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PresentationThe goal of this workshop is to explore some questions raised during our previous workshops in Hermosillo (Mexico). Specific topics for the October 2011 workshop include the link between finiteness and nominalization and changes in finiteness, i.e. the process of re-finitization and de-finitization.Among the issues to be addressed are these:Finiteness belongs to the grammar of inter-clausal connectivity; it may be defined as &#34;the systematic grammatical means used to express the degree of integration of a clause into its immediate clausal environment&#34; (Giv&#243;n 1990: 853). The syntactic dependence of the clause - its finiteness &#8211; is thus used to code the thematic dependence of an event/state on its discourse context. What do we really mean by dependence? Are non-finite clauses always dependent? If so, in what sense? Syntactic or semantic dependence? (Nikolaeva 2007)Finiteness and nominalization are generally described as correlated (Giv&#243;n 2001, Bisang 2001).&#160; For example, a highly nominalized clause is an indicator of a low degree of finiteness.&#160; How do these finiteness and nominalization interact? Does nominalization function as an indicator of finiteness, and if so, how? Which properties are taken as distinctive for finiteness and non-finiteness &#8211; tense, modality, aspect, subject/object agreement, voice, encoding of verbal argument, or others?From a functional perspective, finiteness is a property of the clause and is generally characterized as a scalar phenomenon (Giv&#243;n 2001). However, formal theories and some functional approaches take finiteness to be a discrete, binary phenomenon (Bisang 2007). How and why do different grammatical theories represent finiteness?Finiteness as a property of the clause is a complex, multi-featured, and scalar phenomenon that may change. How is finiteness subject to change? In what direction might the change go? What are the syntactic environments in which re-finitization or de-finitization occur, and how and why does this happen? With which other features are re-finitization and de-finitization correlated?ProgrammeMercredi 12 octobre9h00 Bienvenue    9h30 T. GIV&#211;N    Nominalization and re-finitization10h30 Pause caf&#233;    11h00 Valent&#237;n PERALTA RAM&#205;REZ    Las cl&#225;usulas dependientes con predicados no finitos: los desiderativos y su restricci&#243;n aspectual y de persona en el nawat de Pajapan    11h45 Martine VANHOVE    The nominalizer &#8211;a in Beja (Cushitic)12h30 Pause d&#233;jeuner    14h30 Claire MOYSE-FAURIE    Referential markers in Oceanic nominalized constructions    15h15 Albert &#193;LVAREZ GONZ&#193;LEZ    Rasgos de finitud y nominalizaci&#243;n en las cl&#225;usulas adverbiales de la lengua yaqui    16h00 St&#233;phane ROBERT    The various uses of the Null tense in Wolof: Scalarity in connectivity and dependency16h45 Pause caf&#233;    17h15 Marianne MITHUN    Interactions between finiteness and nominalization18h15 Cocktail de bienvenueJeudi 13 octobre    9h30 Masayoshi SHIBATANI    Toward the functional definitions of clauses and sentences10h30 Pause caf&#233;    11h00 Fidencio BRICE&#209;O CHEL    Cl&#225;usulas finitas y nominalizaci&#243;n en maya yucateco    11h45 Zarina ESTRADA FERN&#193;NDEZ    Finiteness and non-finiteness in Pima Bajo: a scalar phenomenon12h30 Pause d&#233;jeuner    14h30 Sophie VASSILAKI    A propos des compl&#233;tives nominalis&#233;es du grec moderne    15h15 Claudine CHAMOREAU    Non-finiteness and chain-medial clauses in Purepecha16h00 Pause caf&#233;    16h30 Walter BISANG    Finiteness and nominalization &#8212; convergence and divergenceVendredi 14 octobre    9h30 Bernd HEINE    On imperatives and nonfiniteness: Some crosslinguistic observations10h30 Pause caf&#233;    11h00 Enrique PALANCAR    Where nominalization ends and derivation begins    11h45 Fran&#231;oise ROSE    Lexical nominalizations VS clause nominalizations: two extremes on the finiteness scale    12h30 Francesc QUEIXAL&#211;S    Pr&#233;dicats d&#233;-rh&#233;matis&#233;s en sikuani (et en tupi-guarani)13h15 Cl&#244;ture