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Fri Mar 5 2004

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  • katrin.axel, Workshop on Modal Verbs and Modality

    Message 1: Workshop on Modal Verbs and Modality

     Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 05:12:42 -0500 (EST)
    From: katrin.axel <katrin.axeluni-tuebingen.de>
    Subject: Workshop on Modal Verbs and Modality


    Workshop on Modal Verbs and Modality

    Date: 25-Mar-2004 - 26-Mar-2004 Location: Tuebingen, Baden Wuerttemberg, Germany Contact: Katrin Axel Contact Email: katrin.axeluni-tuebingen.de Meeting URL: http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/veranst-engl.html

    Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics

    Meeting Description:

    The Workshop aims at reconstructing the formal and functional characteristics of modal verb constructions and other modal expressions in various languages. There will be contributions from different linguistic areas (theoretical linguistics, language acquisition, diachronic linguistics etc.): The Workshop is organized by a sub-project of the collaborative research centre 441 'Linguistic Data Structures'. Workshop on Modal Verbs and Modality

    organized by the SFB 441 'Linguistic Data Structures'/project B3 'Modal Verbs and Modality in German' held at the University of T�bingen, March 25th and 26th 2004 at the Neuphilologicum (Brecht-Bau), Wilhelmstr. 50, 72074 T�bingen



    Thursday, March 25th, room 215:

    09.15-9.30 Opening

    09.30-10.30 Sjef Barbiers: ''On the polarity of modal complements''

    10.30-11.30 Tanja Mortelmans: ''Between modal verb and mood: the status of 'wuerde' in present-day German''

    11.30-12.00 Coffee break

    12.00-13.00 Tim Stowell: ''Tense/modal scope reversals and sequence of tense: The case of the English perfect modal''

    13.00-14.30 Lunch break

    14.30-15.30 Daniel Holl: ''Dispositions, abilities and modal infinitives in German''

    15.30-16.30: Bettina Zeisler: ''Modal verbs and modal constructions in Ladakhi, a Tibetan language spoken in India''

    16.30-17.00 Coffee break

    17.00-18.00 Remus Gergel & Jutta Hartmann: ''Observations on theta roles and volitional modality''

    18.00-19.00 Arnim von Stechow, Svetlana Krasikova & Doris Penka: ''The meaning of Germanu 'um zu': necessary condition and 'too'/'enough'''



    Friday, March 26th, room 215

    09.00-10.00 Ioanna Berthoud-Papandropoulou & Helga Kilcher: ''Children's understanding of the French modal verb pouvoir: a developmental approach of epistemic mental states''

    10.00-11.00 Serge Doitchinov: ''Children's understanding of epistemic terms: cognitive and linguistic prerequisites''

    11.00-11.30 Coffee break

    11.30-12.30 Elma Blom: ''Modal root infinitives in Dutch child language''

    12.30-14.00 Lunch break

    14.00-15.00

    Sergej N. Kulakow: '''F�hig' als pr�dikatives Adjektiv und Wortbildungselement im Fr�hneuhochdeutschen, Neuhochdeutschen und Gegenwartsdeutschen''

    15.00-15.30 Coffee break

    15.30-16.30 Julia Grosse: ''Optional coherence and control verbs: a graded phenomenon''

    16.30-17.30 Ira Noveck: ''Trying to capture the role of context in interpreting modals''