Schedule for the Main Conference

Aug 28th
8.00 – 9.00	Registration
9.00 – 9.30	Welcome
9.30 – 10.40	Invited talk: Farrel Ackerman "Systemic Motivation of 'Anomalies' in Grammar"
10.40 – 11.20	Berthold Crysmann and Chris H. Reintges "The polyfunctionality of Coptic Egyptian relative complementisers"
11.20 – 12.00	Abdulrahman Alqurashi and Bob Borsley "The Comparative Correlative Construction in Modern Standard Arabic"
12.00 – 13.00	Lunch break
13.00 – 13.40	Tsuneko Nakazawa "The Distribution of Resultatives in Japanese"
13.40 – 14.20	Juwon Lee "Two Types of Serial Verb Constructions in Korean: Subject-Sharing and Index-Sharing"
14.20 – 15.00	Break
15.00 – 15.40	Rui P. Chaves and Jeruen E. Dery "Nobody expects tensed subject parasitic gaps"
15.40 – 16.20	Frank Van Eynde and Liesbeth Augustinus "Complement raising, extraction and adposition stranding in Dutch"
16.30 – 17.30	Tribute to Ivan A. Sag Message from Tom Wasow
17.30 – 18.30	Business meeting
19.00	Conference Dinner
Aug 29th
9.00 – 9.30	Registration
9.30 – 10.40	Invited talk: Ray Jackendoff "What Can You Say Without Syntax? A Grammatical Hierarchy"
10.40 – 11.20	Philippa Cook "Between complex predicates and regular phrases: some collocational combinations in German"
11.20 – 12.00	Petter Haugereid "VP idioms in Norwegian: a subconstructional approach"
12.00 – 13.00	Lunch break
13.00 – 13.30	Poster & Demo session Andie Faber   "Mass agreement patterns in Asturian and Spanish" Peter Gabel   "A new platform for large-scale Natural Language / Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Applications" Stefan Müller, Michael Putnam and Lara Schwarz   "Unifying events: formalizing semantic conditions on adjunct extraction"
13.30 – 14.10	Olga Zamaraeva and Emily Bender "Focus Case outside of Austronesian: an analysis of Yukaghir" [Downloadable grammar]
14.10 – 14.50	Ruth Morrison and David Inman "Negation in Nanti: syntactic evidence for head and dependent negators"
14.50 – 15.20	Break
15.20 – 16.00	Jean-Pierre Koenig and Karin Michelson "Deconstructing SYNtax"
16.00 – 16.40	Doug Arnold and Bob Borsley "An analysis of English exhaustive conditionals"
16.40 – 17.00	Closing