28.104, Confs: Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Lang Doc/Germany

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Subject: 28.104, Confs: Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Lang Doc/Germany

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Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2017 15:33:01
From: Richard Bonnie [richard.junior.bonnie at uni-hamburg.de]
Subject: Current Trends in Linguistics 2017

 
Current Trends in Linguistics 2017 
Short Title: CuTLi 2017 

Date: 21-Jan-2017 - 22-Jan-2017 
Location: Hamburg, Germany 
Contact: Richard Bonnie 
Contact Email: richard.junior.bonnie at uni-hamburg.de 
Meeting URL: http://cutli2017.wordpress.com/news/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Language Documentation 

Meeting Description: 

The Current Trends in Linguistics 2017 conference will be held from 21st to
22nd January 2017 at the University of Hamburg. The aim of the workshop is to
bring together the work of well-known researchers with that of PhD and
graduate students. We wish to create an enabling atmosphere with room for
fruitful discussions, valuable critique and stimulating conversations among
senior and junior researchers. CuTLi 2017 will have poster sessions for junior
researchers, where they get to present work on their ongoing dissertations.

Organising Institute:

- Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universitaet Hamburg

Organisers:

- Richard Jnr. Bonnie
- Eliane Lorenz
- Sharareh Rahbari
- Lijun Li

Invited Speakers:

- Ekkehard König (Berlin & Freiburg)
- Peter Siemund (Hamburg)
- Volker Gast (Jena)
- Susanne Wagner (Mainz)
- Daniel Hole (Stuttgart)
- Henning Schreiber (Hamburg)
- Martin Schweinberger (Hamburg)

Registration for non-presenters:

Please register by sending an email to richard.junior.bonnie at uni-hamburg.de
latest by Tuesday, 17.01.2017.
 

Program:

Saturday, 21 January, 2017:

8:30 - 9:00: 
Registration & Welcome

9:00 - 9:40: 
Ekkehard König (Berlin & Freiburg)
Demonstratives and interrogatives as sources of multiple grammatical
categories 

9:40 - 10:20: 
Richard Bonnie (Hamburg) 
A comparison of Ghanaian and Singaporean English stress patterns 

10:20 - 10:40: Coffee break 

10:40 - 11:20: 
Volker Gast & Christoph Rzymski (Jena)
Is there a (direct) influence of climate on language? 

11:20 - 12:00
Lijun Li (Hamburg) 
Towards a diachronic reconstruction of Colloquial Singapore English 

12:00 - 13:20: Lunch 

13:20 - 14:00: 
Susanne Wagner (Mainz) 
Pretty incredible – preferences and changes in amplifier-adjective patterns
world-wide  

14:00 - 14:40 
Sharareh Rahbari (Hamburg) 
CLI in Iranian-German and Turkish-German Bilinguals’ English text production 

14:40 - 15:00: Coffee break
 
15:00 - 15:40:  
Daniel Hole & Fabian Bross (Stuttgart) 
Scope-taking strategies and the order of clausal categories in German Sign
Language 

15:45 - 16:45: 
Poster Presentations 1 

18:00: Social Programme 

Sunday, 22nd January, 2017: 

9:00 - 9:40:
Henning Schreiber (Hamburg) 
Processing constructions: corpus based approaches to linguistic analysis in
language documentation 

9:40 - 10:20: 
Eliane Lorenz (Hamburg) 
“One day a father and his son going fishing on the Lake.” – Traceable
differences in the use of the progressive aspect in English of learners with
differing heritage languages 

10:20 - 10:40: Coffee break 

10:40 - 11:20: 
Martin Schweinberger et. Al (Hamburg) 
Assessing differences in the English vocalic systems of L1-German learners and
native speakers of English 

11:20 - 12:00: 
Peter Siemund (Hamburg) 
Interrogative clauses in English and the social economics of questions
 
12:00 - 13:20: Lunch 

13:20 - 14:50: 
Poster Presentations 2 

14:50 - 15:00: 
Final words

More information on the topics can be found at
https://cutli2017.wordpress.com/abstracts/

Registration for non-presenters:
Please register by sending an email to richard.junior.bonnie at uni-hamburg.de
latest by Tuesday, 17.01.2017.





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