Phonological Theory Agora: Emptiness
October 6th, 59-61 rue Pouchet Paris
10-12 Tutorial
Sabrina Bendjaballah (CNRS UMR 6310-LLING) & Eva Zimmermann (Leipzig University)
12-14 Lunch Break
14-16 Make a claim and defend it
1) Nicola Lampitelli (Tours, CNRS LLL): Zero ≠ emptiness: a case study from Piedmontese
2) Samantha Ruovoletto (Nancy): The importance of being empty: h-aspiré and liaison in French
3) Xiaoliang Luo (Orléans, CNRS LLL): Zero ≠ absence: evidence from Chinese tone
4) Shanti Ulfsbjorninn (UCL, London): There are empty positions and (lexically) inhibited empty positions: evidence from a classless analysis of Italian
16 Coffee break
5) Diana Passino (Nice, CNRS BCL UMR 7320): Empty structure sheds light on rare patterns
6) Guillaume Enguehard (Orléans, CNRS LLL): Phonology is an empty tridimensional cube
7) Gertjan Postma (Meertens): What is an empty syntactic category?
17:30 General Discussion followed by business meeting
20 Dinner