LINGUIST List 12.2117

Tue Aug 28 2001

Confs: Syntax of Auxiliaries, SLE, Belgium

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1. Sjef Barbiers, Syntax of Auxiliaries, Societas Linguistica Europaea

Workshop Microvariation in the Syntax of Auxiliaries
Date: August 30, 2001
Place: Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven, Belgium

Societas Linguistica Europaea 
The workshop is part of the 34th SLE-conference. For further 
information and abstracts:
http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/sle2001/.

Programme of the workshop
09:00-09:30:	Welcome
09:30-10:10:	Henk van Riemsdijk (KUB Tilburg): The unbearable lightness of
		GOing.
10:10-10:50:	Marie Christine Erb (Universitat Potsdam): Functional
		auxiliaries in German.

10:50 - 11:10	Coffee & tea break

11:10-11:50:	Misha Becker (University of Pennsylvania/IRCS): Is isn't Be.
11:50-12:30:	Thorhallur Eythorsson (University of Manchester): Why have and
 		be?

12:30-14:00:	Lunch

14:00-14:40:	Olga Tomic (Universiteit Leiden): The syntax of the Balkan
 		Slavic modal auxiliaries.
14:40-15:20:	Carson Schutze (UCLA): Think different: A principled,
 		predictive theory of auxiliaries.

15:20 - 15:40	Coffee & tea break

15:40-16:20:	Lisa Cheng and Rint Sybesma (Universiteit Leiden): A
 		permissive potential modal in postverbal position.

16:20-17:00:	Liliane Haegeman (Universite Charles de Gaulle Lille III):
 		Auxiliary syntax and functional structure in the clause in
 		West Flemish.

Organizers:
Sjef Barbiers (Meertens Instituut, KNAW), sjef.barbiersmeertens.knaw.nl
Frits Beukema (Engels, Universiteit Leiden), f.h.beukemalet.leidenuniv.nl 
Leonie Cornips (Meertens Instituut, KNAW), leonie.cornipsmeertens.knaw.nl
Rint Sybesma (ATW, Universiteit Leiden), r.p.e.sybesmalet.leidenuniv.nl

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Dr. Sjef Barbiers
Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam

E-mail:	sjef.barbiersmeertens.knaw.nl
	sjef.barbiershetnet.nl
Web site: http://www.meertens.nl/medewerkers/sjef.barbiers
Tel: 	020-4628530 (work)
	0172-476873 (home)
	06-51192585 (mobile)
Fax:	020-4628555
Address:	Meertens Instituut
	Postbus 94264
	1090 GG Amsterdam