Non-Canonical Predication Workshop 2009

List of Participants

David Adger (University of London)
PP specifiers in predication and possession

Mark Baker (Rutgers University)
Forms of predication in two Turkic languages: Will the true lexical predicates please stand up?  

Greg Carlson (University of Rochester)
Generic predication

John Collins (University of East Anglia)
The unity problem again
      commentary : Maite Ezcurdia (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)  

Marcel den Dikken (CUNY)
Predication and specification in the syntax of cleft sentences  

Itamar Francez (University of Chicago)
Existentials and possessives: Two cases of second order predication in natural language
      commentary : Gillian Russell (Washington University in St Louis)

Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh)
Specificational sentences, scrambling, and special nouns
     commentary : Michael Glanzberg (UC Davis)

Wolfram Hinzen (Durham University)
Predication and truth in a biolinguistic perspective
      commentary : Claire Horisk (University of Missouri)

Diane Massam (University of Toronto)
Variations in predication: Verbal and nominal predication in Niuean  

Sally McConnell-Ginet (Cornell University)
Generic predication and interest-relativity
     commentary : Bernhard Nickel (Harvard University)

Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan University)
Locations as arguments and predicates
      commentary : Jacques Lamarche (University of Western Ontario)