KISS AND MEURERS

Language
CURRENT TOPICS IN CONSTRAINT-BASED THEORIES OF GERMANIC SYNTAX

Workshop

TIBOR KISS and DETMAR MEURERS

IBM Germany and

Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, University of Tübingen

First week
tibor@heidelbg.ibm.com and dm@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de

Course description

In recent years, a number of approaches to Germanic linguistics (excluding English) have been developed in constraint-based theories like HPSG and LFG. Apart from the issue of empirical adequacy, formal issues were raised, among them:

The nature of complex predicates and the mechanisms used to formalize them
Linearization versus movement analyses of various phenomena
The nature of functional projections
The status of subjects
Configurational and non-configurational properties of scope determination

The idea of this workshop is to provide a forum to present approaches exploring empirical and formal issues of the syntax of Germanic languages. It is intended to continue the series of workshops and courses on constraint-based syntactic theories held at previous summer schools. In various frameworks, broad areas of Germanic languages have been investigated in the past 15 years so that researchers can now build on these insights and focus on more complex and intricate matters which often require a tight interaction between syntax and semantics. Thus, focussing on Germanic rather than on a particular syntactic theory is intended to allow for more inter-framework discussions.

Alphabetic list of accepted presentations:

Judith Berman (Univ. Stuttgart): "On the Syntax of Correlative 'es' and Finite Clauses in German - an LFG Analysis"
Adam Bodomo (Univ. Hongkong): "A lexical semantic analysis of causative complex predicates in Norwegian"
Bob Carpenter (Lucent Tech, Bell Labs): "A "Linearization" Approach to German Word Order in Type-Logical Grammar"
Frank Van Eynde (K.U. Leuven): "Functional Projections and Dutch Prepositions"
Lutz Gunkel (FU Berlin): "Kausativkonstruktionen im Deutschen"
Jonas Kuhn (Univ. Stuttgart): "Resource Sensitivity in the Syntax-Semantics Interface and the German Split-NP Construction"
Kordula De Kuthy (DFKI, Saarbrücken): "NPs occuring separate from their PP arguments -- An argument raising approach and its interaction with lexical semantics"
Stefan Müller (DFKI, Saarbrücken): "Case in German - An HPSG Analysis"
Frank Richter und Manfred Sailer (Univ. Tübingen): "Complementizers and Finite Verbs in German Sentence Structure"
Peter Skadhauge und Per Anker Jensen (Southern Denmark Business School): "Linearization and Diathetic Alternations in Danish"

Prerequisites
None

Literature
No specific recommendation

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Language	CURRENT TOPICS IN CONSTRAINT-BASED THEORIES OF GERMANIC SYNTAX
Workshop	TIBOR KISS and DETMAR MEURERS IBM Germany and Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, University of Tübingen
First week	tibor@heidelbg.ibm.com and dm@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de
Course description	In recent years, a number of approaches to Germanic linguistics (excluding English) have been developed in constraint-based theories like HPSG and LFG. Apart from the issue of empirical adequacy, formal issues were raised, among them: The nature of complex predicates and the mechanisms used to formalize them Linearization versus movement analyses of various phenomena The nature of functional projections The status of subjects Configurational and non-configurational properties of scope determination The idea of this workshop is to provide a forum to present approaches exploring empirical and formal issues of the syntax of Germanic languages. It is intended to continue the series of workshops and courses on constraint-based syntactic theories held at previous summer schools. In various frameworks, broad areas of Germanic languages have been investigated in the past 15 years so that researchers can now build on these insights and focus on more complex and intricate matters which often require a tight interaction between syntax and semantics. Thus, focussing on Germanic rather than on a particular syntactic theory is intended to allow for more inter-framework discussions. Alphabetic list of accepted presentations: Judith Berman (Univ. Stuttgart): "On the Syntax of Correlative 'es' and Finite Clauses in German - an LFG Analysis" Adam Bodomo (Univ. Hongkong): "A lexical semantic analysis of causative complex predicates in Norwegian" Bob Carpenter (Lucent Tech, Bell Labs): "A "Linearization" Approach to German Word Order in Type-Logical Grammar" Frank Van Eynde (K.U. Leuven): "Functional Projections and Dutch Prepositions" Lutz Gunkel (FU Berlin): "Kausativkonstruktionen im Deutschen" Jonas Kuhn (Univ. Stuttgart): "Resource Sensitivity in the Syntax-Semantics Interface and the German Split-NP Construction" Kordula De Kuthy (DFKI, Saarbrücken): "NPs occuring separate from their PP arguments -- An argument raising approach and its interaction with lexical semantics" Stefan Müller (DFKI, Saarbrücken): "Case in German - An HPSG Analysis" Frank Richter und Manfred Sailer (Univ. Tübingen): "Complementizers and Finite Verbs in German Sentence Structure" Peter Skadhauge und Per Anker Jensen (Southern Denmark Business School): "Linearization and Diathetic Alternations in Danish"
Prerequisites	None
Literature	No specific recommendation