Program
8:45 – 9:15 - Registration
9:15 – 9:30 - Welcome and Introduction
9:30 – 10:45 - Keynote speaker: Ianthi Maria Tsimpli (University of Cambridge)
On the diversity of linguistic and cognitive factors affecting anaphora resolution
10:45-11:15 - Coffee break
11:15 – 11:55 - Teresa Quesada and Cristóbal Lozano (Universidad de Granada)
Is there a clear division of labour in Spanish? Corpus approaches to test the Position of Antecedent Strategy
11:55 - 12:35 - Tihana Kraš and Maja Miličević Petrović (University of Rijeka and University of Belgrade)
Overt subject pronouns in Italian: Comparing Italian monolinguals and Croatian-Italian bilinguals
12:35 – 13:15 - Jacopo Torregrossa, Christiane Bongartz, Maria Andreou and Claudia Rizzo (University of Hamburg and University of Cologne)
The production of null subjects by Greek-Italian bilingual children: Teasing apart transfer and developmental effects
13:15 – 14:45 - LUNCH
14:45 - 15:25 - Chiara Gargiulo and Joost van de Weijer (University of Lund)
L1 attrition and re-immersion effects on pronoun resolution in Italian
15:25 – 16:05 - Panagiota Margaza and Anna Gavarró (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Null/overt subject alternations in L2 Spanish and L2 Greek
16:05 – 16:45 - Fernando Martín-Villena and Cristóbal Lozano (Universidad de Granada)
New factors in anaphora resolution: topic continuity in L1 English - L2 Spanish (CEDEL2 corpus)
16:45 – 17:15 - Coffee break
17:15- 17:55 - Adriana Belletti and Claudia Manetti (University of Siena and University of Geneva)
Children’s use of different types of subjects in Clitic Left Dislocations
17:55 – 18:35 - Poster session
18:35 – 19:55 - Discussion
20:00 - Social dinner
Posters:
Carla Contemori and Iva Ivanova
(University of Texas at El Paso)
Bilinguals’ referential choice in cognitively demanding situations
Lena Dal Pozzo
(University of Florence)
When more is less: (over)use of pronominal forms in L2 acquisition
Elisa Di Domenico and Ioli Baroncini
(Università per Stranieri di Perugia, Università per Stranieri di Siena)
Null vs lexical subjects in bilingual speakers of two null-subject languages: amplifying micro-differences in language contact
Simona Matteini
(University of Siena)
Exploring null and post-verbal subjects in L2 English beyond the initial state: an investigation on the written production of unaccusatives and passives in Italian learners