Programme

1^st International Workshop on the Interface of Information Structure and Argument Structure, University of Seville, Spain

Wednesday 25^th – Friday 27^th, October 2017

PROGRAMME

All sessions will be held in Aula de Grados, Facultad de Filología, except Thursday afternoon (Aula 118)

	WEDNESDAY 25ST OCTOBER
16.30-17.00	Preliminary remarks
17.00-17.30	Antonio Fábregas, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández and Mercedes Tubino: Datives, theticity and information structure
17.30-18.00	María Cornejo: Null and post-verbal subjects in Spanish L1 Speakers. An interface investigation on acquisitional data and comparative analysis.
18.00-18.30	Mara Frascarelli and Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández: Discourse categories in imperatives
18.30-19.00	Coffee Break
19.00-19.30	Bettina Kaminski and Javier Martos: Discourse markers and information structure in German language exchange settings
19.30-20.00	Ana Ojea: Core Intentional Features and their effects on word order and linguistic variation

	THURSDAY 26^th OCTOBER – MORNING SESSION
9.00-9.30	Opening remarks
9.30-10.30	INVITED SPEAKER : Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin & Leibniz-ZAS) Novel object experiencer predicates and clitic doubling
10.30-11.00	Ingo Feldhausen (Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt) and Maria del Mar Vanrell (Universitat de les Illes Balears): Argument Structure and narrow focus marking in Spanish
11.00-11:30	Arantzazu Elordieta (UPV/EHU) and Bill Haddican (CUNY/Queens College): The interaction of morphophonological requirements of focus with verb-initial word orders in root/non-root clauses
11.30-12.00	Coffee Break
12.00-12.30	Steffen Heidinger (University Graz): Focus affinity and the argument-adjunct distinction
12.30-13.00	Sabine Reuters, Sarah Dolscheid, Yulia Esaulova and Martina Penke (University of Cologne): Animacy and visual effects in German sentence production
13.00-13.30	Manuel Leonetti (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares): Topics and null subjects
13.30-15.00	Lunch


	THURSDAY 26^th OCTOBER – AFTERNOON SESSION
15.00-15.30	Francesca Ramaglia (Universitá di Roma Tre): The (Information) Structure of Marked Copular Constructions: a multi-layered interface approach to it- and there-sentences
15.30-16.00	Marta Khouja (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): DOM as a syntax-pragmatics interface marker: evidence from Catalan
16.00-16.30	Paola Crisma, Giuseppe Longobardi, Dimitris Michelioudakis and Nina Radkevich (University of York): The Left Periphery of nominal phrases and the argument-adjective asymmetry
16.30-17.00	Coffee Break and poster session: Laura Bailey (University of Kent): Null prepositions and light nouns in Germanic and Romance Jose Sequeros-Valle (University of Illinois at Chicago): Topic Type and Pitch Accent: Data from an Elicited Production Task
17.00-17.30	Ana Maria Brito (Universidade do Porto): Ditransitive constructions and information structure in European Portuguese: when the DO is a heavy constituent
17.30-18.00	Linda Badan (University of Ghent): Discourse markers at the interface between syntax and prosody: The case of ‘guarda te’ in regional Italian of Veneto
18.00-18.30	Fang Yang, Martin Pickering and Holly Branigan (University of Edinburgh): Is topicalized Topic more prominent than left-dislocated Topic? Evidence from structural priming experiments in Mandarin Chinese
18.30-19.00	Roland Hinterhölzl (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia): What are subjects good for?
21.00	SOCIAL DINNER


	FRIDAY 27^th OCTOBER – MORNING SESSION
9.30-10.30	INVITED SPEAKER: Valentina Bianchi (Universitá di Siena): Spelling out focus chains and wh-chains in Italian
10.30-11.00	Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria (UPV/EHU): A look at some aspects of the syntax-pragmatic interface in Spanish
11.00-11.30	Xavier Villalba (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): Infinitival wh-relatives in Romance: Consequences for the truncation vs. intervention debate
11.30-12.00	Dalina Kallulli (University of Vienna): PCC as an Information Structure Phenomenon
12.00-12.30	Coffee Break
12.30-13.00	Manuel Leonetti (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares) and Victoria Escandell-Vidal (UNED): Focus structure in relative clauses. Evidence from Spanish
13.00-13.30	Anna Kocher (University of Vienna): Towards a unified analysis of verum focus in German, English and Spanish
13.30-15.00	Lunch


	FRIDAY 27^th OCTOBER – AFTERNOON SESSION
15.00-15.30	Simone de Cia (University of Manchester): Discourse-Pragmatics Beyond Force: Contrastiveness in North-Eastern Italian Dialects (NEIDs)
15.30-16.00	Montserrat Batllori (Universitat de Girona): Left periphery and information structure distribution of imperatives constructions from a diachronic standpoint
16.00-16.30	Vieri Samek-Lodovici (University Colleage London): The Position of Italian Contrastive Focus: Challenges and Solutions
16.30-17.00	Coffee Break
17.00-17.30	Julio Villa-García (University of Manchester): Optional and obligatory Comp reduplication with non-root dislocations in Spanish
17.30-18.00	Ekaterina Chernova (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): Wh-Movement in Echo Questions and Crosslinguistic Variation
18.00-18.30	Anja Latrouite (HHU Düsseldorf): Information-structural prominence and argument realization
18.30-19.00	Mary Kato (UNICAMP) and Paco Ordóñez (Stony Brooks University): Topic subjects in Brazilian Portuguese and Clitic Left Dislocation constructions with datives in Dominican Spanish: two categorical types of sentences in Romania Nova

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