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     Edinburgh Research Explorer                                      Getting rid of uninterpretable features: blind movement andJustificationCitation for published version:Thoms, G 2011, 'Getting rid of uninterpretable features: blind movement and Justification' GenerativeLingusitics in the Old World (GLOW), Bilbao, Spain, 19/04/00, pp. 102-103.Link:Link to publication record in Edinburgh Research ExplorerDocument Version:Early version, also known as pre-printGeneral rightsCopyright for the publications made accessible via the Edinburgh Research Explorer is retained by the author(s)and / or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing these publications that users recognise andabide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.Take down policyThe University of Edinburgh has made every reasonable effort to ensure that Edinburgh Research Explorercontent complies with UK legislation. If you believe that the public display of this file breaches copyright pleasecontact openaccess@ed.ac.uk providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately andinvestigate your claim.Download date: 27. Jan. 20201  GLOW Newsletter & Conference Handbook  CONTENTS  Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 2  Obituary: John-Roger Vergnaud ....................................................................................... 3  Changes to the Board ....................................................................................................... 5  GLOW 34, Vienna: Practical Information and Selection Procedure ................................. 6 General information ..................................................................................................... 6 Conference site ............................................................................................................. 6 Inner-city transportation .............................................................................................. 6 Travel information ........................................................................................................ 7 Map ............................................................................................................................... 8 Accommodation ............................................................................................................ 9 Registration .................................................................................................................. 9 Reimbursement ............................................................................................................. 9 Useful links .................................................................................................................... 9 Selection procedure .................................................................................................... 10 Statistics by country .................................................................................................... 10  GLOW 34 Program .......................................................................................................... 11 Colloquium: How Much Syntax is there in Grammar?, April 28-30 ............................ 11 Poster session 1, April 29 ............................................................................................ 14 Poster session 2, April 29 ............................................................................................ 15 Workshop: The Phonological Marking of Focus and Topic, April 27 .......................... 16 Workshop: Intervention Effects from a Semantic Perspective, April 27 ..................... 18 Workshop: Identity in Grammar, May 1 ..................................................................... 19  Abstracts in alphabetical order (unnumbered pages) ………………………………………………. 212   INTRODUCTION  Welcome to the 66th GLOW Newsletter and Conference Handbook, to accompany the 34th GLOW Conference, taking place this year in Vienna from April 27 through May 1. The bulk of this newsletter comprises all the usual essential information for attending this year’s extravaganza, with practical information starting on page 6, then the programmes for the Colloquium and all three workshops (pp. 11-15), and finally the alphabetically-arranged abstracts for all the talks that have been selected for presentation. Your attention is particularly drawn to three distinctive features of the Viennese programme. Firstly, the main Colloquium has a running theme, with talks and discussion focusing on the question of just how much of the grammar is syntactic in nature. Secondly, there will be two poster sessions taking place on the middle day of the Colloquium, with thirteen presentations apiece. And thirdly, the fun doesn’t stop on Saturday this year, as the third workshop (Identity in Grammar) is taking place on Sunday 1st May, after the Colloquium has ended. It’ll be well worth sticking around for, so no going home early, people… We begin this Spring newsletter on a more poignant note, however. On the following pages, GLOW founder member Henk van Riemsdijk pays tribute to John-Roger Vergnaud, co-founder and co-author of the GLOW Manifesto, who passed away earlier this year.   Marc Richards  3   Jean-Roger Vergnaud Valence, August 3 1945 – Los Angeles, January 31 2011   In Jean-Roger Vergnaud, GLOW has lost one of its most remarkable figureheads. We mourn a unique personality, an intellectual giant, and one of the founding fathers of the organization. At the 1977 conference on bounded and unbounded dependencies in Amsterdam, discussions between Jean-Roger, Jan Koster and myself led to the conviction that conferences of this type should be organized in Europe every year and that an organization should be founded to make that happen. This was a reaction to the success and growth of generative linguistics in Europe in the 70s.  To give GLOW an identity beyond the mere organizational, the three of us decided to write a kind of mission statement, which was published in the first GLOW Newsletter (1978) as the GLOW Manifesto, a text that sparked considerable controversy but gave GLOW the important position that it still occupies in our field. As one of the spiritus rectores of GLOW, Jean-Roger will remain among us for a long time to come.  Jean-Roger Vergnaud graduated from the famous École Polytechnique, from which he majored in mathematics and where, simultaneously, he served as an officer in the French Air Force. He went on to graduate school in linguistics at MIT and got his Ph.D. in 1974. His dissertation, directed by Morris Halle, presented a powerful argument in favor of the raising analysis of (French) relative clauses. Indeed, this type of raising has become known as „Vergnaud Raising‟. After faculty appointments at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the University of Maryland at College Park, he came to the University of California, where he held the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship of Humanities.  In 1985/86, we were lucky to have Jean-Roger, together with his wife Maria Luisa Zubizarreta, for a year as a guest professor at Tilburg University. It was during this period that I enjoyed the most intensive personal and professional interaction with him. In our discussions, I often felt dwarfed by his vast knowledge, his fast thinking, and the unexpected and sometimes elusive directions that his thinking took us. In the acknowledgements of his dissertation, he uses the term πολύμητις to characterize his fellow student Roger Higgins, but to my mind this term even more appropriately applies to Jean-Roger himself. I was and remain particularly impressed by the fact that he firmly held on to the belief that it is important and possible to study both phonology and syntax and to explore the ways in which they can be seen to share abstract mathematical properties.   4  This was the time when his book “Dépendances et niveaux de représentation” (1985) had just appeared, and when he was working with Morris Halle on the “Essay on Stress” (1987). He saw connections where nobody else could even suspect them. In this, his mathematical mind guided him. Perhaps one of the most impressive examples (though I still suspect I understand at best half of what he is saying) is his article “On a certain notion of „occurrence‟: the source of metrical structure and of much more”. In this study, Jean-Roger shows that, at an appropriate level of abstraction, the metrical structure of phonological objects, generally held to be flat, and the hierarchical, recursive structure of syntactic objects can be seen to be fundamentally identical, permitting, for example, the unification of locality in the two domains.    The time with Jean-Roger in Tilburg was exciting and immensely enjoyable. It created the opportunity to be friends in the most down-to-earth sense of the word. He had a tendency to be a bit of a recluse, which made it hard to keep a long-distance friendship alive, but in Tilburg we had lots of fun together on a day by day basis. We drank lots of Belgian beer, accompanied by cold Dutch meatballs, just the type of junk food that he would normally give a very wide berth to.  It was at such times that he generously revealed what he often liked to hide behind a veil of austerity and shyness: his heart of gold. Jean-Roger deserves to have a permanent place in our hearts and in our minds.   Henk van Riemsdijk Arezzo, February 9 2011  5  CHANGES TO THE BOARD  The current composition of the GLOW Board is given in the table below.  Congress President Martin Prinzhorn   2010-2011  Chairperson Sjef Barbiers   2009-2011 Secretary Jeroen van Craenenbroeck   2009-2011 Treasurer Maaike Schoorlemmer   2009-2011 Newsletter Editor Marc Richards   2010-2012 Journal Editor Harry van der Hulst Website Manager Gunnar Hrafn    2010-2012  Hrafnbjargarson   Member A Anna Cardinaletti   2010-2012 Member B Lida Veselovska   2009-2011 Member C Viola Schmitt   2009-2011 Member D Maria Rosa Lloret   2010-2012 Advisory member 1 Henk van Riemsdijk Advisory member 2 Martin Everaert Co-opted member Tobias Scheer   2009-2011 (Phonology) Every year, several positions come up for renewal. Nominations are normally sent directly to the Chair, who accepts until January 1st. The GLOW Board wishes to remind GLOW members to be thinking about who they would like to represent them on the board in the future, and to nominate those people in good time. For the coming year, the Board has made or received the following nominations:   Sjef Barbiers (re-election for Chairperson)  Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (re-election for Secretary)  Maaike Schoorlemmer (re-election for Treasurer)  Lida Veselovska (re-election for Member B)  Viola Schmitt (re-election for Member C)  Tobias Sheer (re-election for Co-opted member for Phonology)       Welcome to GLOW 34, ViennaGeneral information The 34th annual GLOW-colloquium is organized by the Department ofLinguistics of the University of Vienna. It will be held in Vienna from April 28 to 30, 2011. Thetopic of this year’s colloquium is ’How much syntax is there in grammar?’. The program features20 oral presentations and two poster sessions with 13 presentations each.In addition there will be three workshops: the semantic workshop Intervention effects from asemantic perspective organized by Doris Penka (University of Konstanz) & Arnim von Stechow(University of Tu¨bingen) features three invited speakers: Sigrid Beck (University of Tu¨bingen),Elena Guerzoni (USC), and Ma´rta Abrusa´n (University of Oxford). The workshop will take placeon April 27, 2011.The prosody workshop On the phonological marking of focus and topic organized by EdwinWilliams (Princeton University) has the following invited speakers: Daniel Bu¨ring (University ofVienna), Elisabeth Selkirk (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), and Michael Wagner (McGillUniversity). It takes place on the same day as the semantic workshop.Finally the workshop on Identity in Grammar organized by Martin Prinzhorn (University ofVienna), Henk van Riemsdijk (Arezzo), and Viola Schmitt (University of Frankfurt) has invitedJonathan Bobaljik (University of Connecticut, Storrs), Martin Hackl (Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology), Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod, NYU), Moira Yip (University College Lon-don), and Edwin Williams (Princeton University). It will take place on May 1, 2011.Conference site The registration/reception and the workshops on intervention and on intonation(April 27) will take place in the Department of Linguistics in Sensengasse 3a, 1090 Wien. Thecolloquium (April 28-30) and the workshop on identity (May 1) will take place in auditorium C1(Ho¨rsaalzentrum C) in court 2 of the campus of the University of Vienna. You can see the locationof the auditorium on the campus marked by the arrow pointing to building 2.6 on the map below.Another arrow points to the location of the department of linguistics in Sensengasse 3a just north ofthe campus. The map includes useful information on transportation and other infrastructure.Innercity transportation The fastest way to move around the city is the underground/tram/busnetwork. Vienna has five underground lines (U1, U2, U3, U4, U6). The two conference sites areclosest to underground station Schottentor connected to U2. There you can change to tram linestaking you directly to the respective site. The department of linguistics can be be reached by tramlines 37, 38, 40, 41, and 42. The closest station when coming from Schottentor is Schwarzspanier-straße. The closest station when coming from the other direction is Sensengasse. The campus canbe reached by tram lines 5, 43, and 44 stopping at station Lange Gasse. Line 5 runs to train stationWien Westbahnhof. The latter two lines run to underground station Schottentor.Ticket prices are the same for all underrground, tram and bus lines. A single ticket is 1.80 EURif you buy it at one of the ticket vending machines. There are better options for a longer stay withfrequent uses of public transportation, though. The 24-, 48- and 72- hour tickets (5.70, 10.00, 13.60EUR, respectively) are valid for the respective time from the time you stamp them. They are anoption to consider should you anticipate to use the public transportation system at least three timesa day. Another option, if you plan to stay longer than the duration of the conference, is the seven-day ticket (“Wochenkarte” - 14 EUR) that is valid from Monday morning to Monday 9.00 of the6following week (NOTE: if you stamp this ticket on a Sunday it will only be valid until the next day9.00! So it would be useable for one day only!). Ticket vending machines are located at the entranceof every underground station.Travel information The Vienna International Airport is located on the outskirts of Vienna. Thereare various transportation possibilities to and from Vienna:• by CAT (City Airport Train): The CAT connects the airport with the underground/trainstation Wien-Mitte (which is connected to the underground lines U3 and U4). Travel time isapproximately 16 minutes, and costs are 9 EUR for a single ticket and 16 EUR for a returnticket. The CAT leaves every 30 minutes.• by train (Schnellbahn S7): The S7 takes the same route as the CAT (to and from Wien-Mitte)but is a regional train operated by the Austrian railway service provider (O¨BB). Travel timeis around 27 minutes and costs are 3.60 EUR one way. The S7 also leaves every 30 minutes.• by bus (Vienna Airport Lines): There are three bus lines connecting the airport to the city. Ofthe two major lines, one connects the airport with Wien Schwedenplatz (which is connectedto the underground lines U1 and U4) in the city center. The other connects the airportwith the two main train stations Wien Westbahnhof (connected to U3 and U6), and WienMeidling (connected to U6). Travel time is between 20 and 30 minutes and costs are 7 EURfor a single ticket and 12 EUR for a return ticket. Busses leave every 30 minutes.Vienna has various railway stations. The most important ones are:• Wien Westbahnhof, where trains coming from the west stop, connected to lines U3 and U6.7• Wien Meidling, where trains coming from the south and east stop. Some trains from thenorth also stop here. It is connected to the underground line U6.Map of university area The map below shows the wider university area. Auditorium C1 is oncampus. The department of linguistics is located in Sensengasse 3a just north of the campus.8

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