PROGRAM
THURSDAY, MARCH 22nd
9:00 – 9:30 - Registration
9:30 – 10:00 - Welcome
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10:00 – 11:00 - Title to be announced
Invited speaker: Jairo Nunes (Universidade de São Paulo)
11:00 – 11:30 - Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:10 - Talk 1 - A unified labeling algorithm for adjuncts and other configurations - Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen)
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12:10 – 14:10 - Lunch Break
14:10 – 14:50 - Talk 2 - Sentential adjuncts in flux. Evidence from the diachrony of German um-zu-clauses - Lukasz Jedrzejowski (Universität zu Köln)
14:50 – 15:30 - Talk 3 - The (im)possibility of extaction from adjuncts - Chiara Dal Farra (Università Ca' FoscariVenezia)
15:30 – 16:10 -Talk 4 - Adjunction, A’-movement and Binding in Free Relative Clauses - Maximiliano Guimarães (Universidade Federal do Paraná) & Andrea Knöpfle (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)
16:10 – 16:40 - Coffee Break
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16:40 – 17:20 - Talk 5 - Serial verb constructions and pair merge - Tonjes Veenstra ( Leibniz-ZAS)
17:20 – 18:00 - Talk 6 - The Unbearable Complementhood of Adjuncts - Maximiliano Guimarães (Universidade Federal do Paraná)
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FRIDAY, MARCH 23rd
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9:00 – 9:40 - Talk 7 - Ambiguity of projection and chomskyan adjunction as a formal way of approaching predication in small clauses and secondary predication - Marcos Carreira (Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa)
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9:40 – 10:20 - Talk 8 - Bare singulars can object shift or pseudo-incorporate but not both - Jyoti Iyer (UMass Amherst)
10:20 – 10:50 - Coffee Break
10:50 – 11:30 - Talk 9- Adjuncts in existential null impersonals in Brazilian Portuguese - Janayna Carvalho (Universidade de São Paulo/ FAPESP)
11:30 – 12:10 - Talk 10 - Non-distinctiveness, chain formation and parasitic gaps - Carlos Muñoz Pérez (Universidad de Buenos Aires & CONICET)
12:10 – 14:10 - Lunch Break
14:10 – 14:50 - Talk 11 - Causal clauses in Brazilian Portuguese - Patrícia Rodrigues (Universidade Federal do Paraná)
14:50 – 15:30 - Talk 12 - Who is going to eat the cake Mary prepared? Creation verbs and the i* single argument introducer - Ana Calindro (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
15:30 – 16:10 - Talk 13 - Finite clauses associated with convencer in BP: Complements or Adjuncts? - Letícia Santos (Universidade de São Paulo), Claudia Coelho (Universidade de São Paulo) & Jairo Nunes (Universidade de São Paulo)
16:10 – 16:40 - Coffee Break
16:40 – 17:20 - Talk 14 - Adjunction and control by SM in infinitival sentences that modify evaluative adjectives - Violeta Demonte (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
17:20 – 18:20 - Title to be announced
Invited speaker: Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
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18:20 - Closing remarks