20.1622, Confs: Cognitive Science, Semantics, Syntax/Norway

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Date: 26-Apr-2009
From: Peter Svenonius < peter.svenonius at uit.no >
Subject: Workshop on Spatial Expressions
 

	
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:33:34
From: Peter Svenonius [peter.svenonius at uit.no]
Subject: Workshop on Spatial Expressions

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Workshop on Spatial Expressions 

Date: 14-May-2009 - 15-May-2009 
Location: Tromsø, Norway 
Contact: Peter Svenonius 
Contact Email: peter.svenonius at uit.no 
Meeting URL: http://castl.uit.no/conferences/09/spatial-expressions/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The purpose of this workshop is to discuss formal analyses of spatial
expressions cross-linguistically, including expressions of location and of
motion. It is connected to the Moving Right Along project at CASTL, the Center
for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics. 

Thursday May 14

10.00-11.00              
William McGregor (Invited Speaker, Aarhus) 
'Spatial Frames of Reference in Gooniyandi'

11.00-11.30             
Coffee

11.30-12.15             
Nana Kusuma (Leiden) 
'Localizers in Mandarin Chinese: The Hakka Connection'

12.15-13.00            
Abdoulaye Laziz Nchare (Nyu) and Arhonto Terzi (Patras) 
'The Syntax of Spatial Expressions: Evidence from Shupamen'

13.00-14.00             
Lunch

14.00-14.45             
Tafseer Ahmed (Konstanz) 
'Modeling Different Semantic Usages of Spatial Markers Using Underspecified
Features'

14.45-15.30             
Marina Pantcheva (Tromsø) 
'On the Locative Uses of Route Expressions: A Syntactic Account'

15.30-16.00        
Coffee

16.00-16.45             
Berit Gehrke (Pompeu Fabra) and Veronika Heged?s (Has) 
'The Licensing of Paths'

16.45-17.30             
Minjeong Son (Tromsø) 
'Two Ways to Express Directed Manner of Motion in Indonesian/Malay and Different
Event Construals'


Friday May 15

10.00-11.00              
Melissa Bowerman (Invited Speaker, Max Planck Nijmegen) 
'Semantic Categories of Space in Adult and Child Language: A Cross-Linguistic
Perspective'

11.00-11.30             
Coffee

11.30-12.15             
Narayan Sharma (Tribhuvan, Kathmandu) 
'Deictic Expressions in Puma'

12.15-13.00             
Berit Gehrke (Pompeu Fabra) 
'Word Order and Case Alternations with PPS as Reflexes of Complex Predicate
Formation'

13.00-14.00             
Lunch

14.00-14.45            
 Laura Janda and Tore Nesset (Tromsø) 
'From Going Somewhere to Getting Things Done: Spatial Prefixes as Aspectual
Markers in Russian'

14.45-15.30             
Svetlana Sokolova (Tromsø) 
'Ingressive Usage of the Russian Verbal Prefixes Za- and Po: Any Spatial Features?'

15.30-16.00             
Coffee

16.00-16.45             
Julia Kuznetsova (Tromsø) 
'Do Speech Verbs Have a Spatial Argument?'

16.45-17.30             
Pavel Caha (Tromsø) 
'The Jungle of Czech Local Cases'

Abstracts are posted on the website.





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