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Germanistische Linguistik zwischen Köln und Tokio (German Linguistics between Cologne and Tokio)

Information structure in semantics and syntax


5th International Conference of the University of Cologne and the University of Tokyo

The 5th International Conference of the series German Linguistics between Cologne and Tokyo (GAKT) will take place at the University of Cologne from February 10-11, 2020. The doctoral conference is organized by the Institute for German Language and Literature I, Department of Linguistics at the University of Cologne and the SFB 1252.

Under the title Information Structure in Syntax and Semantics, this year's meeting focuses on the investigation of the mechanisms by which grammatical expressions are integrated into discourse.

In 9 lectures, PhD students from the University of Tokyo and the University of Cologne will approach this topic, each of which will be complemented by a commentary by experienced scholars. This discursive format aims at an intensive scientific exchange, which also offers the speakers space to further develop their work.

Date: 10.-11. February 2020
Place: HoP - House of Prominence/ Luxemburger Str. 299: Spitzboden, 5. Etage 
Organisation: Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger, University of Cologne

 

Programm and Abstracts:

Sunday, 9. February 2020

6pm: Warming Up

Monday, 10. February 2020

9:30 – 9:45

Introduction and presentation of the participants

9:45 – 10:45

Yuto Yamazaki (University Tokyo)
Diskursprominenz und Spaltsätze

Comment: Łukasz Jędrzejowski 

10:45 – 11:00

Coffeebreak

11:00 – 12:00

Frank Zickenheiner (University of Cologne)
Ein DRT-Model für Kontextupdate mit direkter Rede

Comment: Arndt Riester 

12:00 – 13:00

Shungo Fujii & Yoshiki Mori (University Tokyo)
PP-Imperativ: semantische Funktion und syntaktische Konstruktion

Comment: Stefan Hinterwimmer 

13.00 - 14:00

Lunch break

14:00 - 15:00

Katharina Schaebbicke (University of Cologne)
Negative Polaritätselemente des Deutschen in unterschiedlichen negativen Kontexten - eine explorative Studie

Comment: Ljudmila Geist 

15:00 - 16:00

Noritsugu Hayashi (University Tokyo)
Two cases of co-exhaustification

Comment: Sophie Repp 

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 – 17:30

Clémentine Raffy
French syntactic causatives – the case of laisser.

Comment: Jacob Egetenmeyer 

18:30

Dinner

Tuesday, 11. February 2020

9:30 – 10:30

Mizuho Miyata & Yoshiki Mori (University Tokyo)
""in Japanese contrasted to German "schon"

Comment: Carla Umbach

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00

Sara Meuser (University of Cologne)
Diskursprominenz und Perspektive in Narrationen

Comment: Anna Bonifazi

12:00 – 13:00

Katsumasa Ito (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
Zur Kombinatorik von den Anführungszeichen und den Modalpartikeln im Japanischen

Comment: Katja Jasinskaja

13:00 – 14:00

Final discussion & Lunch

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