May 15-17, 2009

University College, Room 142

Program

Friday, May 15, 2009

1:00-1:30

John Collins (University of East Anglia)
The unity problem again

1:30-1:45

commentary : Maite Ezcurdia (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

1:45-2:00

discussion

2:30-3:00

Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan University)
Locations as arguments and predicates

commentary : Jacques Lamarche (University of Western Ontario)

3:15:3:30

discussion

3:45-4:15

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

4:15-4:30

discussion

4:45-5:15

Mark Baker (Rutgers University) and Nadya Vinokurova (Research Institute of Humanities -Yakutsk)
Forms of predication in two Turkic languages: Will the true lexical predicates please stand up?

5:15-5:30

discussion

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Saturday, May 16, 2009

10:00-10:30

Sally McConnell-Ginet (Cornell University)
Generic predication and interest-relativity

10:30-10:45

commentary : Bernhard Nickel (Harvard University)

10:45-11:00

discussion

11:30-12:00

Greg Carlson (University of Rochester)
Generic predication

12:00-12:15

discussion

2:00-2:30

Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh)
Specificational sentences, scrambling, and special nouns

2:30-2:45

commentary : Michael Glanzberg (UC Davis)

2:45-3:00

discussion

3:30-4:00

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

4:00-4:15

discussion

Sunday, May 17, 2009

9:30-10:00

10:00-10:15

10:15-10:30

discussion

11:00-11:30

Itamar Francez (University of Chicago)
Existentials and possessives: Two cases of second order predication in natural language

11:30-11:45

commentary : Gillian Russell (Washington University in St Louis)

discussion

1:30-2:00

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

2:00-2:15

discussion

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