ECO5 Syntax Workshop


University of Maryland, College Park

March 6-7, 2004

This is to proudly announce the second annual syntax workshop between University of Connecticut, University of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Maryland and Harvard. The workshop is intended to provide an informal forum for students from these institutions to interact with each other and with their respective professors.

Next ECO5 Syntax Workshop will be hosted by Harvard University.

ECO5 moments

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PROGRAM

March 6
8:30 - 9:00
Tea/coffee, breakfast
9:00 - 9:30
 Usama Soltan (University of Maryland)
On first conjunct agreement in some varieties of Arabic [abstract]
9:30 - 10:00
 Sara Felber (University of Connecticut)
The Distribution of English Post-Adjectival Determiners [abstract]
10:00 - 10:30
 Balkiz Ozturk (Harvard)
Agent Incorporation [abstract]
10:30 - 10:45
 Break
10:45 - 11:15
 Simona Herdan (University of Connecticut)
Universal Quantifiers in Romanian DP [abstract] [handout]
11:15 - 11:45
 Lydia Grebenyova (University of Maryland)
Secondary Predicate Agreement in Russian [abstract] [handout]
11:45 - 12:15
 Atakan Ince (Bogazici University/University of Maryland)
Parasitic Gaps in Turkish [abstract]
12:15 - 2:00
 Lunch Break
2:00 - 2:30

Hironobu Kasai (Harvard)
The emergence of a phase [abstract] [handout]
2:30 - 3:00
 Tomo Fujii (University of Maryland)
On String Vacuous Scrambling [abstract]
3:00 - 3:30
 Takaomi Kato (Harvard)
An Argument against Post-Cyclic Merger [abstract] [handout]
3:30 - 3:45
 Break
3:45 - 4:15
 Seth Cable (MIT)
The Yiddish Predicate Cleft: A Base-Generation Analysis [abstract] [handout]
4:15 - 4:45
 Mariana Lambova (University of Connecticut)
On adjunction and excorporation [abstract]
4:45 - 5:00
 Break
5:00- 5:30
 Business Meeting
6:00 -
 Dinner (Indian Restaurant) - RSVP to lgrebeny@wam.umd.edu
March 7
9:00 - 9:30
 Tea/cofee, breakfast
9:30 - 10:00
 Helen E. Stickney (University of Massachusetts)
The pseudo-partitive, Extraposition, and predication within the DP [abstract] [handout]
10:00 - 10:30
 Ilhan Cagri (University of Maryland)
Specificity, Case-Marking and Extraction in Turkish [abstract]
10:30 - 11:00
 Masakazu Kuno (Harvard)
Reconstruction Obeys Minimality [abstract]

 

Directions

Directions to campus, parking, maps, area restaurants etc.
Marie Mount Hall location map
Stamp Student Union (for foods, snack, etc.) location map