Cornell is Gorges Linguistics Workshop

NOTE: All talks are at 701 Clark Hall

Friday, April 15

8:30-9:00 
   Breakfast & Registration
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Session 1, Chair: Neil Ashton

9:00-9:40 
John Whitman, Cornell University
Chinese PPs

9:40-10:20
Susi Wurmbrand, University of Connecticut
Reverse Agree: A unified view of syntactic dependencies

10:20-10:40
Coffee break

10:40-11:20
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, University of Toronto Mississauga
When the Inner Phase is the Outer Phase

11:20-12:00
Björn Lundquist, University of Tromsø
Swedish passives under control

12:00-2:40
Lunch break


Session 2, Chair: Kyle Grove

2:40-3:20
Gillian Ramchand, University of Tromsø
From Events to Situations: Mapping the Edge of the Inner VP

3:20-3:40
Coffee break

3:40-4:20
Molly Diesing, Cornell University
Predication, Equation, and the Second Position

4:20-5:00
John Hale, Cornell University
Performance models for surface structure parsing

6:30-9:00
Reception at Morrill Hall (2nd-Floor Lounge)

Saturday, April 16

8:30-9:00 
   Breakfast & Coffee

Session 3, Chair: Ed Cormany

9:00-9:40
Nikola Predolac, Cornell University
Bipartite NPs and Secondary Predication

9:40-10:20
John Bailyn, Stony Brook University
--"What do you think of ellipsis?" --"Adore!": Russian verb-stranding, VP ellipsis, and predication

10:20-10:40
Coffee break

10:40-11:20
Jeffrey Runner, University of Rochester
Verb Phrase Ellipsis and Pseudogapping are (really) not the same

11:20-12:00
Mats Rooth, Cornell University
Title TBA