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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