10.1266, Confs: ADJUNCTS '99 in Oslo

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Date:  Tue, 31 Aug 1999 11:15:10 +0100
From:  Claudia Maienborn <c.maienborn at rz.hu-berlin.de>
Subject:  Confs: ADJUNCTS '99

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Date:  Tue, 31 Aug 1999 11:15:10 +0100
From:  Claudia Maienborn <c.maienborn at rz.hu-berlin.de>
Subject:  Confs: ADJUNCTS '99

Conference Announcement:


APPROACHING THE GRAMMAR OF ADJUNCTS

SEPTEMBER 22-25, 1999
OSLO


PLACE:
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Drammensveien 78, 0271 Oslo


ORGANIZERS:
Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, University of Oslo
Ewald Lang, Humboldt University Berlin
Claudia Maienborn, Humboldt University Berlin


PROGRAM

Wednesday, September 22:

09.00	WELCOMING (Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen)

ARGUMENT/ADJUNCT DISTINCTION
09.30   David Dowty: The Adjunct/Argument Distinction
             in a Dynamic Categorial Grammar

10.30   Manfred Bierwisch: Internal Adverbials: Arguments
             or Modifiers?

11.30  COFFEE BREAK

11.45  Susan Rothstein: Secondary Predication and Aspect

12.45  LUNCH BREAK

JUSTIFYING SYNTACTIC POSITIONS OF ADJUNCTS
14.00  Hubert Haider: Adverb placement - convergence
           of structure and licensing

15.00  Werner Frey: Some remarks on the positions
            of adjuncts in German, English and French

16.00  COFFEE BREAK

16.30  Inger Rosengren: Rethinking the Adjunct

17.30  DISCUSSION
    -
18.30


Thursday, September 23:

EVENT-RELATED VS. PROPOSITION-RELATED MODIFIERS
09.00  Thomas Ernst: Semantic Features and the
            Distribution of Adverbs

10.00  Marina Filipenko: Adverbials with Floating and
           Fixed Semantic Scope

10.30  Claudia Maienborn: Frame-Setting Modifiers and
           the Syntax/Semantics Interface

11.30  COFFEE BREAK

11.45  Graham Katz: Accounting for the stative adverb gap

12.45  LUNCH BREAK

14.00  Adam Wyner: A Discourse Analysis for Locative PPs

15.00  Assinja Demijanow & Anatoli Strigin: Real Adjuncts
     -     in Instrumental in Russian
16.00


Friday, September 24:

APPROACHES TO MODIFICATIONAL FLEXIBILITY
09.00  Barbara Partee & Vladimir Borschev: Possessives,
            Relational Nouns, and the Argument-Modifier Distinction

10.00  Helmut Frosch: German 'Attributive' Genitives as Adjuncts

11.00  COFFEE BREAK

11.15  Johannes Doelling: Flexibility in Adverbial Modification:
           A General Approach

12.15  LUNCH BREAK

13.30  Ilse Zimmermann: German participle II constructions as adjuncts

14.30  Bergljot Behrens:  Does restrictive vs. non-restrictive
           modification as primarily known from the nominal shell have
           a counterpart within the verbal domain? Evidence from
           ING-participial adjuncts

15.30  COFFEE BREAK

16.00  Joachim Ballweg: Adverbial Modification in NPs

17.00  DISCUSSION
    -
18.00


Saturday, September 25:

SYNTACTICALLY VS. PRAGMATICALLY DRIVEN
INTERPRETATION: "WIEDER" (AGAIN) AND "FAST" (ALMOST)
09.00  Karin Pittner: Position and interpretation of adjuncts:
            process, event and "wieder/again"

10.00  Reinhard Blutner & Gerhard Jaeger: Competition and
           interpretation: The German adverbs of repetition

11.00  COFFEE BREAK

11.15  Arnim von Stechow: "Fast" (Almost) and the Visibility
           Parameter for D-Adverbs

12.15  DISCUSSION

13.00  LUNCH BREAK

13.30  GENERAL DISCUSSION:
    -      Approaching the Grammar of Adjuncts -
15.00  Quandaries and Prospects (Ewald Lang)

19.00  BANQUET

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For further information please contact:

Kari Fonnes
conference-adjuncts at german.uio.no
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