Talks and Events

Doctoral Program


ECO 5

University of Connecticut, Arjona 311
Saturday March 8, 2008

This event is partially funded by the Uconn Graduate Student Senate

 
9:00
Breakfast (provided), Arjona 339
9:30 Jeffrey Bernath
(UConn)
Looking for Determiners in ASL: Further Confusing the Issue
10:00 Tsuyoshi Sawada
(UConn)
Repair and Cyclic Ellipsis
10:30
Coffee Break
10:50 Patrick Grosz
(MIT)
A Different View on Ergativity in German Nominalizations
11:20 Annahita Farudi
(UMASS)
An Antisymmetric Approach to Persian CP Complements
11:50 So-One Hwang
(UMD)
Possible Impossible Extraction out of Complex-NP Islands
12:20
Lunch (provided), Arjona 339
1:20 Johannes Jurka
(UMD)
Perfect Identity in Sluicing
1:50 Guillaume Thomas
(MIT)
Modal Existential Wh Constructions are not Interrogatives: arguments from French
2:20 Gary Milsark (Temple U) and Emerson Loustau (UMASS) There Ain't No Such Thing as a Null Subject Language
2:50
Coffee Break
3:10 Alex Drummond
(UMD)
Reconstruction and English PPs
3:40 Helen Stickney
(UMASS)
Adjective Movement, DP Acquisition & the Partitive Structure
3:40 Jeremy Hartman
(MIT)
Dwarf-class verbs, Theta-theory, and Argument Linking
4:40
Coffee Break
5:00 Sverre Johnsen
(Harvard)
Binding in Complements of Perception Verbs
5:30 Noah Constant and Chenjie Gu
(UMASS)
Partial Focus Fronting in Mandarin 'even' Constructions
6:00 Business meeting
Where are we going next year? How should we change the format, or should we?
6:30
Dinner Party at the Chang's Garden (not provided)
Photo Album