LINGUIST List 17.1224

Sat Apr 22 2006

Confs: General Ling/Oslo, Norway

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Message 1: Explicit and Implicit Information in Text - Information Structure Across Languages
Date: 20-Apr-2006
From: Maria Filiouchkina Krave <m.f.kraveilos.uio.no>
Subject: Explicit and Implicit Information in Text - Information Structure Across Languages



Explicit and Implicit Information in Text - Information Structure Across Languages

Date: 08-Jun-2006 - 10-Jun-2006 Location: Oslo, Norway Contact: Maria Filiouchkina Krave Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.hf.uio.no/forskningsprosjekter/sprik/english/activities/index.html#CfP

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Meeting Description:

Explicit and implicit information in text. Information structure across languages.

Conference to be arranged by the project SPRIK Språk i kontrast/Languages in Contrast at the University of Oslo, Norway, June 8-10, 2006.

The goal of the conference is to present and discuss current research in text interpretation, particularly textual cohesion and coherence across languages. We aim to bring together researchers interested in systematizing and explaining the variety of means exploited across languages to create cohesion and establish dependencies and discourse hierarchies in text. Different languages exploit similar means differently, partly due to competing structures available in the individual languages, partly due to language-typological differences. We are interested in empirically based cross-linguistic studies that contribute to a better understanding of explicit and implicit information in 'real' discourse, as well as in theoretical research modelling textual cohesion/coherence.

Conference Committee:

Prof. Cathrine Fabtricius-HansenAss.Prof. Bergljot BehrensProf. Kjell Johan Så/bå¸Prof. Stig Johansson


We are happy to welcome you to the SPRIK Conference 2006: Explicit and implicit information in text. Information structure across languages. June 8-10, 2006

Please, see the conference website for information on registration, accommodation and the detailed conference programme: http://www.hf.uio.no/forskningsprosjekter/sprik/english/activities/conf.html

Registration deadline: May, 25. To register, please fill in the electronic form available on the conference website.

Programme:

Thursday June, 8:

13.00-14.00 - Registration 14.00-14.10 - Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen (Univ. of Oslo): Opening 14.10-15.00 - Kjell Johan Sæbø (Univ. of Oslo): Free yourself from syntactic bondage: Adreflexive Intensification and the Theory of Focus and Information 15.00-15.40 - Shinji Ido (Tohoku Univ./ Univ. of Sydney): A model for sentence-fragment production: a preliminary study 15.40-16.10 - Gergely Pethõ, Eva Kardos (Univ. of Edinburgh, Univ. of Debrecen): A cross-linguistic investigation of the licensing and interpretation of implicit object arguments 16.40-17.20 - Laia Mayol (Univ. of Pennsylvania), The discourse function of right-dislocation in Catalan 17.20-18.00 - Kerstin Kunz (Univ. of Saarbrücken): Investigating nominal coreference in originals and translations 18.00-18.40 - Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Stella Neumann, Erich Steiner (Univ. of Saarbrücken): Cohesion and explicitation in an English -German translation corpus

Friday June, 9:

9.00-9.50 - Robyn Carston (UCL): Balancing code and inference in linguistic communication 9.50-10.40 - Henning Nølke (Univ. of Aarhus): Connectors in a cross-linguistic perspective 11.10-11.50 - Jiun-Shiung Wu (National Chiayi Univ.): Aspectual Influence on Temporal Relations. A Case Study of the Experiential Guo in Mandarin 11.50-12.20 - Barbara Schmiedtová, Mary Carroll, Christiane v. Stutterheim, Natasha Sahonenko (Univ. of Heidelberg): Tense switch in Aspect/-Non-Aspect languages and its implications for information structure 12.20-13.00 - Anna Espunya (Pompeu Fabra Univ.): Making implicit information explicit: Kortmann's scale of informativeness and the English V-ing free adjuncts in Catalan tranlslations 14.00-14.50 - Regine Eckardt (Univ. of Göttingen): 'Eigentlich' - discourse functions and rhetoric effects (with Angelina Port, Berlin) 14.50-15.20 - Elena Karagjosova (Univ. of Oslo): On the concessive use of the German discourse marker 'doch' 15.20-15.50 - Nicholas Asher, Myriam Bras, Anne Le Draoulec (ERSS-CNRS, Toulouse): Evidence for a Scalar Analysis of Result in SDRT from a Study of the French Temporal Connective alors 16.20-16.50 - Ingrid Lossius Falkum (Univ. of Oslo): Contrastive Lexical Pragmatics: A relevance-theoretic approach to lexical narrowing and broadening in English and Norwegian original texts and translations 16.50-17.20 - Nana Aba Appiah Amfo (NTNU, Trondheim): Explaining connectors in Akan discourse: the role of discourse markers 17.20-18.10 - Thorstein Fretheim (NTNU, Trondheim): The metarepresentational use of main clause phenomena in embedded clauses

Saturday June, 10:

9.00-9.50 - Henk Zeevat (Univ. of Amsterdam): Discourse Structure in Optimality Theoretic Pragmatics 9.50-10.30 - Patrícia Matos Amaral (Ohio State Univ. and Univ. of Coimbra): Entailment, assertion and textual coherence: a case study 10.50-11.30 - Maria Averintseva (Univ. Tübingen), Manfred Consten (Univ. Jena): The role of discourse topic and proximity for demonstratives in German and Russian 11.30-12.10 - Richard Zuber (CNRS, Paris): Some remarks on minimal sufficient conditions across languages 13.20-14.10 - Bonnie Webber (Univ. of Edinburgh): A Lexical Perspective on Discourse Structure and Semantics 14.10-15.30 - Closing discussion