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:
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Hans Kamp (Stuttgart / Austin)
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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
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Peter Bosch
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Cornelia Ebert
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Henriette de Swart
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Anastasia Giannakidou
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Chiara Gianollo
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Stefan Hinterwimmer
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Hans Kamp
Program
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 |
