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Thursday, December 2 (room 4219)

9.00-9.30

Coffee and registration

 

9.30-10.30

Invited speaker: Mark Baker (Rutgers)

On the (Non-)Relationship Between

Object Agreement and Accusative Case

10.30-10.50

Coffee break

 

10.50-11.30

Maia Duguine (EHU-University of the Basque Country & Université de Nantes

The Inverse Case Filter and the nature of Case

11.30-12.10

Leah S. Bauke (University of Wuppertal)

Inherent Case and Antisymmetry

12.10-14.00

Lunch break

 

14.00-14.40

Jóhannes Gisli Jónsson (University of Iceland)

Two types of non-structural case

14.40-15.20

Pablo Albizu, Ricardo Etxepare & Milan Rezac (University of the Basque Country, IKER UMR 5478 CNRS, UMR 7023 CNRS/Paris 8)

The structural ergative of Basque and the theory of Case

15.20-16.00

Thomas McFadden & Sandhya Sundaresan (University of Tromsø/CASTL, University of Stuttgart)

Nominative case is independent of finiteness and agreement

16.00-16.30

Coffee break

 

16.30-17.30

Invited speaker: David Pesetsky (MIT)

Dependent case as binding theory

 

 

 

Friday, December 3 (room 4219)

9.30-10.00

Coffee

 

10.00-11.00

Invited speaker: Halldór Sigurðsson (Lund University)

A-licensing

11.00-11.30

Coffee break

 

11.30-12.10

Pavel Caha (CASTL/University of Tromsø)

Case in adpositional phrases

 

12.10-14.00

Lunch break

 

14.00-14.40

Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin & Ion Giurgea (LLF/CNRS, Institutul de Lingvistica “Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti”, Bucharest & Universität Konstanz)

Agreeing possessors and the theory of case

14.40-15.20

Rita Manzini & Leonardo Savoia (University of Florence)

 

Case inflections as denotational elements, syncretisms as ambiguity: in defence of the lexicon

15.20-16.00

Mark Baker & Ruth Kramer (Rutgers University, Georgetown University)

“Prepositions” as case morphemes inserted at PF in Amharic

 

 

alternate

 

 

Rostyslav Bilous (University of Toronto)

 

 

Case valuation in rich and ‘impoverished’ case systems