LINGUIST List 21.2244 Mon May 17 2010 Confs: Syntax/Spain Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Arantzazu Elordieta, 4th European Dialect Syntax Meeting. Message 1: 4th European Dialect Syntax Meeting. Date: 15-May-2010 From: Arantzazu Elordieta <arantzazu.elordietaehu.es> Subject: 4th European Dialect Syntax Meeting. E-mail this message to a friend 4th European Dialect Syntax Meeting. Date: 21-Jun-2010 - 23-Jun-2010 Location: Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain Contact: Ricardo Etxepare Contact Email: retxeparegmail.com Meeting URL: http://basdisyn.net Linguistic Field(s): Syntax Meeting Description: An international event will be held at the XXIX. Summer Courses/ XXII. European Courses of the University of the Basque Country, during the 21-23 of June 2010. It is the 4th meeting of the ESF funded network Edisyn, which gathers research groups and researchers from all across Europe working in the area of micro-syntactic variation. For the first time, the meeting will include an open thematic session (Variation in datives: a micro-comparative perspective), devoted to micro-linguistic variation on datives and the expression of indirect objects. The meeting will include four invited speakers: Ignacio Bosque (Univ. Complutense de Madrid), Richard Kayne (New York Univ.), Peter Svenonius (CASTL, Tromsoe, Norway), and Höskuldur Thráinsson (Univ. of Iceland). We would like to invite you to attend and participate in this exciting event, and to pass this announcement to all those you may consider potentially interested. For more details, please access our web page http://basdisyn.net/. Looking forward to seeing you in Donostia-San Sebastian in June, Ane Berro, Arantzazu Elordieta, Ricardo Etxepare, Beatriz Fernández (The organizing committee) Monday, June 21st, 2010 9:00 Registration and Opening Remarks: Ricardo Etxepare (IKER, CNRS) Session 1 Chair: Ricardo Etxepare (IKER, CNRS) 9:30-10:30 Invited speaker: Peter Svenonius (CASTL, Tromsø, Norway). TBA Coffee Break Session 2 Chair: Arantzazu Elordieta (UPV/EHU) 10:45-11:20 ''Non Selected Datives are Merged High'', Nora Boneh and Léa Nash (The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem / Univ. of Paris VIII) 11:20-11:55 ''Defective Dative le Clitic as an Event Modifier'', Ía Navarro (Univ. of Guanajuato, UAB) Coffee Break Session 3 Chair: Arantzazu Elordieta (UPV/EHU) 12:10-12:45 ''Syntactic Microvariation: Dative Constructions in Greek'', Dimitris Michelioudakis and Ioanna Sitaridou (Univ. of Cambridge) 12:45-13:20 ''Doubled Agreement in Possessor Doubling'', Doreen Georgi (University of Leipzig) and Martin Salzmann (University of Zurich) Lunch Session 4 Chair: Bernard Oyharçabal (IKER, CNRS) 15:15-16:00 ''Mesocomparative Syntax of Auxiliary Doubling'', Sjef Barbiers (Meertens Instituut/Utrecht University), Ellen Brandner (University of Konstanz), Olaf Koeneman (University of Amsterdam), Marika Lekakou (Meertens Instituut), Cecilia Poletto (University of Venice) and Gerhard Schaden (Université Lille 3/CNRS/Université Nord de France) 16:00-16:45 ''Mesocomparative Syntax of Wh-doubling'', Sjef Barbiers (Meertens Instituut/Utrecht University), Olaf Koeneman (University of Amsterdam), Marika Lekakou (Meertens Instituut), Nicola Munaro (University of Venice) and Cecilia Poletto (University of Venice) Coffee Break Session 5 Chair: Bernard Oyharçabal (IKER, CNRS) 17:00-17:25 ''Theoretical approaches to Dative Displacement'', Beatriz Fernández and Milan Rezac (UPV/EHU / Univ. of Paris VIII) 17:25-17:50 ''Mapping Dative Agreement Alternations in North-eastern Basque'', Ricardo Etxepare (IKER, CNRS) Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 Session 1 Chair: Sjef Barbiers (Meertens Instituut) 9:30-10:30 Invited speaker: Richard Kayne (New York University). TBA Coffee Break Session 2 Chair: Pablo Albizu (UPV/EHU) 10:45-11:20 ''Three Dative-locative Syncretisms across French Varieties'', Milan Rezac (Univ. of Paris VIII) 11:20-11:55 ''Why P'', Juan Romero & Javier Ormazabal (Univ. of Cáceres/UPV/EHU) Coffee Break Session 3 Chair: Pablo Albizu (UPV/EHU) 12:10-12:45 ''Oblique Case Morphology, Syncretism, and Gender Sensitive Syntax in (Swiss) German'', Tom Leu (Yale University) 12:45-13:20 ''Dative/accusative Variation and Event Structure in Icelandic'', Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson (Univ. of Iceland) Lunch Session 4 Chair: Bill Haddican (U. of York) 15:15-16:00 ''Mesocomparative Syntax of Negative Doubling'', Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge), Cecilia Poletto (University of Venice), Hedde Zeijlstra (University of Amsterdam) and Helmut Weiss (University of Frankfurt) 16:00-16:45 ''Pronominal Doubling in Germanic and Romance'', Roberta d'Alessandro (Leiden University), Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel) and Marjo van Koppen (Utrecht University) Coffee Break Session 5 Chair: Bill Haddican (U. of York) 17:00-17:25 ''The Data We (still) have Access to: Discussion from a Micro-&-macro-variationist Perspective'', Mélanie Jouitteau (Univ. of Paris VII) 17:25-17:50 ''Verb-doubling in Basque and Breton'', Mélanie Jouitteau and Arantzazu Elordieta (Univ. of Paris VII / UPV/EHU) Reception Dinner Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 Session 1 Chair: Marika Lekakou (Meertens Instituut) 9:30-10:30 Invited speaker: ''Ideal Speakers and Other Speakers: The Case of Dative and Some Other Cases'', Höskuldur Þrainsson (Univ. of Iceland) Coffee Break Session 2 Chair: Urtzi Etxeberria (IKER, CNRS) 10:45-11:20 ''Accusative Feminine Datives'', Juan Romero (Univ. of Cáceres) 11:20-11:55 ''Case in Disguise'', Einar Freyr Sigurösson and Hlíf Árnadóttir (Univ. of Iceland) Coffee Break Session 3 Chair: Beatriz Fernández (UPV/EHU) 12:10-13:10 Invited speaker: ''American Spanish Syntax in the New Academic Grammar'', Ignacio Bosque (Univ. Complutense de Madrid) 13:10-13:30 Business Meeting 13:30-13:45 Closing Remarks: Sjef Barbiers (Meertens Instituut/Utrecht University) Lunch Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 17-May-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.