18.1589, Confs: Syntax,Germanic Lang/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-18-1589. Fri May 25 2007. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 18.1589, Confs: Syntax,Germanic Lang/Germany

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Date: 25-May-2007
From: Thomas McFadden < tom at ifla.uni-stuttgart.de >
Subject: 22nd Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop

 

	
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Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 12:19:51
From: Thomas McFadden < tom at ifla.uni-stuttgart.de >
Subject:  22nd Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 
 



22nd Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 
Short Title: CGSW 22 

Date: 08-Jun-2007 - 09-Jun-2007 
Location: Stuttgart, Germany 
Contact: Artemis Alexiadou 
Contact Email: cgsw at ifla.uni-stuttgart.de 
Meeting URL: http://ifla.uni-stuttgart.de/~cgsw/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Germanic 
Meeting Description: 

CGSW 22 will be held at the Institute of English Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, June 8-9, 2007.

We are pleased to announce the following invited speakers:

Anna Cardinaletti, University of Venice;
Gisbert Fanselow, University of Potsdam. 

Friday, June 8th

09:00-09:30
Registration

09:30-10:10 
Jan-Wouter Zwart (University of Groningen) 
Dutch past tense infinitives and the nature of finiteness

10:10-10:50
Kristin M. Eide (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Finiteness: The haves and the have-nots

10:50-11:10
Coffee Break

11:10-11:50 
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck & Marjo van Koppen (CRISSP/Brussels &
    Uil-OTS/Utrecht)
Object agreement and raising in Dutch imperatives 

11:50-12:30 
Kristine Bentzen (University of Tromsø) 
Verb movement interfering with subjects in Norwegian non-V2 contexts 

12:30-14:00
Lunch

14:00-14:40 
Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson (Lund University) 
PRO and the C/content of C/case 

14:40-15:20 
Nynke de Haas & Ans van Kemenade (Radboud University Nijmegen) 
The Northern Subject Rule: agreement and non-agreement in Northern
    British English 

15:20-15:40
Coffee Break

15:40-16:20 
Hans Broekhuis (Leiden University) 
Holmberg's Generalization: X obstructs object shift.  But why the hell
    doesn't X get out of the way? 

16:20-17:00 
Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson (University of Iceland)
The new passive is a true passive 

17:00-17:20
Coffee Break

17:20-18:20
Anna Cardinaletti (University of Venice)
Topic or Focus? On some preposing phenomena in Italian, compared to Germanic

    Saturday, June 9th

09:30-10:10 
Peter Svenonius & Tarald Taraldsen (University of Tromsø) 
Germanic Adpositions and the Construct State 

10:10-10:50 
Kristine Bentzen, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson, Þorbjörg Hróarsdóttir
    and Anna-Lena Wiklund (University of Tromso) 
The Force behind V2 

10:50-11:10
Coffee Break

11:10-11:50 
Ulrike Demske (Saarland University) 
Verbal Complements of Motion Verbs: Synchronic and Diachronic Variation 

11:50-12:30 
Patrizia Noel (University of Munich) 
Jerpersen's Cycle and the issue of prosodic weakness 

12:30-14:00
Lunch

14:00-14:40 
Carola Trips & Eric Fuß (University of Stuttgart, University of Frankfurt)
The Syntax of Temporal Anaphora in Early Germanic 

14:40-15:20 
Sjef Barbiers, Olaf Koenemann & Marika Lekakou (Meertens Institute and
    Utrecht University) 
Syntactic Doubling and the Structure of Chains 

15:20-15:40
Coffee Break

15:40-16:20 
Hironobu Kasai (University of Kitakyushu) 
Grammatical CSC Violations 

16:20-17:00 
Norbert Corver & Marjo van Koppen (Utrecht Institute of
    Linguistics-OTS, Utrecht University) 
Ellipsis in Possessive NPs: a micro-comparative approach 

17:00-17:20
Coffee Break

17:20-18:20
Gisbert Fanselow (University of Potsdam)
Cyclic Linearization and pragmatic constraints on movement






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