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Program

Saturday, September 13 9--9:30 Registration and breakfast 9:30--9:45 Opening remarks 9:45--10:45 Daniel Buring (UCLA): Contrast, Givenness, and Yet Another Theory of Focus in English (invited speaker) 10:45--11:15 coffee break 11:15--12:15 Jieun Kiaer (Oxford) and Ruth Kempson (King's College London): Topic and Focus phenomena in Korean and Syntax-Processing/Phonology Interface Commentator: Peter Sells (SOAS) 12:15--1:15 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 Commentator: Artemis Alexiadou (University of Stuttgart) 1:15--2:45 lunch 2:45--3:45 Balazs Suranyi (HAS, Budapest): Syntactic configuration and interpretation Commentator: David Adger (Queen Mary UL) 3:45--4:45 Vieri Samek-Lodovici (University College London): Information Structure in Italian Clauses Commentator: Lisa Cheng (Leiden University) 5--? wine party Sunday, September 14 9:30--10:30 Michael Wagner (Cornell/McGill): Focus and Recursion Commentator: Daniel Buring (UCLA) 10:30--11 coffee break 11--12 Hyun Kyung Hwang (Cornell): Wh-intonation and Information Structure in South Kyeongsang Korean, Fukuoka Japanese and Tokyo Japanese Commentator: Shinichiro Ishihara (University of Potsdam) 12--1 Nancy C. Kula (University of Essex): Post-verbal focus in Bantu: In-situ, IAV and final focus Commentator: Malte Zimmermann (University of Potsdam) 1--2:30 lunch 2:30--3:30 Dora Alexopoulou (Cambridge) and Mary Baltazani (Ioanina): Recursive focus and prominence Commentator: Michael Wagner (Cornell/McGill) 3:30--4:30 Lisa Cheng (Leiden University) and Laura Downing (ZAS): Against FocusP: Arguments from Zulu Commentator: Kriszta Szendroi (UCL) 4:30--5 coffee break 5--6 Gisbert Fanselow (University of Potsdam): In need of mediation: The relation between syntax and information structure (invited speaker) 7--? conference dinner (place to be announced) Monday, September 15 9:30--10 coffee 10--11 Artemis Alexiadou and Kirsten Gengel (University of Stuttgart): NP ellipsis without focus movement/projections: the role of Classifiers Commentator: Vieri Samek-Lodovici (UCL) 11--12 Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung-Hee University) and Peter Sells (SOAS): Korean Nominalizer 'kes' and its Information Structure Commentator: Jieun Kiaer (Oxford) 12--1:30 lunch 1:30--2:30 Edwin Williams (Princeton): The Locality of Focusing and the Coherence of Anaphors (invited speaker) 2:30--3 closing remarks

Alternates:

1. Malte Zimmermann (University of Potsdam), Daniel Hole (University of Potsdam), and Wolfram Schaffar (University of Bonn): Head-Internal Clefts in (South) East Asian: A cross-linguistic comparison of Burmese, Japanese, and Chinese.

2. Beste Kamali (Harvard University): Phonological Phrasing Meets Scrambling: The Case of Turkish