Workshop on Historical Syntax

Department of English
Institute of Language, Literature & Culture

University of Aarhus
Building 467, Room 415 (4th floor)
Jens Chr. Skous Vej 7

Friday, June 11, 2004

Programme:
11:00 Cecilia Falk
University of Lund
Some case patterns in Old Swedish
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Henrik Jørgensen
University of Aarhus
Hypotaxis in Danish Medieval Narrative Texts:
The Fragments of Saint Christina's Legend

14:30 Coffee
15:00 Susan Pintzuk
University of York
Arguments against a universal base:
evidence from Old English

16:00 Exit

Participation in the workshop is free and open to everybody interested.

Organizer:   Sten Vikner

This workshop follows the defence of Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson's Ph.D. dissertation:
Oblique Subjects and Stylistic Fronting
in the History of Scandinavian and English:
The Role of IP-Spec

(available from http://folk.uio.no/gunnahh/phd/)
Thursday, June 10, 2004, 13:00-16:00,
Nordisk Institut, Niels Juels Gade 84 ("Trøjborg-komplekset"), room 340.


 


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