Below you find the program for the workshop. For the full program of the DGfS, click here.
Wednesday, Feb 23rd 2022
13:45 - 14:15
Anke Himmelreich & Johannes Mursell (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Introduction
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14:15 - 15:15
Invited Speaker: Gereon Müller (Universität Leipzig)
On the Optionality of Local Order-Preserving Displacement
(slides)
15:15 - 15:45
David Medeiros (The University of Arizona)
A universal supergrammar of neutral word order accounts for U20, FOFC, the HMC, and more
15:45 - 16:30
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00
Zetao Xu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
A case of pseudo-optionality resulted from language contact
17:00 - 17:30
Adrian Stegovec (University of Connectitut)
The third way: Optional object reordering as ambiguous labeling resolution
17:30 - 18:00
Volker Struckmeier (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Optional for who? Optional phenomena do not necessitate optional syntactic operations
Thursday, Feb 24th 2022
09:00 - 09:30
Julia Bacskai-Atkari (Universität Konstanz)
Extraposition in German comparatives and the optionality of rightward movement
09:30 - 10:00
Irene Amato (Universität Leipzig)
Italian past participle agreement overt/covert A-movement
10:00 - 10:30
András Barany & Jutta Hartmann (Universität Bielefeld)
Information structurally triggered movement: Apparent optionality?
10:30 - 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:45
Possibility to discuss the talks
11:45 - 12:15
Andreas Blümel (Universität Göttingen)
Reanalyzing (Non-)DET-Drop and (Non-)ECP in the Nominal Domain
12:15 - 12:45
Aviv Schoenfeld (Tel Aviv University)
Optional NP raising in partitives
12:45 - 13:45
Lunch break
13:45 - 14:45
Invited Speaker: Elena Titov (University College London)
Optionality of wh-movement and the wh-parameter
(slides)
Friday, Feb 25th 2022
no program