Collaborative RTG meeting
RTG 2016 "Nominal modification" (Frankfurt) and RTG 2636 "Form-meaning mismatches" (Göttingen)
Program
Day 1 (February 8th)from 08:45 Registration
09:00-09:10 Welcome
09:10-10:00 Keynote by Merle Weicker (Frankfurt): The Role of Nouns in Adjective Acquisition
10:00-10:30 Lieke Hendriks: Using Small Clauses to Solve the Split DP Paradox
10:30-11:00 Tommaso Mattiuzzi: Bare PPs Are Definite: Lexicalization as a Source of Form-Meaning Mismatches
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:00 Julien Foglietti: Referential Hereditary Last Names as Presupposition Triggers
12:00-12:30 Atefeh Shahbazi: Syncretic Analytic Non-Active Voice Also Exists: Kurdish and Baxtiari
12:30-13:00 Viktor Köhlich: The Japanese DP from a Macro-, Meso- and Micro-Perspective
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-14:30 Katja Friedewald: The Addressee as Syntactic Antecedent in French Presentatives
14:30-15:00 Nehir Aygül: Quantifier Scope: Experimental Investigations in German and Turkish
15:00-15:30 Lucia Vlaskova: Visible Scales
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:30 Maik Thalmann: Definite Singulars Presuppose Uniqueness, Not Existence
16:30-17:00 Maximilian Berthold: On Nominal Tense and Aspect
17:00-17:30 Marianthi Koraka: Do Sign Languages Have Imperatives? Examining Some Constructions in Three Sign Languages
17:30-18:00 Dimitrios Kotopoulis: Greek Compound Adpositions, Their Arguments and Case
from 19:00 Dinner at Chennai Masala (Wendenstraße 8a, 37073 Göttingen)
Day 2 (February 9th)
09:10-10:00 Keynote by Guido Mensching (Göttingen): Some Remarks on Romance Nominal Split Construction
10:00-10:30 Nasimeh Bahmanian: The Role of Argument Structure in Relative Clause Extraposition
10:30-11:00 Gautam Ottur: Serialization across Modalities
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:00 Prudence Pontbriand: Accounting for Change: The Evolution of Null Objects in Medieval French
12:00-12:30 Anna Preßler: What Diverse Experimental Approaches Tell Us about the Comprehension and Production of French Adjective-Noun Pairs
12:30-13:00 Feras Saeed: Prenominal vs. postnominal modification
13:00-13.30 Madeline Ladore: An Experimental Investigation into the Semantics of Akan’s Plural Morphology
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:00 Diletta Comunello: Comprehending Compositional Telicity: The Role of Measure Phrases
15:00-15:30 Yunhuan Wang: Nominal Reference and Nominal Incorporation in Mandarin Chinese
15:30-16:00 Wrap up and coffee