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Cambridge Language Sciences

Interdisciplinary Research Centre
 
9-10am: Bill Haddican (Queens' College, CUNY) & Anders Holmberg (Newcastle/DTAL) - Object movement in the double object construction in British English
10-11am: Alison Biggs (DTAL) - Passive variation in Northwest English dialects
11-11.30am: COFFEE BREAK
11.30am-12.30pm: Theresa Biberauer (DTAL) - The syntax of borrowed particles: insights from English dialects
12.30-2pm: LUNCH
2-3pm: Gary Thoms, David Adger, Caroline Heycock & Jennifer Smith (Edinburgh, Glasgow and QMUL) - Remarks on negation and affirmation in varieties of Scottish English
3-4pm: Ian Roberts (DTAL) - Recent and ongoing changes in English modals
4-4.30pm: COFFEE BREAK

4.30-5.30pm: KEYNOTE Richie Kayne (NYU) - One and two, once and twice

Date: 
Wednesday, 6 November, 2013 - 09:00 to 17:30
Contact name: 
Teresa Biberauer
Contact email: 
Event location: 
Old Library, Darwin College

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Cambridge Language Sciences is an Interdisciplinary Research Centre at the University of Cambridge. Our virtual network connects researchers from five schools across the university as well as other world-leading research institutions. Our aim is to strengthen research collaborations and knowledge transfer across disciplines in order to address large-scale multi-disciplinary research challenges relating to language research.

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