Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

CamCoS 2 - Cambridge Comparative Syntax Conference 2

Programme

CamCoS 2 is taking place on Friday, 10 May 2013, and Saturday, 11 May 2013. On Thursday, 9 May, members of the ReCoS project will give introductory talks about the Rethinking Comparative Syntax project and its relation to focus and information structure, the topic of the conference. Friday will be a general comparative syntax conference, while Saturday will feature invited speakers.

Following the talks on Friday, there will be a poster session and drinks in the Munby Room in King's College, next to the venue of the talks.

Thursday, 9 May 2013

Venue: Old Library, Darwin College, Silver Street, Cambridge, CB3 9EU (map)

Time	Name	Title
17.00 - 17.15	Ian Roberts	Introduction to ReCoS
17.15 - 18.00	Jenneke van der Wal	Features in discourse configurationality
18.00 - 18.30		Break
18.30 - 19.15	Tim Bazalgette	On the locus of parametric variation in focus expression
19.15 - 20.00	Theresa Biberauer	Predicate doubling and the representation of [focus] and [topic]

Friday, 10 May 2013

Venue: Keynes Hall, King's College, King's Parade, Cambridge, CB2 1ST (map)

Time	Name, Affiliation	Title
8.15 - 9.00	Registration and Coffee
9.00 - 9.40	Mara Frascarelli and Ángel Jiménez-Fernández, Università degli Studi Roma Tre/Universidad de Sevilla	Focus fronting and specificity effects at the discourse-grammar interface (abstract), (handout)
9.40 - 10.20	Ekaterina Chernova, Universitat de Girona	What moves where in Slavic languages: rethinking a Q-based theory (abstract)
10.20 - 11.00	Piotr Cegłowski, Adam Mickiewicz University	Two Facets of Non-Obligatory Control; the Case of Gerundive Complements in Polish
11.00 - 11.20	Coffee break
11.20 - 12.00	George Walkden and Anne Breitbarth, University of Manchester/Universiteit Ghent	Sociolinguistic typology and syntactic complexity (abstract), (handout)
12.00 - 12.40	John C. Wakefield, Hong Kong Baptist University	Comparing the Syntax of Discourse Particles: Segmental vs. Suprasegmental (abstract), (slides)
12.40 - 14.00	Lunch break
14.00 - 14.40	Norma Schifano, University of Cambridge	Micro-variation in the verbal domain: evidence from Romance (abstract), (handout)
14.40 - 15.20	Troy Messick, University of Connecticut	Does competition play a role in MaxElide? (abstract)
15.20 - 15.40	Coffee break
15.40 - 16.20	Jacek Witkoś, Adam Mickiewicz University	Parametrizing Subject and Object Control (abstract), (handout)
16.20 - 17.00	Gary Thoms and George Walkden, University of Edinburgh/University of Manchester	VP preposing and the PBC (abstract), (handout)
17.00 -	Posters session and drinks in the Munby Room
19.30 -	Conference dinner at The Vaults	(map)

Poster session, 10 May 2013

Venue: Munby Room, King's College, King's Parade, Cambridge, CB2 1ST (map)

Name, Affiliation	Title
Gréte Anna Dalmi, Eszterházy College, Eger	The feature geometry of 3SG generic subjects vs. 3SG referential subjects (abstract)
Orsolya Tánczos	From head-final to head-initial: the intermediate state of the Udmurt language (abstract)
Christos Vlachos and Anna Roussou, University of Patras	Focus at the interface... and relieve syntax (abstract)

Saturday, 11 May 2013