Acquisition of Verb Grammar and Verb Arguments

Natalia Gagarina gagarina at zas.gwz-berlin.de
Fri Sep 14 08:29:12 UTC 2001


Dear Colleague,

		Conference on
Acquisition of Verb Grammar and Verb Arguments
is organized by the project ‘Syntactic Consequences
of the Acquisition of Morphology’ and hosted by ZAS,
Berlin, 15. - 17. November 2001

Information (including abstracts of the presentations):
http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/events/aquis/index.html

In order to plan the discussion and evening reception we would like you to let us
know as soon as possible (at one of the following e-mail addresses) if you plan to attend
our conference: <dabitt at zas.gwz-berlin.de>, <gagarina at zas.gwz-berlin.de>,
<guelzow at zas.gwz-berlin.de>

No registration fees.

The Program

Thursday, 15.11.01
13.00 - 13.30	Opening
13.30 - 14.10	Richard Weist  (SUNY College at Fredonia) / Aleksandra
Pawlack (Poznan)
	The role of verb morphology in the construction of grammar
14.10 - 14.50	Heike Behrens  (MPI fuer evolutionaere Anthropolgie,
Leipzig)
	The relationship between verb placement and inflection in the acquisition
	of  German

Break
15.10 - 15.50	Sabine Klampfer/Wolfgang U. Dressler  (University of Vienna)
	Building up verb paradigms: from roote-learnig to morphological system
	building  in three austrian children
15.50 - 16.30	Magdalena Smoczynska  (Jagellonian University, Krakow)
	From first emergences of isolated forms to verb morphology systems

Break
16.50 - 17.30	Habibeh Samadi  (Kerman University of Medical Sciences)
	The acquisition of verbs in Persian
17.30 - 18.10	David Ingram/Anne Welti  (Arizona State University, Tempe)
	The early acquisition of verbs and verb paradigms in English

Wine Reception

Friday, 16.11.01
09.00 - 09.40	Dorota Kiebzak-Mandera  (Jagellonian University, Krakow)
	Person and gender in child Russian
09.40 - 10.20	David Gil  (MPI fuer evolutionaere Anthropologie, Leipzig)
	The acquisition of voice morphology in Jakarta Indonesian
10.20 - 11.00	Kirsten Abbot-Smith/ Heike Behrens  (MPI fuer evolutionaere
Anthropolgie,  Leipzig)
	'Der muss auch noch gereift werden': The acquisition of passive
	constructions by  a German-speaking boy

Break
11.20- 12.00	Elisabet Serrat  (University of Girona) / Mònica Sanz-Torrent
(University of  Barcelona) / Aurora Bel  (University Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona)
	Verb acquisition in Catalan and Spanish speaking children: lexical,
	morphological  and syntactic aspects
12.00 - 12.40	Christine Dimroth  (MPI Nijmegen) / Peter Jordens  (Vrije
Universiteit, Amsterdam)
	Finiteness in first and second language acquisition of Dutch

Lunch
14.30- 15.10	Christine Czinglar / Katharina Koehler  (University
of Vienna) / Chris Schaner- Wolles (University of Vienna/Austrian
Academy of Sciences)
      The Early Placement of Subjects and Predicates in the German Copular
	Construction

15.10 - 15.50	Sharon Armon-Lotem  (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan)
	Subject use and the acquisition of verbal agreement in Hebrew

Break
16.10 - 16.50	Erica Thrift  (ACLC/University of Amsterdam)
	Left out: object drop with particle verbs in child Dutch and English
16.50 - 17.30	Lorraine McCune / Ellen Herr-Israel  (Rutgers University)
	Relational words, motion events and the transition to verb meanings


Saturday, 17.11.01
09.00 - 09.40	Natsuko Tsujimura  (Indiana University)
	Why not all verbs are learned equally
09.40 - 10.20	Susanne Gahl  (ICSI, Berkeley)
	Effects of lexical biases on children's acquisition of transitive and
	intransitive  frames
10.20- 11.00	Ceytlin Stella  (Herzen State Pedagogical University of
Russia, S.-Petersburg)
	Giving and taking situations: acquisition by Russian children

Break
11.20 - 12.00	Claire Martinot  (Université René Descartes, Paris)
	Verb role in the grammar emergence in French
12.00 - 12.40	Maigi Vija / Marilyn Vihman  (University of Wales, Bangor)
	Verbs in first word combinations in Estonian
12.40 - 13.20	Sigal Uziel-Karl  (School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv
University)
	A developmental model for the acquisition of verb argument structures

Accomodation and Other practical information:
 http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/guests_info_pract.html
Weather in Berlin:
 http://www.wetter.com/home/extern/location.php?type=WMO&id=367

Looking forward to seeing you in Berlin,

The Conference Organizers
Dagmar Bittner
Natalia Gagarina
Insa Gülzow



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