LINGUIST List 13.1086

Fri Apr 19 2002

Confs: Syntax, University of Stuttgart

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1. Darcy Bruce Berry, VSO Workshop

The Linguistics Graduiertenkolleg of the University 
of Stuttgart, "Linguistic Representations and their 
Interpretation," presents a

Workshop on the Syntax of VSO Languages
May 3-4, 2002


PROGRAM


Friday, May 3
Site: Keplerstr. 11, Room 11.71

2:00-3:00
Artemis Alexiadou, University of Potsdam
"Microvariation in pro-drop languages"

3:00-4:00
Sandra Chung, UCSC
"Is V-initial order derivable from the EPP?"

4:00-4:15
BREAK

4:15-5:15
David Adger, University of York
"Prosody and syntax in a VSO language"

5:15-6:15
Ellen Brandner, University of Constance
"On the similarities and differences between 
Germanic V/1 declaratives and VSO-languages"



Saturday, May 4
Site: Keplerstr. 17, Room 17.11

10:00-11:00
Jamal Ouhalla, University College Dublin
"The link between periphrasis and VSO
(Arabic and Berber dialects)"

11:00-12:00
Darcy Bruce Berry, University of Stuttgart
"Auxiliaries and the syntax of Garifuna"

12:00-2:00
LUNCH BREAK

2:00-3:00
Ur Shlonsky, University of Geneva
"NSO order and the syntax of the Semitic DP"

3:00-4:00
Diane Massam, University of Toronto
"On the left periphery of VSO: 
Evidence from Niuean"

4:00-4:15
BREAK

4:15-5:15
Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge
"VSO and anti-agreement in Welsh"

5:15-6:15
James McCloskey, UCSC
Partial raising in Irish and the status of 
Agreement projections"



For further information, see
http://pinguin.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de/ifl/VSOworkshop.html