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NEREUS X: Determiners and predication in the nominal domain in Romance

International Workshop at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg 22-23 October 2021

Organisers

Prof. Dr. Daniel Jacob
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
daniel.jacob@romanistik.uni-freiburg.de
Prof. Dr. Marco García García 
Universität zu Köln
marco.garcia@uni-koeln.de

 

Program

Friday, 22 October 2021

09.30 – 09.45 Introduction
09.45 – 10.30 Klaus von Heusinger (University of Cologne) & Georg Kaiser (University of Konstanz)
Argument Encoding in Causative Constructions and Affectedness
10.30 – 11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.00 Susann Fischer (University of Hamburg)
PCC reloaded
12.00 – 12.45 Anna Pineda (Sorbonne University / University of Cologne)
DOM in Catalan: an overview
12.45 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 15.15 Marco García García (University of Cologne)
Passive and subject prominence
15.15 – 16.00  M. Teresa Espinal (UAB Barcelona)
The status of de in Romance indefinites, partitives and pseudopartitives
16.00 – 16.45 Coffee Break
16.45 – 17.30 Elisabeth Stark (University of Zurich)
Distribution and function of ‘indefinite definite’ articles in Francoprovençal
20.00 Conference Dinner

 

Saturday, 23 October 2021

9.45 – 10.30 Ingo Feldhausen (University of Lorraine)
Reanalyzing the stress-focus mismatch in the Spanish DP
10.30 – 11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.00 E.Tsiakmakis (UAB Barcelona)
On the structure of Greek polydefinites: Determiner spreading and predication in the nominal domain
12.00 – 12.45 Manuel Leonetti (UCM Madrid)
There is no information structure inside DPs
12.45 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 15.15  Daniel Jacob (University of Freiburg) Information structure within the DP
15.15 – 15.45 Conclusion – Final remarks