Copulas Across Languages
18th & 19th June 2015
University of Greenwich
Free registration and details at: www.gre.ac.uk/copulas
Contact: María J. Arche m.j.arche@gre.ac.uk
Thursday 18th June
9:00–9:45 Registration
9:45–10:00 Welcome
10:00–11:00 Opening Plenary by Tonjes Veenstra (ZAS, Berlin)
Copulas as Last Resort Roots
11:00–11:30 Coffee break
11:30–12:05 Denis Creissels (University of Lyon) and Catherine Taine-Cheikh (LACITO, CNRS, Paris)
From ‘see’ verbs to copulas: a little-known grammaticalization path
12:05–12:40 Nelia Alexandre and Anabela Gonçalves (Centre of Linguistics, University of Lisbon)
Copular constructions in Portuguese as a second language (PL2) by Chinese learners: Do typological differences matter?
12:40–13:15 Kwang-sup Kim (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
Copula as a Nominative Case Marker
13:15–15:00 Lunch and poster session
15:00–15:35 Jitka Bartošová and Ivona Kučerová (McMaster University, Hamilton, ON)
On Person, animacy, and copular agreement in Czech
15:35–16:10 Isabelle Roy (Univ. Paris 8 / CNRS) and Ur Shlonsky (U. Geneva)
On predicative copular sentences, event interpretation and (the absence of) agreement
16:10-16:45 David Willis (University of Cambridge)
Two predicate-phrase heads in Welsh copular clauses
16:45–17:00 Break
17:00–18:00 Plenary by Elly van Gelderen (Arizona State University)
Problems of Projection and the Copula Cycle
CONFERENCE DINNER 19:30 pm
Friday 19th June
9:30–10:05 Nicoletta Loccioni (University of California Los Angeles)
Specificational copular constructions as inverse clauses: evidence from Maragoli
10:05-10:40 Luis Sáez (Complutense University of Madrid)
About the copula of certain Caribbean Spanish focus constructions
10:40-11:15 Olga Borik (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
The role of copula in periphrastic passives in Russian
11:15–11:45 Coffee break
11:45–12:05 Anna Bondaruk (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
Agreement with the post-verbal DP in Polish dual copula clauses
12:05-12:40 Susana Béjar, Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, Jessica Mathie and Tomohiro Yokoyama (University of Toronto)
Number Matching in Copular Clauses
12:40-13:15 Silja Hlín Guðbjörnsdóttir (Iceland Communication center for the deaf and hard of hearing), Rannveig Sverrisdóttir (University of Iceland), Kristín Lena Þorvaldsdóttir, (Iceland Communication center for the deaf and hard of hearing), Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson (University of Iceland).
A sign language copula
13:15–14:30 Lunch
14:30–15:05 Devyani Sharma (Queen Mary, University of London)
English-based copula variation in Britain: Past, present, and future
15:05–15:40 Tracy Conner (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Ellipsis Licensing and Constraints on Copula Optionality in African American English
15:40–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–17:00 Plenary, Lisa Green (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
The Copula, Aspect, and Variation in African American English
Alternates
Teresa O'Neill (CUNY Graduate Centre)
Separating Finiteness from Tense in copular sentences
Posters
Hannah Gibson and Lutz Marten (SOAS, University of London)
Copulas in existential constructions in Swahili
Eugenia Mangialavori Rasia (National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET))
P incorporation and Spanish copulas: it may be not so different from dancing a jig
Teresa O'Neill (CUNY Graduate Centre)
Separating Finiteness from Tense in copular sentences
Nicholas Welch (University of Toronto)
Copulas and light verbs as a unified category
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Dr María J. Arche
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics & Spanish
University of Greenwich
London SE10 9LS
Tel (+44) (0) 20 8331 9007
http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/faculty/ach/study/llt/staff/maria-arche
