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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:

Paula Menéndez-BenitoEnglish Department

Edgar OneaCRC "Text Structures"

 

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