Clausal Complementation Across Categories

Tentative Program

(see links for abstracts)

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Thursday, June 19th

9:30 – 10:00
Coffee, welcome

10:00 – 11:00
On clausal complementation, once more (Invited speaker talk), Nikos Angelopoulos (CNRS/Institute for Mediterranean Studies)

11 – 11:15 coffee break

11:15 – 11:45
A unified theory of placement restrictions of finite complement clauses, Richard Faure (Tours)

11:45 – 12:15
Different sizes, different meanings? Structural variation in Spanish complement clauses, Max Bonke (Köln)

12:15 – 2:00 Lunch

2:00 – 3:00
Invited speaker talk, title TBD, Kalle Müller (Wuppertal)

3:00 – 3:15 coffee break

3:15 – 3:45
A DP analysis of complement clauses in Mandarin Chinese, Qingwen Ye (CNRS) and Richard Faure (Tours)

3:45 – 4:15
The DP-CP connection: lessons from mismatching coordinations, Patrick D. Elliott (Düsseldorf) and Luise Schwarzer (NTNU)

4:15 – 4:45
Prepositional object clauses and nouniness: Cross-linguistic, empirical and theoretical issues, Lutz Gunkel (IDS) and Jutta M. Hartmann (Bielefeld)

Friday, June 20th

9:30 – 10:00 Coffee

10:00 – 11:00
Combinatorial restrictions on emotive nominals: CP and DP complements (Invited speaker talk), Kajsa Djärv (Edinburgh)

11 – 11:15 coffee break

11:15 – 11:45
Deverbal clause-embedding adjectives in German, Barbara Stiebels (Leipzig)

11:45 – 12:15
On nominal constructions under question-embedding predicates, Jeanne Lecavelier (Potsdam)

​12:15 – 2:30 Lunch

2:30 – 3:30

Allosemy and the content reading in nominalization (Invited speaker talk), Johanna Benz (UPenn/Princeton)

3:30 – 3:45 coffee break

3:45 – 4:15
A manner adverbial analysis of clausal embedding, Takanobu Nakamura (ZAS) & Yuta Tatsumi (Meikai University)

4:15 – 4:45
Perception-Verb Complements in Kanakanavu, Chunming Wu (Minnan Normal) & Henry Y. Chang (Academia Sinica)

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