Manchester Symposium on Existentials - Programme
Thursday, 28 June
University Place: Room 6.207
9:00 – 9:20 Registration
9:20 – 9:30 Welcome remarks
9:30 – 10:00 Yaron Matras, University of Manchester
Existentials in Domari
10:00 – 10:30 Jenneke van der Wal, University of Cambridge
Unpronounced locatives in inversion constructions
10:30 – 11:00 Ljuba Veselinova, Stockholms Universitet
Negation in existential sentences: A cross-linguistic study
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00 Charlotte Coy & Robin Hörnig, Universität Tübingen
Telling locatives and existentials apart: An experimental investigation of French il y a
12:00 – 13:00 Keynote speaker: Andrew Koontz-Garboden, University of Manchester
Ulwa existentials and locatives
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 – 15:00 Susann Fischer, Universität Hamburg
A diachronic comparative approach of expletives (and the definiteness effect)
in unaccusatives and existentials
15:00 – 15:30 Manuel Leonetti, Universidad de Alcalá
Topics and codas in Romance existentials
15:30 – 16:00 Xavier Villalba, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Eventive existentials in Catalan and the topic-focus articulation
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:00 Esther Brown & Javier Rivas, University of Colorado at Boulder
The role of grammatical relation probabilities in the spread of language change:
An example with Spanish existential haber ‘there (be)’
17:00 – 17:30 Delia Bentley, Francesco Maria Ciconte, Silvio Cruschina, University of Manchester
Micro-variation in subject markedness: The case of INDE-cliticised pivots in Romance
Social Dinner
Time: 7pm; Venue in the Manchester Curry Mile
Friday, 29 June
University Place: Room 6.207
9:30 – 10:00 Lunella Mereu, Università Roma Tre
Syntactic and argument structure of existentials
10:00 – 10:30 Matic Pavlič, Univerza v Ljubljani
Are the impersonals in Slovene existentials?
10:30 – 11:00 Nadia Varley, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Negated existentials in Bulgarian and Russian: The syntax-morphology link
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00 Nicholas Sobin, University of Texas at El Paso
Explaining TH/EX
12:00 – 13:00 Keynote speaker: Itamar Francez, University of Chicago
Scope and predicational structure in modal existentials
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 – 15:00 Michael Zimmermann, Universität Konstanz
On the Availability of the Definiteness Effect in French Existentials
15:00 – 15:30 Eva-Maria Remberger, Universität Konstanz
Deontic existentials
15:30 – 16:00 Mohamed Jlassi, University of Newcastle
Is existential ‘there’ ever a mood particle? Evidence from Tunisian Arabic (TA)
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:00 Luisa Amenta, Università di Palermo, & Elvira Assenza, Università di Messina
Existentials in Sicilian: A diachronic and synchronic analysis
17:00 – 17:30 Machteld Meulleman, Universiteit Gent
Locatives in existentials: A comparative approach in Spanish, French and Italian
