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Date: 28th – 29th September 2012
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Meeting Email: syntax@klphs.uzh.ch
Linguistic Fields: Syntax; Historical Linguistics
Workshop Language: English
Workshop Description:
The comparative method was tested on phonology and morphology rather than syntax and, even though excellent syntactic studies were performed in the research tradition of Neogrammarians and Structuralists (cf. Delbrück 1871; 1877; 1878; 1879; 1888; 1893-1900, Grimm 1870-1898, Miklosich 1874, Speyer 1886; 1896, Hirt 1921-1937, Brugmann 1925, Wackernagel 1926-1928, Schwyzer 1950, Hofmann und Szantyr 1965), problems of syntactic change and syntactic reconstruction have often been neglected in traditional historical linguistics. In the last years, a series of interesting studies have addressed questions of diachronic syntax from different empirical and theoretical perspectives (cf. Harris & Campbell 1995; Crespo & García Ramón 1997; Hewson & Bubenik 2006; Longobardi 2003; Lightfoot 2006; Luraghi 2010; Ferraresi & Goldbach 2008; Ferraresi & Lühr 2010; Barðdal & Eythórsson in press, etc.). However, many issues in syntactic change and syntactic reconstruction are still controversial. The present meeting aims at taking part in this new dialogue on historical syntax.
Contact Person: Carlotta Viti
Scientific Committee: Balthasar Bickel, Francesca Dell’Oro, Elvira Glaser, Marianne Hundt, Andreas Jucker, Michele Loporcaro, Ludwig Rübekeil, Elisabeth Stark, Karin Stüber, Carlotta Viti, Daniel Weiss, Fernando Zúñiga
Organization Team: Francesca Dell’Oro, Carlotta Viti
Invited speaker: Prof. Dr. Dag Trygve Truslew Haug (University of Oslo)
Der Workshop wird unterstützt von der Schweizer Akademie der Wissenschaften (SAW), von der Vereinigung akademischer Mittelbau der Universität Zürich (VAUZ), vom Zürcher Universitätsverein (ZUNIV) und insbesondere vom Schweizer Nationalfonds (SNF) als International Exploratory Workshop.
