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Linguistic Variation in the Interaction between Internal and External Syntax
University of Utrecht, the Netherlands

Location: Drift 21, Room 0.05 (Sweelinckzaal), entrance through Drift 27

Monday, February 8^th, 2016

8.30 – 9.10	Registration and coffee
9.10 – 9.20	Opening
9.20 – 10.20	Invited speaker: Martina Wiltschko (University of British Columbia) What particle syntax can teach us about the particularities of syntax
10.20 – 10.40	Coffee break
10.40 – 11.20	Jenneke van der Wal (University of Cambridge) Spell-out of Agree depends on your Personal Goal
11.20 – 12.00	Enoch O. Aboh (University of Amsterdam) Feature recombination and number agreement in Saramaccan relative clauses
12.00 – 13.40	Lunch break
13.40 – 14.20	Yoshio Endo and Liliane Haegeman (Kanda University of International Studies; Ghent University, GIST) Adverbial clauses and adverbial concord
14.20 – 15.00	Chenchen (Julio) Song (University of Cambridge) Syntax of Aktionsart: Internal-External Interaction and Cross-linguistic Variation
15.00 – 15.40	Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge / Stellenbosch University) Particles and the Final-over-Final Constraint
15.40 – 16.00	Coffee break
16.00 – 17.00	Invited speaker: Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University) When pro behaves like PRO: on the distribution of Cased Control
18.00 –	Dinner

Tuesday, February 9^th, 2016

9.30 – 10.00	Coffee
10.00 – 11.00	Invited speaker: Roberta D’Alessandro (University of Leiden) Floating phi
11.00 – 11.20	Coffee break
11.20 – 12.00	Peter W. Smith (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt) Idiosyncratically mass and idiosyncratically count
12.00 – 12.40	Ekaterina Lyutikova and Asya Pereltsvaig (Moscow State University; Stanford University) Interaction between Internal and External Syntax: Evidence from DOM in Tatar dialects
12.40 – 14.00	Lunch break
14.00 – 14.40	Usha Udaar (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi) Case syncretism: Perspectives from variations in Haryanavi and Mewati
14.40 – 15.20	Misha Knyazev (Saint Petersburg State University, Russian Federation) On some distributional differences between clausal complements of nouns in Russian and English
15.20 – 15.40	Coffee break
15.40 – 16.20	Sjef Barbiers, Hans Bennis, Lotte Hendriks (Meertens Institute (KNAW)) Merging verb cluster variation
16.20 – 17.00	Theresa Biberauer and Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge / Stellenbosch University) Maximising substantive formal features: movement without diacritics