Workshop Schedule
Friday, May 9 | |
| Morning session | |
| 8:15-9:00 | Registration and Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:05 | Opening remarks |
| 9:05-10:05 | The varieties of syntactic dependencies and the genesis of islandhood Robert Frank |
| 10:10-11:10 | What Natural Classes of (Weak) Islands? Anna Szabolcsi |
| 11:10-11:30 | Break |
| 11:30-12:30 | Processing Factors in the Study of Island Effects Philip Hofmeister & Ivan Sag |
| 12:30-1:55 | Lunch | Afternoon session |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | No Merge is an Island Cedric Boeckx |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | Islands on the brain: How event-related brain potential componentry might help get us off the islands Robert Kluender |
| 4:00 - 4:15 | Break |
| 4:20 - 5:00 | Moderated discussion |
| 6:30 | Mayfest Reception, at the home of Colin Phillips and Andrea Zukowski |
Saturday, May 10 | |
| Morning session | |
| 8:15-9:00 | Breakfast |
| 9:00-10:00 | Island sensitivity in development: a perspective from L2 adults, L2 children, L1 youths Bonnie Schwartz, Jee Hyun Ma & Junghee Kim |
| 10:05-11:05 | Fitting islands to the semantics of movement Kyle Johnson |
| 11:05-11:30 | Break |
| 11:30-12:30 | Beyond Simpler Syntax: Processing complexity and explaining island phenomena Peter Culicover |
| 12:30-1:55 | Lunch |
| Afternoon session | |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Processing Information Structure: an Account of Islandhood Nomi Erteschik-Shir |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | PF and LF locality: Evidence from Greek comparatives Jason Merchant |
| 4:00 - 4:15 | Break |
| 4:20 - 5:00 | Moderated discussion |
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