23.3207, Confs: Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Psycholing, Syntax, Typology/Germany

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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:19:15
From: Fabian Heck [heck at uni-leipzig.de]
Subject: Decomposition and Natural Classes in Argument Coding

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Decomposition and Natural Classes in Argument Coding 

Date: 06-Sep-2012 - 07-Sep-2012 
Location: Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany 
Contact: Martin Haspelmath 
Contact Email: haspelmath at eva.mpg.de 
Meeting URL: http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~va/?nav=finalworkshop 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Psycholinguistics; Syntax; Typology 

Meeting Description: 

In this workshop we aim to bring together researchers working on argument coding. There will be a particular focus on decomposition and on the role of natural classes.

Generalizations of argument coding are often not apparent by looking at entire verbs, coding elements, verb meanings or constructions, but only when these items are decomposed into their constituent parts or elementary features. This decomposition is often not obvious and may require considerable abstraction. The workshop should address ways in which such decomposition is best achieved. Using the constituent features, one can group verbs or coding elements into natural classes which behave alike with respect to some other phenomenon. Such natural classes will be another focus of the workshop.

The participants of the workshop will include the members of the research unit Grammar and Processing of Verbal Arguments and a number of invited speakers.

Anyone interested is welcome to attend the talks. If you plan to attend the workshop, please register by sending an e-mail to Martin Haspelmath (haspelmath at eva.mpg.de) so that we can take you into consideration while preparing the handouts, etc.

The workshop will take place at Leipzig University, Universitätsstraße, Seminargebäude, room 402 and/or 420. 

Preliminary Program

September, 6th (Thursday)

8:30-8:40
Welcome	

8:40-9:30
Pavel Caha (U Tromsø)
Genitive Singular and Nominative Plural: Mystery solved?

9:30-10:20
Anke Assmann, Doreen Georgi & Philipp Weisser (U Leipzig)
Argument Encoding and Its Consequences for Displacement

10:20-10:50
Coffee break
	
10:50-11:40
Linnaea Stockall 
(U London) 	TBA

11:40-12:30
Martina Penke  (U Köln)        TBA

12:30-14:00
Lunch
	
14:00-14:50
Antje Roßdeutscher  (U Stuttgart)
Prepositional Elements in a DM/DRT-based Syntax-Semantics Interface

14:50-15:40
Petr Biskup & Gerhild Zybatow  (U Leipzig)
Verbal Prefixation in Slavonic

15:40-16:10
Coffee break
	
16:10-16:40
Michael Cysouw  (U Marburg)
Visualizing the Typology of Natural Classes

16:40-17:10
Sebastian Bank & Jochen Trommer  (U Leipzig)
Integrated Learning of Segmentation and Morphosyntactic Features

17:10-17:50
Daniel Harbour
(Queen Mary London)        TBA

19:00 	Conference dinner at Cafe Grundmann

September, 7th (Friday)
	
8:40-9:30
Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky & Jona Sassenhagen 
(U Marburg)	TBA

9:30-10:20
Alena Witzlack-Makarevich 
(U Zürich)	TBA

10:20-10:50
Coffee break
	
10:50-11:30
Joshua Birchall  (U Nijmegen)
Valency in South American Languages

11:30-12:10
John P. Boyle (NE Illinois U)
Valency and the Hidatsa Dative

12:10-12:30
Iren Hartmann, Martin Haspelmath & Alexander Jahraus  (MPI-EVA) 
An Update on the Valency Classes Database

12:30-14:00
Lunch
	
14:00-14:50
Dorothee Fehrmann, Uwe Junghanns & Denisa Lenertová  (U Göttingen/Leipzig)
Decomposing Decausatives

14:50-15:40
Artemis Alexiadou 
(U Stuttgart) 	TBA







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