Invited Speakers

Joseph Aoun is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. He has done extensive research on syntax and semantics of interrogative, relative and resumptive pronouns in various Semitic and East Asian languages.

Željko Bošković is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut. Among numerous areas of his research are Slavic and Balkan syntax, multiple wh-fronting, syntax-phonology interface, and the EPP.

Ivano Caponigro is a researcher at the Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca and a visiting Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland. His research is concerned with semantics of wh-words and wh-constructions cross-linguistically, typology of free relatives and other non-interrogative wh-clauses.

Barbara Citko is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University. Her research areas include properties of across the board wh-movement, the nature of Merge and topics in Slavic linguistics.

Ileana Comorovski is a Professor at the Departement of Linguistics, Universite Nancy 2. She has done important work on properties of multiple constituent questions in Romanian as well as the interpretation of wh-phrases and its concequences for Superiority and weak islands.

Marcel den Dikken is Professor of Linguistics at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York. Among the many topics he has explored are the syntax and semantics of questions and question words, aggressively non-D-linked wh-phrases and morphosyntax of wh-movement.

Grant Goodall is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Linguistics Language Program at the University of California, San Diego. He has produced a lot of research on wh-movement, subjecthood, coordination, and contraction. He is currently investigating processing of wh-constructions.

Paul Hagstrom is a Professor at the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at Boston University. His innovative work in wh-studies is concerned with semantics of wh-phrases, interpretation of single and multiple interrogatives and syntax- semantics interface.

Hajime Hoji is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. His main concern over the years has been how to articulate what counts as falsification and corroboration (the latter not in the sense of Popper) in generative syntax. He has worked on scrambling, reconstruction effects, and quantifier scope. The topics of his recent works include ellipsis, passives, 'numeral quantifiers', 'raising-to-object', and 'resumption' in Japanese.

Audrey Li is Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Linguistics at the University of Southern California. Her research is concerned with quantifier scope interactions and the interpretation of various types of nominal expressions (wh-expressions, definite and indefinite expressions, plural expressions) in different syntactic contexts.

Colin Phillips is a an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, where he is a co-director of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Laboratory. His research combines theoretical linguistics with language processing, language acquisition and neurolinguistics, with the primary focus on how the human mind/brain makes rapid and effortless language understanding possible.

Norvin Richards is a Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His has done extensive work on derivational properties of syntax, superiority, and endangered languages, e.g. Austronesian languages.

Arthur Stepanov is a Research Associate at the University of Potsdam. His research topics include wh-extraction domains, syntactic cycle, and Slavic linguistics, among others.



 

 

 

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