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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 93 14:02 CST
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Subject: LSRL XXIII PROGRAM
THE TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL LINGUISTIC SYMPOSIUM ON ROMANCE LANGUAGES
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1993
8:00 PM Panel, "Twenty-five Years of French Phonology. From SPE and French
Phonology and Morphology to the Present. An Historical Overview."
Organizer and Moderator: Jurgen Klausenburger, University of
Washington-Seattle. Participants: Jean-Pierre Montreuil, University
of Texas-Austin; Sanford Schane, University of California-San Diego;
Douglas Walker, University of Calgary.
FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1993
SESSION A: PHONOLOGY
8:30 AM Barbara E. Bullock, Penn State University
"Does the French Syllable Have Weight?"
9:00 AM Luigi Burzio, Johns Hopkins University & Elvira DiFabio, Harvard
University, "Accentual Stability"
9:30 AM Haike Jacobs, University of Nijmegen
"Catalexis and Stress in Romance"
10:00 AM John M. Lipski, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
"Spanish Stops, Spirants and Glides: Towards a Comprehensive Account"
SESSION B: CLITICS
8:30 AM Sarah Cummins and Yves Roberge, University of Toronto
"A Morphosyntactic Analysis of Romance Clitic Constructions"
9:00 AM Jon Franco, University of Southern California
On the Absence of Past Participle Object Clitic Agreement in Spanish
9:30 AM Nicole Maier, University of Iowa
"Portuguese Inflected Infinitives in Causative Constructions"
10:00 AM Luiz H. Mendes, University of California, Los Angeles
"The Structure of IP, Word Order, and the Position of Clitics"
10:30 AM COFFEE
11:00 AM INVITED SPEAKER, SPONSORED BY THE NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM COMMITTEE
Mario D. Saltarelli, University of Southern California
"Voice in Latin and Romance"
12:00 PM LUNCH
SESSION C: SYNTAX
1:30 PM Nancy Mae Antrim, University of Southern California
"Italian Adverbial Agreement"
2:00 PM Deborah L. Arteaga, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
"Impersonal Constructions in Old French"
2:30 PM Julie Auger, University of Pennsylvania & University of Chicago
"Subject-marking and Wh-extraction in Picard"
3:00 PM Philippe Barbaud, Universit du Qu bec Montr al
"Syntactic Conversion"
3:30 PM COFFEE
SESSION D: SYNTAX
4:00 PM Elena Benedicto, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Mixed Pro-drop Systems"
4:30 PM Maria Cristina Figueiredo-Silva, Universit de Gen
Valentina Bianchi, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
"On the Properties of Agreement-Object in Italian and in Brazilian
Portuguese"
5:00 PM J. Clancy Clements, Indiana University, Bloomington
"Is There Topicalization in Spanish?"
5:30 PM Heles Contreras, University of Washington, Seattle
"A Larsonian Analysis of Small Clauses"
6:00 PM CASH BAR
SATURDAY APRIL 3, 1993
SESSION E: PHONOLOGY
8:30 AM Fernando Mart!nez-Gil, Georgetown University, "Obstruent Voicing and
Vowel Syncope: A Case for Rule-Reordering in Proto-Spanish"
9:00 AM Jean-Pierre Montreuil, University of Texas, Austin
"Prosody, Morphology and Foot-Formation in Modern French"
9:30 AM Pilar Prieto, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Historical Vowel Lengthening in Romance and the Role of Sonority
and Feet Structure"
10:00 AM Claude Timmons, Universit du Qu bec Montr al
"Schwa Spelling and Phonological Domains in French"
SESSION F: CLITICS & SYNTAX
8:30 AM Johan Rooryck, Indiana University, Bloomington
"Against Optional Movement for Clitic Climbing"
9:00 AM Edward J. Rubin, Cornell University
"Bound Pronouns, Variables, and Clitic-Doubling in Romanian"
9:30 AM Richard Danford & Kutz Arrieta-Stemen, Ohio State University
"That's a Problem that We Can Trace to the Complementizer"
10:00 AM Viviane Deprez, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Intervention Effects and Floating Quantifiers"
10:30 AM COFFEE
11:00 AM INVITED SPEAKER, SPONSORED BY THE NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM COMMITTEE
Irene Vogel, University of Delaware
"Phonological Interfaces in Italian"
12:00 PM LUNCH
SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1993
SESSION G: SYNTAX
1:30 PM Natalia D!az-Insens , Cornell University
"Catalan Possessives, Extraction from DP and Strong Crossover"
2:00 PM Julia Herschensohn, University of Washington, Seattle
"Psych Pronominals and a Uniform Account of French se"
2:30 PM Pilar Garc!a-Mayo & Paula Kempchinsky, University of Iowa
"Finiteness in Romance vs. English Parasitic Gap Constructions"
3:00 PM Harry Howard, Tulane University
"Against Topicalization as Adjunction in Spanish"
3:30 PM COFFEE
SESSION H: SYNTAX
4:00 PM G raldine Legendre, University of Colorado, Boulder
"Antipassive with French Psych Verbs"
4:30 PM Luis L"pez, Cornell University
"The Syntactic Licensing of Verb Phrase Elipsis: A Comparative Study
of Spanish and English"
5:00 PM Enrique Mallen, University of Florida
"Verb Movement, ECP and Case Assignment in German and Spanish"
5:30 PM Claudia Parodi-Lewin, University of California, Los Angeles
"Case Theory and the Syntax of DPs in English and Spanish"
6:00 PM BREAK
7:30 PM SYMPOSIUM BANQUET
SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 1993
SESSION I: SYNTAX
8:30 AM Amaya Mendikoetxea Pelayo, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
"Impersonality in Non-Finite Contexts"
9:00 AM Kevin J. Rottet, Indiana University, Bloomington
"Variation and Verb Raising in Louisiana Creole: A GB Perspective"
9:30 AM Liliana Sanchez, University of Southern California
"Intensifiers and Focus in Spanish"
10:00 AM Christine Tellier, Universit de Montr al
"Avoir, Saturated NPs, and Definite Determiners"
SESSION J: SYNTAX
8:30 AM Robert E. Vann, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Middle Voice, "No-Fault" se, and the Anticausitive: Ergativity
in Spanish"
9:00 AM J. M. de Wind, University of Groningen
"Functional Licensing in French Pronominal and Complex Inversion"
9:30 AM Uthaiwan Wong-Opasi, Tennessee State University
"On the Headedness of V + C Compounds"
10:00 AM Roberto Zamparelli, University of Rochester
"On Quantifiers and Adjectives in Romance"
10:30 AM COFFEE
11:00 AM INVITED SPEAKER, SPONSORED BY THE NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM COMMITTEE
Karen T. Zagona, University of Washington, Seattle
"Overt and Implicit Temporal Arguments"
12:00 PM CLOSE OF SYMPOSIUM