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Date: 18-Nov-2008
From: Andreas Haida < andreas.haida at rz.hu-berlin.de >
Subject: Clefts
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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:38:30
From: Andreas Haida [andreas.haida at rz.hu-berlin.de]
Subject: Clefts
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Clefts
Date: 28-Nov-2008 - 29-Nov-2008
Location: Berlin, Germany
Contact: Tonjes Veenstra
Contact Email: cleft08 at zas.gwz-berlin.de
Meeting URL: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/events/CleftWorkshop2008/
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Semantics; Syntax
Meeting Description:
This workshop aims to provide a space to discuss and compare different
theoretical approaches and empirical studies to the syntax and semantics of clefts.
Workshop on Clefts
Date: 28 - 29 November 2008
Location: Centre for General Linguistics, Berlin, Germany
See: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/events/CleftWorkshop2008/
Program:
Friday Nov 28 2008
9.00
Introduction by the Organizers
9.30
Nancy Hedberg, Simon Fraser University (Invited Speaker)
TBA
10.50
Lisa Cheng, Universiteit Leiden & Laura J. Downing, Zentrum für Allgemeine
Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin
Clefts in Durban Zulu
11.30
Harold Torrence, University of Kansas
Derivation and Structure of Clefts in Wolof
13.30
Jong-Bok Kim, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, & Peter Sells, SOAS, London
Korean Copular Structures with Nominalizer kes as (Pseudo-)Clefts
14.10
Malte Zimmerman, Daniel Hole & Wolfram Schaffar, Universität Potsdam
Head-internal Clefts in (South) East Asian: A Cross-linguistic Comparison of
Burmese, Japanese, and Chinese
14.50
Edith Aldridge, University of Washington
Wh-clefts and Verb-initial Word Order in Austronesian Languages
16.00
Punnappurath Madhavan, EFL, Hyderabad -7.
Multiple Wh-questions and Clefts in Malayalam: Agree or Move?
16.40
Rosmin Mathew,
Restrictions on Clefting in Malayalam
17.20
End of Day One
Saturday November 29 2008
9.30
David Adger, Queen Mary University of London (Invited Speaker)
TBA
10.50
Amanda Patten, University of Edinburgh
Accommodating Predicational and Proverbial Clefts
11.30
Matthew Reeve, University College London
English vs Russian: Two Types of Cleft Construction
13.30
Petra Sleeman, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Clefts and the Licensing of Infinitival Subject Relatives
14.10
Ignazio Mauro Mirto, Università di Palermo
Pseudo-clefts, Interrogatives and Do-support Strategy in Italian and English
14.50 Javier Perez-Guerra, University of Vigo
It is the Development of It-clefts in the Recent History of English That I Shall
Tackle in This Paper.
16.00
Marcel Den Dikken, CUNY (Invited Speaker)
A Cleft Palette: On the Landscape of Cleft Constructions and Their Syntactic
Derivations
17.00
End of Conference.
Alternates:
Mara Frascarelli and Francesca Ramaglia (Università di Roma Tre)
Predicate Inversion and Interpretation at the CP-Phase: A Monoclausal Analysis
of Clefts
Dalina Kallulli (University of Vienna) & Kleanthes K. Grohmann (University of
Cyprus)
A Clefting Approach to Discourse-Linking
R. Shaher, P. Logacev, S. Vasishth, F. Engelmann, M. Zimmermann (Universität
Potsdam)
Clefting Increases Availability: Eyetracking Evidence from Hindi
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