Workshop on Greek Syntax and Semantics
| WHEN: | May 20-22, 2007* *Note change of date from May 18-20, 2007 |
| WHERE: | MIT, Room 32-D461 map |
| CONTACT: | For questions, please contact greek@mit.edu |
| The workshop is free and open to everyone. However, if you plan to attend and are not a speaker or commentator, please send a message with the word "attending" in the subject heading to greek@mit.edu. |
| Time | Speaker | Talk (click on link for abstract) | Commentator |
| 9:00am Sunday, May 20 |
Breakfast | ||
| 9:30-10:30am Sunday, May 20 |
Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Anagnostopoulou | Agent, Causer and Instrument PPs in GreekDownload paper HERE |
Beth Levin |
| 10:30-11:30am Sunday, May 20 |
Dina Kapetangianni and Heather Taylor | Comparative Correlatives in Greek: The syntax of osoDownload paper HERE |
Rajesh Bhatt |
| 12:30-1:30pm Sunday, May 20 |
Lunch Break | ||
| 1:30-2:30pm Sunday, May 20 |
Nick Nicholas and Brian Joseph | Verbal Dvandvas in Modern GreekDownload paper HERE |
Paul Kiparsky |
| 2:30-3:30pm Sunday, May 20 |
Anastasia Giannakidou and Melita Stavrou | Metalinguistic contrast in the grammar of GreekDownload paper HERE |
Winnie Lechner |
| 3:30-4:00pm Sunday, May 20 |
Coffee Break | ||
| 4:00-5:00pm Sunday, May 20 |
Evangelia Vlachou | Indefinite Free Choice Items in necessity modal contextsDownload paper HERE |
Paula Menendez-Benito |
| 5:00-6:00pm Sunday, May 20 |
Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga | Greek generic definites involving the Free Choice Item opjosdhipoteDownload paper HERE |
Cleo Condoravdi |
| 9:30am Monday, May 21 |
Breakfast | ||
| 10:00-11:00am Monday, May 21 |
Marika Lekakou and Kriszta Szendroi | Eliding the Noun in Close Apposition, or Greek Polydefinites RevisitedDownload paper HERE |
Marcel den Dikken and Alexandra Ioannidou |
| 11:00-12:00pm Monday, May 21 |
Anastasia Giannakidou | A temporal semantics for the subjunctiveDownload paper HERE |
Kai von Fintel |
| 12:00-1:00pm Monday, May 21 |
Lunch Break | ||
| 1:00-2:00pm Monday, May 21 |
Hideaki Yamashita | The EPP, Agree, and Scope Calculation in Greek and Beyond | Kyle Johnson |
| 2:00-3:00pm Monday, May 21 |
Vassilis Spyropoulos and Anthi Revithiadou | Subject chains in Greek and PF processingDownload paper HERE |
Esther Torrego |
| 3:00-3:30pm Monday, May 21 |
Coffee Break | ||
| 3:30-4:30pm Monday, May 21 |
Christina Sevdali | Control Into CPs: When Finiteness Doesn't MatterDownload paper HERE |
Susi Wurmbrand |
| 4:30-5:30pm Monday, May 21 |
Anna Roussou | Control in Modern Greek and its implications for empty categories
Download paper HERE |
Masha Polinsky |
| 9:00am Tuesday, May 22 |
Breakfast | ||
| 9:30-10:30am Tuesday, May 22 |
George Tsoulas | Aspects of the grammar of number and definiteness in GreekDownload paper HERE |
Gennaro Chierchia |
| 10:30-11:30am Tuesday, May 22 |
George Spathas | (Un)interpretable Gender on Nouns and PronounsDownload paper HERE |
Irene Heim |
| 11:30-12:30am Tuesday, May 22 |
Vina Tsakali | Pseudo-doubling Constructions | Jonathan Bobaljik |
| 12:30-1:30pm Tuesday, May 22 |
Lunch Break | ||
| 1:30-2:30pm Tuesday, May 22 |
Marios Mavrogiorgos | C-agreement and the EPP: two factors regulating enclisis in GreekDownload paper HERE |
Roumi Pancheva |
| 2:30-3:30pm Tuesday, May 22 |
Nikos Lavidas and Dimitra Papangeli | Deponents and non-finite constructions in GreekDownload paper HERE |
David Pesetsky |
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