Workshop on Information structure in head-marking languages (ISHML)

[Dejan Matic]

Workshop on Information Structure in Head-Marking Languages
March 28-29, Nijmegen

http://www.mpi.nl/departments/independent-research-groups/syntax-typology-and-information-structure/events/ISHML

The workshop addresses pragmatic, semantic, morphosyntactic and prosodic 
aspects of the expression of IS in head-marking languages from a 
theoretical, descriptive, or typological perspective.

Head-marking languages exhibit significant morphosyntactic differences 
from dependent marking languages, as Nichols (1986) and subsequent 
research has showed. An interesting question which is appropriate to ask 
in the context of contemporary research into information structure is 
whether head-marking languages have any distinctive information 
structural properties that are a function of, or related to, their 
head-marking morphosyntax. Information structure concerns the 
morphosyntactic coding of the different informational statuses an 
element may have with respect to the proposition (e.g. topic or focus), 
and it is therefore reasonable to inquire as to whether head-marking 
morphosyntax interacts with discourse in a distinctive manner.

Where and when:
     Mar 28-29, 2014
     MPI for Psycholinguistics & De Lindenberg, Nijmegen
Organizers:
     Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.
     Dejan Matic
     Saskia van Putten
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Dejan Matic
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Wundtlaan 1, 6525 XD Nijmegen, The Netherlands
phone   +31 24 3521 187
fax     +31 24 3521 213
e-mail  dejan.matic at mpi.nl
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