Workshop on
VO and OV

 

Faculty of Humanities, University of Tromsø

May 22-23, 1998

 

Friday, May 22

10:00-11:00 HUBERT HAIDER, University of Salzburg
                        'OV is more basic than VO'

11:00-12:00 MATT PEARSON, UCLA
                        'Two types of VO languages'

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 SUSAN PINTZUK, University of York
                        'Verb-complement word order in Old English'

14:30-15:30 ROLAND HINTERHÖLZL, University of Southern California
                        'Licensing movement and stranding in the West Germanic OV languages'

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:00 THORBJÖRG HRÓARSDÓTTIR, University of Tromsø
                       'Parameter change in Icelandic'

17:00-18:00 PETER SVENONIUS, University of Tromsø
                        'Negative object fronting in Icelandic'

 

Saturday, May 23

10:00-11:00 ALISON HENRY, University of Ulster at Jordanstown
                        'OV phenomena in VO languages ­ Belfast English and Ulster Irish'

11:00-12:00 ANDERS HOLMBERG, University of Tromsø
                        'OV in Finnish'

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 MICHAEL BRODY, University College London/Hungarian Academy of Science
                        'Mirror Theory and word order'

14:30-15:30 SJEF BARBIERS, Leiden University/HIL
                       'The right-periphery in SOV languages: English and Dutch'

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:00 TARALD TARALDSEN, University of Tromsø
                       'V-movement versus VP-movement in derivations leading to VO order'

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