15.1086, Confs: Syntax/Germanic/New York, NY USA

[LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List:  Vol-15-1086. Thu Apr 1 2004. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 15.1086, Confs: Syntax/Germanic/New York, NY USA

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Wayne State U.<aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at linguistlist.org>

Reviews (reviews at linguistlist.org):
	Sheila Collberg, U. of Arizona
	Terence Langendoen, U. of Arizona

Home Page:  http://linguistlist.org/

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, Wayne
State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Marie Klopfenstein <marie at linguistlist.org>
 ==========================================================================
Please keep conferences announcement as short as you can; LINGUIST
will not post conference announcements which in our opinion are
excessively long.

To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at
http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.html.

=================================Directory=================================

1)
Date:  Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:54:14 -0500 (EST)
From:  ctortora at gc.cuny.edu
Subject:  19th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:54:14 -0500 (EST)
From:  ctortora at gc.cuny.edu
Subject:  19th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop


19th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop
Short Title: CGSW19

Date: 03-Jun-2004 - 05-Jun-2004
Location: New York, NY, United States of America
Contact: Marcel den Dikken
Contact Email: cgsw19 at gc.cuny.edu
Meeting URL:
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/linguistics/events/CGSW19/index.html

Linguistic Sub-field: Syntax
Subject Language: Dutch, English

Meeting Description:

19th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop

Invited Speakers: Hans Bennis (P.J. Meertens Institute, Royal
Netherlands Academy of Sciences), Alison Henry (University of Ulster
at Jordanstown).

19th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop
CUNY Graduate Center, New York -- 3-5 June 2004
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Thursday, 3 June 2004
4:15-6:30
Reception and registration
6:45
Opening remarks
7:00-8:00
Keynote address 1
Hans Bennis (P.J. Meertens Institute, Amsterdam)

Friday, 4 June 2004
9:00-9:30
Coffee and registration
9:30-10:10
Jan-Wouter Zwart (Groningen), On Verb-Second as edge alignment
10:10-10:50
Ute Bohnacker (Lund), Is V2 really that hard to acquire for second
language learners? On current universalist claims and their
theoretical underpinnings
10:50-11:10
Break
11:10-11:50
Josef Bayer, Tanja Schmid & Markus Bader (Konstanz), Clause union and
clausal position
11:50-12:30
Eric Stenshoel (CUNY), Are all particles created equal?
12:30-2:00
Lunch
2:00-2:40
Marit Julien (Vestfold), Possessor licensing, agreement, and Case
2:40-3:20
Dorian Roehrs (Indiana), Strong pronouns are determiners after all
3:20-4:00
Thomas Leu (NYU), What for properties are odd?
4:00-4:20
Break
4:20-5:00
Jonathan Bobaljik (UConn), On Phi: Agreement, Case and licensing
5:00-5:40
M. Siobhán Cottell & Alison Henry (Ulster), Transitive expletives,
quantifier stranding and subject positions in an English dialect
5:40-6:00
Break
6:00-7:00
Keynote address 2
Alison Henry (University of Ulster at Jordanstown)

Saturday, 5 June 2004
10:10-10:50
Marc Richards & Theresa Biberauer (Cambridge), Explaining Expl
10:50-11:30
Josef Bayer & Ellen Brandner (Konstanz), Light noun raising in
Alemannic and Bavarian infinitives
11:30-12:10
Lisa Levinson (NYU), HAVE minus BE equals P
12:10-1:40
Lunch
1:40-2:20
Ans van Kemenade (Nijmegen), Synchronic and diachronic variation in
early English clause structure
2:20-3:00
Erik Magnusson (Göteborg), The loss of referential pro in Swedish
3:00-3:20
Break
3:20-4:00
Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (Brussels), Simple tense
4:00-4:40
Marika Lekakou (UCL), Middle formation without imperfective aspect and
the role of 'sich'

ALTERNATE PAPERS
Hans Broekhuis (Tilburg), Object Shift and Subject Shift
Vera Lee-Schoenfeld (Santa Cruz), Binding, possessor datives, and the
typology of clause size
Helmut Weiß (Konstanz), Complementizer agreement in Continental West
Germanic

DETAILS about the conference are available on the CGSW19 website:
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/lingu/events/CGSW19/index.html

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-15-1086