17.2762, Confs: Semantics,Syntax,Romance Lang/Spain

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LINGUIST List: Vol-17-2762. Tue Sep 26 2006. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 17.2762, Confs: Semantics,Syntax,Romance Lang/Spain

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Date: 25-Sep-2006
From: Klaus von Heusinger < klaus.vonHeusinger at ling.uni-stuttgart.de >
Subject: 3rd Nereus International Workshop 'Definiteness, Specificity and Animacy in Ibero-Romance Languages' 

	
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:29:04
From: Klaus von Heusinger < klaus.vonHeusinger at ling.uni-stuttgart.de >
Subject: 3rd Nereus International Workshop 'Definiteness, Specificity and Animacy in Ibero-Romance Languages' 
 



3rd Nereus International Workshop 'Definiteness, Specificity and Animacy in Ibero-Romance Languages' 
Short Title: Nereus III 

Date: 06-Oct-2006 - 07-Oct-2006 
Location: Alcala / Madrid, Spain 
Contact: Manuel Leonetti 
Contact Email: manuel.leonetti at uah.es 
Meeting URL: http://www.ilg.uni-stuttgart.de/Nereus/events/06NereusIII/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Romance 
Meeting Description: 

The topic of the workshop is 'Definiteness, Specificity and Animacy in Ibero-Romance languages', including related issues such as DOM, Clitic Doubling and others.. 

III Nereus International Workshop

Definiteness, Specificity and Animacy in Ibero-Romance Languages

October 6th-7th, 2006
Colegio de San Ildefonso - Plaza de San Diego, s/n
Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)


Friday, October 6th, 2006

10:15-10:30 Welcome and Opening

10:30-11:45 Marco García (U. Köln)
Differential Object Marking with Inanimate Direct Objects

11:45-12:15 Coffee break

12:15-13:30 Klaus von Heusinger (U. Stuttgart) Georg Kaiser (U. Konstanz)
Differential object marking in Diachronic development in triggering conditions

13:30- 15:00 Lunch break

15:00-16:15 Daniel Jacob (U. Köln)
DOM in Spanish: Functional/Structural Background and Diachronic Evidence

16:15-16:45 Coffee break

16:45-18:00 Susann Fischer (U. Stuttgart) 
Diachronic perspective of DOM in Catalan

18:00-19:15 Victoria Escandell-Vidal (UNED)
Topics from Ibiza: DOM and CL-D

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

09:15-10:30 Cristina Sánchez (U. Complutense) & Luis Eguren (U. Autónoma de Madrid) Extensional and intensional vagueness: the grammar of Spanish cierto

10:30-11:45 M. Teresa Espinal (UAB) & Louise McNally (UPF)
Bare singular nominals and incorporating verbs

11:45-12:15 Coffee break

12:15-13:30 Natascha Pomino & Elisabeth Stark (U. Berlin)
>From gender to word class markers: the case of Spanish ''neuter'' forms

13:30- 15:00 Lunch break

15:00-16:15 Manuel Leonetti (U. Alcalá)
Clitics do not encode specificity

16:15-16:30 Closing of the workshop





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