19.3089, Confs: General Linguistics, Typology/Germany

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Date: 10-Oct-2008
From: Mira Grubic < grubic at ling.uni-potsdam.de >
Subject: Predicate Focus, Verum Focus, Verb Focus

 

	
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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:46:42
From: Mira Grubic [grubic at ling.uni-potsdam.de]
Subject: Predicate Focus, Verum Focus, Verb Focus 

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Predicate Focus, Verum Focus, Verb Focus 

Date: 14-Nov-2008 - 15-Nov-2008 
Location: Potsdam, Germany 
Contact: Daniel Hole 
Contact Email: hole at uni-potsdam.de 
Meeting URL: http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/events3322.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Typology 

Meeting Description: 

A two-day workshop will be held at Potsdam University as part of the activities
within the special research group SFB 632 'Information Structure', funded by the
German Science Foundation (DFG). The workshop aims at bringing together
descriptive and theoretical perspectives on the analysis of predicate focus,
where we understand predicate focus as a cover term for a number of related, or
even identical phenomena that are discussed in the literature under various
headings, such as verum focus, auxiliary focus, polarity focus, focus on tense
and aspect, event focus, and narrow focus on the lexical verb. What all these
instances of predicate focus have in common is that they are used to highlight
aspects of the verbal or functional meaning of a clause, as opposed to the
highlighting of arguments and adjuncts, which figures more prominently in the
literature. 

Nov. 14th

9.00-9.30: 
Malte Zimmermann & Daniel Hole (Universität Potsdam/Universität
Stuttgart)
Introduction

9.30-10.15 
Irina Nikolaeva & Dejan Mati?(SOAS, London/MPI EVA, Leipzig)
Predicate Focus and the Particle m?(r)= in Tundra Yukaghir

10.45-11.30 
Manuel Leonetti & Victoria Escandell-Vidal (Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid/UNED,
Madrid)
Verum Focus Fronting in Spanish

11.30-12.15 
Eva-Maria Remberger (Universität Konstanz)
Metalinguistic Focus in Sardinian

13.30-14.45 
Anne Schwarz (HU Berlin)
A Verb Focus Typology in Duli (Gur)

14.45-15.30 
Fabiola Henri, Jean-Marie Marandin & Anne Abeillé(Paris 7, LLF)
Information Structure Coding in Mauritian: Verum Focus Expressed by Long Forms
of Verbs

15.30-16-15 
Ines Fiedler (HU Berlin)
Predicate and Predication Focus in Gbe

16.45-17.30 
Tom Güldemann (Universität Zürich), Invited Speaker
t.b.a.

Nov. 15th

9.30 -10.15 Sophie Repp (HU Berlin)
VP Focus Small, VP Focus Large

10.15-11.00 
Karsten Koch (University of British Columbia)
All Focus is Predicate Focus

Alternate:

Daniel Gutzmann (Universität Mainz)
Stressed Discourse Particles and Verum Focus







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