Asymmetry at the Interfaces Conference, October 24-25 2003

CONFERENCE PROGRAM, OCTOBER 24-25, 2003

Friday, October 24th, 2003
8:00 - 8:45
Registration
8:45 - 9:00
 René Tinawi, Director, Research and Creation Office
Anna-Maria Di Sciullo - Director, Asymmetry Research Project		 Welcome
9:00 - 9:50
 Richard Kayne - New York University
Invited Speaker		 Antisymmetry, Adpositions and Remnant Mouvement
9:50 - 10:20
 Jaklin Kornfilt - Syracuse University Two Asymmetries in Relative Clauses
10:20 - 10:30
Break
10:30 - 11:00
 Heejeong Ko - MIT Asymmetry in Scrambling and Cyclic Spell-out
11:00 - 11:30
 Yoichi Miyamoto - Osaka University A Derivational Approach to the Interpretation of Quantifiers in Japanese Scrambling
11:30 - 12:00
Marc Richards - University of Cambridge Desymmetrization: Parametric Variation at the PF-Interface
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:20
 Manuela Ambar - University of Lisbon
Invited Speaker		 On Some Special Adverbs, Word ordre and CP
14:20 - 14:50
 Edit Jakab - UQAM Restructuring in Relation to Tense and Agreement: Hungarian Infinitives
14:50 - 15:20
 Ricardo Etxepare - CNRS, Bayonne Asymmetries in Constituent Negation in Spanish
15:20 - 15:30
Break
15:30 - 16:00
Gabriela Alboiu - York University Interfaces and the OCC Asymmetry
16:00 - 16:30
Aritz Irurtzun - University of Basque Country Derivational Approach to the Focus Structure
16:30 - 17:00
Mayumi Hosono - University of Durham Defocalization Strategy, Suppression of a Phonetic Form in the Canonically Realized Position

Saturday, October 25th, 2003
9:00 - 9:50
 Juan Uriagereka - University of Maryland and The University of the Basque Country
Invited Speaker		 Spell-out Consequences
9:50 - 10:20
 Arsalan Kahnemuyipour - University of Toronto Multiple Spell-Out and Nuclear Stress
10:20 - 10:50
 Kayono Shiobara - University of British Columbia Prosodic Phases and Left-to-Right Structure Building
10:50 - 11:00
break
11:00 - 11:30
 Daniela Isac - Concordia University On the Wide Scope Effects of Bare Nouns
11:30 - 12:00
 Karine Megerdoomian - Inxight Software, Inc Asymmetries in Form and Meaning: Surface Realization and Interface Conditions
12:00 - 12:30
Luka Szucsich - University at Leipzig Asymmetric and Symmetric Relations within Theta-Domain and Aspectual Interpretation
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:50
 Edwin Williams - Princeton University
Invited Speaker		 The Word/Phrase Asymmetry
14:50 - 15:20
 Rose-Marie Déchaine - UBC
Mireille Tremblay - Queen's University		 Minimal Lexical Items
15:20 - 15:50
 Anna Maria Di Sciullo - UQAM Morphological Domains
15:50 - 16:00
Break
16:00 - 16:30
 Frédéric Mailhot and Charles Reiss - Concordia University Precedence, Asymmetry and Locality in Vowel Harmony
16:30 - 17:00
Ivan Chow - University of Toronto Ambiguity Resolution in French by way of Melodic Contour: An Acoustic Study

Alternates
Ahmad Moinzadeh, University of Isfahan An Antisymmetric, Minimalist Approach to Persian Phrase Structure
Mayumi Hosono - University of Durham Defocalization Strategy in Merge Parallelism of Clitic Left Dislocation with Null Object Construction

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