10.1333, Confs: Clefts in Berlin

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-10-1333. Fri Sep 10 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 10.1333, Confs: Clefts in Berlin

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Date:  Fri, 10 Sep 1999 16:25:52 +0200 (MET DST)
From:  birgit at german.hu-berlin.de (Birgit Ahlemeyer)
Subject:  Clefts in Berlin

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Date:  Fri, 10 Sep 1999 16:25:52 +0200 (MET DST)
From:  birgit at german.hu-berlin.de (Birgit Ahlemeyer)
Subject:  Clefts in Berlin

Ref.: Clefts in Berlin


CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS

DISCOURSE FUNCTION(S) OF CLEFT-SENTENCES

October 1-3, 1999
Berlin

PLACE:
Humboldt Universitaet Berlin
Jaegerstr. 10/11
R.006

Organizers:
DFG-Research project "cleft-sentences" (Monika Doherty, Birgit Ahlemeyer,
Inga Kohlhof)

PROGRAM

Freitag, 01.10.1999
9.30	Einführung
10.00	Mats Johansson: Clefting in Swedish and English: Data from the
English-Swedish parallel corpus
11.25	Stig Johansson:	English constructions of the type "That's what"
and their correspondence in Norwegian and German
14.30	Nancy Hedberg: The discourse function of English clefts and
Mandarin shi ... de constructions
15.55	Judy Delin: Discourse functions of wh- and reverse wh-clefts

Samstag, 02.10.1999
10.30 	Gerald Delahunty: Discourse functions of inferential sentences,
a type of cleft sentence
11.35	Ronald Geluykens: Cleft Constructions across discourse types:
A functional analysis
14.30	Knud Lambrecht: A theoretical framework for the analysis of cleft
constructions
15.55 	Andre Meinunger: (Pseudo-) Clefts: a case study on discourse
related functional categories

Sonntag, 03.10.1999	
9.30	Cathy Ball: Historical perspectives on the discourse functions
of English clefts
10.55	Birgit Ahlemeyer & Inga Kohlhof:Shifting the focus of attention:
English it-clefts translated with topicalizations in German
12.00	Monika Doherty: The relevance of local and global context for
the interpretation of clefts


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Birgit Ahlemeyer                  Unter den Linden 6
Institut fuer Anglistik           10099 Berlin
und Amerikanistik                 Germany
Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin

***************Es ist der Hund der cleft****************


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