LINGUIST List 12.2248

Fri Sep 14 2001

Confs: Acq of Verb Grammar & Verb Arguments

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1. Natalia Gagarina, Acquisition of Verb Grammar and Verb Arguments

		Conference on 

Acquisition of Verb Grammar and Verb Arguments 
is organized by the project "Syntactic Consequences 
of the Acquisition of Morphology" and hosted by ZAS, 
Berlin, 15. - 17. November 2001 

Information (including abstracts of the presentations): 
http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/events/aquis/index.html 

In order to plan the discussion and evening reception we would like you to
let us know as soon as possible (at one of the following e-mail addresses) 
if you plan to attend our conference: <dabittzas.gwz-berlin.de>, 
<gagarinazas.gwz-berlin.de>, <guelzowzas.gwz-berlin.de> 

No registration fees.

The Program 

Thursday, 15.11.01 
13.00 - 13.30	Opening 
13.30 - 14.10	Richard Weist (SUNY College at Fredonia) / Aleksandra 
Pawlack (Poznan) 
	The role of verb morphology in the construction of grammar 
14.10 - 14.50	Heike Behrens (MPI fuer evolutionaere Anthropolgie, 
Leipzig) 
The relationship between verb placement and inflection in the acquisition
of German
 
Break 
15.10 - 15.50	Sabine Klampfer/Wolfgang U. Dressler (University of Vienna)
	Building up verb paradigms: from roote-learnig to morphological system 
	building in three austrian children
15.50 - 16.30	Magdalena Smoczynska (Jagellonian University, Krakow) 
	From first emergences of isolated forms to verb morphology systems 

Break 
16.50 - 17.30	Habibeh Samadi (Kerman University of Medical Sciences) 
	The acquisition of verbs in Persian 
17.30 - 18.10	David Ingram/Anne Welti (Arizona State University, Tempe) 
	The early acquisition of verbs and verb paradigms in English 

Wine Reception 

Friday, 16.11.01 
09.00 - 09.40	Dorota Kiebzak-Mandera (Jagellonian University, Krakow) 
	Person and gender in child Russian 
09.40 - 10.20	David Gil (MPI fuer evolutionaere Anthropologie, Leipzig) 
	The acquisition of voice morphology in Jakarta Indonesian 
10.20 - 11.00	Kirsten Abbot-Smith/ Heike Behrens (MPI fuer evolutionaere 
Anthropolgie, Leipzig) 
	'Der muss auch noch gereift werden': The acquisition of passive 
	constructions by a German-speaking boy
 
Break 
11.20- 12.00 Elisabet Serrat (University of Girona) / M�nica Sanz-Torrent 
(University of Barcelona) / Aurora Bel (University Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona)
	Verb acquisition in Catalan and Spanish speaking children: lexical, 
	morphological and syntactic aspects
12.00 - 12.40	Christine Dimroth (MPI Nijmegen) / Peter Jordens (Vrije 
Universiteit, Amsterdam)
	Finiteness in first and second language acquisition of Dutch 

Lunch 
14.30- 15.10	Christine Czinglar / Katharina Koehler (University 
of Vienna) / Chris Schaner- Wolles (University of Vienna/Austrian 
Academy of Sciences)
 The Early Placement of Subjects and Predicates in the German Copular 
	Construction

15.10 - 15.50	Sharon Armon-Lotem (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan) 
	Subject use and the acquisition of verbal agreement in Hebrew 

Break 
16.10 - 16.50	Erica Thrift (ACLC/University of Amsterdam) 
	Left out: object drop with particle verbs in child Dutch and English 
16.50 - 17.30	Lorraine McCune / Ellen Herr-Israel (Rutgers University) 
	Relational words, motion events and the transition to verb meanings
 

Saturday, 17.11.01 
09.00 - 09.40	Natsuko Tsujimura (Indiana University) 
	Why not all verbs are learned equally 
09.40 - 10.20	Susanne Gahl (ICSI, Berkeley) 
	Effects of lexical biases on children's acquisition of transitive and 
	intransitive frames
10.20- 11.00	Ceytlin Stella (Herzen State Pedagogical University of 
Russia, S.-Petersburg)
	Giving and taking situations: acquisition by Russian children 

Break 
11.20 - 12.00	Claire Martinot (Universit� Ren� Descartes, Paris) 
	Verb role in the grammar emergence in French 
12.00 - 12.40	Maigi Vija / Marilyn Vihman (University of Wales, Bangor) 
	Verbs in first word combinations in Estonian 
12.40 - 13.20	Sigal Uziel-Karl (School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv 
University) 
	A developmental model for the acquisition of verb argument structures
 
Accomodation and Other practical information: 
 http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/guests_info_pract.html 
Weather in Berlin: 
 http://www.wetter.com/home/extern/location.php?type=WMO&id=367 

Looking forward to seeing you in Berlin, 

The Conference Organizers 
Dagmar Bittner 
Natalia Gagarina 
Insa G�lzow