LINGUIST List 26.605
Wed Jan 28 2015
Confs: Germanic, Romance, General Ling, Historical Ling, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/Norway
Editor for this issue: Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 22-Jan-2015
From: Christine Meklenborg Salvesen <c.m.salvesen
ilos.uio.no>
Subject: Traces of History
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Date: 09-Mar-2015 - 10-Mar-2015
Location: University of Oslo, Norway
Contact: Christine Meklenborg Salvesen
Contact Email:
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http://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/english/research/projects/traces-of-history/events/conferences/workshop-march-9th-10th-2015/Workshop
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Language Family(ies): Germanic; Romance
Meeting Description:
The workshop Traces of History ask the question why the Germanic languages have retained Verb Second word order whereas the Romance languages (as well as English) lost it in the late Middle Ages. Is V2 contingent on other, seemingly unrelated properties of the languages? And what traces of V2 may be found in the languages that have lost this word order?
The workshop will take place at the University of Oslo on March 9 – March 10, 2015. It is possible to register without a presentation.
Program:
Monday March 9, 2015
09:00-09:15
Welcome
09:15-10:30
Ian Roberts
Second Positions: A Synchronic Analysis and Some Diachronic Consequences
10:30-11:00
Theresa Biberauer
Not just preserved, but reinforced and expanded: V2 in modern Afrikaans
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:00
Federica Cognola
On Germanic and Old Romance V2. The view from Mòcheno
12:00-13:00
George Walkden
Language contact and the loss of strict V2
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30
Cecilia Poletto
Scrambling phenomena in the Old Italian DP
15:30-16:00
Giuseppe Samo
Notes on FinP as landing site for V2
16:00-17:00
Elly van Gelderen
TBA
Tuesday March 10, 2015
09:30-10:30
Georg A. Kaiser & Michael Zimmermann
Exploring verb order differences between (Medieval) Romance and (Modern) Germanic
10:30-11:00
Fransisco José Fernández-Rubiera & Christine Meklenborg Salvesen
V2 and enclisis: a uniform analysis for Germanic and (some) Romance varieties
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:30
Þórhallur Eyþórsson
TBA
12:30-13:00
André Antonelli
Roots of V-to-C Movement in Romance: Investigating Late Latin Grammar
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:00
Sam Wolfe
The Medieval Romance languages and V2: a new perspective for parameter theory
15:00–15.30
B. Devan Steiner
Focus Placement and Verb Second in the History of French
15:30-16:30
Kristine Eide
TBA
16:30-16:45
Closure
16.45–17.15
Board meeting
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