13 September 2011

New Forays into Root Phenomena

Workshop organised by Cecile De Cat and Karen Lahousse at the SLE conference, September 2011


  • Introduction by the convenors. (download)
  • Sleeman, Petra (ACLC, University of Amsterdam). 'Rare'-preposing in French, root clauses, and information structure. (download)
  • Keynote: De Vries, Mark (University of Groningen). Main Clause Fragments. (download)
  • Fernandez Rubiera, Francisco Jose (University of Alicante). Root phenomena and assertive predicates: The Force of their syntax and pragmatics. (download)
  • Laskova, Vesselina (University of Venice). On the relation between MCP, epistemic modality and adverbial clauses. (download)
  • Frey, Werner (ZAS, Berlin). About the licensing conditions of two types of adverbial clauses allowing root phenomena.
  • Keynote: Haegeman, Liliane & Urogdi, Barbara (University of Ghent and Hungarian Academy of Sciences). Referential CPs and DPs: An Op-movement account. (download)
  • De Cat, Cecile (University of Leeds). Towards an interface account of root phenomena. (download)
  • Paul, Waltraud (Centre de Recherches Linguistiques Sur l'Asie Orientale, CNRS, Paris). Embedded root phenomena in Mandarin Chinese. (download)
  • Pan, Victor Junnan (University Paris Diderot-Paris 7, LLF-UMR7110). The Root/non-root Distinction and Chinese Sentence Final Particles: Division of Labor Between Syntax and Discourse.