Abstract

9:00 – 9:30 Registration

9:30 – 10:00 What makes a good (relative) particle? On the left periphery of relative and adverbial clauses in Southern German dialects – Ellen Brandner & Iris Bräuning (Konstanz)

10:00 – 10:30 Relativisation strategies in German dialectal varieties and the fine structure of CP - Sabrina Bertollo (Padova)

10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00 – 11:30 Multiple wh-fronting across Pontic Greek varieties – Dimitris Michelioudakis & Ioanna Sitaridou (Cambridge)

11:30 – 12:00 Wh-items under the magnifying lense: the internal structure of ‘where’ in Italoromance – Nicola Munaro (Venice) & Cecilia Poletto (Frankfurt)

12:00 – 14:00 LUNCH

14.00 – 15:00 Modelling language change in the Syntactic Atlas of Welsh Dialects- David Willis (Cambridge)

15:00 – 15:30 Vacuous preposition doubling in Breton – Mélanie Jouitteau (CNRS)

15:30 – 16:00 Fronting and empty categories in Brabantish, Dutch and German imperatives – Sjef Barbiers (Meertens Institute)

16:00 – 16:30 COFFEE BREAK

16:30 – 17:00 Preproprial articles in Norwegian dialects – Janne Bondi Johannessen & Piotr Garbacz (Oslo)

17:00 – 17:30 The Northern Subject Rule and Verbal –s with Conjoined NPs in Dialectal English – Isabelle Buchstaller, Claire Childs, Karen Corrigan & Anders Holmberg (Newcastle)

17:30 – 17:00 BUSINESS MEETING