Anti-Agreement
12:40–14:00	Lunch break
14:00–14:40	Yosuke Sato (National University of Singapore) An In-Situ Syntax of Sluicing in Indonesian: Implications for Elliptical Repair and Interface Economy
14:40–15:20	David Erschler (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Typology of sluicing in wh- and non-wh-questions
15:20–15:40	Coffee break
15:40–16:20	Filomena Sandalo (University of Campinas) and Dimitris Michelioudakis (University of York) Classifiers and plurality: Evidence from a deictic classifier language
16:20–17:00	Anna Pineda (IKER-CNRS) What lies behind causativization of verbs of motion in Romance languages?
17:00–17:30	Refreshment break
17:30–18:30	Speed session
	Paula Fenger (University of Connecticut) The case of impersonal pronouns
	Nina Radkevich (University of York) Deverbal Nominalizations in Lak and Case Licensing
	Zuzanna Fuchs (Harvard University) An ellipsis analysis of discontinuous DPs in Georgian
	Monica Alexandrina Irimia (University of York) and Sonia Cyrino (University of Campinas) Syntactic positions for DOM: The case of Brazilian Portuguese and Romanian
	Kajsa Djärv (University of Pennsylvania) Towards a typology of copular sentences
	Conference dinner

Day 2 (Saturday, 7 May 2016)

The second day of CamCoS 5 will feature 5 talks by invited speakers. Clicking on the titles will take you to the abstracts.

Schedule for Saturday, 7 May 2016 (CamCoS 5 day 2)

Time	Speaker and title
10:00–11:00	Diane Massam (University of Toronto) (Un)ergativity and the Split DP hypothesis
11:00–12:00	Mark Baker (Rutgers University) On principles, parameters, universals, and typology in case and agreement systems
12:00–14:00	Lunch break
14:00–15:00	Jim McCloskey (University of California Santa Cruz) Microparameters in a tiny space: Standing at the edge
15:00–16:00	Guglielmo Cinque (University of Venice) A microparametric approach to word order typology
16:00–16:30	Coffee break
16:30–17:30	Luigi Rizzi (University of Siena) “Further explanations″ of cartographic properties: Locality and labeling
17:30–18:00	Discussion

Conference programme