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Venice, September 18-21 2008, in collaboration with Cecilia Poletto
The goal of the workshop is to bring together scholars with experience in the field of dialect syntax and scholars that have recently started, or are planning to set up, a data gathering project. As can be judged from the program, the workshop has three distinct topics: a) progress reports from dialect syntax projects that have recently started b) presentations about syntactic variation in Eastern European countries and c) sessions on methodology, tagging and databases.
The workshop will take place at the Auditorium Santa Margherita of the University of Venice. (For directions to the Auditorium from Piazzale Roma or from the train station, click on "Percorso per Piazzale Roma" or "Percoso per Stazione FS" on the top left.)
Those interested in attending the workshop are of course welcome. Please send us an email in advance (edisynATmeertens.knaw.nl) and no later than 1 September.
You can dowload the pdf file containing the abstracts of the talks here.
Thursday, September 18th
Network
14.00 Opening
14.15 Sjef Barbiers, Olaf Koeneman, Marika Lekakou (Meertens Institute)
Edisyn: an introduction to the workshop
14.45 Øystein Vangsnes (University of Tromsø)
Nations apart: Experiences from the Scandinavian Dialect Syntax project
15.15-15.30 ✦break✦
Progress reports 1
15.30 Christina Tortora (CUNY)
The Comparative Morpho-Syntax of Appalachian English
16.00 Mark De Vos (Rhodes University)
Comparing syntactic variation in a South African underdeveloped context
16.30 Mélanie Jouitteau (Université Paris 7)
Dialects of an endangered language: Breton
17.00-17.30 ✦break✦
Dialect syntax in Eastern Europe 1
17.30 Lanko Marusic & Rok Zaucer (University of Nova Gorica)
Some doubling phenomena in Slovenian dialects
18.00 Giuseppina Turano (University of Venice)
Albanian and Arbëresh dialects: The state of the art
19.00 ✦ dinner ✦
Friday, September 19th
Syntactic analysis
9.30 Ellen Brandner & Martin Salzmann (University of Konstanz)
Infinitival complements in Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German
10.00 Helmut Weiss (University of Frankfurt)
Syntactic doubling in Hessian dialects
10.30 Michele Loporcaro (University of Zürich)
In defence of indirect objects: evidence from Italo-Romance
11.00-11.30 ✦break✦
Dialect syntax in Eastern Europe 2
11.30 Iliana Krapova (University of Venice)
Revitalizing Bulgarian dialectology: one goal, open ends
12.00 Andrej Sobolev (University of Marburg)
Towards a Comparative Syntax of Balkan Dialects
12.30 Marjan Markovik (University of Skopje)
About some interesting problems of Macedonian dialect (morpho)syntax
13.00-14.30 ✦lunch✦
Methodology
14.30 Paola Benincà (University of Padua)
On mailed questionnaires
14.50 Cecilia Poletto (University of Venice)
From the questionnaire to the actual data: practising field work
15.10 Discussion (moderator: Elvira Glaser, University of Zürich)
15.40- 16.10 ✦break✦
Methodology (continued)
16.10 Isabelle Buchstaller & Karen Corrigan (University of Newcastle)
Tapping into the intuitions of dialect speakers in Northern England and Scotland: Data, Methods and their Implications
16.30 Margreet van der Ham (Meertens Instituut) & Gunther De Vogelaer (University of Ghent)
SAND fieldwork, the northern or the southern way?
16.50 Bernd Kortmann (University of Freiburg)
Beyond dialect syntax -- microparametric variation on a macro-scale
17.10 Discussion (moderator: Elvira Glaser, University of Zürich)
Saturday, September 20th
Progress reports 2
9.15 Jaakko Leino (University of Helsinki)
FinDiaSyn: Regional aspects of Finnish syntax
9.45 Beatriz Fernández & Arantzazu Elordieta (University of Vitoria-Gasteiz)
a. Dative-marked objects in Basque: human datives and alternating verbs
b. Strategies for verb focalization in the Basque dialects
10.15 Ricardo Etxepare (University of Bayonne)
A Case Study in Basque Dialect Syntax: Dative Agreement Alternations
10.45-11.15 ✦break✦
Databases, cartography and tagging
11.15 Jan Pieter Kunst (Meertens Institute)
The Edisyn search engine
11.45 Franca Wesseling (Meertens Institute)
Towards an interoperable system of databases
12.15 Ernestina Carrilho & Catarina Magro (University of Lisbon)
The CORDIAL parsing
12.45 Discussion
13.15-14.45 ✦lunch✦
Dialect syntax in Eastern Europe 3
14.45 Marina Rusakova (University of St. Petersburg)
An outlook for the study of doubling phenomena in the Russian dialectal syntax
15.15 Liina Lindström (University of Tartu)
The Corpus of Estonian Dialects as a dialect syntax database and some doubling phenomena in Estonian dialects
15.45 Ioanna Sitaridou (University of Cambridge)
Contact and Change: the syntax of endangered Greek dialects
16.15-16.45 ✦break✦
The future of the network
16.45 Hans Bennis (Meertens Institute)
Future prospects of dialect syntax
17.15 Closing discussion
Sunday, September 21st
11.30 ✦ guided tour ✦
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