Workshop "V2 in the world's languages"

52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Universität Leipzig.

August 21, 2019.

Program

11.00-11.25 Charlotte Galves (University of Campinas). V2 in the history of Portuguese –a corpus-based study

11.30-11.55 Richard Ingham (University of Westminster). How are the components of V2 came apart in late old French 

12.00-12.25 Pierre Larrivée (University of Caen). An Information Structure scenario for the loss of V2 in Medieval French 

12.30-12.55 Anders Holmberg (Newcastle University), Heete Sahkai (Institute of the Estonian Language) and Anne Tamm (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary). Optional V2 in Estonian 

14.30-14.55 Aritz Irurtzun (CNRS-IKER). Why break the ‘residual V2’ in Basque: diachronic and synchronic evidence 

15.00-15.25 Andreas Trotzke (University of Konstanz). Emphatic restrictions on V2 constructions across languages and clause types 

15.30-15.55 Arantzazu Elordieta (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU). Supporting tensed verbs: *T1, V2 and embedded negation 

16.30-16.55 Mélanie Jouitteau (CNRS-IKER). Embedded V2 is syntactically integrated 

17.00-17.25 Marju Kaps (UCLA). Embedded V2: Experimental evidence from Estonian relative clauses

17.30-17.55 Discussion