Serie: Islands in Contemporary Linguistic Theory

November 16-18, 2011

16 azaroa 2011
Howard Lasnik (U. of Maryland)
Another Look at Island Repair by Deletion
16/11/2011
Marc Richards (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
No Phase is an Island(?): On the Deletability of Edge Features and the Derivational Dynamics of CED Effects.
16/11/2011
Carlo Cecchetto (U. of Milano-Bicocca) & Caterina Donati (U. of Rome- La Sapienza)
Relabeling + No Labeling = Islands.
16/11/2011
Vassilios Spyropoulos & Nikolaos Stamatogianis (U. of Athens)
Sub-extraction from subjects in Greek: Things that you can think and you can say.
16/11/2011

17 azaroa 2011
Marta Abrusan (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
A semantic explanation of factive and wh-islands
17/11/2011
Bradley Larson (U. of Maryland)
What can Multidominance tell us about islands?
17/11/2011
João Costa (FCSH - Universidade Nova de Lisboa) & Kleanthes Grohmann (U. of Cyprus)
Islandhood and Clitics in Language Development.
17/11/2011
Cristiano Chesi (U. of Siena; ISCTE, Lisbon) & Valentina Bianchi (U. of Siena)
Islands violations as unresolved thematically-driven dependencies.
17/11/2011
David Medeiros (U. of Michigan)
The status of wh-islands in Japanese: Evidence from a reaction time paradigm.
17/11/2011
Dan Michel and Grant Goodall (UC San Diego)
Finiteness effects in adjunct islands.
17/11/2011