UCL LINGUISTICS


Presentations

Daniel Buring (UCLA):
Contrast, Givenness, and Yet Another Theory of Focus in English

Jieun Kiaer (Oxford) and Ruth Kempson (King's College London):
Topic and Focus phenomena in Korean and Syntax-Processing/Phonology Interface
Commentary by Peter Sells (SOAS)

Stavros Skopeteas (University of Potsdam) and Elisabeth Verhoeven (University of Bremen):
The content of non-argument positions at the left periphery: Evidence from Yucatec Maya
Commentary by Artemis Alexiadou (University of Stuttgart)

Balazs Suranyi (HAS, Budapest):
Syntactic configuration and interpretation
Commentary by David Adger(Queen Mary UL)
Vieri Samek-Lodovici (University College London):
Information Structure in Italian Clauses
Commentary by Lisa Cheng
(Leiden University)

Michael Wagner (Cornell/McGill):
Focus and Recursion
Commentary by Daniel Buring (UCLA)

Hyun Kyung Hwang (Cornell):
Wh-intonation and Information Structure in South Kyeongsang Korean, Fukuoka Japanese and Tokyo Japanese
Commentary by Shinichiro Ishihara
(University of Potsdam)

Nancy C. Kula (University of Essex):
Post-verbal focus in Bantu: In-situ, IAV and final focus
Commentary by Malte Zimmermann (University of Potsdam)

Dora Alexopoulou (Cambridge) and Mary Baltazani (Ioanina):
Recursive focus and prominence
Commentary by Michael Wagner (Cornell/McGill)

Lisa Cheng (Leiden University) and Laura Downing (ZAS):
Against FocusP: Arguments from Zulu
Commentary by Kriszta Szendroi (UCL)

Gisbert Fanselow (University of Potsdam):
In need of mediation: The relation between syntax and information structure
Artemis Alexiadou and Kirsten Gengel (University of Stuttgart):
NP ellipsis without focus movement/projections: the role of Classifiers
Commentary by Vieri Samek-Lodovici (UCL)

Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung-Hee University) and Peter Sells (SOAS):
Korean Nominalizer 'kes' and its Information Structure
Commentary by Jieun Kiaer (Oxford)

Edwin Williams (Princeton):
The Locality of Focusing and the Coherence of Anaphors