LINGUIST List 17.1029

Wed Apr 05 2006

Confs: Semantics/Syntax/Ghent, Belgium

Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows <kevinlinguistlist.org>

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Directory         1.    Timothy Colleman, Workshop on Contrastive Verb Valency

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Message 1: Workshop on Contrastive Verb Valency
Date: 04-Apr-2006
From: Timothy Colleman <timothy.collemanUGent.be>
Subject: Workshop on Contrastive Verb Valency



Workshop on Contrastive Verb Valency

Date: 26-Apr-2006 - 26-Apr-2006 Location: Ghent, Belgium Contact: Timothy Colleman Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.contragram.ugent.be

Linguistic Field(s): Lexicography; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Meeting Description:

On Wednesday April 26th, the contrastive grammar research group at Ghent University (Contragram) organises a half-day workshop on 'Contrastive Verb Valency', on the occasion of the completion of a six-year project on verb valency in Dutch, French, and English.

Venue: Ghent University Faculty of Arts & Philosophy - room 514 (5th floor) Blandijnberg 2 9000 Gent Belgium

Programme:

14.00: Presentation of the electronic Contrastive Verb Valency Dictionary of Dutch, French, and English by the Contragram team

14.50: Christopher Butler (Univ. of Wales Swansea), 'Structural-functional approaches to the semantics and syntax of a lexeme'

16.00: Coffee break

16.30: Klaus Fischer (London Metropolitan Univ.), 'Analytic and descriptive issues in contrasting verb complementation'

17.15: Ludo Melis (KU Leuven), 'Pronominal verbs in French and Dutch: false friends'.

18.00: Reception

Admission is free but participants are asked to preregister at Laurence.DewildeUGent.be , preferably before April 20th.