LINGUIST List 16.1081
Wed Apr 06 2005
Confs: Syntax/Germanic/Tilburg, Netherlands
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20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop
Message 1: 20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop
Date: 04-Apr-2005
From: Laszlo Molnarfi <l.molnarfiuvt.nl>
Subject: 20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop
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20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop
Short Title: CGSW 20
Date: 09-Jun-2005 - 11-Jun-2005
Location: Tilburg, Netherlands
Contact: Laszlo Molnarfi
Contact Email: cgswuvt.nl
Meeting URL: http://let.uvt.nl/cgsw
Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
Language Family(ies): Germanic
Meeting Description:
Conference Program
The 20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop will be held at Tilburg
University, the Netherlands, 9-11 June 2005.
Conference website: http://let.uvt.nl/cgsw
Contact Email: cgswuvt.nl
There will be an on-site registration for this workshop.
Registration fees:
30 euro for faculty
20 euro for students and unemployed linguists
Invited Speakers:
Professor Josef Bayer
University of Konstanz
Professor Susan Pintzuk
University of York
PROGRAM:
Thursday, 9 June 2005
17:00-19:00 REGISTRATION PARTY
Friday, 10 June 2005
9:30-10:00 COFFEE
10:00-10:40 Jan-Wouter Zwart (Groningen)
Untangling IPP word order restrictions
10:40-11:20 Gertjan Postma (Meertens Institute)
Toward a syntactic theory of feature neutralization
11:20-12:00 Olaf Koeneman (Groningen)
Shape conservation, Holmberg's generalization and passivization
12:00-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-14:10 Peter Svenonius (Tromsø)
Particle Shift is XP-movement
14:10-14:50 Marit Julien (Tromsø)
Nominal arguments and nominal predicates
14:50-15:30 BREAK
15:30-16:10 Artemis Alexiadou & Elena Anagostopoulou & Florian Schäfer
(Stuttgart & Crete & Stuttgart)
Anticausatives crosslinguistically
16:10-16:50 Martin Salzmann (Leiden)
Asymmetries and Non-Asymmetries in Resumption
16:50-17:30 Michael Hegarty (Louisiana)
Expletive subjects and feature checking in Germanic existential constructions
17:30-18:00 BREAK
18:00-19:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1
Josef Bayer
19:00-22:00 CONFERENCE DINNER
Saturday, 11 June 2005
9:30-10:00 COFFEE
10:00-10:40 Theresa Biberauer & Ian Roberts (Cambridge)
The loss of V-Aux orders and remnant fronting in Late Middle English: causes and
consequences
10:40-11:20 Thomas McFadden & Artemis Alexiadou (Stuttgart)
Auxiliary selection and modal syntax in Germanic and the history of English
11:20-12:00 Carola Trips (Stuttgart)
Syntactic sources of word formation processes: Evidence from Old English and Old
High German
12:00-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-14:10 Halldór Sigurðsson (Lund)
Nom/Acc
14:10-14:50 Mark de Vos (Leiden)
Weird verb-second in Afrikaans: AGREE and the morphology interface
14:50-15:30 Tanja Kiziak & Sam Featherston (Tübingen)
Long extraction or parenthetical insertion? Evidence from judgement studies
15:30-16:00 BREAK
16:00-16:40 Christopher Collins & Joachim Sabel (Cornell & Leuven)
A C-I interface constraint on remnant movement
16:40-17:20 Doris Penka & Hedde Zeijlstra (Tübingen)
Negative Indefinites in Germanic
17:20-18:00 BREAK
18:00-19:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2
Susan Pintzuk
ALTERNATE PAPERS
Dorian Roehrs (Indiana)
Number "Dis-Agreement" in Pronominal Noun Phrases
John te Velde (Oklahoma)
New Evidence for Relativized V2 in West Germanic
Frank Drijkoningen (Utrecht)
Indefinites and A-bar Operations
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