Program

HOURS	THURSDAY 15
8:30-9:20	REGISTRATION
9:20-9:30	Welcoming Remarks
9:30-10:30	-Invited Speaker- Cedric Boeckx (Harvard University): Bare syntax: cartography and Minimalism
10:30-10:50	Break
10:50-11:30	Jonathan MacDonald (Stony Brook University): The independence of case and aspect
11:30-12-10	Serkan Şener (University of Connecticut): Postverbal constituents in Turkish: they are still high!
12:10-12-50	Berit Gehrke (U. Utrecht) & Nino Grillo (U. Utrecht/U. Siena): Aspect on passives
12:50-15:00	LUNCH
15:00-15:40	Remus Gergel (U. Tübingen): The role of interpretable features in ellipsis: a proposal for licensing
15:40-16:20	Rosmin Mathew (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Simply Malayalam participials
16:20-17:00	Anca Sevcenco (U. Utrecht): Long distance binding at the cross-roads: syntax or discourse
17:00-17:20	Break
17:20-18:00	Emilie Caratini (U. Nice): There is no ambi-syllabicity (in German)
18:00-19:00	-Invited Speaker- Gorka Elordieta (UPV-EHU): Segmental phonology and syntactic structure

HOURS	FRIDAY 16
9:00-9:40	Boban Arsenijevic (U. Leiden): Contents of PP and the interpretation of Slavic verb prefixes
9:40-10:20	Berit Gehrke (U. Utrecht): On the directional readings of so-called ambiguous prepositions
10:20-10:35	Break
10:35-11:15	Ángel J. Gallego (U. Autònoma de Barcelona) & Raquel Gonzalez (IUOG): A lexical syntax for comparatives
11:15-11:55	Lydia Grebenyova (U. Maryland): Multiple sluicing and wh- fronting in Russian
11:55-12:10	Break
12:10-12:50	Franc Marušič (Politehnika Nova Gorica/Stony Brook University): On the lack of a (LF) phase in non-finite clausal complements
12:50-13:30	Keir Moulton (UMass at Amherst): Strong reflexivity and attitudes de se: evidence from ECM
13:30-15:15	LUNCH
15:15-15:55	Tomoko Kawamura (Stony Brook University): NPI connectivity of pseudo-clefts and its focal analysis
15:55-16:55	-Invited Speaker- Roland Pfau (U. Amsterdam): Left periphery features and non-manual marking in sign languages
16:55-17:10	Break
17.10-17:50	Ángel J. Gallego (U. Autònoma de Barcelona): Connectivity in Markovian dependencies
17:50-18:30	Duk-Ho An (University of Connecticut): Asymmetric T-to-C movement in ATB constructions: a PF-deletion analysis

HOURS	SATURDAY 17
9:00-10:00	-Invited Speaker- Utpal Lahiri (UPV-EHU): The Scope of "even" Revisited
10:00-10:40	Eytan Zweig (NYU): Plurality, implicatures, and events
10:40-11:00	Break
11:00-11:40	Glenda Newton (U. Cambridge): The rise of verb initial word order in Irish: a minimalist account of the development of head movement
11:40-12:20	David Hron (Tel-Aviv University): On the derivation of Czech reflexive nouns
12:20-13:00	Gerardo Fernandez Salgueiro (U. Michigan at Ann Arbor): Reducing computation at the interface with the Sensory-Motor systems
13:00-?	BUSINESS MEETING

Welcoming Remarks