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Mon May 10 2004

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    Message 1: 19th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop

     Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 12:40:20 -0400 (EDT)
    From: ctortora <ctortoragc.cuny.edu>
    Subject: 19th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop


    19th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop Short Title: CGSW19

    Date: 03-Jun-2004 - 05-Jun-2004 Location: New York, NY, United States of America Contact: Marcel den Dikken Contact Email: cgsw19gc.cuny.edu Meeting URL: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/linguistics/events/CGSW19/index.html

    Linguistic Sub-field: Syntax Subject Language Family: Germanic

    Meeting Description:

    19th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop

    Invited Speakers: Hans Bennis (P.J. Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences), Alison Henry (University of Ulster at Jordanstown).

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    The 19th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York 3-5 June, 2004

    Conference website: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/linguistics/events/CGSW19/index.html

    Contact: CGSW19gc.cuny.edu

    Invited Speakers: Professor Hans Bennis Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences) made possible by a grant from The Netherland-America Foundation]

    Professor Alison Henry University of Ulster at Jordanstown)

    PROGRAM: Thursday, 3 June 2004

    4:15-6:30 REGISTRATION

    6:45 OPENING REMARKS

    7:00-8:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1 Hans Bennis (P.J. Meertens Institute, Amsterdam)

    Friday, 4 June 2004

    9:00-9:30 COFFEE & REGISTRATION

    9:30-10:10 Jan-Wouter Zwart (Groningen) On Verb-Second as edge alignment

    10:10-10:50 Ute Bohnacker (Lund) Is V2 really that hard to acquire for second language learners? On current universalist claims and their theoretical underpinnings

    10:50-11:10 BREAK

    11:10-11:50 Josef Bayer, Tanja Schmid & Markus Bader (Konstanz) Clause union and clausal position

    11:50-12:30 Eric Stenshoel (CUNY) Are all particles created equal?

    12:30-2:00 LUNCH

    2:00-2:40 Marit Julien (Vestfold) Possessor licensing, agreement, and Case

    2:40-3:20 Dorian Roehrs (Indiana) Strong pronouns are determiners after all

    3:20-4:00 Thomas Leu (NYU) What for properties are odd?

    4:00-4:20 BREAK

    4:20-5:00 Jonathan Bobaljik (UConn) On Phi: Agreement, Case and licensing

    5:00-5:40 M. Siobh�n Cottell & Alison Henry (Ulster) Transitive expletives, quantifier stranding and subject positions in an English dialect

    5:40-6:00 BREAK

    6:00-7:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2 Alison Henry (University of Ulster at Jordanstown)

    Saturday, 5 June 2004

    10:10-10:50 Marc Richards & Theresa Biberauer (Cambridge) Explaining Expl

    10:50-11:30 Josef Bayer & Ellen Brandner (Konstanz) Light noun raising in Alemannic and Bavarian infinitives

    11:30-12:10 Lisa Levinson (NYU) HAVE minus BE equals P

    12:10-1:40 LUNCH

    1:40-2:20 Ans van Kemenade (Nijmegen) Synchronic and diachronic variation in early English clause structure

    2:20-3:00 Erik Magnusson (G�teborg) The loss of referential pro in Swedish

    3:00-3:20 BREAK

    3:20-4:00 Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (Brussels) Simple tense

    4:00-4:40 Marika Lekakou (UCL) Middle formation without imperfective aspect and the role of sich

    ALTERNATE PAPERS

    Hans Broekhuis (Tilburg) Object Shift and Subject Shift

    Vera Lee-Schoenfeld (Santa Cruz) Binding, possessor datives, and the typology of clause size

    Helmut Wei� (Konstanz) Complementizer agreement in Continental West Germanic