LINGUIST List 15.2424

Tue Aug 31 2004

Confs: General Ling/Berlin, Germany

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  • vonHeusinger, Specificity and the Evolution/Emergence of Nominal Determination Systems in Romance

    Message 1: Specificity and the Evolution/Emergence of Nominal Determination Systems in Romance

     Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:23:33 -0400 (EDT)
    From: vonHeusinger <vonHeusingerilg.uni-stuttgart.de>
    Subject: Specificity and the Evolution/Emergence of Nominal Determination Systems in Romance


    Specificity and the Evolution/Emergence of Nominal Determination Systems in Romance Short Title: Specificity in Romance II

    Date: 08-Oct-2004 - 09-Oct-2004 Location: Berlin, Germany Contact: Elisabeth Stark Contact Email: estarkzedat.fu-berlin.de Meeting URL: http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/kaiser/nereus/nereus2/index.html

    Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics

    Meeting Description:

    ''Specificity and the evolution/emergence of nominal determination systems in Romance''

    The workshop discusses specificity in Romance languages, in particular from a diachronic point of view. Romance languages have grammaticalized specificity in a variety of ways. Investigation into the the synchronic variation as well as into the diachronic development of determiner system will yield more insights into the interaction between the semantics of specificity (and other referential categories) and the morpho-syntax of the languages under investigation.

    Friday, 08 October 2004

    Diachrony and theory

    [10.00-10.15: Welcome and Opening] 10.15-11.30: Uli Reich: "Why do we mark specificity?" 11.30-12.45: Marco Garc�a Garc�a: "Differential object marking in Spanish as a scalar implicature?"

    12.45-14.00 Lunch break

    14.00-15.15: Klaus von Heusinger / Georg Kaiser: "The evolution of differential Object Marking in Spanish" 15.15-16.30: Susann Fisher: "The interplay between reference and aspect in Old Romance" 16.30-16.45 Coffee break 16.45-18.00: Elisabeth Stark: "Typological correlations in nominal determination in Romance"

    Saturday, 09 October 2004

    Development of specificity markers in Spanish

    9.00-10.15: Daniel Jacob: "Adjective position and specificity in Spanish" 10.15-11.30: Teresa Parodi: "Specificity and the left periphery in the acquisition of Spanish" 11.30-11.45: Coffee break 11.45-13.00: Manuel Leonetti: "On Topics and Specificity in Spanish"

    13.00-14.15 Lunch break

    So-called 'smaller' Romance languages and their contribution to historical typology

    14.15-15.30: Carme Picallo: "Definite pronouns in catalan" 15.30-16.45: Guido Mensching: (Sardinian; t.b.a.) 16.45-17.00: Coffee break

    17.00-17.30 Closing of the workshop

    Venue: Clubhaus der Freien Universit�t Berlin, Goethestra�e 49 D-14163 Berlin