Sonderforschungsbereich 441

International Conference on

LINGUISTIC DATA STRUCTURES

University of Tübingen, February 22-24, 2001

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Revised Programme 

Thursday, February 22
Location: Neuphilologikum (Wilhelmstraße 50), room 027 
09.00 a.m. Opening Remarks
 
09:15-10:15 Graham Katz & Fabrizio Arosio (SFB 441, University of Tübingen)
Structure Variety in the Linguistic Representation of Temporal Information
10:15-11:15 Angela Dorn, Boštjan Dvorák & Wiltrud Mihatsch (SFB 441, University of Tübingen)
An Onomasiological Database for Lexical Diachronic Research
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 James A. Matisoff (University of Berkeley, USA)
Phonosemantic Problems in Sino-Tibetan/Tibeto-Burman Bodypart Etymologies
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:00 Jochen Raecke (University of Tübingen)
ovo-to-ono: Demonstratives and More
15:00-16:00 Marko Tadic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Encoding of Croatian Corpora
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:30 Konstanze Jungbluth (SFB 441, University of Tübingen)
Data and Deictics: Demonstratives in Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan
*** Unfortunately, the presentation by Wolfgang Klein (Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmwegen) had to be cancelled ***
19:00 Reception
Friday, February 23
Location: Neuphilologikum (Wilhelmstraße 50), room 027 
09:00-10:00 Sandra Kübler, Ilona Steiner & Erhard Hinrichs (SFB 441, University of Tübingen)
Automatic Annotation and Querying of German Treebanks
10:00-11:00 Steve Abney (AT&T Research, USA)
Bootstrapping
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Hanneke van Hoof (SFB 441, University of Tübingen)
On the Meaning and Information Structure of the Rise-Fall Intonation Contour
12:15-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:00 Sam Featherston (SFB 441, University of Tübingen)
Object Co-reference in German: New Data Solves Old Problems But Requires New Theory
15:00-16:00 František Cermák (Karlova Univerzita, Praha)
Corpora, Linguistics and Information. Experiences with the Czech National Corpus
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:30 Andreas Wagner (SFB 441, University of Tübingen)
The TUSNELDA Annotation Standard: An XML Encoding Standard for Multilingual Corpora Supporting Various Aspects of Linguistic Research
17:30-18:30 Demo Session at the Sonderforschungsbereich 441, Nauklerstraße 35
Saturday, February 24
Location: Neuphilologikum (Wilhelmstraße 50), room 027 
09:00-10:00 Tilman Berger, Michael Betsch & Bernhard Brehmer (SFB 441, University of Tübingen)
Address Systems and Politeness - Independent or Interdependent? A Study Based on Russian and Czech Data
10:00-11:00 Mary Kato (UNICAMP, Brazil)
Generative Grammar and Variation Methodology: A Happy Marriage in the Description of Brazilian Portuguese
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Anthony Kroch (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Statistical Regularities in Grammatical Change: Evidence From Diachronic Corpora.
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:00 Stefanie Herrmann & Stephan Kepser (SFB 441, University of Tübingen)
A Broader View on the Notion of a Linguistic Datum: Formal Framework and Case Study from Warao
15:00-15:20 Short Coffee Break
15:20-16:20 Hans-Bernhard Drubig (University of Tübingen)
On the Syntactic Form of Epistemic Modality
16:20-17:20 Marga Reis (University of Tübingen)
Do Modal Verbs Form a Syntactic Class? - Theoretical and Empirical Considerations

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