Provisional Workshop program
Friday, 1. June 2012
Time | Speaker | Title | Handout |
|---|---|---|---|
08:45-09:15 | Registration | ||
09:15-09:30 | Welcome and introduction | ||
09:30-10:15 | Sebastian Löbner (University of Düsseldorf) | Concept Types and Determination | |
10:15-11:00 | Albert Ortmann (University of Düsseldorf) | A semantic-typological perspective on determination: "semantic" vs. "pragmatic" in uniqueness and possession | |
11:00-11:30 | Coffee break | ||
11:30-12:15 | Erhard Voeltz (University of Frankfurt/Main) | Definites and indefinites in Kono, a preliminary analysis | |
12:15-13:00 | Ulrike Mosel (University of Kiel) | Articles and determination in Teop, an Oceanic language spoken in Papua New Guinea | |
13:00-14:15 | Lunch break | ||
14:15-15:00 | Anne Carlier (University of Lille 3 France ) | Emergence of the definite article and integration into a paradigm: a comparison between Late Latin and Modern French | |
15:00-15:45 | Adrian Czardybon (University of Düsseldorf) | The definite article in the Upper Silesian dialect of Polish | |
15:45-16:00 | Coffee break | ||
16:00-16:45 | Christian Horn & Nicolas Kimm (University of Düsseldorf) | Corpus-Linguistic Evidence for Concept Types from a Semantic-Pragmatic Perspective | |
16:45-17:30 | Dorothea Brenner (University of Düsseldorf) | A Psycholinguistic View on Definites | |
17:30-17:45 | Coffee break | ||
17:45–18:30 | Robert D. Van Valin, Jr (University of Düsseldorf) | Definiteness in Lakhota | |
20:00 | Conference dinner | ||
Saturday, 2. June 2012
Time | Speaker | Title | Handout | |
09:00-09:45 | Bert Le Bruyn (University of Utrecht) | Bare PPs between indefinites and weak definites | ||
09:45-10:30 | Christopher Lucas (SOAS, London) | On some supposed counterexamples to a uniqueness-based theory of definiteness | ||
10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | |||
11:00-11:45 | Maria Cieschinger (University of Osnabrück) | Definiteness and German preposition-article contractions | ||
11:45-12:30 | Elizabeth Coppock (University of Düsseldorf) | Definiteness in Hungarian: Semantic at the leaves, syntactic through the branches | ||
12:30-13:45 | Lunch break | |||
13:45-14:30 | Xuping Li (CRLAO-EHESS, Paris) | Modified "Classifier+Noun" in Wu Chinese and its DP structure | ||
14:30-15:15 | Brigitte Pakendorf (CNRS, Lyon2) | The use of evaluative suffixes to mark definiteness in an Even dialect | ||
15:15-15:35 | Coffee break | |||
15:35-16:20 | Doris Gerland (University of Düsseldorf) | Possessive suffixes as definiteness marker | ||
16:20-17:05 |
| Definite article distinctions in West Germanic: Form and function | ||