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Deutsches Seminar Edisyn

Programme

The conference will take place in Rämistrasse 74 (building RAI, room F-041) where also the Faculty of Law and the Department of Informatics are located.

Thursday, 11 June 2015

13:15-14:00

Coffee and registration

14:00-14:30

Welcome address

14:30-15:30

David Willis (Cambridge): Modelling diffusion of syntactic innovations: Geospatial models, S-curves and the Constant Rate Hypothesis

15:30-16:00

Coffee

16:00-16:30

Jolien Scholten (Utrecht): On an agreement asymmetry in Dutch dialects: An alienable-inalienable distinction on possessive pronouns

16:30-17:00

Pino Marco Pizzo (Freiburg i. Br.): The Luxemburgish comparative - Linguistic prescriptivism versus descriptive variation

17:00-17:30

Lotte Hendriks, Sjef Barbiers & Hans Bennis (Amsterdam): Mapping the linguistic system

17:30-18:00

Irantzu Epelde (Bayonne): Basque in constant change: how do Basque-French bilinguals handle distributive numerals?

Friday, 12 June 2015

9:00-9:30

Alexander Dröge, Jeffrey Pheiff & Oliver Schallert (Marburg): Doubly-filled COMPs in Dutch and German: A bottom-up approach

9:30-10:00

Edoardo Cavirani (Amsterdam): GENDER and NUMBER distribution within Lunigiana DPs

10:00-10:30

Kristel Uiboaed, Liina Lindström,  Maarja-Liisa Pilvik & Mirjam Ruutma (Tartu): The use of perfect and pluperfect in Estonian dialects: corpus-based approach

10:30-11:30

Coffee & Poster Session

11:30-12:00

Philipp Stöckle (Zürich): Verb doubling in Swiss German - Geographic variation and diachronic development

12:00-12:30

Anthony Bour (Freiburg i. Br.): Syntax of modal combinations in Southern Scotland

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-14:30

Sjef Barbiers, Hans Bennis (Amsterdam), Marjo van Koppen & Norbert Corver (Utrecht): Grammars on the map: Flemish, Brabantish and Dutch

14:30-15:00

Göz Kaufmann (Freiburg i. Br.): Idleness in syntax or the effects of individual verb cluster preferences on clauses without verb clusters

15:00-15:30

Cecilia Poletto & Emanuela Sanfelici (Frankfurt a. M.): Relative clauses in Italian varieties - On the nature of the relativizers

15:30-16:00

Coffee

16:00-17:00

Matthias Grünert (Fribourg): Diatopic variation in Romansh of Grisons: pronominal syntax and agreement

17:00-18:00

Round table on Romansh: Research perspectives and desiderata
with Franziska Hack (München), Michele Loporcaro (Zürich), Clau Solèr (Genève)

19:30

Conference Dinner at the Brasserie Federal

Saturday, 13 June 2015

9:30-10:00

Diego Pescarini (Zürich): Impersonal si/se constructions in Northern Italian dialects

10:00-10:30

Claudia Bucheli Berger (Zürich): What are the consequences for the theoretical modelling if areal, social AND structural factors influence the choice of verb order?

10:30-11:00

Coffee

11:00-11:30

Björn Wiemer (Mainz): TriMCo - on developing a corpus-based data base for (syntactic) convergence in neighboring language groups

11:30-12:00

Erik Tjong Kim Sang (Amsterdam): Discovering dialect regions in syntactic dialect data

12:00-12:30

Hanna Fischer, Robert Engsterhold (Marburg): REDE SprachGIS (www.regionalsprache.de) - An online application for cartographic representation and geographic modelling of linguistic data

 

Posters

Marcelo Amorim Sibaldo (Pernambuco):

 On an Exclamative Structure of Portuguese

Caroline Döhmer (Luxemburg):

Two-verb clusters in Luxembourgish - Adding new data to Continental West Germanic verb cluster research

Angelapia Massaro (Roma):

Double-Subject Construction in Sammarchese

Adam Tomas (München):

Empiricism vs. theory: Perception of language norms and modifications in Pennsylvania-German

Philipp Rauth (Saarbrücken):

The alignment of nominal ditransitives in German dialects

Alexandra Rehn (Konstanz):

German adjectival agreement in the light of dialectal and diachronic data