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Minicourses

Angelika KRATZER

Attitude Ascriptions & Speech Reports
 

Luigi RIZZI 

Cartography and explanation 

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(Pires de Oliveira, Quarezemin, Monawar, Ibanos e Marchesan. 2018)

 

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Communications

 

 JUNE 27 | Wednesday 

 

Luigi RIZZI 
The cartography of the left periphery: The role of grammatical and interface principles

 

Márcia CANÇADO, Luana AMARAL, Letícia MEIRELLES 
Beyond manner and result: event roots and the semantic representation of lavar ‘wash’ verbs

 

Ana Paula QUADROS GOMES 
Paths are measuring tools! Durative paths shed light on the construction of telicity

 

Rui MARQUES 
Modality, information change and epistemic strengthening

 

Aquiles TESCARI NETO 
Where different forms of the thematic verb goes in Mozambican Portuguese: Cartographic syntax and acceptability judgements

 

Eduardo CORREA SOARES 
Out of focus - Beyond topicality in the analysis of null subjects

 

 JUNE 28 | Thursday 

 

Fernanda CIZESCKI 
Reflections on Linguistic theories: formalizations and analytic ontology

 

Iago MELLO BATISTELA
Making fiction fictional

 

Elizabeth WITZENHAUSEN

A syntax of restricting modal domains? Unintegrated event conditionals in German

 

Fernando Martín CARRANZA
A syntactic and semantic account for passives

 

Leonor SIMIONI, Rerisson CAVALCANTE DE ARAUJO
"Capaz" as an emphatic negative marker in Gaucho Brazilian Portuguese

 

Artemis ALEXIADOU, Janayna CARVALHO, Fabienne MARTIN
Scalling the variation of nominal expressions in pancake sentences across languages

 

Romina TREBISACCE, Carolina OGGIANI 
NPs scope interpretation and accomplisment telic reading in Spanish

 

Ana Paula BRANDÃO, Núbia RECH
Marking of deontic modality in Paresi: maika and wahena

 

Matías VERDECCHIA 
A semantic approach to factive islands: evidence from subjunctive clauses in Spanish

Jovana GAJIĆ
Negated definite conjunction and its implicatures

 JUNE 29 | Friday 

28 – Thursday

Tarcísio Antonio DIAS 
Agree in Karitiana (Tupi)


Marta DONAZZAN, Luciana SANCHEZ-MENDES
Decomposing distribution across dimensions: evidence from Libras

 

Fábio BONFIM DUARTE, Ricardo CAMPOS CASTRO, Quesler FAGUNDES CAMARGOS
The parallelism between verbs and nouns: insights from the Tenetehára language (Tupí-Guaraní family)


Juliana VIGNADO
Syntactic and semantic interface analysis of compound numerals in English, Portuguese and Karitiana

 

Maurício RESENDE
Infinitives are five: a syntactic approach to word formation in Brazilian Portuguese

 

Ana Paula SCHER, Paula Roberta Gabbai ARMELIN
On the compositionality of agentive nouns with -eir- in Brazilian Portuguese: the interface between syntactic structure and interpretation

Charlotte HAUSER
The question-origin of specificational pseudoclefts; the help of sign language

 

Paulina ĘSKA 
Scrambling and quantifier scope in Polish ditransitives: QR or scope reduction

 

Paulo MEDEIROS JUNIOR, Pedro Luiz de Moraes SIEIRO 
‘Que lindo o que vocês organizaram!’ Brazilian Portuguese wh-exclamatives and the evidence for a split force


Patrícia RODRIGUES, Marcus Vinicius LUNGUINHO 
Pragmaticalization in Brazilian Portuguese: the case of "capaz"

 

Poster Sessions

 

 JUNE 27 | Wednesday - Poster Session 01 

 

Wagner SANTOS

Ambiguities in relative existential clauses
 

Rerisson CAVALCANTE DE ARAUJO, Débora GOMES and Cristina FIGUEIREDO

Prepositions “com” and “mais”: their Thematic Roles
 

Bruna Karla PEREIRA

Agreement with "cada(s)" as ‘such’, ‘every’ and ‘each’
 

Bruno Ferreira de LIMA

Wh-Exclamativites- a primitive of grammar or a derived category
 

Juliana MARINS

Changes in the existential sentences in Brazilian Portuguese: the categorial status of haver and the relation between tense and semantic features of internal argument
 

Francisco I. A. MATOS and Leticia KOLBERG

Implications of T-to-C movement for stripping in embedded sentences


 

 

 JUNE 28 | Thursday  - Poster Session 02 

 

Jovania Maria Perin SANTOS

Reflection on the synthetic behavior of clitics considering the teachers education of portuguese as a foreign language
 

Marceli AQUINO

The German Modal particles and their functional equivalents in Portuguese
 

Niasche SILVA

A model of evolutionary path for language
 

Luis SILVA and Heliana MELLO

Contrasting and comparing Topic-Comment and Subject-Predicate relationships in natural language
 

Fernanda Rosa SILVA

Topic and focus dislocation in Brazilian Portuguese: a study in the semantic-pragmatic interface
 

Camila SILVESTRE

Future subjunctive in relative restrictive clauses in Brazilian Portuguese

 

 JUNE 28 | Thursday  - Poster Session 03 

 

Ricardo Coimbra da ROCHA

Analysis of the relation between the grammatical and lexicial aspects under the prism of a compositional theory in Portuguese
 

Jane Eder GIRARDI

Apprehension of linguistic intuitions through the creation of fictitious languages
 

Jéssica MENDES

Constraints on the Temporal Orientation of Modal Verbs
 

Anderson MACEDO and Luciana SANCHEZ-MENDES

Degree Modification in Tetun
 

Gabriel SIMONASSI and Luciana SANCHEZ-MENDES

Aspectuality in Brazillian Sign Language
 

Giovana PERINI-LOUREIRO

A study of the use of arguments in nominalizations as instantiations of grammatical metaphors finished in -tion in academic texts of native speakers
 

Juliana Regina da SILVA

The syntax of Clitic Climbing in Capverdian
 

Leonor SIMIONI

Ter and haver in Uruguayan Portuguese
 

Isabella PEDERNEIRA

Left periphery in the sub-Saharan African language Fon: aspect and focus
 

Tainá SCHAFFER, Caroline FERRARI and Isabella FLUD

Modality in Wapishana
 

Damaris Matias SILVEIRA

Inverted clefts and grammaticalization: invariability and deletion of the copula in focus structures.

 JUNE 29 | Friday  - Poster Session 04 

28 – Thursday

Jair MARTINS

The L2 status factor in the acquisition of English as third language by Cape Verdean-Portuguese bilinguals: Evidence from syntactic priming with dative structures


Bruno ANDREOTTI

Thematic accusativity as a consequence of a Stage-Based Ontology of Events


Williane CORÔA

Fronting, clitics, and other syntactic stuff: a comparative study of Classical Portuguese, modern European Portuguese and modern Brazilian Portuguese
 

Paulo Ângelo Araújo ADRIANO

Syntactic consequences for the analyticization process of the expression of futurity in Brazilian Portuguese: a diachronic study
 

Kayron BEVILÁQUA

Quantity judgments and (no)number specification: the case of Bare Singulars
 

Danniel CARVALHO, Dorothy BRITO and Jair FARIAS

Individualization, nominal aspect, and the function of gender in natural laguages

 

 JUNE 29 | Friday  - Poster Session 05 
 

Paula BARON and Rozana NAVES

On the locative nature of psychological predicates
 

Ricardo C. CASTRO

The Status of the postpositions in the Tenetehára language (Tupí-Guaraní family)
 

Lívia de Mello REIS

A cartographic analysis for sentences with locative subject in Brazilian Portuguese
 

Rosana ROGERI

Circumstantial adverbs on the subject position in Brazilian Portuguese
 

Martha Machado PORTO and Ana Maria Tramunt IBAÑOS

An Essay on Past Forms of Russian language through aspectual compositional forms 
 

Rafaela MICHELS and Monica MONAWAR

A Semantic-Pragmatic Analysis of Brazilian Portuguese ‘capaz’ and its interpretations by native and nonnative speakers
 

Ruan MARIANO

The acquisition of d-genericity in Brazilian Portuguese
 

Karina Zendron da CUNHA

Wh-Exclamatives Clauses at the Grammar Interface
 

Luciano de OLIVEIRA

Clítics and Clitic dislocation in Romance

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