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Budapest–Potsdam–Lund Linguistics Colloquium

 

 

16-17 June, 2016

Budapest

Research Institute for Linguistics Hungarian Academy of Sciences

 

 

 

 

 

Program (.pdf)

 

  16 June, Thursday
 

9:00

Opening remarks

István Kenesei (RIL HAS)

 

9:15–9:45

Givenness and Second Occurence Focus

Michael Rochemont (University of British Columbia / Lund University)

 

9:45–10:45

Doubly Filled COMP in embedded polar interrogatives

Julia Bacskai-Atkari (University of Potsdam)

 

10:45–11:15

coffee break

 

11:15–11:45

From big to much – the grammaticalization of mycken in Swedish

Lars-Olof Delsing (Lund University)

 

11:45–12:15

Just think about it already! Already in English and Swedish

Verner Egerland (Lund University) & Dianne Jonas (Goethe Universität Frankfurt)

 

12:15–13:30

lunch break

 

13:30–14:00

Factivity revisited

Roberta Colonna Dahlman (Lund University)

 

14:00–15:00

On Dependent V2-Clauses and the Rich Agreement Hypothesis

Hans-Martin Gärtner (RIL HAS)

 

15:00–15:30

coffee break

 

15:30–16:30

Preposing polarity particles

Marcel den Dikken (RIL HAS)

 

16:30–17:30

Inverse Scope in German revisited: No, 3/4, or Yes? An experimental study

Gisbert Fanselow & Malte Zimmermann (University of Potsdam)

     
  17 June, Friday
 

9:30–10:00

Questions in Focus – Focus in Questions

Valéria Molnár (Lund University)

 

10:00–11:00

The interaction of case and agreement: Global case splits and case opacity

András Bárány (RIL HAS)

 

11:00–11:30

coffee break

 

11:30–12:30

One-dimensional syntax

Michael Brody (RIL HAS)

 

12:30–13:45

lunch break

 

13:45–14:45

Focus/background marking in Akan, Ga (Kwa) and Ngamo (West-Chadic)

Susanne Genzel, Mira Grubic & Agata Renans (University of Potsdam)

 

14.45-15.15

Prosody a source of crosslinguistic variation in Object Shift

Nomi Erteschik-Shir & Gunlög Josefsson (Lund University)

 

15:15–15:45

coffee break

 

15:45–16:45

An experimental view on the syntactic flexibility of German idioms

Marta Wierzba (University of Potsdam)

 

16:45–17:15

The status of relative clause extractions in Swedish: Data from an offline study

Fredrik Heinat, Eva Klingvall, Damon Tutunjian & Anna-Lena Wiklund (Lund University)

 

17:15–18:15

Gender / gender

Halldór Sigurðsson (Lund University)

 

18:15

Closing remarks

 

Venue:  

Conference Room
Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Benczúr utca 33.
1068 Budapest
Hungary

You can find local information here.

Contact: hegedus.veronika[@]nytud.mta.hu
 

 

Módosítva: 2016.06.13.