Word order variation and typology: the German middle field in a comparative and diachronic perspective

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Coordinators: Kristine Bentzen, Roland Hinterhoelzl, Augustin Speyer, Luka Szuscich

Roland Hinterhölzl (Venice)

Introduction to scrambling

Hubert Haider (Salzburg)

On the German middle field as an OV phenomenon – in a comparative and diachronic perspective

Federica Cognola (Trento)

Long Scrambling as property of V2-languages

Andreas Blümel (Frankfurt)

Scrambling beyond base generation and movement

Anita Røreng & Marit Westergaard (Tromsø)

Word order and scrambling in double object constructions in German

Jakob Maché (FU Berlin)

How big is your Middle Field? Why directional phrases are part of the predicate complex

Kristine Bentzen (Tromsø)

Introduction to object shift

Maia Andréasson (Göteborg)

Object shift in Scandinavian languages – the role of accessibility in object placement

Augustin Speyer (Marburg)

Introduction to scrambling from a diachronic perspective

Helmut Weiß (Frankfurt)

Die Wackernagelposition im Deutschen

Rosemarie Lühr (Jena)

Zum Mittelfeld im Altfriesischen

Anna Volodina (Frankfurt)

Subject-drop im älteren Deutsch: Ein Mittelfeld-Phänomen

Dennis Ott (Harvard)

Split Scrambling

Mike Putnam & Gema Chocano (Penn State)

The A/A`-fallacy: Revisiting Webelhuth’s paradoxon

Luka Szucsich (HU Berlin)

Introduction to Slavic scrambling

Natalia Slioussar (Utrecht/St. Petersburg)

Word Order Alternations and Information Structure in Russian

Nadia Varley (Wuppertal)

Word order variation and scrambling: Dispensing with A-Scrambling as descriptive device? Evidence from TP-Inversion and EPP-checking in Russian

Šárka Zikánová (Prag)

Information Structure and Word Order in Older Czech