CGSW21 @ UCSC -- Program

Program

All events relating to CGSW 21 will be held in the Bay Tree Conference Center, Room D, unless otherwise marked. The Bay Tree Conference Center is located in Quarry Plaza, in the same building as the Bay Tree Bookstore. Signs will be posted around Quarry Plaza, as well as the near the nearest bus stops (Bookstore/Stevenson College stop). You may also consult a map of this area or information about transportation and parking.

Friday, March 31, 2006

Registration Party

7:00pm - 9:00pm
Located at Jorge Hankamer's house (directions are coming soon, and refreshments will be provided)

Saturday, April 1, 2006

Registration

8:30am - 8:50am
Bay Tree Conference Center, Room D (coffee and refreshments will also be provided)

Welcoming Speech

8:50am - 9:00am
Jorge Hankamer (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)

Session 1: Inside the German DP

Chair: Emily Manetta

9:00am - 9:40am
Dalina Kallulli & Antonia Rothmayr (Universität Wien, Austria)
Variation inside the DP: Bavarian vs. Standard German [abstract]

9:40am - 10:20am
Dorian Roehrs (Indiana University, USA)
Something Post-pre-nominal in German [abstract]

10:20am - 10:40am: Coffee Break

Session 2: Negation

Chair: Pete Alrenga

10:40am - 11:20am
Hedde Zeijlstra (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany)
Negative Doubling in Non-Negative Concord Languages [abstract]

11:20am - 12:00pm
Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
"Syntactic" OCP effects? Insights from Afrikaans Negation [abstract]

12:00pm - 1:00pm: Break for Lunch (provided)

Session 3: Anaphors and Ellipsis

Chair: Jorge Hankamer

1:00pm - 1:40pm
Jenny Lederer (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Anaphoric distribution in the prepositional phrase: Similarities between Norwegian and English [abstract]

1:40pm - 2:20pm
John te Velde (Oklahoma State University, USA)
A Conjunction Conspiracy at the West Germanic Left Periphery [abstract]

2:20pm - 2:40pm: Coffee Break

Session 4: Featural Composition of Auxiliaries

Chair: Ascander Dost

2:40pm - 3:20pm
Michael Houser, Line Mikkelsen, Ange Strom-Weber, and Maziar Toosarvandani (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Gøre-Support in Danish [abstract]

3:20pm - 4:00pm
Thomas McFadden & Artemis Alexiadou (Universität Stuttgart, Germany)
Pieces of the perfect in German and older English [abstract]

4:00pm - 4:20pm: Coffee Break

Session 5: Organization of the Grammar

Chair: Anne Sturgeon

4:20pm - 5:00pm
Theresa Biberauer & Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
The return of the Subset Principle: A Germanic case study [abstract]

5:00pm - 5:40pm
Mats Johansson (Lunds Universitet, Sweden) & Dianne Jonas (Yale University, USA)
Structural Case, Feature Valuation and the Role of Tense [abstract]

5:40pm - 6:00pm: Coffee Break

Invited Speaker

Chair: Line Mikkelsen

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Peter Svenonius (Universitetet i Tromsø, Norway)
Parameters of P

7:00pm - 7:15pm: Break to walk over to the Stevenson College Provost's House [map]
UC Santa Cruz linguists will lead the way there.

Dinner

7:15pm - 9:00pm: Dinner provided at the Stevenson College Provost's House

Sunday, April 2, 2006

Session 6: Dialects of English

Chair: Justin Nuger

9:20am - 10:00am
Marjo van Koppen (Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands) & Michael Putnam (University of Michigan, USA)
C-agreement or something close to it: the alls-construction [abstract]

10:00am - 10:40am
Alison Henry & Siobhán Cottell (University of Ulster, United Kingdom)
Predicate fronting and Aspect in Northern Hiberno-English [abstract]

10:40am - 11:00am: Coffee Break

Invited Speaker

Chair: Vera Lee-Schönfeld

11:00am - 12:00pm
Jan-Wouter Zwart (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands)
Uncharted territory? A non-cartographic approach to Germanic syntax

12:00pm - 2:00pm: Break for Lunch (not provided, and campus will be closed -- you can find restaurants that are close to campus on this list)

Session 7: Decomposition of P- and D-like Elements

Chair: Jim McCloskey

2:00pm - 2:40pm
Máire Noonan (McGill University, Canada)
Does into mean to in? [abstract]

2:40pm - 3:20pm
Thomas Leu (New York University, USA)
These HERE demonstratives [abstract]

3:20pm - 3:40pm: Coffee Break

Session 8: Theta Roles in Syntax

Chair: Florence Woo

3:40pm - 4:20pm
Artemis Alexiadou & Florian Schäfer (Universität Stuttgart, Germany)
The readings of instrument subjects: understanding the nature of agents and causers [abstract]

4:20pm - 5:00pm
Remus Gergel (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany) & Jutta Hartmann (Universiteit van Tilburg, the Netherlands)
Experiencers with (Un)willingness: Volitionally Raising German Modals [abstract]

Alternate Talk

Kjersti Stensrud (University of Chicago, USA)
Scandinavian Pronouns and Structural Deficiency - the significance of Norwegian 'Subject Shift' [abstract]

Acknowledgments

This conference would not be possible without the generous support of the Institute for Humanities Research, the Humanities Division, and the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. We thank them all for their support.