LINGUIST List 22.2318 Wed Jun 01 2011 Confs: Semantics, Syntax/Austria Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Dina El Zarka , Graz Workshop on Information Structure Message 1: Graz Workshop on Information Structure Date: 01-Jun-2011 From: Dina El Zarka <dina.elzarkauni-graz.at> Subject: Graz Workshop on Information Structure E-mail this message to a friend Graz Workshop on Information Structure Short Title: GWIS Date: 17-Jun-2011 - 18-Jun-2011 Location: Graz, Styria, Austria Contact: Dina El Zarka Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.uni-graz.at/~heidings/gwis.pdf Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax Meeting Description: A two-day workshop on information structure covering different issues such as focus types, information status and prosodic marking. Venue: Dept. of Romance Languages, Graz University Merangasse 80, A-8010 Graz Organizers: Steffen Heidinger (Dept. of Romance Languages, Graz) Dina El Zarka (Dept. of Linguistics, Graz) No registration required. Programme: (Friday, June 17 2011) 13:45-14:00: Opening 14:00-15:00: Manfred Krifka (Berlin) -1st Keynote Semantics and Information Structure of Definitional Sentences 15:00-15:45: Karen Lahousse (Leuven) Is Focus a Root Phenomenon? 15:45-16:00: Coffee break 16:00-16:45: Stefan Baumann (Köln) Annotating Referential and Lexical Givenness and its Relation to Prosody - an Empirical Evaluation of Spontaneous and Read Speech in German 16:45-17:30: Arndt Riester (Stuttgart) Referential Information Status, Prosody and Syntax in German Radio News 17:30-17:45: Coffee break 17:45-18:30: Daniel Büring (Wien) TBA (Saturday, June 18 2011) 9:15-10:00: Steffen Heidinger (Graz) Secondary Predicates and Post-verbal Word Order in Spanish 10:00-10:45: Andreas Dufter (Erlangen) Recoding Information Structure: Syntactic Rearrangements in Translations from Latin into Romance 10:45-11:00: Coffee break 11:00-11:45: Dina El Zarka (Graz) From Downstep to Deaccentuation? A Possible Origin of Subject Accentuation in Thetic SV Sentences. 11:45-12:45 Eva Schultze-Berndt (Manchester) – 2nd Keynote Discontinuous Noun Phrases as a Strategy of Marking Theticity Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 01-Jun-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.