Workshop on Syntax and Language Variation
Workshop on Syntax and Language Variation
Utrecht, 8 June 2018
Rooms:
• morning session: Janskerkhof 2-3, 115
• afternoon session: Janskerkhof 15A, 101
PROGRAM
| 8.45 | Welcome |
| 9.00 | Diego Pescarini (CNRS Nice)
Maximality and the emergence of Romance Clitics |
| 9.30 | Marjo van Koppen (Utrecht University / Meertens Institute Amsterdam) and Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (KU Leuven)
t.b.a. |
| 10.00 | Mirella De Sisto (Meertens Institute Amsterdam) and Marc van Oostendorp (Meertens Institute/RU Nijmegen)
Metrical Structure is Fake Syntax. The Case of Renaissance Poetry |
| 10.30 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 | Cora Pots (KU Leuven)
Keep on walking: grammaticalisation of Dutch and Afrikaans periphrastic progressives |
| 11.30 | Valentina Cojocaru (University of Bucharest/Romanian Academy of Science)
Some pragmatic aspects of the adverbial structure Ro. ‘de-amu ‘ from the Romanian variety spoken in Moldova |
| 12.00 | Theresa Biberauer (St John’s College Cambridge / Stellenbosch University)
From the outside in: the significance of the periphery in contact varieties |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 | Sofja Volkova (Ulster University)
A cross-linguistic perspective on the controversies in children’s case comprehension |
| 14.00 | Jan Casalicchio (University of Konstanz/ Utrecht University)
The acquisition of subject pronouns in Rhaeto-romance and the role of contact with German and Italian |
| 14.30 | Adina Dragomirescu (University of Bucharest/Romanian Academy of Science)
The grammaticalization of motion verbs in Romanian. An overview. |
| 15.00 | Coffee break |
| 15.30 | Edoardo Cavirani (KU Leuven)
To -[i]- or not to -[i]-: on the multiple (dis)appearance of PL and whom to blame |
| 16.00 | Hedde Zeijlstra and Sascha Alexeyenko (Georg-August University, Göttingen)
(Dis)obeying the Head-Final-Filter |
| 16.30 | Alexandru Nicolae (University of Bucharest/Romanian Academy of Science)
Restructuring and verb movement. The lesson of Romanian modal verbs |
| 17.00 | Discussion |