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Workshop 'Dialect Syntax in the Westgermania' November 29th – December 1st, 2001 in Freiburg
sponsored by the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation
Programme
Thursday, 29th November 2001 Wilhelmstr. 26 Room 01014 (1st floor)
OVERVIEW (30 mins presentation + 15 mins discussion)
10:00-10:15 Kortmann Welcome and introduction
10:15-11:00 Barbiers
van der Auwera “The SAND Project: Netherlands”
“The SAND Project: Flanders”
11:00-11:45 Seiler & Bucheli “The Syntactic Atlas of Swiss German Dialects: Preliminary results and methodological innovations”
11:45-12:30 Kortmann “The Freiburg project on English dialect syntax”
(12:30-15:15 LUNCHBREAK) DISCUSSION OF EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES
THE NOUN PHRASE (25 mins presentation + 5 mins questions) 15:15-15:30 COFFEE 15:30-16:00 Craenenbroeck & van Koppen “A new approach to Comp-agreement” 16:00-16:30 de Vogelaer & Devos “Subject doubling and complementizer agreement: Some similarities and some differences” 16:30-17:00 den Besten “Afrikaans and other types of Netherlandic possessive constructions: Language contact, variation in Dutch or what? – for UG's sake!” 17:00-17:30 COFFEE & DISCUSSION
THE VERB PHRASE 17:30-18:00 Pietsch “Subject-verb concord in the Northern dialects of English” 18:00-18:30 Spiekermann “Modal verbs in Low German” 18:30-19:00 DISCUSSION