LINGUIST List 23.839 Sun Feb 19 2012 Confs: Syntax/UK 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.     Franca Wesseling , European Dialect Syntax Workshop VI Message 1: European Dialect Syntax Workshop VI Date: 17-Feb-2012 From: Franca Wesseling <franca.wesselingmeertens.knaw.nl> Subject: European Dialect Syntax Workshop VI E-mail this message to a friend European Dialect Syntax Workshop VI Short Title: Edisyn Workshop VI Date: 31-Mar-2012 - 01-Apr-2012 Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom Contact: Ioanna Sitaridou Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.dialectsyntax.org Linguistic Field(s): Syntax Meeting Description: The general goal of Edisyn (an ESF-funded project which runs from 2005 - 2012 at the Meertens Institute and whose labours continue to bear fruits) is to stimulate international cooperation in the study of European dialect syntax, which is a rapidly growing field. Workshop European Dialect Syntax VI, Queens' College, Cambridge, 31 March 2012 Programme 9:00 - 9:30 Registration 9:30 - 10:00 What makes a good (relative) particle? On the left periphery of relative and adverbial clauses in Southern German dialects - Ellen Brandner & Iris Bräuning (Konstanz) 10:00 - 10:30 Relativisation strategies in German dialectal varieties and the fine structure of CP - Sabrina Bertollo (Padova) 10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK 11:00 - 11:30 Multiple wh-fronting across Pontic Greek varieties - Dimitris Michelioudakis & Ioanna Sitaridou (Cambridge) 11:30 - 12:00 Wh-items under the magnifying lense: the internal structure of 'where' in Italoromance - Nicola Munaro (Venice) & Cecilia Poletto (Frankfurt) 12:00 - 12:30 Nominal Structures and Non-agreeing Quantifiers in Basque - Urtzi Etxeberria & Ricardo Etxepare (IKER-CNRS) 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14.00 - 15:00 Modelling language change in the Syntactic Atlas of Welsh Dialects- David Willis (Cambridge) 15:00 - 15:30 Vacuous preposition doubling in Breton - Mélanie Jouitteau (CNRS) 15:30 - 16:00 On the role of clitics in Cappadocian - Artemis Alexiadou (Stuttgart) & Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse) 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break 16:30 - 17:00 Preproprial articles in Norwegian dialects - Janne Bondi Johannessen & Piotr Garbacz (Oslo) 17:00 - 17:30 The Northern Subject Rule and Verbal -s with Conjoined NPs in Dialectal English - Isabelle Buchstaller, Claire Childs, Karen Corrigan & Anders Holmberg (Newcastle) 17.30 - 18.00 Business Meeting Pre registration: You can pre register till March 10th by sending an email to Ioanna Sitaridou (is269cam.ac.uk). Registration fee is £20 for all but speakers and students. More information available at http://www.dialectsyntax.org Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 19-Feb-2012       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.