We will begin the academic year at Santa Cruz with a workshop centered on issues at the interface between syntax and information structure. The workshop will feature four talks.
 

10:00-10:10 AM – Opening Remarks

10:10-11:10 AM – Bern Samko (Santa Cruz): Verum Focus and Scalar Emphasis in English VP-Preposing

11:10-11:30 AM – Break

11:30-12:30 PM – Line Mikkelsen (Berkeley): What goes post verbal in a verb-final language? On the interplay of prosody, information structure, and word order in Karuk

12:30-01:30 PM – Lunch

01:30-02:30 PM – Vera Gribanova (Stanford): On certain manifestations of polarity focus in Russian

02:30-03:00 PM – Break

03:00-04:00 PM – Karen Lahousse (Leuven): Syntax and information structure in verb-subject inversion in French