IGG39 - Program


39th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Modena and Reggio Emilia, February 21-23, 2013
Program

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Thursday, February 21 (Modena, Rettorato, Aula Magna, Via Università 4)
12.30
Registration
13.00
Opening
13.20-14.20
Maria Rita Manzini (Università di Firenze)
Local anti-identity and its repairs: issues in (micro)variation
Session 1
14.20-15.00
Bianca Basciano, Chiara Melloni (Università di Verona)
15.00-15.40
Alison Biggs (University of Cambridge)
15.40-16.00
Coffee break
16.00-16.40
Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge)
16.40-17.20
Petra Sleeman (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Tabea Ihsane (Université de Genève)
17.20-18.00
Gertjan Postma (Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam)
18.00-18.10
Short break
18.10-18.50
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (LLF-CNRS, Université Paris 7)
18.50-19.30
Michelangelo Falco, Roberto Zamparelli (Università di Trento)
20.00
Wine reception, Caffetteria Giusti, Via Farini 83, Modena


                                                               
Friday, February 22 (Reggio Emilia, "Caserma Zucchi", Viale Antonio Allegri 9)
9.00
Meeting in Piazza Roma, Modena
10.00
Opening (Aula Magna P. Manodori)
10.15-11.15
Hilda Koopman (UCLA)
Exploring variation
Session 2 (Aula Magna)
Session 3 (Aula 9)
Session 4 (Aula 5)
11.20-12.00
Fabrizio Arosio (Università di Milano-Bicocca), Chiara Branchini (Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia), Tina Magazù (IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C.Besta), Maria Teresa Guasti (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Andreas Blümel (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt)
Anna Volkova, Eric Reuland (OTS, Universiteit Utrecht)
12.00-12.40
Flavia Adani, Tom Fritzsche (Universität Potsdam)
Sonia Cyrino (Universidade Estadual de Campinas), M.Teresa Espinal (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Bare Nominals in Romance: exploring microvariation in the nominal domain
Ekaterina Chernova (Universitat de Girona)
12.40
Poster session, aperitivo (Aula Magna P. Manodori)
13.30-15.00
Lunch (poster session continues)
A bar service will be open all-day for the conference participants


                                                              
Friday, February 22 (Reggio Emilia, "Caserma Zucchi", Viale Antonio Allegri 9)
15.00-16.00
Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge)
Offers that cannot be refused: mafioso parameters and the construction of minimalist parameters (Aula Magna P. Manodori)
Session 2 (Aula Magna)
Session 3 (Aula 9)
Session 5 (Aula 5)
16.10-16.50
Sergio Baauw, Ilse Meerkerk (Universiteit Utrecht)
Mara Frascarelli, Francesca Ramaglia (Università di Roma Tre)
Markéta Ziková (University of Brno)
16.50-17.30
Jing Lin, Fred Weerman, Hedde Zeijlstra (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Caterina Donati (Università di Roma-Sapienza), Carlo Cecchetto (Università di Milano-Bicocca), Mirta Vernice (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Sabrina Bendjaballah, Philippe Ségéral (Université Paris 7)
17.30-18.10
Ciro Greco (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Sonia Cyrino, Ruth Lopes (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
Francesc Torres-Tamarit (Meertens Instituut), Kathrin Linke (Meertens Instituut, Universiteit Leiden), Maria Del Mar Vanrell (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
18.10-18.50
Silvia Albertini (IUSS, Pavia), Marco Tettamanti, (San Raffaele, Milano) Andrea Moro (IUSS, Pavia)
Jacek Witkos (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu)
Antonio Baroni (Università di Padova), Marko Simonovic (Universiteit Utrecht)
A bar service will be open all-day for the conference participants
19.00
Business meeting (Aula 5)
20.00
Dinner, Ristorante "Canossa", Via Roma 37/b, Reggio Emilia


                                                 
Saturday, February 23 (Modena, Rettorato, Aula Magna. Via dell'Università 4)
9.00-10.00
Melita Stavrou (Aristotle University, Thessaloniki)
The fine(r) ingredients of adjectival modification in Greek; the Romance connection
Session 6
10.00-10.40
Anna Maria Di Sciullo (UQAM)
An evolutionary developmental constraint and its application in the nominal domain
10.40-11.20
Eric Lander (Universiteit Gent)
11.20-11.40
Coffee break
11.40-12.20
Rossella Iovino, Giuliana Giusti (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia)
12.20-13.00
Chiara Gianollo (Universität Köln)
13.00-14.00
Giuseppe Longobardi (University of York)
Darwin's Last Challenge
Guido Barbujani (Università di Ferrara)
Can geneticists help us find answers in historical linguistics?
15.00
Meeting in Piazza Roma; visit to Museo Ferrari and Acetaia Malpighi



Alternates
Session 1/3
Giuliana Giusti (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia), Lucia Tovena (Université Paris 7) For an analysis of Italian 'dei' as an indefinite
Session 2
Giuseppe Torcolacci (Universiteit Leiden) Strategies of marking the unmarked
Session 4/5
Paola Benincà, Diego Pescarini (Università di Padova) Clitic placement in the dialect of S. Valentino in Abruzzo citeriore
Session 6
Liliane Haegeman, Eric Lander (Universiteit Gent) Some 'NP properties' in Old Norse

                 
POSTERS
February 22, Reggio Emilia, Aula Magna “P. Manodori”, Viale A. Allegri 9
Eduard Artés (CLT - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Morphological epenthesis in Romance: a case for lexical conservatism
David Barner (UCSD), Franc Marušič (Univerza v novi Gorici), Timothy J. O'Donnell (MIT), Vesna Plesničar (Univerza v novi Gorici), Tina Razboršek (Univerza v novi Gorici), Jessica Sullivan (UCSD), Rok Žaucer (Univerza v novi Gorici) Language as a source of numerical concepts
Ludovico Franco (Università di Firenze), Elisa Zampieri (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia) A-bar scrambling in repetition in a case of mixed transcortical aphasia
Jacopo Garzonio (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia), Fabrizio Sorrisi(Università di Padova) On the distribution of complementizers in the dialect of Palermo
Ion Giurgea (Institutul de Lingvistica "Iorgu Iordan - Al. Rosetti") Non-agreeing tough-constructions and flexible label projection
Yair Haendler, Flavia Adani (Universität Potsdam) Adjectival and verbal passives are understood by German 4-year-olds
Georg Höhn (University of Cambridge) Apparent agreement mismatches and nominal structure
Elena Pagliarini, Mirta Vernice, Maria Teresa Guasti (Università di Milano - Bicocca) The processing of wh-questions in Italian: evidence from an eye-tracking study
Norma Schifano (University of Cambridge) Micro-variation in the verbal domain: evidence from Romance
Aquiles Tescari Neto (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia) On generalizing Kayne’s theory of scope-assignment to AdvPs
Sam Wolfe (University of Cambridge) Word order and information structure in Old Sardinian
Carryn Yong (University of Oxford) Floating quantifiers and the VP structure
Chiara Zanini, Carlo Semenza (Università di Padova) Retrieving nominalizations in aphasia