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Workshop 5: Concessives vs. adversatives: opposing oppositions

Workshop Coordination

Elena Castroviejo (UPV/EHU, Vitorio-Gasteiz)
elena.castroviejo@ehu.eus
Berit Gehrke (Humboldt University of Berlin)
berit.gehrke@hu-berlin.de
Laia Mayol (UPF Barcelona)
laia.mayol@upf.edu

Room SFG 1040

Workshop description

Programme of Workshop 5

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	Kaja Jasinskaja [invited speaker] (University of Cologne) On the disambiguation of but
14:45 –15:15	Regina Zieleke (University of Cologne) German contrastive connectives beyond aber. An analysis of contrast on dimensions
15:15 –15:45	Jonathon D. Coltz (University of Minnesota) Parallel puzzles: Concessives, adversatives, and presuppositions in infelicitous conditionals
15:45 –16:30	Coffee break / Poster Session Computational Linguistics (Part 1)
16:30 –17:00	Werner Frey (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft) Linking some syntactic and semantic features of concessives and adversatives
17:00 –17:30	Madeleine Butschety (University of Graz) Epistemic vs. concessive at least: A matter of epistemic uncertainty
17:30 –18:00	Doris Penka (University of Konstanz) A closer look at concessive at least in English and German
19:30 –	Conference Dinner

07 March 2019
09:00 –09:30	Ekkehard König (Freie Universität Berlin & University of Freiburg) Concessivity: Admissible and inadmissible background assumption
09:30 –10:30	Elena Karagjosova (Freie Universität Berlin) On the type of concession expressed by concessive complementizers and bipartite concessive constructions in German: A synchronic and diachronic account
10:30 –11:15	Coffee break / Poster Session Computational Linguistics (Part 2)
11:15 –11:45	Lukas Rieser (Yamagata University) Frustrated expectation and conditional modality: The Japanese concessive no-ni
11:45 –12:15	Ksenia Ershova (University of Chicago) & Itamar Francez (University of Chicago) From quotation to concession: The case of East Circassian
12:15 –12:45	Hanzhi Zhu (MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) The additivity of concessive still
12:45 –13:45	DFG InfoEvent (Helga Weyerts-Schweda) Lunch break/ Poster session Computational Linguistics (Part 3)
13:45 –14:45	Mingya Liu [invited speaker] (University of Osnabrück) The siblings in the shadow of if: The semantics and pragmatics of conditional connectives
15:00 –18:30	General Assembly of the DGfS
19:30 –	Reception in the foyer of the Übersee-Museum

08 March 2019
09:00 –10:00	Plenary talk
10:00 –11:00	Plenary talk
11:00 –11:30	Coffee break
11:30 –12:30	Laura Baranzini (OLSI, University of Neuchâtel) & Alda Mari (Institut Jean Nicod) From existential modality to concessivity: Alternatives and reasoning per absurdum
12:30 –13:00	Maria Barouni (University of Crete) Concessive elements and the role of superlative morphology
13:00 –14:00	Martina Faller (University of Manchester) Concessive conditionals with non-scalar additives in Cuzco Quechua and German