Symposium (Ap)positive thinking in Linguistics
January 20th, 2012, Academiegebouw (Van der Leeuwzaal)
University of Groningen

This symposium is organized on the occasion of Herman Heringa's thesis defense (January 19, 12:45 in the Aula of the Academiegebouw).

Program

09:30 - 09:40	opening
09:40 - 10:10	Herman Heringa (Groningen) “Puzzles of apposition markers”
10:10 - 10:40	Kathleen O'Connor (Lille) “Some thoughts on non-nominal appositional modifiers”
10:40 - 11:00	break, coffee/tea (hall Economics)
11:00 - 11:30	Adriana Cardoso (Lisbon) “Variation and change in the syntax of appositive relative clauses: new evidence from Portuguese”
11:30 - 12:00	Ora Matushansky (Utrecht) “The case of close apposition”
12:00 - 13:00	lunch (canteen Academiegebouw)
13:00 - 13:30	Jan-Wouter Zwart (Groningen) “tba”
13:30 - 14:00	Caroline Heycock (Edinburgh) “(Ap)positive thinking in predication”
14:00 -	closing/drinks (Mr. Mofongo, Oude Boteringestraat 26)