Workshop on information structure in Germanic syntax: change and variation

University of Groningen in collaboration with Radboud University Nijmegen

––– Tuesday 6 April 2010, Groningen –––

Everybody welcome -- no registration required

PROGRAM 

morning:  room H13.316 (Harmoniegebouw)

11:00-11:05   introduction

11:05-11:55   Bettelou Los  (Radboud University Nijmegen)   

"The first constituent in a verb-second language"

11:55-12:45   Karin Beijering (University of Groningen) 

" Mainland Scandinavian maybe in V2 and non-V2 clauses: change and variation"

12:45-13:45   lunch break

afternoon:  room H12.013 (Harmoniegebouw)

13:45-14:30   Erwin Komen (Radboud University Nijmegen)

"Clefts as a repair strategy"

14:30-15:15   Jan-Wouter Zwart (University of Groningen)

"Embedded verb-second revisited: a layered derivations account"

15:15-15:30   tea break

15:30-16:15   Ans van Kemenade (Radboud University Nijmegen)

"Secondary negation and Information Structure organization in the history of English"

16:15-17:00   Mark de Vries (University of Groningen)

"Dislocation and topicality"