EXPLORING THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE

Program

Thursday, 17. May 2012

Time

Speaker

Title

15:30-16:15

Introduction

16:15-17:15

Gisa Rauh (Wuppertal)

Linguistic Categories and the Syntax-Semantics Interface

17:15-17:30

Coffee Break

17:30-18:30

Dan Everett (Boston)

Language: The Cultural Tool

18:30

Getting Together

 

Friday, 18. May 2012

Time

Speaker

Title

10:00-11:00

Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky (Marburg)/Matthias Schlesewsky (Mainz)

Syntax-Semantics Linking as a Neurocognitively Plausible Linguistic Notion

11:00-11:15

Coffee Break

11:15-12:15

Simeon Floyd (Nijmegen)

Switch Reference with and without Person: Comparing Quechua and Cha'palaa

12:15-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-14:30

John Petersen (Kiel)

Argument Realization in Kharia - Syntax vs. Semantics

14:30-14:45

Coffee Break

14:45-15:45

Ranko Matasovic (Zagreb)

Kabardian Involuntative and the Lexical Representation of Verbs

15:45-16:15

Coffee Break

16:15-17:15

Ricardo Mairal (Madrid)

The Syntax-Semantics Interface within a Conceptual Framework

17:15-17:30

Coffee Break

17:30-18:30

Jean-Pierre Koenig (Buffalo)

Why Does Verb Meaning Matter for Linking?

20:00

Dinner in the Historical Center of Düsseldorf