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The Scandinavian Left Periphery
As of the spring semester 2007 the Verb Movement seminar will
continue as a seminar/reading group on the Left Periphery, still with
an empirical focus on the Scandinavian languages.
The seminar will continue where the verb movement seminar ended, and
home in on issues concerning clause typing. In the fall of 2007 the
seminar will focus on exclamative syntax, warming up for the
NORMS workshop on exclamatives in Tromsø 22.-23.
October.
The seminar is open to anyone interested. The current default meeting
time is every other Tuesday at 12.15 in E.1003. Øystein
Vangsnes is responsible for the
seminar – please contact him for further information.
Meetings
Upcoming
25 September, 12.15-14.00 (E-1003):
The assembling of data from Scandinavian and other languages continues.
Continued theoretical discussion on the basis of the readings on
this page.
9 October, 12.15-14.00 (E-1003):
No meeting
Past
11 September, 12.15-14.00 (E-1003):
Continued discussion of Zanuttini and Portner (2003) "Exclamative clauses: at the syntax-semantics interface." Language 79(1), 39-81. (Available here)
4 September, 12.15-14.00 (E-1003):
Discussion of Zanuttini and Portner (2003) "Exclamative clauses: at the syntax-semantics interface." Language 79(1), 39-81. (Available here)
21 February, 12.15-14.00 (E-1003):
Gunnar Hrafn and Kristine presented the paper "On embedded V2 in Scandinavian: Empirical Observations" by CASTL/NORMS'
"fabulous four". Handout (pdf).
Background reading:
- Hooper, Joan, and Sandra Thompson. 1973. On the Applicability of Root Transformations. Linguistic Inquiry 4: 465-97.
- Simons, Mandy. 2006. Observations on embedding verbs, evidentiality,
and presupposition. Lingua.
27 February, 12.15-14.00 (E-1003):
Øystein presented a paper of his on "Peripheral doubling in Scandinavian".
(Draft version)
Background reading:
- Askedal, John Ole. 1987. On the morphosyntactic properties and
pragmatic functions of correlative right dislocation (right copying) in
modern colloquial Norwegian. In Pirkko Lilius and Mirja Saari (eds.)
The Nordic languages and modern linguistics 6, 93-110. Helsinki:
Helsinki University Press, 1987.
21 March, 10.15-12.00 (NB! Not the default meeting time) (E-1003):
Naoyuki will present a paper of his entitled "An Account of Topic and Focus in Japanese in terms of the Left Periphery".
Handout (pdf)
Background reading:
- Haegeman, Liliane. 2006. Argument fronting in English, Romance CLLD and the Left Periphery. In Negation, tense and clausal architecture: Cross-linguistic investigations, ed. Rafaella Zanuttini, Héctor Campos, Elena Herburger, and Paul Portner, 27–52. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
28 March, 12.15-14.00 (E-1003)
Øystein will present and
discuss issues pertaining to the Left Periphery-related part of the
ScanDiaSyn questionnaire which is currently in the stage of being
finalized.
Background material are the reports on CP and Complementation which are available in the ScanDiaSyn forum.
18 April, 12.15-14.00 (E-2003)
The discussion of the Left
Periphery-related part of the ScanDiaSyn questionnaire continued (see above).
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