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Program

Apr 28, 2018

MOTH 6

McGill University

In the Ballroom of Thomson House (David Thomson Post-Graduate Centre)

3650 McTavish Street

9:30-10:00

Coffee and registration

 

10:00-10:30

Nadia Nacif (University of Toronto)

Restrictive and non-restrictive adjectives in Romance languages: Portuguese and Spanish evidence

10:30-11:00

Raymond Therrien (University of Ottawa)

A challenge to syntactic analyses of swiping: Investigating wh-in-situ in Canadian French

11:00-12:00

Invited talk: Nico Baier (McGill University/UC Berkeley)

Reassessing the link between anti-agreement and A’-movement

12:00-14:00

Lunch and poster session

Lunch is provided for registered participants

14:00-14:30

Virgilio Partida Peñalva (University of Toronto)

Multiple PP-remnants in Spanish Pseudostripping: The interaction between NP- and TP-ellipsis

14:30-15:00

Masashi Harada (McGill University)

Japanese Sluicing with an AP Remnant as a Copular Sentence-Based Sluicing

15:00-15:30

Kinza Mahoon (University of Toronto)

Structure of ezafe in Urdu – a compounding approach 

15:30-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-16:30

Fiona Wilson (University of Toronto)

The amn’t gap in Scottish English

16:30-17:00

Clinton Parker (McGill University)

A feature-based analysis for vestigial ergativity in Shughni

17:30-19:30

Dinner

Dinner registration required

Henrison Hsieh (McGill University)

Peripheral extraction in Tagalog: implications for syntactic ergativity

Jean-François Juneau (University of Toronto)

On the Old and Modern Georgian Suffixaufnahme in Possessive Noun Phrases

Gouming Martens (McGill University)

Frozen by Context: Focus Effects on Syntactic Freezing

Andrew Peters (University of Toronto)

Form and Function: Mandarin de in the Nominal and Verbal Domains

Ádám Szalontai and Balázs Surányi (Hungarian Academy of Science, Research Institute for Linguistics)

Word order effects of givenness in Hungarian: A prosody-driven approach

Sahar Taghipour (University of Toronto)

On Definite Marking in Laki

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Session 1 (Chair Clint)

Session 2 (Chair Henrison)

Session 3 (Chair Gouming)

Poster session (12:00-14:00)

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