Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG40), Trento, Italy, February 13-15, 2014 Welcome to IGG40 For 40 years, the Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (Generative Grammar Meeting) has been Italy’s main regular venue for discussions on every aspect of generative grammar and formal linguistics. Starting from an initial focus on syntax, recent editions of the IGG have gradually expanded to phonology, morphology, formal semantics, discourse and psycholinguistics. The IGG started bridging domains: the interface between syntax and meaning, between phonology and morphology, the relation between the grammars of first and second language learners, the study of microvariation and many other ‘interface’ topics. The same is happening with methodologies: talks at current IGGs have addressed the use of experimental methods to support theoretical results, the relation between grammar and parsing, the use of corpora to support judgements or provide real-life examples of rare constructions, etc. This trend illustrates the growing importance of a multidisciplinary approach to linguistics, but also the effort it takes for practitioners who work ‘at the edges’ to be recognized, to agree on a common language and to converge on a shared set of research questions. We hope that the opportunities and challenges of modern linguistics are well-represented in this edition of the conference. The Organizers Ermenegildo Bidese Federica Cognola Patrizia Cordin Michelangelo Falco Chiara Finocchiaro Manuela Moroni Francesco Vespignani Roberto Zamparelli IGG40 - iii Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG40), Trento, Italy, February 13-15, 2014 Forty Years of “Incontri” Having the honor of hosting this landmark 40th edition of the conference at the University of Trento prompted us to try to reconstruct the history of this meeting, at least in its bare essentials. This was not always an easy task, since the IGG, with a few exceptions, has left no proceedings. Some information comes from CVs of linguists; from 2006, the calls for papers can still be found in the Linguist List. The Incontro started in 1975, from the initiative of Guglielmo Cinque, Lorenzo Renzi and Paola Benincà. It was preceded by an Incontro di Grammatica Trasformazionale (Transformational Grammar Meeting), organized by Annarita Puglielli in 1969 for the SLI (Società di Linguistica Italiana). This led to a volume, in 1971 (see a copy of the front matter, including an interesting foreword by Tullio De Mauro). The IGG (initially “Incontro Informale di Grammatica Generativa” ’Informal Generative Grammar Meeting’) came from the need of the small Italian generative linguistic community to exchange ideas and projects. One of these projects was the creation of the Grande Grammatica di Consultazione, the largest linguistically- informed descriptive grammar of Italian, published in 3 volumes by Il Mulino between 1988 and 1995, with directors Antin- ucci and Renzi, then Salvi and Renzi. The meeting was skipped in 1980, since most of the potential organizers were in the USA, but was held twice in 1981. The meeting had several illustrious guests: Chomsky in 1979 (part of the talks that appeared as the “Pisa lectures”), Kayne, Kenstowicz, Higginbotham, and many others. Proceedings were published occasionally. One case was the 1985 Rome meeting, organized by Puglielli and Mereu, which appeared in Studi di grammatica. Dall’11o Incontro di grammatica generativa, Bagatto Editore; another volume with the proceedings of the 20th meeting, edited by Gianluigi Borgato for UNIpress came out in 1994. The full list of the meetings, as we could reconstruct it, is the following (links from the numbers to the web pages, when they exist): 20 1994 Padova 40 2014 Trento 19 1993 Trento 39 2013 Modena/Reggio Emilia 18 1992 Ferrara 38 2012 Verona 17 1991 Trieste 37 2011 Roma La Sapienza 16 1990 Pisa 36 2010 Milano&Bicocca 15 1989 Bologna 35 2009 Siena 14 1988 Firenze 34 2008 Padova 13 1987 Trento 33 2007 Bologna 12 1986 ? 32 2006 Firenze 11 1985 Roma 31 2005 Roma Tre 10 1984 Pavia 30 2004 Venezia 9 1983 Venezia 29 2003 Urbino 8 1982 Torino 28 2002 Lecce 7+6 1981 Amelia + ?? 27 2001 Trieste 1980 no IGG held 26 2000 Roma Tre 5 1979 Pisa (Chomsky) 25 1999 Siena 4 1978 Padova 24 1998 Verona 3 1977 Firenze 23 1997 Pisa 2 1976 Bologna 22 1996 Bergamo 1 1975 Padova (org. Benincà, Cinque, 21 1995 Milano DIPSCO & S. Raffaele Renzi) IGG40 - iv Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG40), Trento, Italy, February 13-15, 2014 Acknowledgments By a long tradition, the IGG has been a conference without fees. This makes it a good ‘first’ conference for students of linguistics, and anybody who is fascinated by theoretical language studies but cannot quite afford to pay a high fee for what might be, after all, just a curiosity toward that most distinctive feature which makes us human—language. Currently, many institutions for advanced learning are promoting policies for Open Access. “Open Access” is a notion typically associated with the possibility to obtain research literature and course materials from the web. We believe that at a time when many conference fees have skyrocketed, promoting a free, high-profile international conference is also a significant way to foster Open Access. To make the IGG possible, we entirly rely on the generosity of our sponsors, who have contributed with funds and organization to the preparation of this event. Their role is simply stated: without them, there would be no IGG. We gratefully acknowledge: Centro Interdipartimentale Mente e Cervello (CIMeC), Università di Trento. • Dipartimento di Psicologia e Scienze Cognitive (DiPSCO), Università di Trento. • Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Trento. • Fondazione ONLUS Marica De Vincenzi (http://www.fondazionedevincenzi.org/) • Next, we would like to thank all the researchers who submitted their abstracts to the conference. We received about 110 submissions from many countries (see the Table below). The acceptance to the oral presentation was quite selective and, sadly, many good talks had to be excluded. Given the high number of interesting talks on experimental linguistics we decided to adopt a two-session schedule. This gave us the possibility to select 30 oral presentations, plus 20 posters. We also want to thank the over 50 colleagues who devoted their valuable time to reviewing the submissions, as well as to the creators of the Easychair Conference System, which made submission processing easier, if not easy. Special thanks to our Scientific Committee, to Cristina Guardiano for her advice in dealing with the many facets of the organization of this conference, to Antonella Neri, for her key role in organizing the logistics, to the students and post-docs who are helping us with running the conference and with the preparation of this Book of Abstracts, and finally, to the staff of the Ufficio per la Comunicazione at the University of Trento for assistence on a number of issues, including the web page. Last but not least, we want to thank Martin Krämer (University of Tromsø), Cecilia Poletto (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main) and Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh) for accepting to be our keynote speakers at IGG40, and Annarita Puglielli, Paola Benicà, Guglielmo Cinque e Sergio Scalise for their help in reconstructing the history of the IGG. Submissions by country Country authors submitted accepted Country authors submitted accepted Austria 2 1.50 0.00 Nigeria 2 1.00 0.00 Belgium 5 3.50 1.00 Norway 1 1.00 0.00 Brazil 3 1.50 0.50 Poland 2 2.00 0.00 Canada 4 3.83 1.00 Portugal 4 4.00 1.00 France 6 1.80 1.80 Romania 1 1.00 1.00 Germany 15 9.17 3.17 Slovenia 10 4.50 1.00 Hungary 1 1.00 0.00 Spain 15 10.00 2.50 India 1 1.00 0.00 Sweden 2 1.00 1.00 Israel 5 3.00 1.00 Switzerland 5 1.25 0.50 Italy 37 25.00 9.25 Turkey 1 1.00 0.00 Japan 3 3.00 0.00 United Kingdom 14 9.33 2.33 Korea, Republic of 3 2.50 0.00 United States 11 5.95 4.45 Netherlands 13 9.17 0.50 IGG40 - v Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG40), Trento, Italy, February 13-15, 2014 IGG40 - vi Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG40), Trento, Italy, February 13-15, 2014 Conference Program Keynote lectures 1 How the lexicon and phonology change in interaction. A selective look at the history of Italian Martin Krämer 3 The V2 constraint in the Old Italian DP Cecilia Poletto 5 Input, timing, and outcomes in a wider model of bilingualism Antonella Sorace Talks Plenary Session: Thursday, 11:00 – 13:00 7 Onset clusters and sonority: an optimality-theoretic analysis of standard German, Tyrolean dialects and Mòcheno Marta Meneguzzo 9 (A)symmetries and phonological (under)specification in speech perception Roberto Petrosino, Mirko Grimaldi, Sandra Miglietta, Andrea Calabrese 11 The liaison in French IP and VP: a syntactic analysis Vania Masutti Plenary Session: Thursday, 14:00-16:00 13 Condition on inversion and types of parametric change Theresa Bieberauer, Ian Roberts 15 Finite raising and wh-agreement in varieties of English Lieven Danckaert, Liliane Haegeman 17 Why a bed can be slept in. On the passive of prepositional verbs in English Andrea Padovan Parallel Session I: Thursday, 16:20-18:20 19 Weak definites, expletive definites and bare nominals in Romance Maria Teresa Espinal, Sonia Cyrino 21 Towards a principled explanation of the weak cross-over effect Calixto Aguero-Bautista 23 Imposters and other monstrosities Alexander Podobryaev Parallel Session II: Thursday, 16:20-18:20 25 The production and the comprehension of direct object clitics in Italian monolingual preschool children Fabrizio Arosio,