Program

All talks took place at the Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall. NEW: links to the pictures capturing the best Wh-fest moments are in the program below.

Friday, May 13 [pic1, pic2, pic3 ]
8:30–9:30	Breakfast and Registration
9:30–10:50	Norvin Richards (MIT) [pic1, pic2] The Agreement sequence for successive-cyclic movement in Tagalog and English
11:00–12:20	Hajime Hoji (USC) [pic1, pic2] Scrambling, PF and LF adjunction, and null operator movement in Japanese
12:30–2:00	Lunch [pic]
2:00–3:20	Colin Phillips (UMD) [pic1, pic2] A real-time perspective on locality of wh-movement
3:30–4:50	Željko Bošković (UCONN) [pic] On the locality and driving force of wh-movement
5:00–6:20	Grant Goodall (UC San Diego) [pic] Deviation from canonical word order in wh-questions
7:00 -	Dinner reception at Paul Pietroski's house (directions) [pic1, pic2, pic3]
Saturday, May 14
8:30-9:30	Breakfast and Registration
9:30–10:50	Joseph Aoun (USC) and Audrey Li (USC) [pic1, pic2] The syntax and interpretation of pronominals
11:00–12:20	Arthur Stepanov (U of Potsdam) [pic1, pic2] The Hows and Whys of How and Why: Merger and licensing of wh-adjuncts
12:30–2:00	Lunch
2:00–3:20	Ileana Comorovski (U Nancy 2) [pic] Specificational Wh-questions
3:30–4:50	Paul Hagstrom (Boston U) [pic] What do questions mean?
5:00–6:20	Ivano Caponigro (U of Milan-Bicocca and UMD) [pic1, pic2] Free relatives or what the semantic investigation of non-interrogative wh-constructions cross-linguistically can tell us about the meaning of wh-words
6:30 -	Dinner out at local restaurants
Sunday, May 15
8:30–9:30	Breakfast and Registration
9:30–10:50	Barbara Citko (Brandeis U) [pic1, pic2] Does Across-the-Board Left Branch Extraction (ATB LBE) Exist?
11:00–12:20	Marcel den Dikken (CUNY) [pic1, pic2] Back to hell—Further thoughts on wh-the-hell and its repercussions for the syntax of wh-questions
12:20-12:30	Closing Remarks