LINGUIST List 21.2551: Semantics, Syntax, Comp Ling, Typology, Psycholing/Germany

LINGUIST List 21.2551

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Confs: Semantics, Syntax, Comp Ling, Typology, Psycholing/Germany

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1. Manfred Sailer, International Meeting on Text Structure: Form, Meaning, and Processing

Message 1: International Meeting on Text Structure: Form, Meaning, and Processing
Date: 08-Jun-2010
From: Manfred Sailer <manfred.sailerphil.uni-goettingen.de>
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International Meeting on Text Structure: Form, Meaning, and Processing

Date: 01-Jul-2010 - 03-Jul-2010 Location: Göttingen, Germany Contact: Manfred Sailer Contact Email: text2010uni-goettingen.de Meeting URL: http://www.gwdg.de/~text2010/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax; Typology

Meeting Description:

International Meeting on Text Structure: Form, Meaning, and Processing 1.-3.7.2010 Universtität Göttingen

While the description and theoretical analysis of isolated levels of text structure has matured substantially over the last thirty years, we are only beginning to understand the interaction between different levels and the surplus literary effects created by such interactions. In addition to methods of formal syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, strongly empirically oriented subdisciplines of linguistics such as corpuslinguistics and psycholinguistics have provided central insights for the study of linguistic phenomena beyond the sentence level. It is also necessary to include typological and variationist perspectives to identify the full range and the relative impact of factors and means exploited in the structuring of text in the languages of the world.

The program for the meeting is now available at the conference web site at:

http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~text2010/

We would like to ask all participants to register via the online registration form:

https://lotus1.gwdg.de/uni/uzct/ts_2010_07.nsf/registration?OpenForm

Manfred Sailer (for the organizers)

Detailed program:

Thursday, July 1

12:00-12:50 Lunch/registration

12:50 Opening

13:00-14:00 Invited talk: Erhard Hinrichs (Tübingen): Theories of Discourse Structures

14:00-14:40 Stefanie Simon, Yannick Versley, and Erhard Hinrichs (Tübingen): Annotation of Temporal Connectives in the TüBa-D/Z Treebank: A Pilot Study

14:40-15:20 Ana Teresa Alves (Azores): On the Sensitivity of Temporal Markers to Discourse Structure

15:20-15:50 Coffee

15:50-16:30 Christian Rathmann (Hamburg): Strategies of Temporal Interpretation in Texts in Signed Languages

16:30-17:10 Annika Herrmann (Göttingen): Focus Particles in Signed Discourse

17:10-18:10 Invited talk: Josep Quer (Barcelona): Reporting in Signed Discourse

Friday, July 2

9:00-10:00 Invited talk: Barbara Kaup (Tübingen): The Experiential-simulations View of Discourse Comprehension

10:00-10:40 Susana Ruiz Fernández, I. Rebele, V. Eikmeier, and R. Ulrich (Tübingen): Back to Front Coding of Past and Future in the Processing of Temporal Sentences

10:40-11:10 Coffee

11:10-11:50 Hans Boas (Austin): A Constructional Account of Discourse Particles in Texas German

11:50-12:30 Maria Averintseva-Klisch (Tübingen): How Can ''echt einige'' ('truly some') Mean 'lots of' - and Does It Really? The Interplay of Expressives and Scalar Implicatures in the Discourse

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:40 Markus Bauer, Matthias Bauer, Sigrid Beck, Carmen Dörge, Burkhard von Eckartsberg, Michaela Meder, Katja Riedel, Janina Zimmermann, Angelika Zirker (Tübingen): Shakespeare's Sonnet 138

14:40-15:20 Naoko Tomita (Heidelberg): The Information Structure in Japanese Oral Narratives: An Empirical Study on the Role of Language-Specific Grammaticised Conceptual Categories in Speech Production

15:20-15:50 Coffee

15:50-16:30 Melanie Feldhofer (Tübingen): Elliptical Ambiguities

16:30-17:30 Invited talk: Lars Konieczny (Freiburg): tba

Saturday, July 3

9:00-9:40 Ingo Reich (Saarbrücken): Gapping as Coordinate Ellipsis?

9:40-10:20 Felix Bildhauer and Philippa Cook (Berlin): German Fronting Constructions in Context

10:20-10:50 Coffee

10:50-11:50 Invited talk: Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen (Oslo): Adverb(i)al and Adnominal Adjuncts from a Discourse Perspective

11:50- 12:00 Closing

12:00-12:30 Coffee

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