Workshop on Interfaces at the Left Periphery

All events to be held in 2330 Mason Hall

9:00 – 10:00	Registration and breakfast
10:00 – 11:30	Clause types and the syntax/semantics/pragmatics interface Moderator: Ed Cormany, Cornell University Jenneke van der Wal, University of Cambridge Incomplete subordinate clauses and exclusive focus in Makhuwa David Medeiros, University of Michigan (Re)Formalizing the Imperative Sentence Type [ handout ]
11:30 – 1:30	Lunch break
1:30 – 3:00	Questions of Structure and Structure of Questions Moderator: Lauren Ackerman, Northwestern University Gerardo Fernández Salgueiro, National Taiwan Normal University Expletive what in English Samantha Heidenreich, Northwestern University Prosodic structure of disjunctive questions Mike Hamilton, McGill University Wh-movement and long-distance agreement in Mi'gmaq

9:00 – 10:00	Registration and breakfast
10:00 – 11:30	Discourse properties of the left periphery Moderator: Cara DiGirolamo, Cornell University Zoe Lam, Sonja Thoma, and Martina Wiltschko University of British Columbia Thinking about you [ handout ] Vieri Samek-Lodovici, University College London How the Right-Periphery Shapes the Left-Periphery: Lessons from Italian [ handout ] Nele Salveste, University of Tartu / University of Potsdam The prosody of left-dislocated objects [ slides ]
11:30 – 1:30	Lunch break
1:30 – 3:00	Clause boundaries and peripheries from a diachronic perspective Moderator: Sarah Courtney, Cornell University Daniel Ross, University of Illinois Try and: the development of subordination out of coordination [ handout ] Caitlin Light, University of York Devan Steiner, Indiana University Use of the Left Periphery as evidence for Verb Second grammar [ handout ]
3:00 – 3:15	Closing remarks

July 13–14, 2013 — LSA Summer Institute