Acquisition of Verb Grammar and Verb Arguments

[Natalia Gagarina]

Dear Colleague,

		Conference on
Acquisition of Verb Grammar and Verb Arguments
is organized by the project ‘Syntactic Consequences
of the Acquisition of Morphology’ and hosted by ZAS,
Berlin, 15. - 17. November 2001

Information (including abstracts of the presentations):
http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/events/aquis/index.html

In order to plan the discussion and evening reception we would like you to let us
know as soon as possible (at one of the following e-mail addresses) if you plan to attend
our conference: <dabitt at zas.gwz-berlin.de>, <gagarina at zas.gwz-berlin.de>,
<guelzow at zas.gwz-berlin.de>

No registration fees.

The Program

Thursday, 15.11.01
13.00 - 13.30	Opening
13.30 - 14.10	Richard Weist  (SUNY College at Fredonia) / Aleksandra
Pawlack (Poznan)
	The role of verb morphology in the construction of grammar
14.10 - 14.50	Heike Behrens  (MPI fuer evolutionaere Anthropolgie,
Leipzig)
	The relationship between verb placement and inflection in the acquisition
	of  German

Break
15.10 - 15.50	Sabine Klampfer/Wolfgang U. Dressler  (University of Vienna)
	Building up verb paradigms: from roote-learnig to morphological system
	building  in three austrian children
15.50 - 16.30	Magdalena Smoczynska  (Jagellonian University, Krakow)
	From first emergences of isolated forms to verb morphology systems

Break
16.50 - 17.30	Habibeh Samadi  (Kerman University of Medical Sciences)
	The acquisition of verbs in Persian
17.30 - 18.10	David Ingram/Anne Welti  (Arizona State University, Tempe)
	The early acquisition of verbs and verb paradigms in English

Wine Reception

Friday, 16.11.01
09.00 - 09.40	Dorota Kiebzak-Mandera  (Jagellonian University, Krakow)
	Person and gender in child Russian
09.40 - 10.20	David Gil  (MPI fuer evolutionaere Anthropologie, Leipzig)
	The acquisition of voice morphology in Jakarta Indonesian
10.20 - 11.00	Kirsten Abbot-Smith/ Heike Behrens  (MPI fuer evolutionaere
Anthropolgie,  Leipzig)
	'Der muss auch noch gereift werden': The acquisition of passive
	constructions by  a German-speaking boy

Break
11.20- 12.00	Elisabet Serrat  (University of Girona) / Mònica Sanz-Torrent
(University of  Barcelona) / Aurora Bel  (University Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona)
	Verb acquisition in Catalan and Spanish speaking children: lexical,
	morphological  and syntactic aspects
12.00 - 12.40	Christine Dimroth  (MPI Nijmegen) / Peter Jordens  (Vrije
Universiteit, Amsterdam)
	Finiteness in first and second language acquisition of Dutch

Lunch
14.30- 15.10	Christine Czinglar / Katharina Koehler  (University
of Vienna) / Chris Schaner- Wolles (University of Vienna/Austrian
Academy of Sciences)
      The Early Placement of Subjects and Predicates in the German Copular
	Construction

15.10 - 15.50	Sharon Armon-Lotem  (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan)
	Subject use and the acquisition of verbal agreement in Hebrew

Break
16.10 - 16.50	Erica Thrift  (ACLC/University of Amsterdam)
	Left out: object drop with particle verbs in child Dutch and English
16.50 - 17.30	Lorraine McCune / Ellen Herr-Israel  (Rutgers University)
	Relational words, motion events and the transition to verb meanings


Saturday, 17.11.01
09.00 - 09.40	Natsuko Tsujimura  (Indiana University)
	Why not all verbs are learned equally
09.40 - 10.20	Susanne Gahl  (ICSI, Berkeley)
	Effects of lexical biases on children's acquisition of transitive and
	intransitive  frames
10.20- 11.00	Ceytlin Stella  (Herzen State Pedagogical University of
Russia, S.-Petersburg)
	Giving and taking situations: acquisition by Russian children

Break
11.20 - 12.00	Claire Martinot  (Université René Descartes, Paris)
	Verb role in the grammar emergence in French
12.00 - 12.40	Maigi Vija / Marilyn Vihman  (University of Wales, Bangor)
	Verbs in first word combinations in Estonian
12.40 - 13.20	Sigal Uziel-Karl  (School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv
University)
	A developmental model for the acquisition of verb argument structures

Accomodation and Other practical information:
 http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/guests_info_pract.html
Weather in Berlin:
 http://www.wetter.com/home/extern/location.php?type=WMO&id=367

Looking forward to seeing you in Berlin,

The Conference Organizers
Dagmar Bittner
Natalia Gagarina
Insa Gülzow