21.1409, Confs: Syntax, General Ling/Norway

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Subject: 21.1409, Confs: Syntax, General Ling/Norway

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Date: 23-Mar-2010
From: Thomas McFadden < thomas.mcfadden at uit.no >
Subject: Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 25

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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:36:11
From: Thomas McFadden [thomas.mcfadden at uit.no]
Subject: Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 25

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Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 25 
Short Title: CGSW 25 

Date: 10-Jun-2010 - 12-Jun-2010 
Location: Tromsø, Norway 
Contact: Kristine Bentzen 
Contact Email: cgsw25 at list.uit.no 
Meeting URL:
http://www.hum.uit.no/castl_webpage/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92&Itemid=173

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The 25th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop will take place at the University
of Tromsø, Norway, on June 10-12, 2010, including a workshop on Nordic
Microvariation organized and sponsored by NORMS on June 10th. We invite
abstracts for thirty-minute talks (followed by ten minutes of discussion) on any
aspect of comparative Germanic syntax, including diachronic syntax and the
interface between syntax and other components of the grammar. 

CGSW 25 + NORMS Closing Seminar, Tromsø 10-12 June, 2010

NORMS Closing Seminar

10th of June

9:30-10:00 
Registration (+coffee)

10:00-10:30 
Peter Svenonius (University of Tromsø): Microcomparison in the Nordic Languages

10:30-11:30 
Jan-Ola Östman (University of Helsinki) and Urpo Nikanne (Åbo Akademi): TBA

11:30-11:45 
Coffee Break (15 min)

11:45-12:45 
Tor Åfarli (NTNU), Janne Bondi Johannessen (University of Oslo), and Thórhallur
Eythórsson (University of Iceland): TBA

12:45-13:45 
Lunch Break (1 hour)

13:45-14:45 
Øystein Alexander Vangsnes (University of Tromsø), Marit Westergaard (University
of Tromsø), and Terje Lohndal (University of Maryland): TBA

14:45-15:00 
Coffee Break (15 min)

15:00-16:00 
Kristine Bentzen (University of Tromsø), Piotr Garbacz (University of Oslo), and
Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh): TBA

16:00-16:30 
Coffee Break w/fruit (30 min)

16:30-17:30 
Invited speaker: Richard Kayne: TBA

18:00  
Reception with white wine and shrimp

Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW) 25

Friday 11th of June

9:00-9:30 
Registration (+ coffee)

9:30-10:10 
Günther Grewendorf (University of Frankfurt) & Cecilia Poletto (University of
Venice): V2 or not V2: an Analysis of the Cimbrian Left Periphery

10:10-10:50 
Gereon Müller (Leipzig University): Phase Impenetrability, Reprojection, and
Embedded Verb-Second

10:50-11:10 
Coffee Break (20 min)

11:10-11:50 
Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh): Variability and Variation in
Agreement in Copular Clauses: Evidence from Faroese 

11:50-12:30 
Liliane Haegeman (Ghent University) & Marjo van Koppen (Utrecht University):
Complementizer Agreement and the Relation between T and C

12:30-13:30 
Lunch Break (1 hour)

13:30-14:10 
George Walkden (University of Cambridge): Verb-third in Early West Germanic: a
Comparative Perspective

14:10-14:50 
Anne Breitbarth (Ghent University): Indefinites, Negation and Jespersen's Cycle
in the History of Low German

14:50-15:10 
Coffee Break (20 min)

15:10-15:50 
Dennis Ott (Harvard University): Predicate Fronting in German: Remnant Movement
Revisited 

15:50-16:30 
Elspeth Edelstein (University of Edinburgh): Adverb Climbing and Infinitival
Complement Size 

16:30-17:00 
Coffee Break w/waffles (30 min)

17:00-18:00 
Invited speaker: Artemis Alexiadou: TBA

Saturday 12th of June

9:00-9:40 
Björn Lundquist (University of Tromsø/Århus University): Swedish Passives
(finally) Under Control

9:40-10:20 
William Haddican (University of York), Anders Holmberg (Newcastle University) &
Nanna Haug-Hilton (University of Groningen): Object Movement (a)symmetries in
Norwegian and the Split Probe Hypothesis

10:20-10:40 
Coffee Break (20 min)

10:40-11:20 
Joel Wallenberg (University of Iceland): Antisymmetry and the Information
Structure of Heavy NP Shift Across Germanic

11:20-12:00 
Ute Bohnacker (Uppsala University) and Christina Rosén (Linné University Växjö):
Information-structural Constraints on Word Order in Advanced L2 Swedish 

12:00-13:00 
Lunch Break (1 hour)

13:00-13:40 
Pavel Caha (University of Tromsø: Measure Phrase Objects as Evidence for the
Derived Status of P>DP Orders 

13:40-14:20 
Andreas Blümel (Goethe Universität Frankfurt): Cataphoric Demonstratives and
Relative Clauses

14:20-14:40 
Coffee Break (20 min)

14:40-15:20 
Klaus Abels (University College London) & Luisa Martí (University of Tromsø):
You May Submit Exactly One Single-authored Abstract

15:20-16:00 
Dennis Ott and Andreea Nicolae (Harvard University): The Syntax and Semantics of
Genus-species Splits in German

16:00-16:30 
Coffee Break w/fruit (30 min)

16:30-17:30 
Invited speaker: David Adger: TBA

19:00 
Conference Dinner

CGSW25 Alternates:

1. Irene Franco (University of Tromsø): A Comparative Approach to Stylistic Fronting

2. Theresa Biberauer & George Walkden (University of Cambridge): 231 from
A(frikaans) to Z(ürich German): on the (Apparently) FOFC-violating structures in
West Germanic

3. Thórhallur Eythórsson, Hlíf Árnadóttir & Einar Freyr Sigurðsson (University
of Iceland): Independent Accusative Case in Insular Scandinavian

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