LINGUIST List 23.1546: Confs: Germanic, Syntax/USA

LINGUIST List 23.1546
Tue Mar 27 2012 Confs: Germanic, Syntax/USA Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org>
LINGUIST is pleased to announce an exciting service: 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!
Date: 25-Mar-2012 From: Robert Frank <bob.frankyale.edu> Subject: 27th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop E-mail this message to a friend 27th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop Short Title: CGSW27 Date: 31-May-2012 - 01-Jun-2012 Location: New Haven, Connecticut, USA Contact: Bob Frank Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://whitney.ling.yale.edu/cgsw27 Linguistic Field(s): Syntax Language Family(ies): Germanic Meeting Description: The 27th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, which is being organized by the Linguistics Departments at Yale University and the University of Connecticut, will be held at Yale University from May 31 to June 1, 2012. Invited Speakers: Marcel den Dikken (CUNY Graduate Center) Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh) Angelika Kratzer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Thursday, 31 May 2012 9:30-9:45 Welcome 9:45-10:25 Deep properties of surface pronouns: Pronominal predicate anaphors in Germanic Kristine Bentzen, Jason Merchant, and Peter Svenonius 10:25-11:05 Ellipsis licensing and the variety of verb movement in Germanic Gary Thoms 11:05-11:25 Coffee Break 11:25-12:05 Attributive Adjectives in German and Norwegian: Two Types of Weak Endings Dorian Roehrs and Marit Julien 12:05-12:45 Affix stranding and agreement: Romance and Germanic predicative adjectives Erik Schoorlemmer 12:45-2:15 Lunch 2:15-2:55 Predicate-doubling in Germaic contact varieties: Afrikaans meets Trinidad dialectal English and Yiddish Theresa Biberauer 2:55-3:35 The syntax of external arguments in derived nominal Artemis Alexiadou, Mariangeles Cano, Gianina Iordăchioaia, Fabienne Martin and Florian Schaefer 3:35-3:55 Coffee Break 3:55-4:35 The syntax and semantics of analytic causatives: a Romance-German contrasts Marcel Pitteroff and Cinzia Campanini 4:35-5:35 Invited Talk Marcel den Dikken Friday, 1 June 2012 9:15-10:15 Invited Talk Angelika Kratzer Special Session on Syntactic Variation of English Dialects 10:15-10:55 Long-distance reflexives and the role of syntactic environments Sara Loss 10:55-11:15 Coffee Break 11:15-11:55 This Syntax Needs Studied Elspeth Edelstein 11:55-12:35 On "coming the pub" in the North West of England: Accusative Unaccusatives, Dependent Case and Preposition Incorporation Neil Myler 12:35-2:00 Lunch 2:00-2:40 Hierarchy and order in verb clusters Klaus Abels 2:40-3:20 Wh-dependencies without movement in Germanic Bradley Larson 3:20-3:40 Coffee Break 3:40-4:20 Turning Objects into Locations in English and Mainland Scandinavian Gillian Ramchand and Bjorn Lundquist 4:20-5:20 Invited Talk Caroline Heycock Alternates: Daniel Gutzmann and Katharina Turgay Expressive intensifiers in German. Syntax-semantics mismatches Federica Cognola Scrambling in Mocheno: on the structure of the lower portion of CP and its interaction with the V2 constraint Hedde Zeijlstra What is right to say about light negation? This Year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $67,000. This money will go to help keep the List running by supporting all of our Student Editors for the coming year. See below for donation instructions, and don't forget to check out Fund Drive 2012 site! http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2012/ There are many ways to donate to LINGUIST! You can donate right now using our secure credit card form at https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm Alternatively you can also pledge right now and pay later. To do so, go to: https://linguistlist.org/donation/pledge/pledge1.cfm For all information on donating and pledging, including information on how to donate by check, money order, or wire transfer, please visit: http://linguistlist.org/donation/ The LINGUIST List is under the umbrella of Eastern Michigan University and as such can receive donations through the EMU Foundation, which is a registered 501(c) Non Profit organization. Our Federal Tax number is 38-6005986. These donations can be offset against your federal and sometimes your state tax return (U.S. tax payers only). For more information visit the IRS Web-Site, or contact your financial advisor. Many companies also offer a gift matching program, such that they will match any gift you make to a non-profit organization. Normally this entails your contacting your human resources department and sending us a form that the EMU Foundation fills in and returns to your employer. This is generally a simple administrative procedure that doubles the value of your gift to LINGUIST, without costing you an extra penny. Please take a moment to check if your company operates such a program. Thank you very much for your support of LINGUIST! Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

Page Updated: 27-Mar-2012

Supported in part by the National Science Foundation

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.