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International Workshop: Indefinites in Discourse Structure (2014)

The Workshop on „Indefnites in Discourse Structure“ (RED 2014), is a follow up of the Workshops "Reference and Discourse Structure" (Stutgart, 2010), "Indefinites and Beyond“ (Göttingen, 2011) and "Indefinites in Discourse“ (Cologne, 2013) held on 27-28 June, 2014 in Cologne.

The workshop invited contributions to different kinds of indefinites and their semantic and pragmatic effects on discourse structure. Abstracts were invited for 20 minute talks (plus 10 minutes for discussion) on topics dealing with the semantics and pragmatics of indefinite NPs with respect to discourse structure, discourse development and context.

 

Organisation

The workshop was organized by Klaus von Heusinger (University of Cologne) and Edgar Onea (University of Göttingen).

 

Invited Speakers:

  • Hans Kamp (Stuttgart / Austin)

  • Anastasia Giannakidou (Chicago)

 

Workshop format

On the first day will be a regular conference with talks, while the second day will have a different format. We plan to organise discussion groups around 2 or 3 dedicated topics identified on the first day.

 

Program committee

  • Peter Bosch

  • Cornelia Ebert

  • Henriette de Swart

  • Anastasia Giannakidou

  • Chiara Gianollo

  • Stefan Hinterwimmer

  • Hans Kamp

 

Program

[Download Program.pdf]

Friday 27.06.2014

9:00

Opening

9:15-10:30

Hans Kamp - Three levels for the semantic contribution of indefinites

10:30-11:30

coffee

11:00-12:00

Maria Cieschinger - Donkey anaphora and beyond

12:00-13:00

Sveltana Petrova - Synchronic variation and diachronic change in the expression of indefinite reference: evidence from historical German

13:00-14:30

Lunch

14:30-15:30

 
 Alina Tigau: Indefinite direct objects in discourse - Differential Object Marking and Clitic Doubling in Romanian
 

15:30-16:30

Patricia Irwin - Argument structure, specific indefinites, and referential anchoring

16:30-17:30

coffee

17:00-18:15

Anastasia Giannakidou - Indefinites in context: anti-specificity as epistemic indeterminacy

19:30

Dinner

Saturday 28.06.2014

9:30

Workshop Topic 1 (Chair: Chiara Gianollo) Indefinites in discourse and diachrony

10:00-11:30

 Coffee  

11:30-13:00

Workshop Topic 2 (Chair: Jaklin Kornfilt) Indefinites and discourse-linking

13:00-14:00

Short lunch with poster presentation

14:00-16:00

Workshop Topic 3 (Chair: Edgar Onea & Klaus von Heusinger) Forward looking potential of indefinites  

17:00

Excursion Köln