Conference Programme

Workshop 8: Who cares? Contrast and opposition in „free“ phenomena

Volker Struckmeier (Universität Bochum)
volker.struckmeier@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

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 –14:15	Volker Struckmeier (Ruhr University of Bochum) What are options – and when are they optional?
14:15 –14:45	Markus Bader (Goethe-University Frankfurt) Free variation in verb cluster serialization – A harmonic grammar analysis
14:45 –15:15	Ekaterina Georgieva (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Martin Salzmann (University of Leipzig) & Philipp Weisser (University of Leipzig) Two types of optionality in Udmurt and Mari verb clusters
15:15 –15:45	Theodore Levin (University of Maryland, College Park), Paulina Lyskawa (University of Maryland, College Park) & Rodrigo Ranero (University of Maryland, College Park) Optional agreement in Santiago Tz'utujil (Mayan) is syntactic
15:45 –16:30	Coffee break / Poster Session Computational Linguistics (Part 1)
16:30 –17:00	Kleanthes K. Grohmann (University of Cyprus), Maria Kambanaros (Cyprus University of Technology), Evelina Leivada (UiT-The Arctic University of Norway) & Natalia Pavlou (CAT Lab) On ‘free’ clitic placement in production
17:00 –18:00	Klaus Abels [invited speaker] (University College London) Free alternations across modules: Theoretical consequences
19:30 –	Conference Dinner

07 March 2019
09:00 –09:30	Joost Kremers (University of Wuppertal) Word order variation in parallel syntax
09:30 –10:00	Doreen Georgi (University of Potsdam) & Mary Amaechi (University of Potsdam) On “optional” wh-/focus fronting in Igbo – A SYN-SEM-PHON interaction
10:00 –10:30	Manuel Leonetti (Complutense University of Madrid) Subject inversion as a 'free' phenomenon
10:30 –11:15	Coffee break / Poster Session Computational Linguistics (Part 2)
12:45 –13:45	DFG InfoEvent (Helga Weyerts-Schweda) Lunch break/ Poster session Computational Linguistics (Part 3)
15:00 –18:30	General Assembly of the DGfS
19:30 –	Reception in the foyer of the Übersee-Museum