IGG XXX February 26th-28th 2004
University of Venezia and Treviso

Thursday 26th February (Venezia - Auditorium S.Margherita)

14:00-14:15 Introduction

14:15-14:45 Ian Roberts (Cambridge) 
Bare head movement
14:45-15:15 Elisa Franchi (Siena)
Omission vs Random selection. Copular constructions in normal
acquisition and in case of deafness
15:15-15:45 Maria Teresa Guasti, Francesca Foppolo & Gennaro Chierchia
(Milano Bicocca)
Children's comprehension of sentences involving alternatives

15:45-16:15 Break

16:15-16:45 Christopher Laenzlinger & Gabriela Soare (Genève)
On merging positions for arguments and adverbs in the Romance Mittelfeld
16:45-17:15 Walter Schweikert (Venezia)
Syntactic tests to establish a linear order of prepositional phrases
17:15-17:45 Josef Bayer & Markus Bader (Konstanz)
P as case

17:45-18:00 Break

18:00-18:30 Kleanthes Grohmann & Phoevos Panagiotidis (Cyprus)
An anti-locality approach to Greek demonstratives
18:30-19:00 Oystein A.Vangsnes (Tromsø)
Rolling up the Scandinavian noun phrase
19:00-19:30 Carmen Dobrovie Sorin & Patricia Cabredo (Paris)
The syntax of argument and modifier genitives

Friday 27th February (Venezia - Auditorium S.Margherita)

9:00-10:00 Invited speaker: Adriana Belletti (Siena)
The VP-periphery: evidence from inversion, doubling and L2 acquisition
10:00-10:30 Carlo Cecchetto, Carlo Geraci & Alessandro Zucchi (Milano
Bicocca/Milano)
Strategies of relativization in LIS
10:30-11:00 Alexander Grosu & Manfred Krifka (Tel Aviv/Berlin)
Argumental relative constructions with a postcopular gap

11:00-11:30 Break

11:30-12:00 Enoch O. Aboh (Amsterdam)
Deriving relative and factive clauses
12:00-12:30 Francesca Del Gobbo (Venezia)
On prenominal relative clauses and appositive adjectives
12:30-13:00 Mara Frascarelli & Annarita Puglielli (Roma Tre)
Restrictive vs appositive: a comparative analysis of relative clauses in
Cushitic languages

13:00-15:00 Lunch break

15:00-15:30 Maria Lluisa Hernanz (Barcelona)
On the left periphery in Spanish: emphatic affirmative sentences with
bien
15:30-16:00 Sandra Paoli (Cambridge)
COMP: a multi-talented category. Comparative evidence from Romance
16:00-16:30 Aniko Liptak (Leiden)
The syntax of exclamatives in Hungarian

16:30-17:30 Poster break

17:30-18:00 Luigi Burzio (Johns Hopkins)
Paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations in Italian verbal inflection
18:00-18:30 Miriam Lemle & Aniela Improta França (Rio de Janeiro)
Parametrizing verbal constructions: a Distributed Morphology account of
Portuguese, Italian and English
18:30-19:00 Antonietta Bisetto, Sergio Scalise & Emiliano Guevara
(Bologna)
La selezione del costituente non testa in derivazione e in composizione

19:00-19:30 Business meeting

20:00 Social dinner

Saturday 28th February (Treviso - Palazzo S.Leonardo)

10:00-10:30 Jaume Mateu & Maria Teresa Espinal (Barcelona)
Argument structure and compositionality in idiomatic constructions
10:30-11:00 Federico Damonte (Padova)
Classifiers and argumental alternations
11:00-11:30 Raffaella Folli & Heidi Harley (Cambridge/Arizona)
On the nature of little v: causation, obligation and argument structure

11:30-12:00 Coffee break

12:00-12:30 Paola Merlo (Genève)
Structure and frequency of verb classes
12:30-13:00 Halldór Sigur?sson (Lund)
The syntax of speech features
13:00-14:00 Invited speaker: Luigi Rizzi (Siena)
On the form of chains: criterial positions and ECP effects

14:00 Social lunch

Poster session:
Petra Sleeman (Amsterdam)
'The only one to judge is the only one who knows'. An antisymmetry
approach (alternate speaker)
Katja Francesca Cantone (Hamburg)
The role of complementizer in phrase structure: evidence from
code-switching in support of the Lexical Hypothesis
Jacopo Garzonio & Sandra Gracci (Padova/Pisa)
The acquisition of Italian questions by Tamil speakers
Krisztina Szecsényi (Budapest)
Problems on the left-periphery of Hungarian nonfinite clauses