Workshop on Interfaces in L2 Acquisition
19-20 June 2009
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Auditório 2
Programme
Friday, 19 June
9.00-9.45: Registration
9.45-10.00: Welcoming remarks
10.00-11.00: Invited speaker: Amaya Mendikoetxea (Universidad Autónoma de
Madrid) & Cristóbal Lozano (Universidad de Granada)
Discourse before syntax in non-native grammars: converging evidence
11.00-11.15: Coffee break
11.15-11.45: Noriko Yoshimura (University of Shizuoka) & Mineharu Nakayama
(The Ohio State University)
L1 effects in the acquisition of inflectional morphology by Japanese EFL learners
11.45-12.15: Carolyn Ludwig, Daniela Ofner, Ramona Wenzel & Rosemarie Tracy
(University of Mannheim)
Mastering the syntax-morphology interface in child L2 German
12.15-12.45: Simona Matteini (University of Siena)
Exploring the syntax/morphology interface in the DP domain: a study on
L2 acquisition of German nominal inflection by Italian adult learners
12.45-14.15: Lunch break
14.15-14.45: Tihana Kras (University of Rijeka)
Testing the Interface Hypothesis: The case of auxiliary change under restructuring in L2 Italian
14.45-15.15: Cristina Flores (Universidade do Minho)
(Un)vulnerable domains in L2 attrition. Evidences from bilingual returnees

15.15-15.45: Tom Rankin (Vienna University of Economics)
Interfaces and Verb Placement in L2 English
15.45-16.15: Coffee break
16.15-16.45: Aafke Hulk (University of Amsterdam) & Leonie Cornips (Meertens
Institute, Amsterdam)
When semantics meets morpho-syntax: the role of the count/mass feature in acquiring ‘het’ in bilingual Dutch
16.45-17.15: Hanna Batoréo (Universidade Aberta)
Syntax, Lexicon and Morphology IN THE MIXED PERIOD OF
BILINGUAL LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: Evidence from a Portuguese-
Polish Bilingual Child
17.15-18.15: Invited speaker: Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh)
Pinning down the concept of interface
20.00: Dinner
Saturday, 20 June
10.00-10.30: Christina Rosén (Växjö University)
The left periphery in L2 German and L2 Swedish declarative clauses:
Transfer of information-structural patterns
10.30-11.00: Cristóbal Lozano (Universidad de Granada)
Pronominal deficits at the syntax-discourse interface: a developmental study of Greek learners of non-native Spanish
11.00-11.30: Ute Bohnacker (Uppsala University)
Information-structural constraints on word order in advanced L2
Swedish
11.30-11.45: Coffee break
11.45-12.15: Frances Wilson, Frank Keller & Antonella Sorace (University of
Edinburgh)
The Resource Allocation/Limitation Approach to the Syntax-Discourse
Interface in L2 Acquisition
12.15-12.45: Ana Madeira, Maria Francisca Xavier & Maria de Lourdes Crispim
(Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
On the interpretation of subjects in L2 Portuguese
12.45-14.15: Lunch break
14.15-14.45: Fátima Martins (Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Indicative or Subjunctive? The choices of Spanish learners of L2
Portuguese
14.45-15.15: Ernani Machado Garrão Neto (Universidade Nova de Lisboa &
Universidade Estácio de Sá)
From English to Portuguese: the emergency of null subjects in adult
English native speakers’ interlanguage grammar
15.15-15.45: Gabriela Matos & Isabel Leiria (Universidade de Lisboa)
CP omission in adult L2 acquisition of EP
15.45-16.15: Esuna Dugarova (University of Cambridge)
Acquisition of a syntax-discourse interface in English and Russian speakers' L2 Chinese wh-questions
16.15-16.30: Coffee break
16.30-17.30: Invited speaker: Jason Rothman (University of Iowa)
Examining the Interface Hypothesis: Evidence from the Acquisition of
Portuguese at both Internal and External Interfaces