We are pleased to announce the workshop Relative Clauses: Present and Future Challenges to be held at the University of Zürich on October 25-26 2024.

Please find below the programme of the workshop.

Day 1: OCTOBER 25, 2024 – ROOM KOL-G-212 (Rämistrasse 71, 2nd floor, 8006 Zürich)

9:00 – 9:30 Gabriela Soare Universität Zürich, CH Welcome & Introduction
9:30 – 10:15 Iliyana Krapova&Guglielmo Cinque Università Ca’Foscari, IT Peculiarities of Bulgarian relative clauses and their implications
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:30 Adriana Belletti Università di Siena, IT On the complexity of a shorter structure: The case of Reduced Relative Clauses
11:30 – 12:15 Manuela Sanfelici Università di Padova, IT Relative clauses with leftward islands in the diachrony of Italian
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:15 Gabriela Soare Universität Zürich, CH Modal Existential Constructions: The View from Romanian
14:15 – 15:00 Ur Shlonsky Université de Genève, CH The movement derivation of (some) ellipsis
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:15 Elodie Winckel Friedrich-Alexander Universität, DE Subject islands in French: relativization of (subject) NP complements
16:15 – 17:00 Gabrielle Aguila-Multner Universität Zürich, CH Special qui and pseudo-relatives: experimental and corpus data
17:00 – 17:15 Wrap-up session
19:30 – 21:30 Dinner

Day 2: OCTOBER 26, 2024 – ROOM RAA-E-30 (Rämistrasse 71, 8001 Zürich)

9:00-9:45 Martin Salzmann Universität Potsdam, DE TBA
9:45-10:30 Cecilia Poletto Università di Padova, IT More relatives than we thought: on the real nature of subordinate clauses
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:45 Luigi Rizzi, Elisabeth Stark & Gabriela Soare General discussion
11:45-12:00 Wrap-up session & End
12:00-13:30 Lunch