Generative Grammar in the 21st Century

Workshop Programme

This workshop was held in honour of Andrew Radford's 65th birthday at the Wivenhoe Nottage Maritime Institute, 7-8 July 2010. Convenors: Martin Atkinson, Harald Clahsen, Claudia Felser and Roger Hawkins.

Wednesday 7th July 2010

Neil Smith
On the nature of parametric variation [handout]
Anders Holmberg
Answers to yes/no questions: a comparative study
Alain Rouveret
Is a unitary approach to ellipsis phenomena feasible? [handout]
Alison Henry
This here linguist here: demonstratives and reinforcers in Belfast English
Tom Roeper
Innate interfaces and the conception of learnability
Juergen Meisel
Acquiring a first language as a second language: L2 properties of interrogatives in French L1 speakers [handout]
Rosemarie Tracy
UG-assisted deconstruction of constructions: evidence from L1, 2L1, and early L2
Liliane Haegeman
Main clause phenomena and intervention effects [handout]
Andrew Radford
Towards a unitary account of falling standards in British sport and media [handout]

Thursday 8th July 2010

Roger Hawkins
What verb-phrase ellipsis can tell us about L2 grammars [handout]
Ian Roberts
Smuggling and the final-over-final constraint [handout]
David Adger
The syntax of nominal complements and possession [handout]
Guglielmo Cinque
Toward a unified analysis of relative clauses [handout]

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