28.441, Confs: Gen Ling, Semantics, Syntax/Hungary

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Subject: 28.441, Confs: Gen Ling, Semantics, Syntax/Hungary

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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 17:21:04
From: György Rákosi [rakosigy at hotmail.com]
Subject: 2017 Debrecen Workshop on Pronouns

 
2017 Debrecen Workshop on Pronouns 
Short Title: 2017 DWP 

Date: 24-Feb-2017 - 25-Feb-2017 
Location: Debrecen, Hungary 
Contact: György Rákosi 
Contact Email: hungram at unideb.hu 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/site/debrecenpronouns/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

This workshop focuses on the grammar of pronominal elements. Pronominal
elements form an elusive, but all the more interesting category that has
received central attention in modern linguistic research. They show a wide
array of variation in morphophonological shape from null pronouns to highly
complex personal pronouns or anaphors, and this variation in form is
concomitant with substantial variation in meaning that ranges from bound
variable interpretations to strong referential readings. The primary aim of
this workshop is to address this diversity by focussing on recent developments
in the study of the syntax and semantics of pronominals.

The questions we aim to address include, but are not restricted to, the
following. What is the syntactic category of pronouns? If they are smaller
than a canonical noun phrase (DP), then just how small can they be and how
does this affect their syntax? What are the syntactically relevant features
that different types of pronominals bear? How do prosodic processes, such as
focussing or deaccenting, affect the licensing and interpretation of pronouns?
Does verbal argument structure have a real effect on pronoun licensing or is
the special behaviour of pronouns in, say, psych-contexts just a conspiracy of
non-syntactic factors? What kind of meaning do reflexives and reciprocals
contribute to the interpretation of the sentence? How do variation in
pronominal form and variation in interpretation correlate? What non-linguistic
factors may affect the choice of one pronominal form over the other? It is
these and related issues that we aim to discuss at the workshop.

Invited Speakers:

Huba Bartos (Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences)
Katalin É. Kiss (Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy
of Sciences)
Giorgos Spathas (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & Universität Stuttgart)
Anne Temme (Universität Stuttgart)
Elizabeth Verhoeven (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Venue:

Department of English Linguistics
University of Debrecen
Hungary

Program Committee:

Huba Bartos 
Péter Csatár
Éva Dékány
Marcel den Dikken
Katalin É. Kiss 
Éva Kardos
Tibor Laczkó
György Rákosi
Giorgos Spathas
Anne Temme
Enikő Tóth
Elizabeth Verhoeven
Contact Information:

Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/debrecenpronouns/
Email: hungram at unideb.hu
 

Program:

Friday 24 February 2017: 

10:00-10:15:
Opening

10:15-11:00:
Huba Bartos (invited talk)
Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
TBA 

11:00-11:35:
Krisztina Szécsényi
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Nominative subjects in infinitives: only pronouns? 

11:35-12:10:
Grete Dalmi
Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland
Little pro's, but how many of them? On 3SG null pronominals in Hungarian

14:00-14:45:
Giorgios Spathas (invited talk)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & Universität Stuttgart
TBA

14:45-15:20:
Irina Burukina
Eötvös Loránd University, Department of English Linguistics
Personal pronouns instead of reflexives and intensifiers: a puzzle from the
Kabardian language

15:20-15:55:

Gábor Alberti & Judit Farkas
University of Pécs, Department of Linguistics & ReALIS Theoretical,
Computational and Cognitive Linguistics Research Team
The relationship in Hungarian of animacy features of pronouns to
information-structural functions and degrees of referentiality

16:30-17:05:

Bettina Gruber
Utrecht University & University of Vienna
Personal pronouns with and without temporal restriction

17:05-17:40:
Jolijn Sonnaert
KU Leuven, Brussels
Person and Number: 3rd vs plural

Saturday 25 February 2017:

9:45-10:30:
Anne Temme & Elizabeth Verhoeven (invited talk)
Universität Stuttgart & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
TBA

10:30-11:05:
Elsi Kaiser
University of Southern California
Who should I agree with? Imposters and mismatches in pronominal agreement?

11:05-11:40:
Gurujegan Murugesan, Louise Raynaud, Sandhya Sundaresan & Hedde Zeijlstra
Universität Leipzig (1,3) & Georg-August Universität Göttingen (2,4)
Binding and agreement in Icelandic ECM constructions: from nominative
reflexives to pronouns

11:40-12:15:
Peter Smith, Beata Moskal, Ting Xu, Jungmin Kang & Jonathan Bobaljik
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (1,2), Syracuse University (3) & University of
Connecticut (4,5)
Case and number suppletion in pronouns

12:10-14:00:  Lunch break & Poster session at the department

- Sander Lestrade (alternate)
Radboud University Nijmegen, Centre for Language Studies
Modeling the emergence of pronominal paradigms

- Anna Szeteli & Gábor Alberti
University of Pécs & ReALIS Theoretical, Computational and Cognitive
Linguistics Research Team
Énszerintem, teszerinted 'In my/your opinion'

- Charlotte Hemmings
University of Oxford
Pronouns and information structure in the Kelabit language of Northen Sarawak

- Alexis Dimitriadis & Martin Everaert
Utrecht University
Pronominals or operators: Reflexive resultatives in English and Dutch

- Amanda Thomas
University of Oxford, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics
Null objects and object pronouns in Portuguese in Salvador, Brazil

14:00-14:45:
Katalin É. Kiss (invited talk)
Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) 
The Inverse Agreement Constraint and the Person-Case Constraint in Uralic

14:45-15:20:
Martin Everaert & Dorkas Arnold
Utrecht University
Reflexivization in Afrikaans. The case of locally bound pronouns.

15:20-15:55:
Katia Paykin & Marleen Van Peteghem
Université de Lille & Ghent University
Weak vs. strong reflexives in Russian and Dutch

16:30-17:05:
Yury Lander & Irina Bagirokova
Higher School of Economics / Institute of Oriental Studies RAS, Moscow &
Institute of Linguistics RAS, Moscow
Pronominal cross-reference in West Circassian: description and theory

17:05-17:40:
Daria Bikina
NRU Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Indefinite pronouns with two indefiniteness markers and specificity: the case
of Hill Mari





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