CamCoS 7 will take place at St John's College, 10-12 May 2018. Anyone interested in attending is invited to register ASAP online at: https://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/department-of-linguistics/camcos/camcos-7
Programme CamCoS 7
Thursday 10 May (Palmerston Room, Cripps Building, St John's College)
1-1.40pm: Anders Holmberg (Newcastle) & Qi Wang (Newcastle)
Reduplication and the structure of nouns in Xining Chinese
1.40-2.20pm: Jenneke van der Wal (LUCL Leiden)
Split agreement alignment in Bantu
2.20-3pm: Norma Schifano (Cambridge), Giuseppina Silvestri (Cambridge) & Adam Ledgeway (Cambridge)
On the interplay between case and information structure in Italo-Greek
3-3.30pm: COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS
3.30-4.10pm: Michelle Sheehan (ARU)
Where passivisation fails: a phase-based account
4.10-4.50pm: Jamie Douglas (Cambridge)
Encoding "A-bar" Movement
4.50-5.30pm: Theresa Biberauer (Cambridge)
Core insights from the periphery: two case studies
5.30-6.10pm: Ian Roberts (Cambridge)
Parameters of Clausal Negation
Friday 11 May 2017 (Old Divinity School, St John's College)
9–9:40am: Johannes Hein (Potsdam) & Andrew Murphy (Leipzig)
VP Nominalization and the Final-over-Final Condition
9:40–10:20am: Coppe van Urk (Queen Mary University of London)
The “evacuation problem” in VP-fronting: The role of prosodic factors in Imere
10.20-10.40am: COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS
10:40–11:20am: Elena Callegari (Oslo)
The Relative Order of Foci and Polarity Complementizers: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
11:20–12:00: Ekaterina Chernova (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Towards a Unified Account on the Parametric Variation in Slavic Questions withLI
12:00–12:40pm: Astrid van Alem (LUCL Leiden)
Word order and person marking in West-Germanic imperatives
12.40-2pm: LUNCH
2:00–2:40pm: Aritz Irurtzun (CNRS, Bayonne)
Deriving the lack of verbal wh-words from LF legibility conditions
2:40–3:20pm: Peter Hallman (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
Explaining Siewierska's Generalization
3.20-3.40pm: COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS
3:40–4:20pm: Brian Hsu (UNC, Chapel Hill) & Saurov Syed (Auckland)
Co-occurrence of non-article determiners as a window on variation in DP structure
4:20–5:00pm: Daniel Harbour (Queen Mary University of London)
Frankenduals and Features at the Syntactic Interfaces
5-5.15pm: SHORT BREAK
5:15–6:15pm: SPEED SESSION
1. Theodore Levin (NUS Singapore), Paulina Lyskawa (Maryland) & Rodrigo Ranero (Maryland)
Microvariation in the realization of Eastern Mayan number agreement[FIRST ALTERNATE]
2. Cora Pots (CRiSSP/KU Leuven) & Katherine Fraser (University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU)
Progressive evaluations: Comparing Dutch and Afrikaans verb clusters [SECOND ALTERNATE]
3. Nicholas Catasso (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
'Why' and 'how come' in German, Dutch, and English. A parametric issue?
4. Patrick Grosz (Oslo) & Janne Bondi Johannessen (Oslo)
Cross-linguistic variation in parasynthetic [A+N+aff] compounds
5. Gargi Roy (Indian Institute of Technology Madras), Rajesh Kumar (IIT, Madras) & Karumuri Venkat Subbarao
On Exceptional Case-Marking in Kokborok
6. Jacek Witkoś (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań), Dominika Dziubała-Szrejbrowska (AMU, Poznań), Paulina Łęska (AMU, Poznań) & Aleksandra Gogłoza (Humboldt Universität, Belin)
Datives and Accusatives as binders in a grammar of subject-oriented reflexives
7.30pm: CONFERENCE DINNER at Downing College (CB2 1DQ)
Saturday 12 May 2017 (Old Divinity School, St John's College)
9–10am: Liliane Haegeman (Ghent)
Adverbial resumptive diein the Ghent dialect (joint work with Karen De Clercq)
10-11am: George Walkden (Konstanz)
Proto-Indo-European: a language without Merge?
11-11.30am: COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS
11.30am-12.30pm: Hazel Pearson (QMUL)
A new approach to obligatory control
12.30-1.30pm: Nina Radkevich (York)
On how to be ergative in Nakh-Dagestanian
1.30-3pm: LUNCH
3-4pm: Pritty Patel-Grosz (Oslo)
The role of pronominal strength in interpretation
4-4.30pm: COFFEE AND REFRESHMENTS
4.30-5.30pm: Adriana Belletti (Geneva/Siena)
Marking topics in the clausal map
