Program of Germanic Syntax Workshop at ESSLLI-98

[Detmar Meurers]

        Program and Call for Participation for the Workshop on

    CURRENT TOPICS IN CONSTRAINT-BASED THEORIES OF GERMANIC SYNTAX

                 Saarbruecken, 17. - 21. August  1998

         organized as part of the 10th European Summer School
            in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) by
    Tibor Kiss (IBM Germany) and Detmar Meurers (Univ. Tuebingen)



Monday, 17. August:

   Tibor Kiss (IBM Germany):
     Introduction: Empirical Problems in the Study of Germanic Syntax

   Bob Carpenter (Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories):
     German Word Order and ``Linearization'' in Type-Logical Grammar

   Frank Richter & Manfred Sailer (Univ. Tuebingen):
      Complementizers and Finite Verbs in German Sentence Structure


Tuesday, 18. August:

   Per Anker Jensen & Peter Skadhauge (South. Denmark Business School):
      Linearization and Diathetic Alternations in Danish

   Stefan Mueller (DFKI GmbH):
     Case in German -- An HPSG Analysis

   Detmar Meurers (Univ. Tuebingen):
     Raising Spirits (and assigning them case)


Wednesday, 19. August:

   Frank van Eynde (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven):
     Functional Projections and Dutch Complementizers

   Invited Speaker:
   Hans Uszkoreit (Univ. des Saarlandes / DFKI GmbH):
     On the Distribution of Extraposed Relative Clauses


Thursday, 20. August:

   Jonas Kuhn (Univ. Stuttgart):
     Resource Sensitivity in the Syntax-Semantics Interface and the
     German Split NP Construction

   Kordula De Kuthy (Univ. des Saarlandes):
     Splitting PP arguments from NPs -- An Argument
     Raising Approach and Its Interaction with Lexical Semantics

   Judith Berman (Univ. Stuttgart): 
     On the Syntax of Correlative `Es' and Finite Clauses in 
     German --  An LFG Analysis


Friday, 21. August: 

   Adam Bodomo (Univ. of Hong Kong):
      A Lexical Semantic Analysis of `faa' Complex Predicates in
      Norwegian

   Lutz Gunkel (FU Berlin)
     Causatives in German

   Discussion


The proceedings are available on-line at: 
   http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~dm/esslli98/