Workshop

V2, or not V2, that is the question:

On verb placement in interrogatives 

June 7-8, 2023

ANR-DFG project Uncovering verb-second effects. An interface-based typology (UV2). 

Day 1.   June 7, 2023

9:00-9h45 Maia Duguine (IKER-CNRS) & Georg A. Kaiser (Universität Konstanz) : Introduction 

 9:45-10:30 Josef Bayer (Universität Konstanz): Verb-Second and Reconstruction

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:45 Ana Maria Martins (Universidade de Lisboa): V2 and V1 configurations in European Portuguese

11:45-12:30 Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University): European Portuguese clitic placement as an anti-V2 requirement

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-14:45 Anne Mette Nyvad, Ken Ramshøj Christensen, Sten Vikner (Aarhus University): CP-recursion, Morphological Finiteness and V2 in Danish, English and French

14:45-15:15 Coffee break

15:15-16:00 Maud Westendorp (Arctic University of Norway): Non-V2 wh-questions and other V2-deviations in Norwegian: rethinking the North Germanic CP

Day 2.  June 8, 2023

 9:00-9:45 Francesco Beltrame (Università degli Studi di Pavia): Why-questions and passives

9:45-10:30 Svenja Schmid (Universität Konstanz): V2 in Italian and Spanish 'why'- interrogatives

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:45 Jan Casalicchio (Università degli Studi di Palermo): Some peculiarities of the V2 rule in Gardenese Ladin

11:45-12:30 Karen Lahousse (KU Leuven): V2 in present-day French XVS constructions: a parametric account

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-14:45 Serkan Şener (Yeditepe Üniversitesi): Adjacency to V without V2: The case of Turkish and Basque

14:45-15:30 George Walkden (Universität Konstanz): V2 and V3 in Estonian

Excursion / Visit to the Basque Museum