35th COMPARATIVE GERMANIC SYNTAX WORKSHOP
23-25 JUNE, 2021
Trento - Italy
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We are very proud to announce that the 35thComparative Germanic Syntax Workshop will be held, for the first time of the conference's history, in Italy, at the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento, on 23-25 June 2021.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions imposed on conferences and workshops and in general on academic work the conference will be held virtually, with the videoconferencing software ©Zoom.
The conference speakers as well as PhD-students and staff of the University of Trento are allowed to attend the conference in-person at the Department of Humanities (Palazzo Prodi, classroom 7).
The registration is in any case mandatory!
Invited speakers
The confirmed keynote speakers are:
- Eric Fuß, University of Bochum
- Karen De Clercq & Liliane Haegeman, University of Ghent
- Michael Putnam, Penn State University
- Elly van Gelderen, University of Arizona
Registration
The registration is free but necessary.
Participants can register for the ONLINE Conference via this Zoom - Registration.
Participants that are CSGW35-Speakers, Academic Staff exclusively belonging to the University of Trento (Master-student, PhD, Professor) attending ONLINE or IN-PERSON must register via this Form
Call for papers
We invite submissions of anonymous abstracts for 40-minute talks including discussion. Submissions should not exceed two pages, 12pt. single spaced, with 2.5cm (= one-inch) margins on all sides. Abstracts should be in PDF format.
Deadline for submission: 30 April 2020
The Call for papers is now closed
Accepted papers
Programme
Day 1: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
11.00 - 12.00: Invited speaker: Eric Fuss (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), On the historical development of (CP-related) expletives
12.00 - 12.40: Andrea Padovan (University of Verona), A parallel between prepositional verbs in English and DOM constructions in Romance
Lunch break
14.30 - 15.10: Ermenegildo Bidese (University of Trento) & Helmut Weiß (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main), The phenomenon of complementiser agreement: new data from South Tyrol
15.10 - 15.50: Emma Vanden Wyngaerd (Université libre de Bruxelles), Verb second and Dutch-English code switching
15.50 - 16.30: Cecilia Poletto (Goethe Universität Frankfurt) & Alessandra Giorgi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) & Alessandra Tomaselli (University of Verona), A crosslinguistic perspective on the relationship between information structure and V2
Coffee break
17.00 - 17.40: Marco Coniglio (University of Göttingen) & Chiara De Bastiani (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) & Roland Hinterhölzl (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) & Svetlana Petrova (Bergische Universität Wuppertal), A comparative investigation of Mood in Old High German, Old Saxon and Old English adverbial clauses
17.40 - 18.20: Marcel Den Dikken (ELTE & RIL), Unaccusativity meets agentivity and transitivity
18.20 - 19.00: Richard Stockwell (Christ Church, University of Oxford) & Carson T. Schütze, (University of California, Los Angeles) & Anke Himmelreich (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), An extraction restriction with complement-less prepositions in British English but not dialectal German
Dinner break
20.15 - 21.15: Invited speaker Michael Putnam (The Pennsylvania State University), The syntax of d- and w-elements & the nature of pseudo-resumptives in Pennsylvania Dutch
Day 2: 24th June 2021
11.00 - 12.00: Invited speaker: Karen De Clercq & Liliane Haegeman (University of Ghent), V2 masking as V3: invariant die in the Ghent dialect
12.00 - 12.40: Hans-Martin Gaertner (RIL-HAS) & Þórhallur EyÞórsson (University of Iceland), Functional and formal aspects of Mood Shift in Icelandic conditionals
Lunch break
14.30 - 15.10: Alexandra Rehn (University of Konstanz) & Hannah Booth (Ghent University and University of Konstanz), OCP effects in Germanic possession: dialectal and diachronic evidence
15.10 - 15.50: Ellen Brandner (Universität Stuttgart) & Katrin Axel-Tober (University of Tübingen), Complementation is relativization: a new syntactic implementation
15.50 - 16.30: Kari Kinn (University of Bergen) & Ida Larson (University of Oslo), Transmission of complex variation: American Norwegian argument shift
16.30 - 17.10: Marta Velnic (NTNU) & Merete Andersen (University of Tromsø), Dative alternations in Norwegian: the effect of giveness and pronouns on RTs - onlie
Coffee break
18.00 - 19.00: Invited speaker: Elly van Gelderen, Arizona State University, Third Factors in Variation and Change
Day 3: 25th June 2021
11.00 - 11.40: Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge, Stellenbosch University and University of the Western Cape), Learning from commands in contact situations: southern African case studies
11.40 - 12.20: Anders Holmberg (Newcastle University) & Klaus Kurki (Turku University), The syntax of inclusory coordination in Fenno-Swedish
12.20 - 13.00: Olaf Koeneman (Radboud University) & Hedde Zeijlstra (University of Göttingen), The lack of full pro-drop in Germanic as a consequence of overspecification
Lunch break
15.10 - 15.40: Andreas Bluemel (University of Göttingen), Parametrization by Underspecification: Germanic SVO vs SOV
15.40 - 16.20: Giuseppe Rugna (Università degli Studi di Firenze), A Top-Down derivation of non-identical wh-copying in German
16.20 - 17.00: Philipp Rauth (Universität des Saarlandes), Diachronic object scrambling in German ditransitives
Coffee break
17.30 - 18.10: Brian Gravely (University of Georgia), Probing for C-AGR: What Germanic can learn from Galician
18.10 - 18.50: Maike Rocker (The Pennsylvania State University), Verb placement variation in Germanic contact varieties - Evidence from heritage speakers of Low German in Iowa
18.50 - 19.30: Łukasz Jędrzejowski (Universität zu Köln) & Lisa Lubomierski (Universität zu Köln), On the link between progressivity and dispositional modality. Evidence from (the history of) German stehen 'stand' + (zu-)infinitive
19.30: Final remarks
Travel information
The conference will take place at the Department of Humanities of University of Trento, via Tommmaso Gar 14, Trento (Italy).
By plane
The nearest major airport is Verona Valerio Catullo (90 km). Every 20 minutes, shuttle buses connect the airport to the Verona Porta Nuova train station (main Verona station). From there, the train takes about one hour to reach Trento.
Other convenient airports are:
- Brescia Montichiari (160 Km)
- Venezia Marco Polo (173 Km)
- Innsbruck (176 km)
- Bergamo Orio al Serio (180 Km)
- Milano-Linate airport (226 Km)
- Milano-Malpensa airport (264 Km)
By Train
For train tickets, please visit the Italian primary train operator at Trenitalia
Other foreign companies that travel to Trento are Deutsche Bahn and OBB
By Car
If you are reaching Trento from the north, exit the A22 motorway at TRENTO NORD exit.
If you are reaching Trento from the south, exit the A22 motorway at TRENTO SUD exit.
Measures for containment of COVID-19 pandemic
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