Indefinites and Beyond
International Workshop ath the Georg-August Universität Göttingen
This workshop addresses recent research developments in the study of indefinite determiners and closely related topics, such as numerals, donkey anaphora and quantification. The workshop is organised by the CRC "Text Structures", in collaboration with the English Department of the University of Göttingen.
Date:
November 18-19, 2011
Organizers:
Friday, November 18, 2011
9:30-10:30 | Klaus von Heusinger, Stuttgart Specific articles and other specificity markers in German |
10:30-11:30 | Cornelia Ebert, Stuttgart Experimental evidence for topicality-based approaches to exceptional wide scope |
11:30-12:00 | coffee break |
12:00-13:00 | Lucas Champollion, Tübingen / NYU For-adverbials and the scope of indefinites |
13:00-15:00 | lunch break |
15:00-16:00 | Paula Menéndez-Benito, Göttingen Luis Alonso-Ovalle, McGill On the Modal Component of Un NP Cualquiera |
16:00-17:00 | Edgar Onea, Göttingen Indefinites in discourse |
17:00-17:30 | coffee break |
17:30-18:30 | Ljudmila Geist, Stuttgart Indefinite topics in German |
Saturday, November 19, 2011
9:30-10:30 | Bernhard Schwarz, McGill Two types of class B numeral modifiers |
10:30-11:30 | Bart Geurts, Nijmegen Superlative quantifiers: modal or disjunctive? |
11:30-12:00 | coffee break |
12:00-13:00 | Patrick Grosz, Tübingen and Pritty Patel-Grosz, MIT Stubborn Donkeys: On the Cross-Linguistic Rigidity of Larger Pronouns |
13:00-15:00 | lunch break |
15:00-16:00 | Hedde Zeijlstra, Amsterdam Negation, negative indefinites and modals |
16:00-17:00 | Luisa Martí, Queen Mary and Klaus Abels, UCL Syntactic Deficiencies of Propositional Quantification |