29.720, Confs: Sign Language, Gen Ling, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/Hungary

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Subject: 29.720, Confs: Sign Language, Gen Ling, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/Hungary

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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 18:25:04
From: Veronika Hegedus [hegedus.veronika at nytud.mta.hu]
Subject: Sign Language Syntax and Linguistic Theory

Sign Language Syntax and Linguistic Theory 
Short Title: GLOW41Sign 

Date: 14-Apr-2018 - 14-Apr-2018 
Location: Budapest, Hungary 
Contact: Balazs Suranyi 
Contact Email: glow41bud at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://glowlinguistics.org/41/sign/ 

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

Language Family(ies): Sign Language 
Meeting Description: 

Linguistic research on typologically different sign languages (SLs) over the
past fifty years has demonstrated vividly that SL grammars incorporate
grammatical systems of pronominal reference, quantification, agreement,
subordination, mood, aspect, and rules of sign order that are comparable to
that found in spoken languages, including their historical development,
acquisition, processing and variation. Taking this general conclusion to be
well-established, a prominent trend of research focuses on those aspects of SL
grammar that nevertheless appear to make SLs different from spoken languages.
Such apparently SL-specific grammatical properties pose potentially fruitful
challenges to the study of Universal Grammar (UG), and they offer illuminating
perspectives on the ways sign languages are shaped by the gestural-visual
nature of their modality (including the use of space, non-manuals,
simultaneity, the interaction with gesture, etc).

Invited speaker: Markus Steinbach (University of Göttingen)

Workshop Organizers: Balázs Surányi, Tamás Halm, and Veronika Hegedűs

Programme:

9:00–9:35:
Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati
On the realization of wh-features in sign languages: a step into LIS

9:35–10:10:
Sara Cañas
Nonmanual marking of polar interrogatives in Catalan Sign Language (LSC):
Approaching the puzzle through a feature-based theory of biases

10:10–10:45:
Judy Kegl and Conor Quinn
Role Prominence in American Sign Language and the Proximate/Obviative Contrast
in Algonquian Languages

10:45–11:00: Coffee break

11:00–11:35:
Julia Krebs and Ronnie B. Wilbur
Are agreement markers in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS) really AUX?

11:35–12:10:
Isaac Gomes, Cilene Rodrigues and Josep Quer
An experimental study on the time window for acquisition of verb agreement in
Brazilian Sign Language

12:10–12:45:
Vadim Kimmelman and Evgeniia Khristoforova
On the nature of classifiers in Russian Sign Language

12:45–14:00: Lunch break

14:00–14:35:
Josep Quer
Reduplication revisited: verbal plurality and exhaustivity in the
visual-gestural modality

14:35–15:10:
Mojmír Dočekal, Hana Strachoňová, Ondřej Klofáč, Mirka Tylová and Ivana
Kupčíková
Semantics of distributivity in Czech Sign Language

15:10–15:45:
Helen Koulidobrova
The Mass Problem: A Classifier Solution

15:45–16:00: Coffee break

16:00–17:00:
Poster session
- Elena Benedicto: Verbal Classifiers (vCLSF) and Agreement: a formal matter
- Fabian Bross: More Evidence for an Iconic Mapping of Clausal Categories Onto
the Body in German Sign Language (Deutsche Gebärdensprache)
- Chiara Calderone: Prosody and Syntax of sentence topics in Italian Sign
Language
- Elena Fornasiero: Understanding Size and Shape Classifiers in Italian Sign
Language
- Marloes Oomen: Iconic variables and null subjects in German Sign Language
(DGS)
- Matic Pavlič: Spatial terms and conditions of Sign Language Agreement
- Giorgia Zorzi: Mismatch in gapping: φ-features in Catalan Sign Language
(LSC)

17:00–18:00:
Markus Steinbach
Invited talk (tba)

Venue: Department of English Linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University (Rákóczi
út 5, 1088 Budapest)

This workshop accompanies the 41st GLOW conference (GLOW41), along with four
other workshops before and after the main colloquium.

For all details concerning the conference and the workshops, please visit the
conference website or contact us:
https://glowlinguistics.org/41/

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