Workshop on Parenthesis and Sentence Amalgamation
October 19th, 2007
University of Groningen

Program

09.30 - 10.00 reception, registration, coffee/tea
10:00 - 10:10 welcoming words

 
10:10 - 10:40 Julie Van Bogaert & Miriam Taverniers (Ghent University)
“Exploring differentiating dimensions for the grammatical description of I think-type expressions”
10:40 - 11:10 Marlies Kluck & Mark de Vries (University of Groningen)
“The interaction of extraposition and Right Node Raising”

 
11:10 - 11:30 break, coffee/tea

 
11:30 - 12:00 Jan-Wouter Zwart (University of Groningen)
“Syntactic derivation and sentence amalgamation”
12:00 - 12:30 Markus Egg (University of Groningen)
“Semantic construction for restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses”
12:30 - 13:00 Freek Van de Velde (Catholic University of Leuven)
“A diachronic view on transparent free relatives, and its corollaries for the synchronic analysis”

 
13:00 - 14:30 lunch

 
14:30 - 15:00 Nicole Dehé (Free University of Berlin)
“Clausal parentheticals and intonational phrasing”
15:00 - 15:30 Sandra Döring (University of Leipzig)
“Syntactic-prosodic relations in Modern German parenthetical constructions”

 
15:30 - 16:00 break, coffee/tea

 
16:00 - 16:30 Herman Heringa (University of Groningen)
“Apposition, predication, and coordination”
16:30 - 17:00 Radek Šimík (University of Groningen)
“On the internal structure of attributive and identifying apposition: Evidence from Czech”

 
17:00 - 17:45 drinks