16.1081, Confs: Syntax/Germanic/Tilburg, Netherlands

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LINGUIST List: Vol-16-1081. Wed Apr 06 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 16.1081, Confs: Syntax/Germanic/Tilburg, Netherlands

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Date: 04-Apr-2005
From: Laszlo Molnarfi < l.molnarfi at uvt.nl >
Subject: 20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 

	
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Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 18:25:10
From: Laszlo Molnarfi < l.molnarfi at uvt.nl >
Subject: 20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 
 

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20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 
Short Title: CGSW 20 

Date: 09-Jun-2005 - 11-Jun-2005 
Location: Tilburg, Netherlands 
Contact: Laszlo Molnarfi 
Contact Email: cgsw at uvt.nl 
Meeting URL: http://let.uvt.nl/cgsw 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Germanic 

Meeting Description: 

Conference Program 

The 20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop will be held at Tilburg
University, the Netherlands, 9-11 June 2005. 

Conference website: http://let.uvt.nl/cgsw 
Contact Email: cgsw at uvt.nl 

There will be an on-site registration for this workshop. 
Registration fees:
30 euro for faculty
20 euro for students and unemployed linguists

Invited Speakers: 
Professor Josef Bayer  
University of Konstanz  

Professor Susan Pintzuk 
University of York  

PROGRAM: 
Thursday, 9 June 2005 

17:00-19:00 REGISTRATION PARTY  

Friday, 10 June 2005 

9:30-10:00 COFFEE 

10:00-10:40 Jan-Wouter Zwart (Groningen) 
Untangling IPP word order restrictions 

10:40-11:20 Gertjan Postma (Meertens Institute)
Toward a syntactic theory of feature neutralization 

11:20-12:00 Olaf Koeneman (Groningen)
Shape conservation, Holmberg's generalization and passivization 

12:00-13:30 LUNCH 

13:30-14:10 Peter Svenonius (Tromsø)
Particle Shift is XP-movement 

14:10-14:50 Marit Julien (Tromsø) 
Nominal arguments and nominal predicates 

14:50-15:30 BREAK  

15:30-16:10 Artemis Alexiadou & Elena Anagostopoulou & Florian Schäfer
(Stuttgart & Crete & Stuttgart) 
Anticausatives crosslinguistically 

16:10-16:50 Martin Salzmann (Leiden) 
Asymmetries and Non-Asymmetries in Resumption

16:50-17:30 Michael Hegarty (Louisiana) 
Expletive subjects and feature checking in Germanic existential constructions

17:30-18:00 BREAK 

18:00-19:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1
Josef Bayer 

19:00-22:00 CONFERENCE DINNER 

Saturday, 11 June 2005 

9:30-10:00 COFFEE 

10:00-10:40 Theresa Biberauer & Ian Roberts (Cambridge) 
The loss of V-Aux orders and remnant fronting in Late Middle English: causes and
consequences

10:40-11:20 Thomas McFadden & Artemis Alexiadou (Stuttgart) 
Auxiliary selection and modal syntax in Germanic and the history of English

11:20-12:00 Carola Trips (Stuttgart) 
Syntactic sources of word formation processes: Evidence from Old English and Old
High German 

12:00-13:30 LUNCH 

13:30-14:10 Halldór Sigurðsson (Lund) 
Nom/Acc 

14:10-14:50 Mark de Vos (Leiden)
Weird verb-second in Afrikaans: AGREE and the morphology interface 

14:50-15:30 Tanja Kiziak & Sam Featherston (Tübingen)
Long extraction or parenthetical insertion? Evidence from judgement studies  

15:30-16:00 BREAK 
 
16:00-16:40 Christopher Collins & Joachim Sabel (Cornell & Leuven)
A C-I interface constraint on remnant movement 

16:40-17:20 Doris Penka & Hedde Zeijlstra (Tübingen) 
Negative Indefinites in Germanic 

17:20-18:00 BREAK 

18:00-19:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2
Susan Pintzuk 

ALTERNATE PAPERS 

Dorian Roehrs (Indiana) 
Number "Dis-Agreement" in Pronominal Noun Phrases 

John te Velde (Oklahoma) 
New Evidence for Relativized V2 in West Germanic 

Frank Drijkoningen (Utrecht) 
Indefinites and A-bar Operations





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