11.2425, Confs: Program Workshop on Topic and Focus

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Subject: 11.2425, Confs: Program Workshop on Topic and Focus

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Date:  Wed, 08 Nov 2000 14:24:57 +0100
From:  Sergio Baauw <sergio.baauw at let.uu.nl>
Subject:  Program workshop on Topic & Focus

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Date:  Wed, 08 Nov 2000 14:24:57 +0100
From:  Sergio Baauw <sergio.baauw at let.uu.nl>
Subject:  Program workshop on Topic & Focus

GOING ROMANCE 2000

WORKSHOP ON TOPIC & FOCUS
Utrecht University, Saturday 2 December 2000

Utrecht Institute of Linguistics - OTS (UiL OTS)
Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics (HIL)

9h15-9h30   Opening and Welcome by Jean-Marie Marandin 	     (Université
Paris 7)
9h30-10h30  Invited speaker: Knud Lambrecht (University of
Texas, Austin) Topic, focus, and secondary 	     predication: The French
Presentational Relative             Construction
10h30-11h10 Alexandra Cornilescu (University of Bucharest) 	     Rhematic
Focus at the Left Periphery: The Case of 	     Romanian
11h10-11h30 coffee & tea break
11h30-12h10 Luisa Martí (University of Connecticut) Topic and
Ambiguity with Why- questions in Spanish
12h10-12h50 David Le Gac & Hi-Yon Yoo (Université Paris 7) 	     Intonative
Structure of Focalization in French and 	     Greek
12h50-14h15 lunch break
14h15-14h55 Daniel Büring & Roderigo Gutiérrez-Bravo (University 	     of
California, Santa Cruz) Focus-related word order 	     variation without
the NSR: A prosody based 	     crosslinguistic analysis
14h55-15h35 Kriszta Sendroi (University College London) Stress-	     focus
correspondence in Italian
15h35-15h55 coffee & tea break
15h55-16h35 João Costa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Multiple 	     focus
in European Portuguese: apparent optionality 	     and subject positions
16h35-17h30 Comments and discussion: Claire Beyssade (Université
Paris 3) & Jenny Doetjes (Utrecht University)

Alternates:
1. Ricardo Etxepare (CNRS) & Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria (University of the
Basque Country & Basque Center for Language Research) Focus and scope at
the right edge in Spanish
2. (first for phonology) Juan Manuel Sosa & Nancy Hedberg (Simon Fraser
University) The prosody of topic and focus in Spanish

Location: Diepenbrockzaal (105), Drift 21, Utrecht

Registration: on site, HFL 25

Organized by the PICS project group on Topic and Focus:
Claire Beyssade (Paris 3), Elisabeth Delais (CNRS), Jean-Marie Marandin
(Paris 7), Georges Rebuschi (Paris 3), Annie Rialland (Paris 3), Frank
Drijkoningen (Utrecht), Aafke Hulk (U. of Amsterdam), Brigitte
Kampers-Manhe (Groningen), Petra Sleeman (U. of Amsterdam), Jenny Doetjes
(Utrecht).

Information:
Going Romance 2000				
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS
Trans 10 				
3512 JK Utrecht

e-mail: going.romance at let.uu.nl

tel: +31 (0)30 2536006
fax: +31 (0)30 2536000

http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/events/events.htm

_____________________________________
Sergio Baauw
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS
Utrecht University
Trans 10
3512 JK Utrecht
Netherlands

tel: +31 (0)30 2536111
fax: +31 (0)30 2536000

e-mail: sergio.baauw at let.uu.nl


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