Conference Programme

Workshop 7: Language change at the interfaces. On the interaction between syntax, prosody and information structure

Marco Coniglio (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
marco.coniglio@phil.uni-goettingen.de
Chiara De Bastiani (Universität Göttingen)
chiara.debastiani@unive.it
Nicholas Catasso (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
catasso@uni-wuppertal.de

07 March 2019
09:00 –10:30	Workshop sessions
10:30 –11:15	Coffee break / Poster Session Computational Linguistics (Part 2)
11:15 –11:30	Marco Coniglio (University of Göttingen), Chiara De Bastiani (University of Göttingen) & Nicholas Catasso (University of Wuppertal) Introduction
11:30 –12:15	George Walkden [invited speaker] (Universität Konstanz) Prosody and syntax in the earliest Germanic
12:15 –12:45	Roland Hinterhölzl (University of Venice) & Ans van Kemenade (Radboud University) Syntactic and prosodic factors in the rise and fall of V2 in English
12:45 –13:45	DFG InfoEvent (Helga Weyerts-Schweda) Lunch break/ Poster session Computational Linguistics (Part 3)
13:45 –14:15 cancelled	Stavros Skopeteas (University of Göttingen) Information-structural domains and the emergence of head-initial VPs in Caucasian Urum
13:45 –14:15 new	Olena Andrushenko (Zhytomir State University) From Middle to Early Modern English Exclusives
14:15 –14:45	Juliane Tiemann (University of Bergen) Information-structure driven word order variation in Old Norwegian
15:00 –18:30	General Assembly of the DGfS
19:30 –	Reception in the foyer of the Übersee-Museum

08 March 2019
09:00 –10:00	Plenary talk
10:00 –11:00	Plenary talk
11:00 –11:30	Coffee break
11:30 –12:00	Sophia Voigtmann (Saarland University) Informational aspects of the extraposition of relative clauses
12:00 –12:30	Remus Gergel (Saarland University) & Jonathan Watkins (Saarland University) Contextual dimensions of clefts
12:30 –13:00	Cecilia Poletto (Goethe-University Frankfurt) & Silvia Rossi (Goethe-University Frankfurt) The internal and external syntax of bare quantifiers in Old Italian
13:00 –13:30	Federica Cognola (University of Rome) Language change and information structure: Parametric resetting in the history of German and Italian
13:30 –14:00	Christine Meklenborg Salvesen (University of Oslo) Different shades of si. Information structure, V-to-C movement and the loss of V2