25.1594, Calls: Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 25.1594, Calls: Syntax/Germany

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Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 16:20:45
From: Anja Schenk [schenk at em.uni-frankfurt.de]
Subject: Dialect Syntax: The State of the Art

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Full Title: Dialect Syntax: The State of the Art 

Date: 05-Dec-2014 - 06-Dec-2014
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany 
Contact Person: Thomas Strobel
Meeting Email: dialectsyntax at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Call Deadline: 02-May-2014 

Meeting Description:

This two-day conference is organized by the research project Syntax of Hessian Dialects (SyHD), which is a joint project conducted by the Universities of Frankfurt, Marburg and Vienna. Its goal is the comprehensive survey and analysis of a range of dialect syntactic phenomena in the German state of Hesse. The focus of this conference will be on presenting the results of dialect syntactic research and on discussing their role in advancing contemporary syntactic theory.

Keynote Speakers (invited): 

Sjef Barbiers (Amsterdam)
Lars-Olof Delsing (Lund)
Elvira Glaser (Zürich)
Mark L. Louden (Madison/Wisconsin)	

Workshop Organizers: 

Jürg Fleischer (Marburg)
Alexandra N. Lenz (Vienna)
Helmut Weiß (Frankfurt)

Final Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for presentations on:

- Empirically and/or theoretically oriented investigations of dialect syntactic phenomena,
- The implications of dialect syntactic research for syntactic theory,
- Discussions of the methodology of dialect syntactic research.

Abstracts should be one page in length and may be written in English or German. Any theoretical approach, formal or functional, is welcome. The conference is not limited to any specific dialect area. 

Please submit your abstract via email: dialectsyntax at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de

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