Merge: the derivation
of structure and order

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09:45 welcome

10:00 opening

10:10 Jordi Fortuny (Groningen), The nesting machine

10:50 Jan-Wouter Zwart (Groningen), Prospects for top-down derivation

11:30 Cristiano Chesi (Siena) Minimalist merge, destructive feature-checking, and sequential unification

12:10 lunch break

14:00 Ian Roberts (Cambridge), A phase-based approach to the cross-linguistic distribution of "mixed" word-order types

14:40 Ángel Gallego (UA Barcelona/Cambridge), Label-free bare phrase structure

15:20 Aritz Irurtzun (U Basque Country), Merge and asymmetric structure building

16:00 break

16:20 Barbara Citko (U Washington) Symmetry in syntax? Symmetric merge and symmetric move.

17:00 Robert Truswell (Tufts), Order but no structure in Bonobo English

17:40 closing