Mayfest 2008: Island Perspectives

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

• Robert Frank, The varieties of syntactic dependencies and the genesis of islandhood
• Anna Szabolcsi, What Natural Classes of (Weak) Islands?
• Philip Hofmeister & Ivan Sag, Processing Factors in the Study of Island Effects
• Cedric Boeckx, No Merge is an Island
• Robert Kluender, Islands on the brain: How event-related brain potential componentry might help get us off the islands
• Bonnie Schwartz, Jee Hyun Ma & Junghee Kim, Island sensitivity in development: a perspective from L2 adults, L2 children, L1 youths
• Kyle Johnson, Fitting islands to the semantics of movement
• Peter Culicover, Beyond Simpler Syntax: Processing complexity and explaining island phenomena
• Nomi Erteschik-Shir, Processing Information Structure: an Account of Islandhood
• Jason Merchant, PF and LF locality: Evidence from Greek comparatives