International Conference on Linguistic Evidence 2008

Friday 1 February 2008
9.00-9.05	Announcements
9.05-10.05	Guest speaker III: Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas) Linking documents to encyclopedic knowledge: Using Wikipedia as a source of linguistic evidence
10.05-10.40	Ilona Steiner (Universität Tübingen): Partial agreement in German: A processing issue? Slides
10.40-11.00	Mid-morning break
11.00-11.35	Tim Züwerink (Universität Bonn/Universität zu Köln): Conjoint analysis in linguistics - multi-factorial analysis of Slavonic noun phrases
11.35-12.10	Sabine Zerbian(University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg): High tone alignment in a Southern Bantu language
12.10-12.45	James Myers (National Chung Cheng University): Automated collection and analysis of phonological data Slides
12.45-14.30	Poster lunch with buffet at room 027 List of presenters Buffet
14.30-15.05	Frederick J. Newmeyer (University of Washington, University of British Columbia, and Simon Fraser University): Semantic evidence and syntactic theory
15.05-15.40	Philip Rausch, Frank Burchert & Ria de Bleser (Universität Potsdam): Agrammatic comprehension of (non-)canonical structures in CP and DP: Data-mining the nominal syntax domain in neurolinguistics
15.40-16.15	Christina Manouilidou1,2, Roberto G. de Almeida1, V.P. Nair2,3 & George Schwartz2,3 (1: Concordia University, 2: Douglas Mental Health University Institute, 3: McGill University): Verb thematic roles and thematic hierarchy: Evidence from the performance of Alzheimer's patients
16.15-16.40	Mid-afternoon break
16.40-17.15	Markus Bader, Tanja Schmid & Jana Häussler(Universität Konstanz) : Optionality in verb-cluster formation Slides
17.15-17.50	Oliver Bott and Janina Radó (Universität Tübingen): How to provide exactly one interpretation for every sentence, or what eye movements reveal about quantifier scope Slides
17.50-18.25	Britta Stolterfoht, Helga Gese & Claudia Maienborn (Universität Tübingen) : An empirical perspective on linguistic classification: Unaccusatives meet the adjectival passive Slides
From 19.00	Dinner in the Knights Hall of the Castle.

Saturday 2 February 2008
9.00-9.05	Announcements
9.05-10.05	Guest speaker IV: Hubert Haider (Universität Salzburg) The thin line between facts & fiction - reflections on the prescientific state of the field Slides
10.05-10.40	Molly Diesing1, Dušica Filipović Djurdjević2, Draga Zec1 (1: Cornell University, 2: University of Novi Sad): Clitic placement in Serbian: Corpus and experimental evidence
10.40-11.00	Mid-morning break
11.00-11.35	Katrin Axel & Angelika Wöllstein (Universität Tübingen): German verb-first conditionals as unintegrated clauses A case study in converging synchronic and diachronic evidence
11.35-12.10	Thomas Pilz & Wolfram Luther (Universität Duisburg-Essen): Automated support for evidence retrieval in documents with nonstandard orthography
12.10-12.55	Sam Featherston (Universität Tübingen): A standard scale of well-formedness: Why linguistics needs boiling and freezing points Slides
12.55-13.00	Closing remarks
13.00	Close