Here are the papers presented on the third day of the conference.

The first paper was by Marc Richards and Theresa Biberauer who argued that there are no TP-expletives but only CP and vP expletives. Support for their account came from Afrikaans and the diacronic development of inflection and expletives.

Ellen Brandner and Josef Bayer then presented very interesting new data from Alemannic involving a gerund-like infinitive (ebbes z'essit 'something to drink') which is only possible with weak quantifiers and subject to various distributional restrictions. They suggested an account involving a light noun structure. [pdf version of the paper (in German)]

The last morning session talk was by Lisa Levinson who argued that possessive have decomposes into be and P, where P is either with or at. Evidence came from the fact that certain languages (e.g., Icelandic) express possession using with overtly.

In the afternoon, Hans Broekhuis argued that (short object) scrambling in Dutch is A-movement and that subject movement and object movement are subject to the same constraints. The analysis was formulated in the OT-like system developed in Broekhuis (2000). [pdf version of the paper]

Erik Magnusson showed that18th century Swedish allowed referential pro in the absence of agreement, providing yet another argument against the claim that pro-drop and agreement are in a causal relation. Erik also provided a very interesting new observation, namely that there is a correlation between pro-drop and V1 sentences.

Guido Vanden Wyngaerd revisited the question of why English does not allow simple present tense to refer to non-stative events. The account was formulated in a Reichenbachian system and took into account the various exceptions to this generalization.

The last regular talk was by Marika Lekakou who compared middle constructions in Dutch and German and argued that zich is not possible in these constructions in Dutch since zich, in contrast to German sich has to be an argument and cannot function as a marker of argument manipulation.

Finally, after the final session, Vera Lee-Schoenfeld gave her alternate talk in an informal setting in the linguistics department as a special bonus. She discussed German AcI constructions (causatives, perception verb constructions) and provided a phase-based analysis which captured the dual status of these constructions (the fact that they are transparent for certain properties but opaque for others).