The starting point for the conference’s theme is the connection between the discourse structure and the use of referring expressions. It is well recognized in the literature that the discourse affects the interpretation of referring expressions and the space of anaphoric accessibility and that the use of referring expressions restricts the set of possible discourse interpretations. During the conference we will explore four related topics in order to a chieve a broad crosslinguistic understanding of reference in discourse in natural languages.
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Programme
Thursday, January 14
| 17:30-19:00 | Jeanette Gundel: Reference and Accessibility from a Givenness Hierarchy Perspective |
| 19:00- | Lunch, location will be announced |
Friday, January 15
| 09:00-09:15 | Opening remarks |
| 09:15-10:45 | Tania Ionin: An experimental study on the scope of (un)modified indefinites |
| 10:45-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:30 | Sofiana Chiriacescu & Klaus von Heusinger: Discourse accessibility and pe-marking in Romanian |
| 12:45-13:45 | Lunch |
| 14:00-16:45 | Trip |
| 16:45-17:00 | Coffee break |
| 17:00-18:30 | Ljudmila Geist: Bare Singular Indefinites in Argument Positions: The Case of Russian |
| 19:00-20:00 | Dinner |
| 20:00-20:30 | Annika Deichsel: Demonstrative and Non-Demonstrative „dieser“ in German |
| 20:30-21:00 | Eva Böhmel: The complex determiner "der und der" in German |
Saturday, January 16
| 9:00-9:45 | Klaus von Heusinger: Discourse properties of specific indefinites |
| 9:45-10:30 | Paula Menendez-Benito: Modal Indefinites and Domain Constraints |
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-11:30 | Jin Cui: Indefinites and specificity in Mandarin |
| 11:30-12:00 | Alexei Chibako: Indefinite Articles in the Modern Uzbek and their usage in specific contexts |
| 11:00-12:30 | Johny Varsami: Indefinite articles in Moroccan Arabic |
| 12:45-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:30 | Elsi Kaiser: Investigating the consequences of focus on the production and comprehension of referring expressions |
| 15:30-15:45 | Coffee break |
| 15:45-16:30 | Cornelia Ebert & Christian Ebert & Stefan Hinterwimmer: The Interpretation of the German Specificity Markers Bestimmt and Gewiss |
| 16:30-17:15 | Geertje van Bergen |
| 17:15-19:00 | Discussion in smaller groups |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| 20:00 | Party |
Sunday, January 17
| 09:00-10:15 | Elena Karagjosova: Discourse particles: Incremental specification in context |
| 10:30-11:45 | Edgar Onea: Specificational particles |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-14:30 | Henk Zeevat: Producing and Interpreting Pronouns and Ellipsis |
| 14:30-15:00 | Closing remarks |
