The Generative Linguistics in the Old World will meet April 28-30 in Vienna. It was chock-a-block full of papers delivered by present and former occupants of the UMass linguistics department. Lisa Selkirk is an invited speaker at its workshop on phonological marking of focus and topic, former UMass visiting professor, Sigrid Beck is an invited speaker at its workshop on Intervention effects and former UMass professor Edwin Williams is an invited speaker at its workshop on Identity in Grammar.
Here are papers by UMass alumni, faculty, students and past and present visitors that can be found at GLOW:
Martin Walkow and Rajesh Bhatt
"Locating Agreement in Grammar"
Rose-Marie Dechaine
"Functional Categories: FLN or FLB?"
Winnie Lechner
"Some Formal Conditions on Logical Syntax"
Kier Moulton
"A New Argument for Small Clauses"
Brian Leferman
"Agent-Oriented Adverbs = Individual-Level Predicates"
Shoichi Takahashi
"The Composition and Interpretation of 'tough' Movement"
Orin Percus
"Piecing Together Predicate Transfer"
Radek Simik
"Towards a Unified Analysis of Modal Existential wh-Constructions and Purpose Clauses"
Martin Walkow
poster: "Syntax Drives Morphological Impoverishment of Clitics"
More information can be found here.
