Thursday 24 February 2011
9.00-9.30
Thórhallur Eythórsson (Reykjavík):
Challenging the Challenge: Case in Faroese and Icelandic
9.30-10.00
Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson (Reykjavík):
Dative vs. Accusative Objects in Icelandic
10.00-10.30
Jóhanna Barðdal (Bergen):
Alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat Verbs in a Germanic Context
10.30-11.00
Joan Maling (Brandeis), Anthony Kroch (UPenn)
& Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir (Reykjavík):
The Icelandic Challenge: A System-Internal Syntactic Change
11.30.-12.00
Jim Wood (New York):
The Unintentional Causer in Icelandic
12.00.-12.30
Øystein Alexander Vangsnes (Tromsø):
Rolling Up the North Germanic Noun Phrase
12.30.-13.00
Nicole Dehé (Konstanz) [invited speaker]:
Aspects of Icelandic Sentence Prosody and the Syntax-Prosody Interface
Friday 25 February 2011
11.30-12.00
Ásgrímur Angantýsson (Reykjavík) [invited speaker]:
The Morpho-Syntax of Verb/Adverb Placement and Fronting in Embedded Clauses in Icelandic and Related Languages
12.00.-12.30
Piotr Garbacz (Oslo):
The Split IP Parameter and the Swedish dialects of Ovansiljan
12.30-13.00
Höskuldur Thráinsson (Reykjavík):
Icelandic A, B, C, D ... ? Or: How Long is the Icelandic Alphabet?
13.00-13.30
Svetlana Petrova (Berlin):
Embedded V2 in Middle Low German
13.30.-14.00
Hans-Martin Gärtner (Berlin):
Medium-Distance Anaphora
Alternates:
Sabine Häusler (Halle): Subordinators in (Old)Icelandic
Alexander Pfaff (Tromsø): Position Matters, not Form!
