Workshop on Minimalist Theorizing

June 26 & 27, 2004


Indiana University 
Fine Arts Building 102
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Schedule:

(30 mins presentation; 15 mins discussion)

Saturday 6/26

9:00-9:45: The non-local anaphor itself
Gerardo Fernandez-Salgueiro and Michael Marlo (University of Michigan, ann Arbor)i

9:45-10:30: Weak pronouns, object shift, and multiple spell-out: evidence for phases at the Pf-interface
Marc Richards (University of Cambridge)

10:45-11:30: An argument for AGREE and Multiple Spell-out: Standard Arabic agreement asymmetries revisited
Usama Soltan (University of Maryland)

11:30-12:15: Agree in a Cyclic Syntax
Susana Bejar and Milan Rezac (University of Toronto)

break

2:00-2:45: Phases and locality constraints on A-movement in Japanese
Hirohisa Kiguchi (Kanazawa Institute of Technology)

2:45-3:30: Japanese topic-constructions in the minimalist view of the syntax-semantics interface
Takashi Munakata (Yokohama National University)

3:45-4:30: Case Attraction in Free Relatives
Sophia Tapio (Indiana University)

4:30-5:15: FMove F and PF/LF defectiveness
Brian Agbayani (California State University, Fresno) and Masao Ochi (Osaka University)

Sunday 6/27

9:00-9:45: Symmetry in syntax
Masakazu Kuno (Harvard University)

9:45-10:30: True optionality: when grammar doesn’t mind
Theresa Biberauer and Marc Richards (University of Cambridge)

10:45-11:30: Minimalism and focus structure
Aritz Irurtzun (University of the Basque Country)

11:30-12:15: The compositional theory of movement: Agree and Merge
Milan Rezac (University of Toronto)

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