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Workshop 2: Proper names versus common nouns: morphosyntactic contrasts in the languages of the world

Workshop Coordination

Johannes Helmbrecht (Universität Regensburg)
Johannes.Helmbrecht@sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de
Javier Caro Reina (Universität zu Köln)
javier.caroreina@uni-koeln.de

Room GW2 B 3850

Workshop description

Programme of Workshop 2

06 March 2019
08:00 –09:00	Registration
09:00 –09:30	Welcome
09:30 –10:30	Plenary talk
10:30 –11:00	Presentation of the Wilhelm von Humboldt-Prize
11:00 –11:30	Coffee break
11:30 –12:30	Plenary talk
12:30 –13:45	Lunch break/ SIG Computational Linguistics: general assembly
13:45 –14:45	Corinna Handschuh [invited speaker] (University of Regensburg) Personal names vs. common nouns: Crosslinguistic findings from morphology and syntax
14:45 –15:15	Mohamed El Idrissi (USPC-INALCO, Paris) Morphosyntactic differences between proper names and common nouns in Riffian
15:15 –15:45	Johannes Helmbrecht (University of Regensburg) Proper names with and without definite articles
15:45 –16:30	Coffee break / Poster Session Computational Linguistics (Part 1)
16:30 –17:00	Javier Caro Reina (University of Cologne) Differential Object Marking (DOM) with proper names in Romance languages
17:00 –17:30	Elisheva Jeffay (Bar-Ilan University) & Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan University) Contrasts in the distribution of personal proper names in construct constructions in Modern and Biblical Hebrew
17:30 –18:00	Bernhard Wälchli (Stockholm University) The extension of person name markers to noun class markers
19:30 –	Conference Dinner

07 March 2019
09:00 –09:30	Tatsuhiro Okubo (Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences) On the morphological status of complex names in English and Japanese
09:30 –10:00	Iker Salaberri (Public University of Navarre (UPNA/NUP)), Patxi Salaberri (Public University of Navarre (UPNA/NUP)) & Juan José Zubiri (Public University of Navarre (UPNA/NUP)) Concerning the differential morphosyntactic marking of definiteness on Basque anthroponyms: A synchronic and diachronic study
10:00 –10:30	Adriel Josias Bébiné (University of Yaounde) Contrastive marking of anthroponyms and common nouns in object and subject argument slots in Nuasúɛ (A.62A)
10:30 –11:15	Coffee break / Poster Session Computational Linguistics (Part 2)
11:15 –11:45 cancelled	Francesco-Alessio Ursini (Sun Yat-Sen University) & Haiping Long (San Yat-Sen University) Common nouns and saliency in toponyms: A comparative study
11:45 –12:15	Yves D'hulst (University of Osnabrück), Rolf Schöneich (University of Osnabrück) & Trudel Meisenburg (University of Osnabrück) Definite articles and geographical proper names: The case of river names
12:15 –12:45	Martin Haspelmath (MPI-SHH, University of Leipzig) & Susanne Maria Michaelis (MPI-SHH, University of Leipzig) Differential place-name marking: An explanation in terms of predictability and coding efficiency
12:45 –13:45	DFG InfoEvent (Helga Weyerts-Schweda) Lunch break/ Poster session Computational Linguistics (Part 3)
13:45 –14:15	Miriam Schmuck (University of Mainz) Gender assignment to German city names. Areal and diachronic perspectives
14:15 –14:45	Jin Cui (Nanjing Normal University) & Yu Hu (Nanjing Normal University) Description without descriptive content? Morphosyntactic evidence from Chinese against Descriptivism
15:00 –18:30	General Assembly of the DGfS
19:30 –	Reception in the foyer of the Übersee-Museum