Wednesday, 6.3.2019

13:45-14:15

Johannes Mursell (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), Sophie Repp (Universität zu Köln): Encoding varieties of topic and focus: The role of contrast and information status. SLIDES

14:15-15:15

Invited Speaker Silvio Cruschina (University of Helsinki): The greater the contrast, the greater the potential: On the effects of contrastive focus in syntax

15:15-15:45

Maura Aurelia Cotfas (University of Bucharest): The C-field of (Free) Subjunctives in Romanian and instances of complementizer deletion (CANCELLED)

16:30-17:00

Laura Becker (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg), Gertrud Schneider-Blum (Universität zu Köln): The contrast marker =i/=ɪ in Tima (Niger-Congo) (abstract) SLIDES

17:00-17:30

Alexandra Navarrete González (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): The expression of contrast in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) (abstract). SLIDES

17:30-18:00

Katharina Hartmann (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), Iris Legeland, Roland Pfau (University of Amsterdam): Asymmetry and contrast in coordination in Sign Language of the Netherlands

Thursday, 7.3.2019

09:00 -10:00

Invited Speaker Frank Kügler (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt): Prosodic phrasing and accentuation in contrastive contexts

10:00-10:30

Maria del Mar Vanrell (Universitat de les Illes Balears), Ingo Feldhausen (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt): Focus realization in the native Spanish of monolingual and bilingual speakers

11:15-11:45

Stefan Baumann, Jane Mertens (Universität zu Köln): The influence of information status on the prosody of sentence topics

11:45-12:15

Francesc Torres-Tamarit (Paris 8), Maria del Mar Vanrell (Universitat de les Illes Balears): The phonetics and phonology of fronted information focus in Majorcan Catalan

12:15-12:45

Christine Röhr, Martine Grice, Stefan Baumann, Petra Schumacher  (Universität zu Köln): The role of prosody in the processing of prominence in contrastive structures

13:45-14:15

Ramona Wallner (Universität Konstanz): Prosodic focus restrictions are clues to French wh-in-situ interrogatives

14:15-14:45

Carolin Harthan (LMU München): Encoding Information-Structure through Adverbial Placement in Written Present-Day English

Friday, 8.3.2019

11:30-12:00

Silvia Schaefer (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt): Verbal agreement and the person-agreement split in two North-Eastern Italian varieties (abstract) SLIDES

12:00-12:30

Katharina Hartmann (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt): The interpretation of syntactic focus variation

12:30-13:00

Leah Bauke (Bergische Universität Wuppertal): Exhaustivity marking in German and English: a challenge for L2 acquisition

13:00-13:30

Fabian Bross (Universität Stuttgart): Encoding different types of topics and foci in German Sign Language (Deutsche Gebärdensprache). A Cartographic approach to sign language syntax (abstract). SLIDES

13:30-14:00

Thuan Tran (Universität Potsdam): Information structure and syntax interaction: A view from Vietnamese