Demonstratives and Reference Tracking

Workshop organized as part of the Research Class ("Forschungsklasse") "Demonstratives Empirical" in Cologne, July 7, 2015. Organizer:  Petra B. Schumacher (Cologne)  Venue: Klosterstraße 79 b (Building 222a), Gremiumraum (1st Floor)  (http://www.uni-koeln.de/bin2/where.pl?parent.geb221) This one-day workshop is part of a research class on experimental approaches to demonstratives. It brings together international researchers and a group of advanced students who are planning their master’s theses on topics relating to reference resolution. Programm: 13:30               Coffee   14:00-14:30     Welcome & Brief Research Statements from Student Participants 14:30-15:30     Leah Roberts, York: "Adult and child learners' resolving of the pronouns ER and DER in real-time German discourse" 15:30-16:15    Clare Patterson, Potsdam: "Investigating the effects of pronoun type and thematic role information on pronoun resolution: eye-tracking evidence" 16:15-16:45     Coffee Break 16:45-17:30    Stefan Hinterwimmer, Köln: "A comparison of the binding properties of German personal and demonstrative pronouns" 17:30-18:30     Ans van Kemenade, Nijmegen: "The discourse integration of clause-initial demonstratives" 19:00              Get together