We are happy to announce that the 43rd Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG, Generative Grammar Meeting) will be held in Pavia (IUSS - Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia)IGG represents the most important Italian venue for discussions on every aspect of generative grammar and formal linguistics.
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 IGG workshop on Order and direction of grammatical operations
| 14:00-15:00 | Bob Frank (invited speaker) Top-down, bottom-up or inside-out? Direction and grain size in syntactic derivation |
| 15:00-15:40 | Woojin Chung An Evaluation-Sensitive Model for Local Context Computation |
| 15:40-16:20 | Tim Hunter The empirical significance of derivational operations |
| 16:20-16:50 | break |
| 16:50-17:30 | Jan-Wouter Zwart Eliminating external merge |
| 17:30-18:10 | Doreen Georgi, Martin Salzmann Local modeling of the gap/resumptive complementarity under top-down Case attraction |
| 18:10-19:10 | Colin Phillips (invited speaker) Order and direction in grammar, speaking, and understanding |
| alternate | Nicolas Guilliot Reconstruction in sharing constructions: a dynamic perspective |
February 16-17, 2017 IGG main conference
Thursday, February 16
| 09:00-9:15 | opening remarks |
| 09:15-10:00 | Giorgio Graffi (invited speaker) The Chomsky-Piaget debate of 1975: A retrospective evaluation and some open issues |
| 10:00-10:30 | Raffaella Zanuttini The structure of presentatives |
| 10:30-11:00 | Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin Partitive MOST and the two-NP Hypothesis |
| 11:00-11:15 | break |
| 11:15-11:45 | Cristina Guardiano and Monica Irimia DOM under (equality) comparatives |
| 11:45-12:15 | Alejo Alcaraz Sloppy Clitics |
| 12:15-12:45 | Pilar Barbosa Controlled overt pronouns as specificational predicates |
| 12:45-14:30 | lunch |
| 14:30-15:00 | Chris Reintges and Caterina Donati Diagnosing phase boundaries in participial relative clauses |
| 15:00-15:30 | Sam Wolfe Medieval Romance and its Place in the Verb Second Typology |
| 15:30-15:45 | break |
| 15:45-16:15 | Carlo Geraci, Lara Mantovan, Mirko Santoro, Valentina Aristodemo Agreement in Sign Language: the case of backwards verbs |
| 16:15-16:45 | Giorgia Zorzi Gapping in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): like VP-ellipsis? |
| 16:45-17:15 | Jeremy Kuhn, Lara Mantovan and Carlo Geraci Low referentiality in LSF and LIS |
| 17:15-18:00 | break - poster |
| 18:00-18:30 | Giorgio Carella, Mara Frascarelli When the emperor is in chains |
| 18:30-19:00 | Jacopo Garzonio and Chiara Gianollo From nec to né: the interaction of focus and negation |
| 19:00-19:30 | ORGANIZING MEETING |
| 20:00 | social dinner |
| 09:15-10:00 | Luigi Rizzi (invited speaker) Relativized Minimality in grammar and language acquisition: Conceptual and empirical issues |
| 10:00-10:30 | Johannes Mursell Long distance agreement and information structure |
| 10:30-11:00 | Lucas Tual Prosodic and syntactic properties of French interrogative sentences |
| 11:00-11:15 | break |
| 11:15-11:45 | Giuliano Bocci, Valentina Bianchi and Silvio Cruschina Prominence distribution in Italian wh-questions: from syntax to prosody |
| 11:45-12:15 | Ion Tudor Giurgea The interpretation of Focus Fronting in Romanian |
| 12:15-12:45 | Anastasiia Solomina Vocatives: bringing up the Russian data |
| 12:45-14:30 | lunch |
| 14:30-15:00 | Sonia Cyrino and M.Teresa Espinal On the morphosyntactic realization of Number in some Romance languages |
| 15:00-15:30 | Lena Baunaz and Eric Lander The internal structure of ontological categories |
| 15:30-16:00 | Eugenia Mangialavori Rasia Determining telicity in denominal and deadjectival verbs: Lexical roots and much more |
| 16:00-16:45 | break + poster |
| 16:45-17:15 | Chiara Zanini, Donata Viero and Francesca Franzon Countability in Italian explored with a rating study and a self-paced reading test |
| 17:15-17:45 | Nicoletta Loccioni Predicative superlatives and definiteness in Romance Degree Phrases |
| 17:45-18:15 | Giorgio Magri Blindness and Hirschberg’s contextually ordered alternatives |
| 18:15-18:45 | Camilla Covazzi and Vincenzo Moscati Topic-first or Subject-first? A study on children’s interpretation of Corrective Focus in the Italian Left-Periphery |
Posters
| alternate | Beatrice Giustolisi, Francesca Panzeri Grammatical knowledge predicts accuracy on an irony comprehension task |
| Leah S Bauke V2 in L2 learners of English with L1 German/Norwegian/Dutch vs Italian - an analysis from Multiple Grammar Theory |
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| Rita Manzini, Leonardo Savoia and Ludovico Franco ‘Suffixaufnahme’, oblique case and Romance possessives |
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| Fabrizio Arosio Interference effects in clitic production |
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| Edoardo Cavirani Linearizing F and PL in Lunigiana DP: a violation of the Mirror Principle? |
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| Luca Cilibrasi, Ianthi Tsimpli and Lucie Jirankova Perception of inflectional morphology in English L2 speakers with a rich L1 |
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| Nicolas Guilliot. Reconstruction in sharing constructions: a dynamic perspective |
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| Mikhail Knyazev "Superadditivity effects" in the distribution of cto-clause complements in Russian: a grammatical constraint obscured by intermediate acceptability |
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| Farhad Mirdamadi, Whitney Tabor, Ur Shlonsky and Julie Franck Object attraction in Persian: Evidence for cue-based retrieval in agreement production |
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| Francesco Pinzin Losing events, losing morphology. An analysis of the diachronic evolution of Latin denominal deponents |
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| Maria Rasia and Virginia Palazzetti An overlooked causative variant? Revisiting the causative alternation in Romance. |
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| Edward Rubin Licensing Adverbial Nominals |
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| Saetbyol Seo A discourse-dependent D: evidence from Korean imposters |
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| Anna Volkova The left periphery of participial relative clauses |
Conference venue
Sala del Camino, IUSS
Palazzo del Broletto
P.zza Vittoria 15, Pavia
Social Dinner
Thursday, 16 February, 20:00
Locanda del Carmine
P.zza Carmine, 7 Pavia
Sala del Camino, IUSS
Palazzo del Broletto
P.zza Vittoria 15, Pavia
Venue and general accommodation info
Students Accommodation
Turistic information
IGG 43 is organized by NETS and hosted at IUSS - Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia