LINGUIST List 12.2176

Thu Sep 6 2001

Confs: Acquisition Perspectives on Interfaces

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1. B. Hollebrandse, Acquisition Perspectives on Interfaces

NWO-Workshop Acquisition Perspectives on Interfaces
Organized by the research group 'Interface Issues in L1 and L2 
Acquisition'

September 7-8, 2001
Utrecht University
Achter de Dom 22, room 2.02

Registration: b.hollebrandselet.rug.nl
No registration fees!

More information (including abstracts of the presentations): 
http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/events/events.htm 


Friday, September 7, morning

09.30coffee and tea
09.50introduction and welcome

Session1: 
Theoretical perspectives on the syntax-semantics interface

10.00-11.00Roger Schwarzschild: Measure phrases: Syntax and 
 semantics

11.00-11.15discussion

11.15-11.30coffee and tea

11.30-12.30Henri�tte de Swart: Bare nominals at the syntax-semantics-
			pragmatics interface

12.30-12.45discussion

13.00-14.00lunch

14.00gathering at the OTS-secretary's office for practical issues

Session 2: 
Language acquisition perspectives on the semantics-syntax interface

14.30-15.00Bart Geurts: Children's errors in the interpretation of 
 quantified sentences

15.00-15.15discussion

15.15-15.45Ken Drozd: Matching sentences with discourse contexts: 
 Children's understanding of presupposition and 
 focus.

15.45-16.00discussion

16.00-16.30coffee and tea
16.30-17.00Bart Hollebrandse :Quantifiers in Child Language: Syntax 
 and Pragmatics?

17.00-17.15discussion

17.15-18.15drinks

18.30workshop dinner

Saturday, September 8, morning

Session 3: 
Theoretical perspectives on the syntax-pragmatics interface

10.00-11.00Enric Vallduv�: t.b.a.

11.00-11.15discussion

11.15-11.30coffee and tea

11.30-12.00Henri�tte Hendriks: The pragmatics-syntax interface: How 
 much knowledge is transferrable from an L1 to an 
 L2?

12.00-12.15discussion

12.30-14.00lunch

Session 4:
Language acquisition perspectives on the syntax-pragmatics interface

14.00-14.30Astrid Ferdinand: Topic marking in Dutch L2-acquisition 
 of French and the pragmatics-syntax interface

14.30-14.45discussion

14.45-15.15Christine Dimroth: Additive words as assertion markers in 
 the Basic Variety: how information structure and 
 target language syntax get into conflict

15.15-15.30discussion

15.30-16.00coffee and tea

16.00-16.30Petra Bos: Near-native or native: syntax or pragmatics?

16.30-16.45discussion	

16.45-17.15Martha Young-Scholten & Anne Vainikka: The universal 
 and the language specific in the L2 acquisition of CP

17.15-17.30discussion

17.30-18.00	drinks


Bart Hollebrandse
Letteren/Dutch Department UiL OTS
University of Groningen University of Utrecht
Postbus 716 Trans 10
9700 AS Groningen 3515 JK Utrecht
The Netherlands The Netherlands

phone: +31 50 3635632 +31 30 2538176
fax: +31 50 3636855 +31 30 2536000

http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/events/events.htm