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  • Mediterranean Syntax Meeting-II (MSM II)

    16-18 October 2008
    Bogazici University, Istanbul

    Contact person: Hasan Mesut Meral (msm2@boun.edu.tr)

    The Mediterranean Syntax Meeting-II (MSM II) covers the syntax and syntax-phonology interface of Mediterranean languages with particular emphasis on analyses of Arabic, Greek, Hebrew and Turkish within the Principles and Parameters framework and its current developments within the Minimalist Program. Click here for the conference website.

    Invited speakers
    Kleanthes Grohmann (University of Cyprus)
    Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University)
    David Pesetsky (MIT)
    Norvin Richards (MIT)

 

Events

Talk: "Pre/post-positional systems. Do prepositional or postpositional systems exist? Do prepositions or postpositions establish a systematic set of semantic oppositions? Proposal of a theory"
by Prof. Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti (Università di Torino)
May 22, 2008 (TO BE CONFIRMED!)
Time and place TBA

BLM (Bogazici Linguistics Meeting) 2: TBA
by Dilek Uygun (BU)
May 13, 2008
at 4 pm, TB 250

Talk: "Hiatus Resolution in Turkish"
by Dr. Barış Kabak (University of Konstanz, German)
March 27, 2007
at 4 pm  Kriton Curi Salonu

Talk: "Why Nouns and Verbs build different kinds of phrases"
by Prof. David Pesetsky (MIT)
April 2, 2007
at 3 pm  TB 250

Talk: "Tenacity of L1 phonology: Evidence from L2 Phonology"
by Heidi Altmann and Baris Kabak (University of Konstanz, German)
April 3, 2007
at 4 pm  TB 250

Talk: "Overmerge, undermerge and the nature of Selection"
by Prof. David Pesetsky (MIT)
April 4, 2007
at 3 pm  Kriton Curi

Talk: "Cyclic Linearization of Shared Material"
by Prof. David Pesetsky (MIT)
April 6, 2007
at 4 pm  TB 250

Talk: "Locality-II"
by Cedric Boeckx (Harvard University)
November 9, 2006
4pm TB 250

Talk: "Locality-I"
by Cedric Boeckx (Harvard University)
November 8, 2006
3pm TB 250

Talk by Prof. Bonnie Webber from the University of Edinburgh
May 8, 2006 14:00 TB 250 "A Lexical Perspective on Discourse Structure and Semantics"

Talk by Prof. Mark Steedman from the University of Edingurgh
May 9, 2006 14:00 TB 250 "Plans and the Computational Structure of Language"

Seminars by Prof. Ad Neeleman from UCL
April 17, 2006 10:00 TB 415 "Spell-Out: Radical Pro Drop"
April 18, 2006 10:00 TB 250 "Spell-Out: Phrasal Affixation"
April 19, 2006 10:00 TB 415 "On Syntactic and Phonological Representations"
April 19, 2006 14:00 IB 213 "Context Sensitive Spell-Out and Adjacency"
April 24, 2006 10:00 TB 415 "Case Adjacency"
handouts

Talk: "Case and Agreement"
by Cedric Boeckx (Harvard University)
December 20, 2005
11am TB 250
Abstract: In this talk I address several issues that arise in the domain of case and agreement in grammar. Specifically, I focus on the following question: What drives movement? After reviewing possible solutions, I argue that Agreement is at the heart of syntax, and explore some of the consequences that arise from this hypothesis.

Talk: "On the secret language of Abdal: its structure and distribution"
by Tooru Hayasi (University of Tokyo)
September 27, 2005
11am TB 250

Talk: "On Ellipsis: Generative Approaches to the Interpretation of Missing Constituents"
by Howard Lasnik (University of Maryland)
September 29, 2005
10 am Rectorate's Conference Hall

Talk: "On Repair by Ellipsis"
by Howard Lasnik (University of Maryland)
September 30, 2005
10 am Rectorate's Conference Hall