LINGUIST List 23.3207
Fri Jul 27 2012
Confs: Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Psycholing, Syntax, Typology/Germany
Editor for this issue: Xiyan Wang
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Date: 27-Jul-2012
From: Fabian Heck <heck
uni-leipzig.de>
Subject: Decomposition and Natural Classes in Argument Coding
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Decomposition and Natural Classes in Argument Coding
Date: 06-Sep-2012 - 07-Sep-2012
Location: Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany
Contact: Martin Haspelmath
Contact Email:
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Meeting URL:
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~va/?nav=finalworkshop
Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Psycholinguistics; Syntax; Typology
Meeting Description:
In this workshop we aim to bring together researchers working on argument coding. There will be a particular focus on decomposition and on the role of natural classes.
Generalizations of argument coding are often not apparent by looking at entire verbs, coding elements, verb meanings or constructions, but only when these items are decomposed into their constituent parts or elementary features. This decomposition is often not obvious and may require considerable abstraction. The workshop should address ways in which such decomposition is best achieved. Using the constituent features, one can group verbs or coding elements into natural classes which behave alike with respect to some other phenomenon. Such natural classes will be another focus of the workshop.
The participants of the workshop will include the members of the research unit Grammar and Processing of Verbal Arguments and a number of invited speakers.
Anyone interested is welcome to attend the talks. If you plan to attend the workshop, please register by sending an e-mail to Martin Haspelmath (haspelmath
eva.mpg.de) so that we can take you into consideration while preparing the handouts, etc.
The workshop will take place at Leipzig University, Universitätsstraße, Seminargebäude, room 402 and/or 420.
Preliminary Program
September, 6th (Thursday)
8:30-8:40Welcome
8:40-9:30Pavel Caha (U Tromsø)Genitive Singular and Nominative Plural: Mystery solved?
9:30-10:20Anke Assmann, Doreen Georgi & Philipp Weisser (U Leipzig)Argument Encoding and Its Consequences for Displacement
10:20-10:50Coffee break
10:50-11:40Linnaea Stockall(U London) TBA
11:40-12:30Martina Penke (U Köln) TBA
12:30-14:00Lunch
14:00-14:50Antje Roßdeutscher (U Stuttgart)Prepositional Elements in a DM/DRT-based Syntax-Semantics Interface
14:50-15:40Petr Biskup & Gerhild Zybatow (U Leipzig)Verbal Prefixation in Slavonic
15:40-16:10Coffee break
16:10-16:40Michael Cysouw (U Marburg)Visualizing the Typology of Natural Classes
16:40-17:10Sebastian Bank & Jochen Trommer (U Leipzig)Integrated Learning of Segmentation and Morphosyntactic Features
17:10-17:50Daniel Harbour(Queen Mary London) TBA
19:00 Conference dinner at Cafe Grundmann
September, 7th (Friday)
8:40-9:30Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky & Jona Sassenhagen(U Marburg) TBA
9:30-10:20Alena Witzlack-Makarevich(U Zürich) TBA
10:20-10:50Coffee break
10:50-11:30Joshua Birchall (U Nijmegen)Valency in South American Languages
11:30-12:10John P. Boyle (NE Illinois U)Valency and the Hidatsa Dative
12:10-12:30Iren Hartmann, Martin Haspelmath & Alexander Jahraus (MPI-EVA)An Update on the Valency Classes Database
12:30-14:00Lunch
14:00-14:50Dorothee Fehrmann, Uwe Junghanns & Denisa Lenertová (U Göttingen/Leipzig)Decomposing Decausatives
14:50-15:40Artemis Alexiadou(U Stuttgart) TBA
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