Mayfest 2005: WH-Fest

Mayfest is a workshop that brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines and perspectives to discuss fundamental issues in linguistics. Over the course of two days, participants engage in talks and discussion sessions to stimulate new insights and collaboration.

Speakers

• Norvin Richards, The Agreement sequence for successive-cyclic movement in Tagalog and English
• Hajime Hoji, Scrambling, PF and LF adjunction, and null operator movement in Japanese
• Colin Phillips, A real-time perspective on locality of wh-movement
• Željko Bošković, On the locality and driving force of wh-movement
• Grant Goodall, Deviation from canonical word order in wh-questions
• Joseph Aoun and Audrey Li, The syntax and interpretation of pronominals
• Arthur Stepanov, The Hows and Whys of How and Why: Merger and licensing of wh-adjuncts
• Ileana Comorovski, Specificational Wh-questions
• Ivano Caponigro, Free relatives or what the semantic investigation of non-interrogative wh-constructions cross-linguistically can tell us about the meaning of wh-words
• Barbara Citko, Does Across-the-Board Left Branch Extraction (ATB LBE) Exist?
• Marcel den Dikken, Back to hell—Further thoughts on wh-the-hell and its repercussions for the syntax of wh-questions