29.2416, Confs: Sign Language, Lang Acquisition, Gen Ling, Neuroling, Pragmatics, Psycholing/Greece

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Subject: 29.2416, Confs: Sign Language, Lang Acquisition, Gen Ling, Neuroling, Pragmatics, Psycholing/Greece

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Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 13:11:45
From: Josep Quer [josep.quer at upf.edu]
Subject: Sign Language Grammars through the Formal and Experimental Glass

 
Sign Language Grammars through the Formal and Experimental Glass 

Date: 25-Jul-2018 - 25-Jul-2018 
Location: Rethymnon (Crete), Greece 
Contact: Josep Quer 
Contact Email: slworkshopcreteling at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://www.phl.uoc.gr/confs/cssl18/workshopEvents.php 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Neurolinguistics; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics 

Language Family(ies): Deaf Sign Language 
Meeting Description: 

We are pleased to announce the workshop ''Sign language grammars through the
formal and experimental glass'', which will take place on July 25, 2018 in
Rethymnon, Crete. The workshop is organized by Josep Quer (ICREA-Universitat
Pompeu Fabra) and it will be hosted by the University of Crete, within the
CreteLing Summer School 2018 in Rethymnon (Greece).
See http://www.phl.uoc.gr/confs/cssl18/ for more information about the school
itself. The workshop is a dissemination activity of the SIGN-HUB project:
 “The Sign Hub: Preserving, Researching and Fostering the Linguistic,
Historical and Cultural Heritage of European Deaf Signing Communities with an
Integral Resource” (2016-2020) funded by the European Commission within the
Horizon 2020 programme (http://www.sign-hub.eu/).

We are happy to host the following talks:

- Valentina Aristodemo (Université Paris 7 Diderot): When degrees and scales
become ‘visible’: comparatives and temporal constructions in Italian Sign
Language (LIS).
- Annika Herrmann (Universität Hamburg): Mental rotation, pointing, and the
signing space. Eye tracking studies of German Sign Language
- Lara Mantovan (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice): Irony in Italian Sign
Language (LIS).
- Markus Steinbach (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen): Multiple perspectives
and multiple contexts in German Sign Language narration.
- Giorgia Zorzi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona): Coordination and
Gapping in Catalan Sign Language.
 

Program: 

9:50-10:00:
Welcome and opening

10:00-10:45:
When degrees and scales become 'visible': comparatives and temporal
constructions in Italian Sign Language (LIS)
Valentina Aristodemo (Université Paris 7 Diderot)

10:45-11:30:
Mental rotation, pointing, and the signing space. Eye tracking studies of
German Sign Language
Annika Herrmann (Universität Hamburg)

11:30-11:45: Break

11:45-12:30:
Coordination and Gapping in Catalan Sign Language
Giorgia Zorzi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

12:30-14:00: Lunch break

14:00-14:45:
Irony in Italian Sign Language (LIS)
Lara Mantovan (Università Ca' Foscari, Venice)

14:45-15:30:
Typological perspective on compounds in LIS and LSF
Mirko Santoro (Institut Jean Nicod CNRS-ENS-EHESS)

15:30-15:45: Break

15:45-16:30:
Multiple perspectives and multiple contexts in German Sign Language narration
Markus Steinbach (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

16:30-17:00:
Poster lightning presentations

17:00-18:00:
Poster session
 
Posters:

- Sentence topics in Italian Sign Language. Chiara Calderone (Ca' Foscari
University of Venice)
- The pluralization of nouns in German Sign Language (DGS). Franziska Conradts
(Leibniz-ZAS (Berlin), HU Berlin)
- An agreement analysis of body-anchored verb constructions. Marloes Oomen and
Vadim Kimmelman (University of Amsterdam)
- An experimental approach to identify and characterize intonation groups in
French Sign Language (LSF) poetry. Fanny Catteau (Université Paris 8)
- Investigating spatial defaults in local contexts? A sentence continuation
task in German Sign Language and Turkish Sign Language. Derya Nuhbalaoglu
(University of Göttingen)
- Cinque's Hierarchy and Its Mapping in Sign Languages. Serpil Karabüklü and
Ronnie B. Wilbur (Purdue University)
- Path and (A)Telicity in Space: Motion Predicates in LSCu (Sign Language of
Cuba). Alicia Calderón Verde, Donny Wilson Limonta, Gilma Cervantes Soliño,
Ariel Hernández Hernández and Elena Benedicto (Purdue University)
- Negative Incorporation as Polarity Conditioned Stem Allomorphy. Gavin
Bembridge (York University)
- Frequency-Boosting of Prepositions in American Sign Language (ASL). Marjorie
Herbert (University of Michigan)





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