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Date: 17-Feb-2012
From: Franca Wesseling [franca.wesseling at meertens.knaw.nl]
Subject: European Dialect Syntax Workshop VI


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Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:46:09
From: Franca Wesseling [franca.wesseling at meertens.knaw.nl]
Subject: European Dialect Syntax Workshop VI

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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: is269 at cam.ac.uk 
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 (is269 at cam.ac.uk). Registration fee is £20 for all but 
speakers and students. 

More information available at http://www.dialectsyntax.org






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