28.3966, Confs: Germanic, Romance, Disc Analysis, Phonology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Spain

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-3966. Wed Sep 27 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.3966, Confs: Germanic, Romance, Disc Analysis, Phonology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Spain

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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 15:44:50
From: Angel Jimenez-Fernandez [ajimfer at us.es]
Subject: 1st International Workshop on the Interface of Information Structure and Argument Structure

1st International Workshop on the Interface of Information Structure and Argument Structure 
Short Title: INFOSTARS 1 

Date: 26-Oct-2017 - 28-Oct-2017 
Location: Seville, Spain 
Contact: Ángel Jiménez-Fernández 
Contact Email: ajimfer at us.es 
Meeting URL: https://ajimfer.wordpress.com/workshop-in-seville-october-2017 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Phonology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Germanic; Romance 
Meeting Description: 

The main goal of this workshop is to bring together linguists who investigate
the different factors that influence sentential syntax, by contrasting
Germanic and Romance languages from an interface perspective. These may be
discourse factors (e.g., the re-ordering of sentential constituents motivated
by information structure and the assigning of topic and focus functions),
argumental factors (e.g., the type and number of arguments that a predicate
may select), syntax-discourse factors (e.g., the discourse nature of
grammatical features that trigger movement to the clause periphery in
different types of root and subordinate clauses with respect to fronted focus
and dislocated topics), and morphological/phonological (the use of specific
forms to induce an information structure interpretation or the prosodic
visibility of the displaced constituent). 

The workshop will be framed within the threshold of the Research Project
Information structure and argument structure: An interface investigation of
the contrastive syntax of Germanic and Romance languages of the Spanish
Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FFI2013-41059-P). Our research has
been focused on types of topics and foci (with their syntactic, semantic and
prosodic properties), the syntactic position occupied by different discourse
categories, root phenomena, argument structure and the impact of information
structure on it. This theory-based approach has been implemented by an
analysis of data which hinges upon the use of experimental work to support the
theoretical findings.

Our keynote speakers are:

- Artemis Alexiadou (Humbolt University, Berlin)
- Valentina Bianchi (University of Siena, Italy)

Programme: 

1st International Workshop on the Interface of Information Structure and
Argument Structure , University of Seville, Spain 
Wednesday 25 - Friday 27 October 2017

All sessions will be held in Aula de Grados, Facultad de Filología

Wednesday 25 October:

16:30-17:00:
Preliminary remarks

17:00-17:30:
Antonio Fábregas, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández and Mercedes Tubino
Datives, theticity and information structure

17:30-18:00:
Vicky Camacho and María Cornejo
TBA

18:00-18:30:
Mara Frascarelli and Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández
Discourse categories in imperatives

18:30-19:00: Break  (tea/coffee provided)

19:00-19:30:
Bettina Kaminski and Javier Martos
TBA

19:30-20:00:
Ana Ojea
Core Intentional Features and their effects on word order and linguistic
variation

Thursday 26 October - Morning Session:

9:00-9:30:
Opening remarks

9:30-10:30:
Invited Speaker:
Artemis Alexiadou
TBA

10:30-11:00:
Ingo Feldhausen (Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt) and Maria del Mar Vanrell
(Universitat de les Illes Balears)
Argument Structure and narrow focus marking in Spanish

11:00-11:30:
Ángel Gallego (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona)
Criterial positions without features consequences for labeling and cartography

11:30-12:00: Break (tea/coffee served)

12:00-12:30:
Steffen Heidinger (University Graz)
Focus affinity and the argument-adjunct distinction

12:30-13:00:
Sabine Reuters, Sarah Dolscheid, Yulia Esaulova and Martina Penke (University
of Cologne)
Animacy and visual effects in German sentence production

13:00-13:30:
Manuel Leonetti (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares)
Topics and null subjects

13:30-15:00: Lunch

Thursday 26 October - Afternoon Session:

15:00-15:30:
Francesca Ramaglia (Universitá di Roma Tre)
The (Information) Structure of Marked Copular Constructions: a multi-layered
interface approach to it- and there-sentences

15:30-16:00:
Marta Khouja (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
DOM as a syntax-pragmatics interface marker: evidence from Catalan

16:00-16:30:
Paola Crisma, Giuseppe Longobardi, Dimitris Michelioudakis and Nina Radkevich
(University of York)
The Left Periphery of nominal phrases and the argument-adjective asymmetry

16:30-17:00: Break (tea/coffee served) and poster session:

Aratzazu Elordieta (UPV/EHU)
The interaction of morphophonological requirements of focus with verb-initial
word orders in root/non-root clauses

Laura Bailey (University of Kent)
Null prepositions and light nouns in Germanic and Romance

Jose Sequeros-Valle (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Topic Type and Pitch Accent: Data from an Elicited Production Task

17:00-17:30:
Ana Maria Brito (Universidade do Porto)
Ditransitive constructions and information structure in European Portuguese:
when the DO is a heavy constituent

17:30-18:00:
Dalina Kallulli (University of Vienna)
PCC as an Information Structure Phenomenon

18:00-18:30:
Fang Yang, Martin Pickering and Holly Branigan (University of Edinburgh)
Is topicalized Topic more prominent than left-dislocated Topic? Evidence from
structural priming experiments in Mandarin Chinese

18:30-19:00:
Roland Hinterhölzl (Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia)
What are subjects good for?

21:00: Social Dinner

Friday 27 October - Morning Session:

9:30-10:30:
Invited Speaker:
Valentina Bianchi
TBA

10:30-11:00:
Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria (UPV/EHU)
A look at some aspects of the syntax-pragmatic interface in Spanish

11:00-11:30
Xavier Villalba (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Innitival wh-relatives in Romance: Consequences for the truncation vs.
intervention debate

11:30-12:00:
Linda Badan (University of Ghent)
Discourse markers at the interface between syntax and prosody: The case of
'guarda te' in regional Italian of Veneto.

12:00-12:30: Break (tea/coffee served)

12:30-13:00:
Manuel Leonetti (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares) and Victoria
Escandell-Vidal (UNED)
Focus structure in relative clauses. Evidence from Spanish

13:00-13:30:
Anna Kocher (University of Vienna)
Towards a unified analysis of verum focus in German, English and Spanish

13:30-15:00: Lunch

Friday 27 October - Afternoon Session:

15:00-15:30:
Simone de Cia (University of Manchester)
Discourse-Pragmatics Beyond Force: Contrastiveness in North-Eastern Italian
Dialects (NEIDs)

15:30-16:00:
Montserrat Batllori (Universitat de Girona)
Left periphery and information structure distribution of imperatives
constructions from a diachronic standpoint

16:00-16:30:
Vieri Samek-Lodovici (University Colleage London)
The Position of Italian Contrastive Focus: Challenges and Solutions

16:30-17:00: Coffey break 

17:00-17:30:
Julio Villa-García (University of Manchester)
Optional and obligatory Comp reduplication with non-root dislocations in
Spanish

17:30-18:00:
Ekaterina Chernova (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Wh-Movement in Echo Questions and Crosslinguistic Variation

18:00-18:30:
Anja Latrouite (HHU Düsseldorf)
Information-structural prominence and argument realization

18:30-19:00:
Mary Kato (UNICAMP) and Paco Ordóñez (Stony Brooks University)
Topic subjects in Brazilian Portuguese and Clitic Left Dislocation
constructions with datives in Dominican Spanish: two categorical types of
sentences in Romania Nova

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