Irish Network in Formal Linguistics Conference 2011
University of Ulster at Jordanstown
25-27 May 2011
Wednesday 25 May
12.45-1.30 Registration
1.30-1.40 Conference Opening
1.40-2.40 Heidi Harley (Arizona), Case and Number Dissociation in Hiaki
2.40-3.20 Paolo Acquaviva (University College Dublin) Tense features and stems in Irish verb morphology
3.20-3.40 Coffee
3.40-4.20 Malgorzata Krzek (Newcastle Upon Tyne) Generic subjects and Voice in Polish impersonal constructions
4.20-5.00 Mark Henry (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) Incomplete head-raising in relative clauses and a non-genitival Semitic construct state
5.00-5.40 Marko Hladnik (Utrecht University/ UiL-OTS) Recoverability in Slovene Relative Clauses
5.40 Reception
Thursday 26 May
9.30-10.10 Masakazu Kuno (Waseda University, Japan) On Feature Inheritance and Cyclicity of Derivation
10.10-10.50 Leah Bauke (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany) A Phase-theoretic analysis of root compounds (from a cross-linguistic perspective)
10.50-11.10 Coffee
11.10-11.50 Reichard Ulrich (Durham) Inference and Grammar
Microvariation
11.50-12.30: Silvia Rossi and Mariachiara Berizzi (Padua) The syntax of the after perfect in Hiberno-English
12.50-1.30 Lunch
1.30-2.30 Liliane Haegeman and Lieven Danckaert (Ghent) tba
2.30-3.10 Francesca La Morgia (Reading) Auxiliary selection in an Eastern Abruzzese dialect: a case of contact induced change
3.10-3.30 Coffee
3.30-4.10 Alison Henry (Ulster) What can they say in Strabane all? Wh-movement and (lack of) quantifier float in South-west Ulster English
4.10-5.10 Christina Tortora (City University of New York) Can we find clusters amidst the variability? The case of Appalachian.
7.00 Conference Dinner
Friday 27 May
Minority Languages
10.00-11.00 Andrew Carnie (Arizona) Set-theoretic phrase markers and pronoun-postposing in Scottish Gaelic
11.00-11.20 Coffee
11.20-12.00 Alessio Frenda (Trinity College Dublin) Local agreement in Irish and Welsh:
Theoretical and typological implications
12.00-12.40 Frances Kane (Ulster) Demonstratives in Irish
12.40-1.40 Lunch
1.40-2.40 Maria Polinsky (Harvard) Some remarks on asymmetries in nominal and verbal morphology in heritage languages
2.40-3.20 Conchúr Ó Giollagáin (National University of Ireland, Galway) Entropic bilingualism and the Double L2 Hypothesis of the Minority Language Condition
