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16 October 2008, Thursday

9:00-9:30 Welcome
@ Rektörlük Konferans Salonu
9:30-10:15 David Pesetsky
Russian case morphology and the syntactic categories
10:15-10:45 COFFEE BREAK

Session T1

@ Rektörlük Konferans Salonu, Chairperson: Eser E. Taylan
10:45-11:15 V. Spyropoulos
Case in syntax and morphology: Evidence from Greek
11:15-11:45 C. Sevdalı
Are all datives the same?
11:45-12:15 I. Botwinik-Rotem
A closer look at the Hebrew (Construct and Free) locative PPs: the analysis of mi locatives
12:15-13:30 LUNCH

Session T2

@ Rektörlük Konferans Salonu, Chairperson: Irena Botwinik
13:30-14:00 M. R. Manzini, L. M. Savoia
On ‘Infinitive-less’ languages again – and their implications for minimalist theorizing
14:00-14:30 G. Kotzoglou & S. Varlokosta
Resumption in Greek restrictive relatives: Matching and copy reduction
14:30-15:00 N. Boneh & I Sichel
PP-fronting in the syntax of possession
15:00-15:30 COFFEE BREAK

Session T3

@ Rektörlük Konferans Salonu, Chairperson: Idan Landau
15:30-16:00 V. Valmala Elguela
Topic, Focus and Floating Quantification
16:00-16:30 A. Matsuya & M. Kamiya
Negative and universal quantifiers in Turkish
16:30-17:00 Ö. Aydın
Agreement on C: An evidence from quantifier subjects in Turkish
18:30-21:00 CONFERENCE DINNER
@ Faculty Lounge

 

17 October 2008, Friday

9:30-10:15 Jaklin Kornfilt
Turkish RCs as Migrants from Central Asia to the Mediterranean
10:15-10:45 COFFEE BREAK

Session F1

@ Rektörlük Konferans Salonu, Chairperson: Mine Nakipoglu-Demiralp
10:45-11:15 I. Landau
Against broad subjects in Hebrew
11:15-11:45 L. Choueiri
Definiteness spread
11:45-12:15 E. Georgala
Evidence for short object shift in Greek
12:15-13:15 LUNCH
13:15-14:00 Poster Session
@ BTS (Albert Long Hall)

D. Ntelitheos
A syntactic analysis of synthetic and phrasal compound formation in Greek

Kamalı – Samuels 
All non-final stress suffixes are not created equal
       

J. Fadlon              
The psychological reality of frozen lexical entries: Evidence from Hebrew   
  

M. Stavrou & I. M. Tsimpli       
Definite agreement in complex noun phrases

A. Galani & G. Tsoulas     
Doubling the double object clitic cluster: a Northwestern Greek Dialect

Session F2

@ Rektörlük Konferans Salonu, Chairperson: Rita Manzini
14:00-14:30 A. Meltzer
Verbal passives in Hebrew: the advantages of a suppression account
14:30-15:00 M. Sheehan
Focus, Prosody and the EPP in Romance
15:00-15:30 R. Etxepare - M. Uribe-Etxebarria
The interphases of focus in Spanish
15:30-16:00 B. Kamali
Scope of negation and phonological phrasing in Turkish
16:00-16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30-17:15 Norvin Richards
Beyond Strength and Weakness: intonation and the distribution of overt movement
 

18 October 2008, Saturday

9:30-10:15 K. Grohmann
Copy Modification and the Architecture of the Grammar
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break

Session S1

@ Rektörlük Konferans Salonu, Chairperson: Ianthi M. Tsimpli
10:45-11:15 M.R. Manzini, A. Roussou, L. M. Savoia
The morphosyntax of non-active voice in Greek and Albanian
11:15-11:45 S. İşsever
Licensing wh-in-situ in Turkish
11:45-12:15 A. Jimenez Fernandez
A discourse/agreement-based approach to peripheries
12:15-13:00 CLOSING
   CITY TOUR  
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