CSSP 1995

The first Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris (CSSP 1995) was held on October 12-14 1995 at the Université Paris 7. A thematic session on thematic roles took place on October 13.

A selection of papers presented at this conference has been published as Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 1.

Program

Thursday, October 12th	Friday, October 13th	Saturday, October 14th
9h–9h10 Opening and Welcome 9h10–10h10 Invited speaker: R. Jackendoff (Brandeis) The Architecture of the Language Faculty	9h–10h Invited speaker: D. Dowty (Ohio State) The 'swarm' and Middle Alternations, Predicate Meaning Transfers, and Thematic Role Alignment	9h–10h Invited speaker: A. Szabolcsi (UCLA) Differential Scope
10h10–10h20 Break	10h–10h20 Break	10h–10h20 Break
10h20–10h55 C. Heycock (Ediburgh) & A. Kroch (Philadelphia) Pseudocleft Connectivity: Implications for the LF Interface Level 10h55–11h30 P. Acquaviva (Dublin) Chain Composition and Head-Licensing: Deriving Negative Concord 11h30–12h05 M.-E. Niño (Stanford) The Multiple Expression of Inflectional Information and Grammatical Architecture	10h20–10h55 M. Romero (Amherst) Recoverability Conditions for Sluicing 10h55–11h30 H. Rullmann (Groningen) How to Say 'not even' in Dutch 11h30–12h05 J. Pafel (Tübingen) Wh-phrases in the Scope of (Other) Quantifiers	10h20–10h55 C. Roberts (Ohio State) English Prosodic Focus and Information Structure 10h55–11h30 I. Kohlhof (Tübingen) Chain Composition and Head-Licensing: Deriving Negative Concord 11h30–12h05 R. Kibble (Edinburgh) Modal Subordination and Complement Anaphora
12h05–14h Lunch	12h05–14h Lunch	12h05–14h Lunch
14h–14h35 G. Rebuschi (Paris 3) Réciprocité, dépendance fonctionnelle et pronoms de discours 14h35–15h10 F. Beil (Stuttgart) Antecedent-Contained Deletion vs. Transitive Verb Phrase Ellipsis 15h10–15h45 A. Grosu & F. Landman (Tel Aviv) On Third-Kind Relative Constructions 15h45–16h20 F. Katada (Senshu University) Agglutinative Causatives and Theories of Morphology 16h20–16h55 P. Culicover & R. Levine (Ohio State) On English Stylistic Inversion and the that-trace Effect	14h–14h35 B. Levin (Northwestern) & M. Rappaport Hovav (Bar Illan) Why Can You Wipe a Slate Clean? 14h35–15h10 S. Markantonatou & L. Sadler (Essex) Linking Indirect Arguments and Verb Alternations in English 15h10–15h45 C. Manning (Carnegie Mellon) Valency versus Binding: on the Distinctness of Argument Structure 14h45–16h20 E. Anagnostopoulou (Tilburg ) & M. Everaert (Utrecht) Thematic Hierarchies and Binding Theory: Evidence from Greek	14h–14h35 F. Keller (Edinburgh) Underspecified Presuppositions in HPSG 14h35–15h10 M. Johnston (Brandeis) The Telic/Atelic Distinction and the Individuation of Quantificational Domains 15h10–15h45 V. Dayal (Rutgers) Unexpected Licensing of 'Any' 15h45–16h20 F. Corblin (Rennes 2) & I. Derzhanski (Edinburgh) Multiple Negation, Optional Arguments and the Reification of Eventualities
16h55–19h Reception	16h20–16h40 Break	16h20–16h40 Break
19h–20h Invited speaker: J. Bresnan (Stanford) Lexicality and Argument Structure	16h40–17h15 J. Moore & F. Ackerman (San Diego) Proto-Properties, Grammatical Relations and Case Marking 17h15–17h40 R. Buchalla (Jerusalem) Acts in an Extended Neo-Davidsonian Framework 17h40–18h15 T. Hoekstra (Leiden) Verb Composition, Theta-Role Composition 18h15h–18h50 P. Postal (New York) Two Types of English Object	16h40–17h15 S. Zucchi (Cornell) Incomplete Events, Intensionality, and Perfective Aspect 17h15–17h40 D. Farkas (Santa Cruz) Reduplicated Indefinites in Hungarian

Reviewers

Anne Abeillé (U. Paris 7), Nicholas Asher (U. du Texas, Austin), Andrée Borillo (U. Toulouse 2), Gennaro Chierchia (U. Milan) Francis Corblin (U. Rennes 2), Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS, Paris 7), Elisabet Engdahl (U Edinburgh), Donka Farkas (UCSC), Danièle Godard (CNRS, Lille) , Jacqueline Guéron (Paris 10), Jacques Jayez (EHESS), Ruth Kempson (SOAS, Londres), William Ladusaw (UCSC), Jean Lowenstamm (U. Paris 7), Jean-Marie Marandin (CNRS, Paris 7), Philip Miller (U. Lille 3), Jean-Claude Milner (U. Paris 7), Marie-Claude Paris (U. Paris 7), Malka Rappaport-Hovav (Bar Illan U.), Eric Reuland (U. Utrecht), Alain Rouveret (U. Paris 8), Anna Szabolcsi (UCLA), Annie Zaenen (Rank Xerox).

Organising committee

Francis Corblin (U. Rennes 2), Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS-Paris 7), Danièle Godard (CNRS-Paris 7), Jean-Marie Marandin (CNRS-Paris 7)

Funding

CSSP 1995 has been organised with the financial support of the CNRS, the University Paris 7 and the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (URA 1028, CNRS-Paris 7).

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