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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 09:51:16
From: Lieven Vandelanotte [lieven.vandelanotte at arts.kuleuven.be]
Subject: Structure of the Noun Phrase in English - Synchronic and Diachronic Explorations

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Structure of the Noun Phrase in English - Synchronic and Diachronic Explorations 
Short Title: NP3 

Date: 14-Nov-2013 - 15-Nov-2013 
Location: Leuven, Belgium 
Contact: Lieven Vandelanotte 
Contact Email: lieven.vandelanotte at arts.kuleuven.be,  np3-csi at kuleuven.be 
Meeting URL: http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/ling/fest/events/np-3-2013 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description: 

The first NP workshop (NP1) was held in Vigo on 2-3 October 2009, supported by the English Linguistics Circle of Santiago de Compostela and Vigo coordinated by Teresa Fanego. It was followed by NP2, organized in Newcastle on 15-16 September 2011. Following the success of NP1 and NP2 we are pleased to announce the 3rd Vigo-Newcastle-Santiago-Leuven International Workshop on ‘The Structure of the Noun Phrase in English - Synchronic and Diachronic Explorations’ (NP3), to be held at the University of Leuven on 14 and 15 November 2013.

Plenary Speakers:

Carlos Acuña Fariña (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Kersti Börjars (University of Manchester)
Nikolaus Himmelmann (University of Köln)

Note:
Participation is free of charge, but registration via the online form available on the website is requested by 5 November. The conference dinner is payable in cash on site by participants who have registered for it. The NP3 workshop is immediately followed by the Complex Sentences International workshop (16-17 November); the programme and further information is available on the same website: 
http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/ling/fest/events/np-3-2013-CSI-2013
 

NP3 Programme:

Thursday 14 Nov 2013

9:30-10:00  
Registration/coffee

10:00-11:15  
Carlos Acuña Fariña, University of Santiago de Compostela 
(A few) psycholinguistic properties of NPs

11:15-12:00 
Jong-Bok Kim, Kyung Hee University, and Frank Van Eynde, University of Leuven 
Form and function mismatch in nominal apposition in English: A construction-based approach

12:00-12:45  
Lot Brems, University of Liège
Fear(s) + complement clauses

12:45-14:00  
Lunch

14:00-14:45  
Lauren Fonteyn, Hendrik De Smet & Liesbet Heyvaert, University of Leuven
The verbal gerund as an instance of 'discourse-functional verbalization': Reference types and reference status 

14:45-15:30 
Teresa Fanego, University of Santiago de Compostela 
New reflections on actualization and reanalysis, with special reference to developments in English gerundive nominalizations 

15:30-16.00  
Coffee/tea

16:00-16:45  
Artur Bartnik, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin  
Possessive-determiner combinations in Old English and Polish: A comparative study 

16:45-17:30  
Tine Breban, David Denison, University of Manchester 
The development of the English determiner: A conspiracy theory 

17:30-18:45  
Kersti Börjars, University of Manchester
Adjective-noun order in early Germanic

20:00
Conference dinner

Friday 15 Nov 2013

9:00-10:15  
Nikolaus Himmelmann, University of Köln 
Phrase structure and prosodic phrasing

10:15-11:00 
Steffen Schaub, Philipps University Marburg  
The noun phrase in New Englishes

11:00-11:30 
Coffee/tea

11:30-12:15  
John Payne, University of Manchester
Adjectives and the complement-modifier distinction 

12:15-13:00  
Tine Breban, Caroline Gentens, University of Manchester, University of Leuven
Multiple shifts of numerous adjectives: The role of collocations in functional change in the English NP

13:00-14:15  
Lunch

14:15-15:00  
Freek Van de Velde, University of Leuven
>From constructional expansion to constructional explosion: The case of transparent free relatives

15:00-15:45  
Kristin Davidse, University of Leuven  
Three types of relative clause? 

15:45-16:15  
Coffee/tea

Presentations by Leuven doctoral students on the NP:

16:15-17:00  
Dana Louagie, Jean-Christophe Verstraete, University of Leuven
The role of pronouns in NPs in Australian languages

17:00-17:45  
Natalia Pericchi, Bert Cornillie, Freek Van de Velde, University of Leuven
Towards a diachronic account of clitic doubling in Spanish 

17:45-18:30  
Business meeting
 








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