[Corpora-List] Workshop "Speaker and hearer perspectives on word order"

[Gerlof Bouma]

Call for participation

The organisers cordially invite researchers from all parts of 
linguistics and related fields to participate in the one-day workshop 
"Speaker and hearer perspectives on word order", to be held at the 
University of Groningen on the 22nd of February.

kind regards,
Gerlof Bouma, Petra Hendriks and Jack Hoeksema

* Short Description
The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers of word order 
that assume different perspectives (focusing on the interpretation of 
form, the expression of meaning, or on the interaction of the two) from 
a variety of methodological backgrounds (computational, experimental or 
theoretic, quantitative or discrete).

* Speakers and talk titles
Jack Hoeksema (Groningen): Scrambled or sunny up?
Roelien Bastiaanse (Groningen): tba
David Beaver (Austin, Texas): tba
Gerlof Bouma (Potsdam): A corpus study of Dutch word order freezing.
Peter de Swart and Geertje van Bergen (Nijmegen): Stuck in the middle of
   a Dutch sentence: a corpus study of object placement in the Mittelfeld
Elisabet Engdahl (Göteborg): On disappearing expletive subjects - is
   Swedish becoming more like German?
Ton van der Wouden (Leiden): Particles in the Vorfeld

* Time & Place
Friday, 22 February 2008, 10h-17h
Harmoniegebouw, Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26
Groningen, The Netherlands

* Registration
Participation is free of charge. Those who are interested in attending 
are kindly requested to register before 20 February, by sending an email 
to Gerlof Bouma (gerlof at ling.uni-potsdam.de)

* More information
More information and a preliminary programme can be found at the 
workshop website http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~gerlof/shpow

* Organisation
Gerlof Bouma (contact, gerlof at ling.uni-potsdam.de)
Petra Hendriks
Jack Hoeksema


-- 
Gerlof Bouma
Institut fuer Linguistik
Universitaet Potsdam
www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~gerlof

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