The aim of this gathering is to present and evaluate some of the empirical results of various strands of minimalist inquiry. The program's conceptual motivations and underpinnings have been very well rehearsed. However, there is a widespread feeling that the empirical payoffs of these methodological concerns have been meager. We think that this judgement is incorrect and one aim of the proceedings is to highlight those areas where empirical progress, prompted by minimalist concerns, has been registered and to make them generally available to the grammatical community. A second aim is to advance the empirical effectiveness of the minimalist program by further extending these results. Thus, the groundwork laid by a review of results will, we hope, set the stage for the next leaps forward. The papers to be presented cover a wide range of topics including: case and agreement, theta theory, copy theory, reconstruction effects, multiple interrogatives, control, bare phrase structure, existential constructions, and scope phenomena. All are invited to come and participate and to collectively push this program forward.

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Location: 1100 Marie Mount Hall (Maryland Room)

Thursday, May 16

9:00-9:30	Coffee, breakfast	Topic
9:30-9:45	Opening remarks
9:45-11:15	Mark Baker (Rutgers University)* Heidi Harley (University of Arizona) "A Minimalish Theta Theory" (handout)	Theta-Roles
11:30-1:00	Zeljko Boskovic (University of Connecticut) Jairo Nunes (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) "The Copy Theory of Movement: A View from PF"	Copy Theory
1:00-2:30	Lunch break
2:30-4:00	Cedric Boeckx (University of Illinois) Sandra Stjepanovic (West Virginia University) "Case and Agreement systems"	Case, Theta-Roles, Agreement

Friday, May 17

9:00-9:30	Coffee, breakfast	Topic
9:30-11:00	Maria Rita Manzini (University of Florence) Anna Roussou (University of Patras) "Construal I & II"	Construal
11:15-12:45	David Pesetsky (MIT) Norvin Richards (MIT)	Multiple Interrogatives
12:45-2:30	Lunch break
2:30-4:00	Juan Carlos Castillo (University of Northern Iowa) Robert Chametzky* "Phrase Structure: How It Is Built and What It Contains"	Phrase Structure
6:30-	Party at Norbert and Amy's house

Saturday, May 18

9:00-9:30	Coffee, breakfast	Topic
9:30-11:00	Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago) Jason Merchant (University of Chicago) "Modularity and the Minimalist Program"	Quantifer Raising
11:15-12:45	Danny Fox (MIT) Maria-Isabel Romero (University of Pennsylvania) "Reconstruction"	Reconstruction
12:45-2:15	Lunch break
2:15-3:45	Sandra Chung (U. of California, Santa Cruz) James McCloskey (U. of California, Santa Cruz) "Existentials"	Existential Constructions
3:45-4:00	Closing remarks

* Not attending the conference 

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College Park, MD 20742
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University of Maryland at College Park

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