17.468, Confs: Germanic/Syntax/Santa Cruz, CA, USA

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Subject: 17.468, Confs: Germanic/Syntax/Santa Cruz, CA, USA

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Date: 11-Feb-2006
From: Justin Nuger < cgsw at ling.ucsc.edu >
Subject: 21st Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 

	
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:43:48
From: Justin Nuger < cgsw at ling.ucsc.edu >
Subject: 21st Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 
 



21st Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 
Short Title: CGSW21 

Date: 31-Mar-2006 - 02-Apr-2006 
Location: Santa Cruz, CA, USA 
Contact: Justin Nuger 
Contact Email: cgsw at ling.ucsc.edu 
Meeting URL: http://ling.ucsc.edu/~cgsw 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Germanic 
Meeting Description: 

The 21st Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop will take place Friday, March 31 - Sunday, April 2, 2006 at UC Santa Cruz.  We are pleased to announce the following invited speakers:

-Peter Svenonius, Universitetet i Tromsø, Norway
-Jan-Wouter Zwart, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands 

The 21st Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop
University of California, Santa Cruz
March 31 - April 2, 2006

Friday, March 31, 2006

Registration Party (7:00pm - 9:00pm): Located at Jorge Hankamer's house
Saturday, April 1, 2006

Registration (8:30am - 8:50am): Bay Tree Conference Center, Room D

Welcoming Speech (8:50am - 9:00am): TBA 

Session 1: Inside the German DP
9:00am - 9:40am: Dalina Kallulli & Antonia Rothmayr (Universität Wien, Austria), Variation inside the DP: Bavarian vs. Standard German
9:40am - 10:20am: Dorian Roehrs (Indiana University, USA), Something Post-pre-nominal in German

10:20am - 10:40am: Coffee Break 

Session 2: Negation
10:40am - 11:20am: Hedde Zeijlstra (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany), Negative Doubling in Non-Negative Concord Languages
11:20am - 12:00pm: Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom), ''Syntactic'' OCP effects? Insights from Afrikaans Negation

12:00pm - 1:00pm: Break for Lunch

Session 3: Anaphors and Ellipsis
1:00pm - 1:40pm: Jenny Lederer (University of California, Berkeley, USA), Anaphoric distribution in the prepositional phrase: Similarities between Norwegian and English
1:40pm - 2:20pm: John te Velde (Oklahoma State University, USA) A Conjunction Conspiracy at the West Germanic Left Periphery

2:20pm - 2:40pm: Coffee Break

Session 4: Featural Composition of Auxiliaries
2:40pm - 3:20pm: Michael Houser, Line Mikkelsen, Ange Strom-Weber, and Maziar Toosarvandani (University of California, Berkeley, USA), Gøre-Support in Danish
3:20pm - 4:00pm: Thomas McFadden & Artemis Alexiadou (Universität Stuttgart, Germany), Pieces of the perfect in German and older English

4:00pm - 4:20pm: Coffee Break 

Session 5: Organization of the Grammar
4:20pm - 5:00pm: Theresa Biberauer & Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom), The return of the Subset Principle: A Germanic case study
5:00pm - 5:40pm: Mats Johansson (Lunds Universitet, Sweden) & Dianne Jonas (Yale University, USA), Structural Case, Feature Valuation and the Role of Tense

5:40pm - 6:00pm: Coffee Break 

Invited Speaker
6:00pm - 7:00pm: Peter Svenonius (Universitetet i Tromsø, Norway), Title TBA

7:00pm - 7:15pm: Break to walk over for dinner

7:15pm - 9:00pm: Dinner provided at the Stevenson College Provost's House 

Sunday, April 2, 2006

Session 6: Dialects of English
9:20am - 10:00am: Marjo van Koppen (Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands) & Michael Putnam (University of Michigan, USA), C-agreement or something close to it: the alls-construction
10:00am - 10:40am: Alison Henry & Siobhán Cottell (University of Ulster, United Kingdom), Predicate fronting and Aspect in Northern Hiberno-English

10:40am - 11:00am: Coffee Break 

Invited Speaker
11:00am - 12:00pm: Jan-Wouter Zwart (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands), Title TBA

12:00pm - 2:00pm: Break for Lunch

Session 7: Decomposition of D-like Elements
2:00pm - 2:40pm: Øystein Alexander Vangsnes (Universitetet i Tromsø, Norway), The nanosyntax of wh-determiners: a Scandinavian perspective
2:40pm - 3:20pm: Thomas Leu (New York University, USA), These HERE demonstratives

3:20pm - 3:40pm: Coffee Break 

Session 8: Theta Roles in Syntax
3:40pm - 4:20pm: Artemis Alexiadou & Florian Schäfer (Universität Stuttgart, Germany), The readings of instrument subjects: understanding the nature of agents and causers
4:20pm - 5:00pm: Remus Gergel (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany) & Jutta Hartmann (Universiteit van Tilburg, the Netherlands), Experiencers with (Un)willingness: Volitionally Raising German Modals


Alternate Talks
Máire Noonan (McGill University, Canada), Does into mean to in?
Kjersti Stensrud (University of Chicago, USA), Scandinavian Pronouns and Structural Deficiency - the significance of Norwegian 'Subject Shift'

<a href=''http://ling.ucsc.edu/~cgsw/program.html''>http://ling.ucsc.edu/~cgsw/program.html</a>





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