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Explorations in Syntactic Government and Subcategorisation

Wednesday 31 August 2011 - Saturday 3 September 2011
University of Cambridge, UK


Programme

WEDNESDAY  •  THURSDAY  •  FRIDAY  •  SATURDAY  •  Other accepted papers

Keynote speakers

  • Farrell Ackerman (UC San Diego)
    'Predicates and argument selection: unselected objects in Moro'
  • Balthasar Bickel (Zurich)
    'Government and agreement: what's where why?'
  • Christian Lehmann (Erfurt)
    'Conceptual bases and structural correlates of government'
  • Silvia Luraghi (Pavia)
    'A canonical approach to government and the case for variable case'
  • Andrej Malchukov (Mainz/ MPI Leipzig/ Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg)
    'Predicting case frames across languages: a competing motivations approach to (differential) case marking'
  • Adam Przepiórkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
    'Automatic acquisition of subcategorisation from large text corpora'
  • Ian Roberts (Cambridge)
    'Government, agreement and minimality'
  • Peter Sells (SOAS London/ York)
    'A declarative perspective on agreement and government'
  • Andrew Spencer (Essex)
    'Governed cases vs semantic cases - a view from morphology'
  • Nigel Vincent & Kersti Börjars (Manchester)
    'Arguments with adjectives'

Participation of the non-UK speakers has been made possible thanks to a Conference Support Grant from the British Academy.


WEDNESDAY 31 August 2011

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9:00 - 9:55 REGISTRATION
9:55 - 10:00 WELCOME
Chair: Eva Schultze-Berndt (The University of Manchester)
10:00 - 11:00 Keynote talk: 'Conceptual bases and structural correlates of government' [abstract] [handout]
Christian Lehmann (University of Erfurt)
11:00 - 11:30 TEA/COFFEE
Chair: Adam Przepiórkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
11:30 - 12:00 'Syntactic government and subcategorisation: an overview'
Anna Kibort (University of Cambridge & Surrey Morphology Group)
12:00 - 12:30 'Clausal identity types' [abstract] [slides]
Dorothee Beermann (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
12:30 - 13:00 'Agreement and government in adjective attribution marking' [abstract] [slides]
Michael Rießler (University of Freiburg)
13:00 - 14:15 LUNCH
14:15 - 14:45 Group 1 visit to the Wren Library, Trinity College
by special permission of the Librarian, Prof. David McKitterick
14:45 - 15:15 Group 2 visit to the Wren Library, Trinity College
by special permission of the Librarian, Prof. David McKitterick
Chair: Andrew Spencer (University of Essex)
15:30 - 16:00 'The alternating predicate puzzle: comparing Icelandic and German' [abstract] [slides]
Jóhanna Barðdal (University of Bergen) & Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland)
16:00 - 16:30 TEA/COFFEE
16:30 - 17:00 'Examining competition in sentential complementation, with evidence from large electronic corpora' [abstract]
Martti Juhani Rudanko (University of Tampere)
17:00 - 18:00 Keynote talk: 'Arguments with adjectives' [abstract] [slides]
Nigel Vincent & Kersti Börjars (The University of Manchester)
  
19:30 Dinner at the Bella Italia at the Watermill (Cambridge CB3 9EY). Beautiful location on the river. Student discount 50% on all food on Wednesdays.

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THURSDAY 1 September 2011

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9:00 - 9:15 In Memoriam Anna Siewierska
Chair: Christian Lehmann (University of Erfurt)
9:15 - 10:15 Keynote talk: 'Government and agreement: what's where why?' [abstract] [slides]
Balthasar Bickel (University of Zurich)
10:15 - 10:45 'Topic and government in Thai, an isolating language' [abstract] [slides]
Makoto Minegishi (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
10:45 - 11:15 TEA/COFFEE
Chair: Jim Blevins (University of Cambridge)
11:15 - 11:45 'Gradience in subcategorisation? Locative phrases with Italian verbs of motion' [abstract] [handout]
Michela Cennamo (University of Naples) & Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa)
11:45 - 12:15 'Looking for the governor, or the problem of argument status in double-marking languages. A Conctruction Grammar perspective' [abstract] [slides]
Eva Schultze-Berndt (The University of Manchester)
12:15 - 13:15 Keynote talk: 'Predicates and argument selection: unselected objects in Moro' [abstract] [slides]
Farrell Ackerman (University of Calfornia San Diego)
13:15 - 14:15 LUNCH
Chair: Peter Sells (SOAS London/ University of York)
14:15 - 14:45 'Inconsistent governors and challenging complements: a generative perspective' [abstract]
Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge)
14:45 - 15:15 'Head & dependent marking and the Pamiri verb: a defaults-based account in Network Morphology' [abstract] [slides] [handout]
Andrew Hippisley & Greg Stump (University of Kentucky)
15:15 - 15:45 'Tracking the dependencies of dependencies' [abstract] [handout]
Niina Ning Zhang (National Chung Cheng University)
15:45 - 16:15 TEA/COFFEE
Chair: David Lightfoot (Georgetown University)
16:15 - 17:00 'Government in Dependency Grammar' [abstract] [slides]
Timothy Osborne & Thomas Gross (Aichi University)
17:00 - 18:00 Keynote talk: 'Government, agreement and minimality' [abstract] [handout]
Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)
  
19:30 - 23:00 EVENING EVENT
Conference dinner at Queens' College, Cambridge (the Old Hall)

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FRIDAY 2 September 2011

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Chair: Edith Moravcsik (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
9:00 - 10:00 Keynote talk: 'Predicting case frames across languages: a competing motivations approach to (differential) case marking' [abstract] [slides]
Andrej Malchukov (Mainz/ MPI Leipzig/ Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg)
10:00 - 10:30 'To agree or not to agree: what variable case government tells us about possessor raising' [abstract] [handout]
Joan Maling (Brandeis University)
10:30 - 11:00 TEA/COFFEE
Chair: Tibor Laczkó (University of Debrecen)
11:00 - 11:30 'Structural government effects in Hungarian locative incorporation' [abstract] [handout]
Balazs Suranyi (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
11:30 - 12:00 'Case government vs case agreement: modelling Modern Greek case attraction phenomena in LFG' [abstract] [handout]
Kakia Chatsiou (University of Essex)
12:00 - 13:00 Keynote talk: 'A declarative perspective on agreement and government' [abstract] [slides]
Peter Sells (SOAS University of London/ University of York)
13:00 - 14:15 LUNCH
Chair: Tibor Kiss (Ruhr University Bochum)
14:15 - 14:45 'Modeling subcategorization through co-occurrence: a computational lexical resource for Italian verbs' [abstract] [slides]
Gabriella Lapesa (University of Osnabrück) & Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa)
14:45 - 15:15 'Fine-grained valence acquisition from large corpora for treebank grammars' [abstract] [slides]
Tejaswini Deoskar (University of Edinburgh)
15:15 - 15:45 'Learning relational nouns from corpora' [abstract] [slides]
Berthold Crysmann (University of Bonn)
15:45 - 16:45 POSTER/SYSTEM SESSION
15:45 - 16:15 TEA/COFFEE
  'Syntactic government patterns in the Sketch Engine and in syntagmatic dictionaries for Estonian' [abstract] [poster]
Jelena Kallas (Institute of the Estonian Language, Tallinn University)
 
'Government models for cross-lingual transformations' [abstract] [poster]
Elena Kozerenko (Institute for Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences)
 
'Directional asymmetry in agreement and case-marking: deriving Greenberg's Universals 33 and 41' [abstract] [poster]
Hisao Tokizaki (Sapporo University)
 
'Valency classes and the coding of arguments in the Leipzig Valency Project' [poster]
Andrej Malchukov, Iren Hartmann, Martin Haspelmath, Bernard Comrie & Søren Wichmann (Max Planck Institute Leipzig)
 
'Catenae. Rising. Morph catenae. Clitics.' [poster]
Thomas Gross (Aichi University) & Timothy Osborne
Chair: Lars Hellan (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
16:45 - 17:45 Keynote talk: 'Automatic acquisition of subcategorisation from large text corpora' [abstract] [slides]
Adam Przepiórkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
  
19:30 Dinner at the St. John's Chop House (Northampton St, Cambridge CB3 0AD). North-west edge of the city centre, in a characterful 17th century building. Top class British food, including non-meat options.

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SATURDAY 3 September 2011

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Chair: Joan Maling (Brandeis University)
9:00 - 10:00 Keynote talk: 'A canonical approach to government and the case for variable case' [abstract] [slides]
Silvia Luraghi (University of Pavia)
10:00 - 10:30 'Modelling variable government in Russian pseudosynonymous verb-preposition constructions: a Construction Grammar approach' [abstract] [slides] [handout]
Irina Iakovleva (Ulyanovsk State University)
10:30 - 11:00 TEA/COFFEE
Chair: Jim Blevins (University of Cambridge)
11:00 - 11:30 'On adverbial complements in German' [abstract] [slides]
Tibor Kiss, Antje Müller & Claudia Roch (Ruhr University Bochum)
11:30 - 12:00 'Locative particle dependencies in Hungarian' [abstract] [slides]
György Rákosi & Tibor Laczkó (University of Debrecen)
12:00 - 13:00 Keynote talk: 'Governed cases vs semantic cases - a view from morphology' [abstract] [slides]
Andrew Spencer (University of Essex)
13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 END of conference
  
19:30 Dinner for those who are still around at the Café Rouge (Bridge St, Cambridge CB2 1UJ).

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Other accepted papers

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Paper which were accepted but could not be presented at the conference:

  • 'Empirical valency research and the problem of predicting syntactic behaviour from semantics' [abstract]
    Susen Faulhaber & Thomas Herbst (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg)
  • 'Verbal "stem-agreement" in Algonquian languages as semantic-constructional selectionality' [abstract]
    Conor McDonough Quinn (University of Southern Maine)
  • 'Non-subcategorized CP arguments in German' [abstract]
    Jennifer Rau (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

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