PAST ACTIVITIES

This page contains information about some of the Project's past activities.

Our biggest event to date was the Conference on the Structure of Parametric Variation that was held in Newcastle in September 2005.

CONFERENCE ON THE STRUCTURE OF PARAMETRIC VARIATION University of Newcastle upon Tyne September 5th - 7th 2005 Invited speakers
Mark Baker (Rutgers)
Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institut, Leipzig)
Richard Kayne (NYU)
Giuseppe Longobardi (Trieste)

Click here to see the full Conference Call.

For further details, view the conference programme here.

A Proceedings volume, titled The Limits of Syntactic Variation and edited by Theresa Biberauer, is currently in preparation. It is to be published by John Benjamins and includes contributions from 16 of the Conference speakers. The Table of Contents can be found here.

We also held a Workshop on Partial Null Subject Languages in Cambridge on 30 June 2006.
Details of this event can be found here

Further, Project members have also taught on various aspects of their Project work at spring/summer schools which were held during (2007): in March, Anders and Ian both taught at the Linguistics Spring School in the Indian Mountains, while Theresa taught a course on null subjects and the Null Subject Parameter at the EGG School in Brno in August.