23.1546, Confs: Germanic, Syntax/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-23-1546. Tue Mar 27 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 23.1546, Confs: Germanic, Syntax/USA

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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:24:47
From: Robert Frank [bob.frank at yale.edu]
Subject: 27th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop

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27th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 
Short Title: CGSW27 

Date: 31-May-2012 - 01-Jun-2012 
Location: New Haven, Connecticut, USA 
Contact: Bob Frank 
Contact Email: cgsw27 at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://whitney.ling.yale.edu/cgsw27 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Germanic 
Meeting Description: 

The 27th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, which is being organized by the Linguistics Departments at Yale University and the University of Connecticut, will be held at Yale University from May 31 to June 1, 2012.

Invited Speakers:

Marcel den Dikken (CUNY Graduate Center)
Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh)
Angelika Kratzer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) 

Thursday,  31 May 2012

9:30-9:45 
Welcome

9:45-10:25
Deep properties of surface pronouns: Pronominal predicate anaphors in Germanic
Kristine Bentzen, Jason Merchant, and Peter Svenonius

10:25-11:05
Ellipsis licensing and the variety of verb movement in Germanic
Gary Thoms

11:05-11:25
Coffee Break

11:25-12:05
Attributive Adjectives in German and Norwegian: Two Types of Weak Endings
Dorian Roehrs and Marit Julien
12:05-12:45
Affix stranding and agreement: Romance and Germanic predicative adjectives 
Erik Schoorlemmer

12:45-2:15
Lunch

2:15-2:55
Predicate-doubling in Germaic contact varieties: Afrikaans meets Trinidad dialectal English and Yiddish
Theresa Biberauer

2:55-3:35
The syntax of external arguments in derived nominal
Artemis Alexiadou, Mariangeles Cano, Gianina Iordăchioaia, Fabienne Martin and Florian Schaefer

3:35-3:55
Coffee Break

3:55-4:35
The syntax and semantics of analytic causatives: a Romance-German contrasts
Marcel Pitteroff and Cinzia Campanini

4:35-5:35
Invited Talk
Marcel den Dikken

Friday, 1 June 2012

9:15-10:15
Invited Talk
Angelika Kratzer

Special Session on Syntactic Variation of English Dialects

10:15-10:55
Long-distance reflexives and the role of syntactic environments
Sara Loss

10:55-11:15
Coffee Break

11:15-11:55
This Syntax Needs Studied
Elspeth Edelstein

11:55-12:35
On "coming the pub" in the North West of England: Accusative Unaccusatives,  Dependent  Case  and Preposition Incorporation
Neil Myler

12:35-2:00
Lunch

2:00-2:40
Hierarchy and order in verb clusters
Klaus Abels

2:40-3:20
Wh-dependencies without movement in Germanic
Bradley Larson

3:20-3:40
Coffee Break

3:40-4:20
Turning Objects into Locations in English and Mainland Scandinavian
Gillian Ramchand and Bjorn Lundquist

4:20-5:20
Invited Talk
Caroline Heycock

Alternates:

Daniel Gutzmann and Katharina Turgay
Expressive intensifiers in German. Syntax-semantics mismatches

Federica Cognola
Scrambling in Mocheno: on the structure of the lower portion of CP and its interaction with the V2 constraint

Hedde Zeijlstra
What is right to say about light negation?

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