University of Pennsylvania (IRCS) & Universität Tübingen (SFB 441)
Joint Workshop on
LINGUISTIC DATA STRUCTURES:
THEORETICAL, METHODOLOGICAL, DESCRIPTIVE ISSUES
at the University of Tübingen, December 19-20, 2000
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| Monday, December 18 | |
| Location: | Sonderforschungsbereich 441, Nauklerstrasse 35, 2nd floor |
| 06.00 p.m. | Warming Up, Housewarming & Christmas Party at the SFB 441 |
| Tuesday, December 19 | |
| Location: | Neuphilologicum (Wilhelmstrasse 50), room 215 |
| 09:00-09:15 | Marga Reis Opening Remarks |
Section 1: | Topics in mathematical and computational linguistics: extensions of context-free grammars |
| Chair: | Stephan Kepser |
| 09:15-10:05 | Jim Rogers Weak MSO Theories as Grammar Formalisms |
| 10:05-10:55 | Uwe Mönnich & Frank Morawietz A Two-Step Operational Description of TAGs |
| 10:55-11:20 | Coffee Break |
| Chair: | Erhard Hinrichs |
| 11:20-12:10 | Laura
Kallmeyer & Aravind Joshi Factoring Predicate Argument and Scope Semantics: Underspecified Semantics with LTAG |
| 12:10-13:00 | Frank
Richter & Manfred Sailer Three kinds of 'underspecified semantics' in HPSG |
13:00-14:30 | Lunch Break (at a local restaurant) |
| Section 2: | The Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface |
| Chair: | Bernhard Drubig |
| 14:30-15:00 | Ellen Prince Focus-Marking and Gaps: Are They Related? |
| 15:00-15:45 | Caroline
Heycock & Roberto Zamparelli On the Syntax and Semantics of Noun Phrase Coordination |
| 15:45-16:30 | Arnim
von Stechow On the Syntax and Semantics of Strong 'auch' |
| 16:30-16:45 | Coffee Break |
| 16:45-17:30 | Maribel
Romero Minimal Situations and Focus |
| 17:30-18:15 | Susanne
Winkler & Luis Lopez Foci and Wh-Phrases in Spec,V: Evidence from Gapping |
19:15 | Reception/Dinner at the Restaurant "Museum", Wilhelmstrasse 3 |
| Wednesday, December 20 | |
| Location: | Neuphilologicum (Wilhelmstrasse 50), room 031 |
| Section 3: | Lexical Semantics and Acquisition |
| Chair: | Marga Reis |
| 9:00-10:30 | Motion Verbs Anna Papafragou Motion predicates and the language-cognition interface Veronika Ehrich Remarks on detransitivation in German transportation verbs Discussion |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Modal Verbs The Tübingen Modal Verb Project (short overview) Serge Doitchinov Topics in the Acquisition of Modal Verbs Discussion (introduced by Anna Papafragou) |
| 12:00-12:30 | Passives
and Anti-Causatives in Modern Greek Katerina Zomboulou Topics in the Acquisition of Passives and Anti-Causatives in Modern Greek Discussion |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch Break - Buffet (room 035) |
| Section 4: | Topics in diachronic Germanic linguistics |
| Chair: | Veronika Ehrich |
| 14:00-14:50 | Tony Kroch & Beatrice Santorini Methods and Results in Corpus-based Historical Linguistics |
| 14:50-15:40 | Marga
Reis, Reimar Müller & Katrin Axel (Our) problems with German Historical Syntax |
| 15:45-16:15 | Coffee Break |
| 16:15-17:00 | Discussion
Forum on Diachrony |
| General Discussion | |
| 17:00-18:00 | General Discussion |
| 19:00 | Reception/Dinner at the Restaurant "Bella Vista" (transportation provided) |
Locations for informal discussion and for discussion groups will be provided at the various workshop sites.
Program: Roland Meyer. For any requests or comments please write to Roland Meyer