Sala de Consiliu, 1st floor 15:00-16:00

WEDNESDAY May 30th Professor Honoris Causa Ceremony HENK VAN RIEMSDIJK Professor Emeritus, Tilburg University HENK VAN RIEMSDIJK Attraction and Repulsion in Linguistics

16:30-17:30

SYNTAX PUSKIN Room, 1st floor

THURSDAY May 31st

15:00-16:00 Invited speaker: NGEL J. GALLEGO - Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona The Basic Elements of the Left Periphery 16:00-16:30 16:30-17:00 17:00-18:00 Ileana Baciu (University of Bucharest) - A tentative approach to the syntax of Mary hammered the metal flat Alexandra Cornilescu & Ruxandra Cosma (University of Bucharest) Restructuring and the Supine Invited speaker: JAUME MATEU- Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona Argument structure and the incorporation/conflation distinction 19:00

REGISTRATION AND OPENING RECEPTION (Casa Oamenilor de tiin, Piaa Lahovari)

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PUSKIN Room, 1st floor FRIDAY June 1st Registration Invited speaker: IDAN LANDAU Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Towards a dual theory of obligatory control Coffee break (Emerson Room, Basement) Gabriela Alboiu (York University) & Virginia Hill (University of New Brunswick) ECM as both A and A bar Movement: Evidence from Romanian Evidentials Maura Cotfas (University of Bucharest) - Romanian Subjunctive Complements (in Control Contexts) and their Temporal Properties: a Classification Coffee break (Emerson Room, Basement) Orsolya Tnczos (PPCU, Hungary) - Causative Constructions in Udmurt Elena Ciutescu (Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona) - Notes on the Syntax of Analytical Causative Constructions in Three Romance Languages Lunch (Emerson Room, Basement) Invited speaker: HENK VAN RIEMSDIJK Tilburg University Doubling Trouble Adam Szalontai (ELTE, Budapest) - An experimental study of Hungarian dative structures Petra Sleeman (ACLC, University of Amsterdam) - Participles Modified by beaucoup and trs in French: a ScalarAnalysis Imola-Agnes Farkas (Babes-Bolyai University) - On the Scalar Structure of the Adjective: The Case of Romanian Coffee break (Emerson Room, Basement) Invited speaker: GABI DANON Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan Hebrew QNP agreement: Towards an empirically based analysis Jutta Hartmann (Tbingen University) - Apparent Exceptions to the Definiteness Effect in English Alina Tigu (University of Bucharest) Towards an analysis of Romanian Indefinites

10.00-10:30 10:30-11:00 11:00-11:30 11.30-12:00 12:00-12:30 12:30-13:00 13:00-14:30 14:30-15:30

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SATURDAY June 2nd Invited speaker: KATALIN . KISS Hungarian Academy of Sciences & Pzmny Pter Catholic University Deriving the properties of structural focus Coffee break (Emerson Room, Basement) Maria Patona (Pzmny Pter Catholic University-BTK) - To as a Contrastive Linker in Polish John Beavers & Alexandra Teodorescu (The University of Texas at Austin) - Repetition Effects in the Syntactic Domain. A New Analysis of Romanian Possessives Coffee break (Emerson Room, Basement) Ion Giurgea (Institutul de Lingvistic "Iorgu Iordan - Al. Rosetti") - On the Evolution of Articles into Agreement Markers in Romanian and Albanian Isabelle Roy & Elena Soare (Universit de Paris 8 CNRS) - Nominalizing Participants in the Event(uality): a Constructionist Approach Lunch (Emerson Room, Basement) Invited speaker: MARTIN EVERAERT UiL-OTS Anaphoric dependencies in Romanian, Greek, and Telugu. (Why we should treat languages as not fundamentally different from one another) Orsolya Tnczos and Dina Varga (PPCU, Hungary) - Dependent Imperatives Exist: Evidence from Finno-Ugric Alexandru Mardale (INALCO Paris & SeDyL) - Complex Adnominal Prepositional Phrases. Data from Romanian Coffee break (Emerson Room, Basement) Veronica Tomescu (University of Bucharest) - The Syntax and Semantics of Romanian Directional and Locative Particles and Prepositions Carmen Savu (University of Bucharest) - On Numeral-Noun Constructions with Additive and Prepositional Numerals Mihaela Tnase-Dogaru (University of Bucharest) Prepositional Cardinal-Noun Constructions in Romanian

10.00-10:30 10:30 11:00 11:00 11:30 11:30-12:00 12:00-12:30 12:30-13:00 13.00-14:30 14:30-15:30

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PHONOLOGY, SEMANTICS, PRAGMATICS, LANGUAGE ACQUISITION CARTIANU Room, 1st floor FRIDAY June 1st 8:30 13.30 9:00-10:00 Registration Invited speaker: IDAN LANDAU Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Towards a dual theory of obligatory control Coffee break (Emerson Room, Basement) Peter Avery (York University) & Toni Borowsky (University of Sydney) - Dhochi: Language Games in OT Gabriela Brozb (University of Bucharest) - Kenyan English Vocalic System a Heterogeneous Mix Coffee break (Emerson Room, Basement) Raluca Constantin (Military Technical Academy, Bucharest) - The Acquisition of Fleece and Kit by Romanian Learners of English Antonio Fortin (University of Surrey) - Constructions, Pragmatics, and Modality Lunch (Emerson Room, Basement) Invited speaker: HENK VAN RIEMSDIJK Tilburg University Doubling Trouble Ioana Stoicescu (University of Bucharest) - Tense Contrasts in Child Romanian Melania Duma ( iQuest Technologies, Cluj-Napoca) - Acquiring C and Spec,C positions. An L1 Romanian-L2 English Perspective Larisa Avram (University of Bucharest), Martine Coene (Antwerp University), Anca Sevcenco (University of Bucharest) Theoretical Implictions of Childrens Early Production of Object Clitics Coffee break (Emerson Room, Basement) Invited speaker: GABI DANON Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan Hebrew QNP agreement: Towards an empirically based analysis

10.00-10:30 10:30-11:00 11:00-11:30 11.30-12:00 12:00-12:30

12:30-13:00 13:00-14:30 14:30-15:30

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SATURDAY June 2nd Invited speaker: KATALIN . KISS Hungarian Academy of Sciences & Pzmny Pter Catholic University Deriving the properties of structural focus Coffee break (Emerson Room, Basement) Camelia Bleotu (Universita Ca'Foscari) - What Gets Incorporates and What Does Not Ionu Gean (Iorgu Iordan Al. Rosetti Institute of Linguistics) Implicit and Explicit Grammatical Knowledge In Teaching Romanian as a Foreign Language Coffee break (Emerson Room, Basement) Merve Kyimaz (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) - The Contexts Limiting the Scrambling of Multiple Whconstructions Mihaela Zamfirescu (University of Bucharest) - Experimental Results in the Semantic Analysis of Positive Polarity Items in Romanian Lunch (Emerson Room, Basement) Invited speaker: MARTIN EVERAERT UiL-OTS Anaphoric dependencies in Romanian, Greek, and Telugu. (Why we should treat languages as not fundamentally different from one another) Roxana Petcu (University of Bucharest) - The World We Live In and the Importance of General Knowledge for a wouldbe Conference Interpreter Daniela Ionescu (University of Bucharest) - Co-Authoring the Addressee in Translation and Interpretation. An argumentation perspective Coffee break (Emerson Room, Basement)

11:30-12:00 12:00-12:30 12:30-13:00 13.00-14:30 14:30-15:30

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