Athens reading group in linguistics

 

Fall 2009-10/Χειμερινό εξάμηνο 2009-10

 

This group is open to anyone interested in formal linguistics and related fields.

If you are interested in joining, please send a mail to

elena@phl.uoc.gr, vtsakali@mit.edu or wlechner@gs.uoa.gr

 

 

 

Next Meeting:

Επόμενη Συνάντηση

Date:

Friday, February 12

Παρασκευή, 12 Φεβρουαρίου

 

Time:

6pm (18.00)

6μμ

 

Place:

Kallisperi 17 (3rd floor, Anagnostopoulou & Lechner; click here for map)

Καλλισπέρι 17 (3ος όροφος, Αναγωστοπούλου & Λέχνερ)

 

 

Date

Title/Topic

presented by

additional Material

February 12

Reflexivity in Greek

Argiro Tsagaraki

November 13

On the relation between roots and categorizers

Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus)

Arad roots 2003.pdf,  Acquaviva Roots DM 2008.pdf, Marantz words.pdf

October 11

The Mystery of Second Order Embedding

Bart Hollebrandse (University of Groningen)

 

September 26

EPP effects in the prepositional domain

Arhonto Terzi (University of Patras)

 

June 19

Anti-Locality

Kleanthes Grohmann (University of Cyprus)

 

June 05

Loose Multi-Word Compounds and Noun Constructs, within a Construction Grammar framework

Maria Koliopoulou

 

May 8 & March 27

On questions

Mary Baltazani

 

Μarch 20

Acquisition of Person Case Constraint

Vina Tsakali

 

January 16, 2009

Criteria for diagnosing covert movement (and some remarks on the Duke of York)

Winfried Lechner

 

December 19

Backward control

Background: Polinsky & Potsdam (2006)

Christina Sevdali

On Expanding the scope of control and raising

November 28

Spyridoula Varlakosta. Typology of pronouns and the acquisition of Principle B of Binding Theory.

Spyridoula Varlakosta

 

October 24,

November 7

Michael Wagner. 2005. Prosody and recursion. Doctoral Dissertation, MIT.

Maria Barouni

 

June 26 & 27

Michael Wagner. 2005. Prosody and recursion. Doctoral Dissertation, MIT.

Maria Barouni

 

June 5

Intonation, Wagner (2005)

Mary Baltazani

Introduction to Intonation (in Greek)

April 11 &

May 16

Idan Landau. to appear. The locative syntax of experiencers. Cambridge, MIT Press.

Elena Anagnostopou

Psych predicates from Belletti & Rizzi to Landau (Anagnostopulou)

March 14 & 28, 2008

Bachrach & Katzir. 2007. Right Node Raising and delayed Spellout. Ms., MIT.

Winfried Lechner

B&K on Multiple Dominance and RNR (Lechner)

 

 

 

 

 

Further material for download

 

 

Prosody (June 5, 26 & 27,....)

 

o   Recent work by Michael Wagner on coordination and Givenness on his Webpage.

 

 

Psych predicates (April 11 & May 16 2008)

o   Belletti, Adriana, and Rizzi, Luigi. 1988. Psych verbs and Theta-Theory. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 6.3: 291-352.

 

o   Pesetsky, David. 1995. Zero Syntax, chapter 2.1 Cambridge, MIT Press.

 

o   Reinhart, Tanja. 2001. Experiencing Derivations. SALT

 

 

Multiple Dominance (March 14 & 28 2008)

o   Bachrach, Asaf und Roni Katzir. 2006. Spelling out QR. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11, E. Puig-Waldmüller (ed.), Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, pp.63-75.

 

o   Sabbagh, Joseph. 2007. Ordering and linearizing rightward movement. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 25:349–401. Lingbuzz: http://ling.auf.net/lingBuzz/000360

 

o   Gracanin-Yuksek, Martina. 2007. About Sharing. Ph.D. Dissertation, MIT. Lingbuzz:  http://ling.auf.net/lingBuzz/000515

 

o   Course webpage on Multiple Dominance by W. Lechner (Vienna, April 2008)

 

Upcoming events & Announcements

 

April 09 - 10

Schnittstellen von Linguistik und Sprachdidaktik in der Auslandsgermanistik

Fachbereich Germanisti, Universität Athen

April 16 - 18

32nd  GLOW in Nantes