Workshop on Syntactic Microvariation | |
| Meertens Instituut, 30-31 August, 2000 | |
| This workshop is sponsored by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), the Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics (HIL) and the Meertens Instituut | |
PROGRAMME |
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| Wednesday, August 30, 2000 | |
| 9.15-10.00 | Hans Bennis, director of the Meertens Instituut: The Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects (SAND) and the Theoretical Relevance of Syntactic Microvariation |
| 10.00-10.45 | Elvira Glaser and Claudia Bucheli, Universität Zürich (Switzerland): The Syntactic Atlas of Swiss German Dialects: Empirical and Methodological Problems |
| 10.45-11.15 | Coffee |
| 11.15-12.00 | Helmut Weiss, Universität Regensburg (Germany): Negation in Bavarian |
| 12.00-12.45 | Liliane Haegeman, Angellier-Université Lille/CNRS (France): Negative Movement and its Implication for Clause Structure |
| 12.45-14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00-14.45 | Leonie Cornips, Meertens Instituut/HIL: Spontaneous Speech Data Compared to Elicitation Data: The Test Effects |
| 14.45-15.30 | Guido Seiler, Universität Zürich (Switzerland): Prepositional Dative Marking in Upper German: A Case of Syntactic Microvariation |
| 15.30-16.00 | Tea |
| 16.00-16.45 | Christa Schmidt, Universität Freiburg (Germany): Verb Doubling in Zürich German: Syntactic Contexts and Change in Progress |
| 16.45-17.30 | Susi Wurmbrand, McGill University (Canada): Verb Clusters: Variation at the Right Periphery |
| Thursday, August 31, 2000 | |
| 9.15-10.00 | Jarich Hoekstra, Universität Kiel (Germany): Sandwiched Prepositions and the Structure of the Particle Phrase in Fering Öömrang (North Frisian) |
| 10.00-10.45 | Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Marjo van Koppen, Universiteit Leiden: Pronoun Doubling in the Dialects of Dutch |
| 10.45-11.15 | Coffee |
| 11.15-12.00 | Jürg Fleischer, Universität Zürich (Switzerland): Preposition Stranding in German Dialects |
| 12.00-12.45 | Bernd Kortmann, Universität Freiburg (Germany): English Dialect Syntax from a Typological Perspective: The Freiburg Project |
| 12.45-14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00-14.45 | Cecilia Poletto, Universita di Padova (Italy): The Left-periphery of V2 and non V-2 Rhaetoromance Dialects and Focus Particles |
| 14.45-15.30 | Susanne van der Kleij, Meertens Instituut: How Perfective is the Perfect in Afrikaans? |
| 15.30-16.00 | Tea |
| 16.00-16.45 | Hans den Besten, Universiteit van Amsterdam/HIL: West Germanic Relativization Strategies: Operators and Resumptive Pronouns |
| 16.45-17.30 | Eric Hoekstra, Fryske Akademie: Knowledge Base of Frisian Grammar |
| Alternate: | Roland Hinterhölzl, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin |
Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects (SAND) |
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