All are welcome! Useful links for attendees: directions; parking. Note that there is a home football game on Saturday; parking will be expensive and hard to find, and public transporation is strongly recommended! (Last updated September 6.)
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| 8:30-9:00 | Coffee and tea |
| 9:00-10:00 | Mélanie Jouitteau (CNRS, IKER, Bayonne) "Case-licensed infinitives" |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30-11:30 | Randall Hendrick (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) "Types of recursion and the locality of Breton Raising to Subject" |
| 11:30-12:30 | Lenora Timm (University of California, Davis) "Some observations on language contact and Breton morphosyntax" |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch break |
| 2:00-3:00 | Steve Hewitt (UNESCO) "Welsh 'syntactic mutation' and Arabic 'faulty accusative': Case or configuration?" |
| 3:00-4:00 | Robert Borsley (University of Essex) "Resumptive pronouns in Welsh" |
| 4:00-4:30 | Coffee break |
| 4:30-5:30 | Maggie Tallerman (Newcastle University) and Joel Wallenberg (Newcastle University) "The Middle Welsh historic infinitive" |
| 5:30-6:30 | David Willis (University of Cambridge) "A diachronic perspective on pronouns and agreement in Welsh dialects" |
| 8:30-9:00 | Coffee and tea |
| 9:00-10:00 | Aaron Griffith (Universität Wien) "Coordination and Small Clauses in Old Irish" |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30-11:30 | Elliott Lash (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies) "Reanalyzing analogy: New perspectives on some diachronic developments in Old and Middle Irish" |
| 11:30-12:30 | Karin Stüber (Universität Zürich) "Periphrastic constructions in Old and Middle Irish" |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch break |
| 2:00-3:00 | Séamas Mac Bhloscaidh (University of California, Santa Cruz) "The dialect geography of Irish nonfinite clauses" |
| 3:00-4:00 | Andrew Carnie (University of Arizona) "On the lack of Double Object constructions in Scottish Gaelic and Modern Irish" |
| 4:00-4:30 | Coffee break |
| 4:30-5:30 | David Adger (Queen Mary, University of London) "Preposition/Case alternations in the (Gaelic) Noun Phrase" |
Local organizers: Andrew Garrett, Gary Holland, Line Mikkelsen, Christine Sheil, Eve Sweetser
Sponsors: Department of Linguistics, Celtic Studies Program, Diebold fund for Indo-European studies (all at the University of California, Berkeley)
Banner photographs by Aindriú Mac Gearóid and Alex Madonik