Conference programme
The venue for all talks will be the St John's College, see here for details.
Pre-conference talks (Thursday, 4 May 2017)
On Thursday, 4 May 2017, members of the ReCoS programme and the Cambridge linguistics department will present their ongoing research on topics on comparative syntax.
Schedule for Thursday, 4 May 2017 (CamCoS 6 prequel)Palmerston Room, Cripps Building, St John's College
| Time |
Speaker and title |
| 13:00–13:40 |
James Baker
How Georgian is (not) like Basque: a comparative case study of split-S languages
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| 13:40–14:20 |
Julio Song
Emergent [V] flavors and minimized flexibility of lexical categories
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| 14:20–15:00 |
Jamie Douglas
Subject (in) accessibility
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| 15:00–15:30 |
Break |
| 15:30–16:10 |
Kari Kinn
Predicate nouns and nominal structure in Heritage and Non-Heritage Norwegian |
| 16:10–16:50 |
Marieke Meelen
...so I've heard: conjunct/disjunct & evidentiality in Tibeto-Burman
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| 16:50-17:30 |
Theresa Biberauer, Anders Holmberg & Ian Roberts
Comparative syntax rethought?
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Day 1 (Friday, 5 May 2017)
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.
Schedule for Friday, 5 May 2017 (CamCoS 6 day 1)Old Divinity School, St John's College
| Time |
Speaker and title |
| 9:00–9:40 |
Rodrigo Ranero (University of Maryland) & Gesoel Mendes (University of Maryland)
Restrictions on Adjunct Extraction: Microvariation in Mayan
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| 9:40–10:20 |
Monica Alexandrina Irimia (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) & Cristina Guardiano (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
DOM under comparatives
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| 10:20–10:40 |
Coffee break |
| 10:40–11:20 |
Yosuke Sato (National University of Singapore) & Jian Gang Ngui (National University of Singapore)
Combinatorial Underspecification and the Boundary of Cross-Linguistic Variation
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| 11:20–12:00 |
Jooyoung Kim (University of Delaware), Gabriella Hermon (University of Delaware) and Peter Cole (University of Delaware)
WH in Situ: Implicational Universals
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| 12:00–12:40 |
Víctor Acedo-Matellán (University of Cambridge) & Cristina Real-Puigdollers (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Talmy, not Snyder: the comparative syntax of creation predicates
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| 12:40–14:00 |
Lunch break |
| 14:00–14:40 |
Byron Ahn (Princeton University)
(In Search of) Universals in Reflexive Syntax
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| 14:40–15:20 |
Julie Goncharov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) & Monica Alexandrina Irimia (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Modal comparatives: a cross-linguistic investigation
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| 15:20–15:40 |
Coffee break |
| 15:40–16:20 |
Michelle Yuan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Object agreement and clitic doubling across Inuit: Evidence from Inuktitut ABS objects
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| 16:20–17:00 |
Edith Aldridge (University of Washington)
Extraction Competition in Ergative and Accusative Languages
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| 17:00–17:15 |
Short break |
| 17:15–18:15 |
Speed session
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Adam Singerman (University of Chicago)
Syntactic disharmony in subordinate clauses in Tupari, a Tupian language of Brazil
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Peter Smith (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt) & Sam Issah (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt)
Focus in Dagbani and the availability of Resumptive Pronouns
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Cora Pots (KU Leuven)
Restructuring non-finite verb clusters in Dutch
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Danniel Carvalho (UFBA)
Canonical and non-canonical gender agreement in Brazilian Portuguese
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Conference dinner
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Day 2 (Saturday, 6 May 2017)
The second day of CamCoS 6 will feature 6 talks by invited speakers.
Schedule for Saturday, 6 May 2017 (CamCoS 6 day 2)Old Divinity School, St John's College
| Time |
Speaker and title |
| 9:00–10:00 |
George Tsoulas (York)
Nominal extended projections: Comparative Syntax and Crosslinguistic Semantics
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| 10:00–11:00 |
Andrew Simpson (USC)
Parallels in the structure of phases in clausal and nominal domains
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| 11:00–11:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:30–12:30 |
Walter Bisang (Mainz)
A historical account of radical pro-drop
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| 12:30–14:00 |
Lunch break
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| 14:00–15:00 |
Jason Merchant (Chicago)
On categorizers and selection
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| 15:00–16:00 |
Maria Polinsky (Maryland)
Disassembling grammatical architecture: A view from languages in contact
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| 16:00–16:30 |
Coffee break
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16:30-18:00
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David Adger (QMUL), Caroline Heycock (Edinburgh), Jen Smith (Glasgow) & Gary Thoms (Glasgow)
A tale of two contractions: negative and auxiliary contraction across Scots dialects
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