Workshop on 'Movement'

Saturday 12 November; UCL Linguistics, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London, WC1E 1PF; Room G10

‘Movement' is posited as the solution for a wide variety of problems without much analysis of what such a solution really means. The topic of this one-day workshop is ‘criteria for movement’: given the general surge in the use of movement as an explanation for possibly quite different phenomena, is there some set of tests or other criteria that can be used to separate movement and non-movement structures and/or to develop a more adequate theory of movement types?

Programme

9:00 Coffee and pastries

9:30 Rob Truswell (University of Edinburgh) – Matching relatives in Middle

English

10:30 Coffee break 11:00 David Hall (QMUL) – When the wrong tool (sort of) does the job, is it still wrong?

12:00 Zoë Belk (UCL) – A movement approach to LF bracketing paradoxes

13:00 Lunch

14:30 Klaus Abels (UCL) – Neutral word order and stack sorting

15:30 Ad Neeleman (UCL) – PP-over-V meet Universal 20

16:30 Coffee break

17:00 Edwin Williams (Princeton) – Clause Movement and Clause Projection