DGfS Annual Conference 2011

AG 10

Comparative Germanic Syntax and the Challenge from Icelandic

Full programme (pdf)

Coordinators: Thórhallur Eythórsson, Hans-Martin Gärtner

Ásgrímur Angantýsson (Reykjavík)
The Morpho-Syntax of Verb/Adverb Placement and Fronting in Embedded Clauses in Icelandic and Related Languages
Jóhanna Barðdal (Bergen)
Alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat Verbs in a Germanic Context
Nicole Dehé (Konstanz)
Aspects of Icelandic sentence prosody and the syntax-prosody interface
Thórhallur Eythórsson (Reykjavík)
Challenging the Challenge: Case in Faroese and Icelandic
Hans-Martin Gärtner (Berlin)
Medium-Distance Anaphora
Piotr Garbacz (Oslo)
The Split IP Parameter and the Swedish dialects of Ovansiljan
Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson (Reykjavík)
Dative vs. accusative objects in Icelandic
Joan Maling (Brandeis), Anthony Kroch (UPenn) & Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir (Reykjavík)
The Icelandic challenge: a system-internal syntactic change
Svetlana Petrova (Berlin)
Embedded V2 in Middle Low German
Höskuldur Þráinsson (Reykjavík)
Icelandic A, B, C, D … ? Or: How Long is the Icelandic Alphabet?
Øystein Alexander Vangsnes (Tromsø)
Rolling up the North Germanic noun phrase
Jim Wood (New York)
The unintentional causer in Icelandic

Alternates

Sabine Häusler (Halle)
Subordinators in (Old) Icelandic
Alexander Pfaff (Tromsø)
Position Matters, not Form!