Structure Removal in Syntax

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Workshop on Shrinking Trees

• When: 10 October 2016
• Where: Lecture Hall of the Bibliotheca Albertina, Beethovenstr. 6
• Programme (pdf version):

  08:45–09:00		Introduction
  09:00–10:00	Howard Lasnik	Shrinking Trees: Some Early History
  10:00–11:00	Gereon Müller	Restructuring by Removal
  		Coffee break
  11:30–12:30	Susi Wurmbrand	Restructuring as the Regulator of Clause Size; Slides
  12:30–13:30	David Pesetsky	Exfoliation: Towards a Derivational Theory of Clause Size
  		Lunch Break
  14:30–15:30	Andrew Murphy	Arguments for Ellipsis as Syntactic Deletion
  15:30–16:30	Caterina Donati	Successive Cyclic Movement as a Shrinking Tree Epiphenomenon
  		Coffee Break
  17:00–18:00	Fabian Heck	Non-Monotonic Raising-to-Subject
  18:00–19:00	Katja Barnickel	Derived Mon-Monotonic Coordination in German