RRG 2015_Book of Abstracts_Final Version
DAY 1 : July, 31 Haus der Universität
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-9:30 | Registration | |
| 9:30-10:00 | Delia Bentley (Univ. of Manchester) | Monotonicity and the logical structure of result states in RRG |
| 10:00-10:30 | Yoshiko Ono (Univ. Zürich) | The Typology of DO- and BECOME languages revisited |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Robert Van Valin (Heinrich Heine Univ.) & (Univ. at Buffalo) | Cosubordination |
| 11:30-12:00 | Lilián Guerrero (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) | Clause linkage and temporal relations in Yaqui |
| 12:00-12:30 | Waldfried Premper (University of Cologne) | Forms taken seriously: Asyndetic linkage in Arabic |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-14:30 | Wataru Nakamura (Tohoku University) | A Neo-Jakobsonian Account of Default Oblique Cases: Instrumental vs. Dative |
| 14:30-15:00 | Hideki Kishimoto (Kobe University) | Dative case and three-place predicates in Japanese |
| 15:00-15:30 | Conor Pyle (Trinity College Dublin) | Purposive case and semantic arguments in Australian Western Desert dialects |
| 15:30-16:00 | Break | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Javier Martín Arista (Universidad de La Rioja) | The syntax and semantics of Old English motion constructions: An RRG analysis |
| 16:30-17:00 | Toshio Ohori (University of Tokyo) | On the grammaticalization continuum: an exercise in representation |
| 17:00-18:00 | Invited speaker: James Pustejovsky (Brandeis Univ.) | Lexical Factorization and Syntactic Behavior |
| 18:00-20:00 | Poster Session & Reception |
Posters
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Maduabuchi Sennen Agbo (University of Benin Nigeria) | Verb Compounding and Causativity in Igbo |
| Ciara Browne (Trinity College Dublin) | An RRG analysis of the adjective in the Bamunka Noun Phrase |
| Jonė Bruno (Trinity College Dublin) & Viltė Drūlienė (Vytautas Magnus University Kaunas) | Complex verbs in Lithuanian |
| Manon Buysse (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) | Clause linking in L2 French and English: A Role and Reference Grammar perspective |
| Anna Kurasińska (Trinity College Dublin) | How can RRG define clausal ellipsis in Polish? |
| Keith Mannix (Trinity College Dublin) | Passivity in Korean Light verb constructions |
| Kiseong Park (Pusan National University) | It-cleft construction in English: An RRG Account Mariana |
| Mariana Cabral Rolin (Trinity College Dublin) | The Malefactive and Benefactive constructions in Brazilian Portuguese: syntactic mapping and semantic implications |
| Govinda Bahadur Tumbahang (Tribhuvan University Kathmandu) | Verb Morphology of Lohorung |
| Shihong Zhou (Beijing Normal University) | The Sentence with an Unidentifiable NP Subject and the Relevant Complex YOU(有) Construction of Chinese from the Perspective of Theticity/Categoricality Distinction |
DAY 2: August 1, 2015 Haus der Universität
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30-10:00 | Kiyoko Toratani (York University) | Iconicity and syntactic position of sound-symbolic forms in sentence structure |
| 10:00-10:30 | Aoife Finn (Trinity College Dublin) | Towards the Layered Structure of the Clause of the Actor-Emphatic in Māori |
| 10:30-11:00 | Anja Latrouite & Robert Van Valin (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) | An RRG Account of the Information Structure-Syntax Interface in Tagalog |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Ying Fan (University of Manchester) | Topicalised Arguments in Two Types of Mandarin Serial Verb Constructions |
| 12:00-12:30 | Jürgen Bohnemeyer (University at Buffalo) | Cosubordination control and the Macro- Event Property |
| 12:30-13:00 | Lilián Guerrero (UNAM) Valeria A. Belloro (Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro) & Carmen Conti Jiménez (Universidad de Jaén) | An RRG approach to Spanish temporal adjuncts |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Mitsuaki Shimojo (University at Buffalo) | Extraction constraints revisited: a focus and aboutness-based account |
| 15:00-15:30 | Sergio Ibáñez Cerda (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) | Two-Theme Constructions and Preposition Assignment in Spanish |
| 15:30-16:00 | C. Patrick Kihara (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) | The Constituent Projection in the Gĩkũyũ Layered Structure of the Clause |
| 16:00-16:30 | Break | |
| 16:30-17:00 | Rainer Osswald (Heinrich Heine Univ.) | Active accomplishments and resultatives |
| 17:00-18:00 | Invited speaker: Sebastian Löbner Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf | The Nominal Onion and How to Make Your Way from Within to the Surface |
| 21:00 | Conference dinner at Mongo's |
DAY 3: August 2, 2015 Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek (on campus)
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00-10:30 | Irene Murtagh (Institute of Technology Blanchardstown) | Defining an RRG Linking System for Irish Sign Language Nouns and Verbs |
| 10:30-11:00 | Antoinette Hawayek (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa) | The role of space in MSL (Mexican sign language) relative clauses |
| 11:00-11:30 | Chien-hung Lin (National Taiwan Normal University) & Jung-hsing Chang (National Chung Cheng University) | Linking Syntax and Semantics in Comparatives of Taiwan Sign Language A Role and Reference Grammar Account |
| 11:30-12:00 | Break | |
| 12:00-12:30 | Laura Kallmeyer & Timm Lichte & Rainer Osswald (Heinrich Heine Univ. Düsseldorf) | Argument linking in RRG: A constraint-based implementation |
| 12:30-13:00 | Kulvinder Panesar (Leeds Beckett University) | A linguistically centered and BDI enabled conversational software agent |
| 13:00-13:30 | Nicolai Winther-Nielsen (Fjellhaug International University College) | Why Eve Shouldn’t Eat the Snake: An Intelligent Answer from Corpus-driven Information Structure and Connectivity Analysis of Biblical Hebrew |
| 13:30-14:30 | Lunch (served in ULB) | |
| 14:30-15:00 | John Peterson (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) | Finiteness from a typological perspective |
| 15:00-15:30 | Rolf Kailuweit (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) | Romance intransitive Subject-EXPERIENCER Verbs – Pragmatic Impact on Macrorole Assignment |
| 15:30-16:00 | Koen Van Hooste (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) | Instruments, Causees and the Strength of Causation |
| 16:00-16:30 | Jens Fleischhauer (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) | The distribution and syntax of quantity and degree expressions |