21.1726, Confs: English, Historical Ling, Syntax/UK

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Subject: 21.1726, Confs: English, Historical Ling, Syntax/UK

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Date: 08-Apr-2010
From: Susan Pintzuk < sp20 at york.ac.uk >
Subject: Symposium on the History of English Syntax 2010
 

	
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Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:05:18
From: Susan Pintzuk [sp20 at york.ac.uk]
Subject: Symposium on the History of English Syntax 2010

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Symposium on the History of English Syntax 2010 
Short Title: SHES 2010 

Date: 17-Apr-2010 - 18-Apr-2010 
Location: York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom 
Contact: Susan Pintzuk 
Contact Email: sp20 at york.ac.uk 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Syntax 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description: 

This annual Symposium provides a venue for researchers in the UK and the
Netherlands to present and discuss current research and research in progress on
syntactic change in the history of English. 

Saturday 17 April 2010

1:00-1:45pm	
Ann Taylor and Susan Pintzuk (University of York), Object Position and
Information Structure in Old English

1:45-2:30pm	
Marion Elenbaas (University of Leiden), Particle Verb Word Order and Information
Structure in Middle English and Early Modern English

2:30-2:50pm	
Break

2:50-3:35pm	
Gea Dreschler (Radboud University Nijmegen), The Passive as a Topic Introducer:
Agent Promotion in Early Modern English

3:35-4:20pm	
Erwin R. Komen (Radboud University Nijmegen), Disambiguating Clefts in English

4:20-4:40pm	
Break

4:40-5:25pm	
George Walkden (University of Cambridge), Verb-third in Old English: a
Comparative Perspective

5:25-6:10pm	
Gertjan Postma (Catholic University Nijmegen), On the Origin of the Germanic
dental Preterit Morpheme

Sunday 18 April 2010

9:30-10:15am	
Meta Links (Radboud University Nijmegen), 'But Ther Could No Man Shew Me Which
was Your Ground': Exploring the Transitive Expletive Construction in Earlier English

10:15-11:00am	
Richard Ingham (Birmingham City University), Indefinites under Negation in the
History of English

11:00-11:20am	
Break

11:20am-12:05pm	
Ans van Kemenade (Radboud University Nijmegen), Secondary Negation and
Information Structure Organization in the History of English

12:05-12:50pm	
Phillip Wallage (Northumbria University) and Wim van der Wurff (Newcastle
University), Negatives without Subjects: the Case of Other Speaker Question Tags
in EModE

12:50pm-	
Business meeting





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