Collaborative RTG meeting



Day 1 (February 8th)

from 08:45 Registration
09:00-09:10 Welcome
09:10-10:00 Keynote by Merle Weicker (Frankfurt): The Role of Nouns in Adjective Acquisition

10:00-10:30 Lieke Hendriks: Using Small Clauses to Solve the Split DP Paradox
10:30-11:00 Tommaso Mattiuzzi: Bare PPs Are Definite: Lexicalization as a Source of Form-Meaning Mismatches

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:00 Julien Foglietti: Referential Hereditary Last Names as Presupposition Triggers
12:00-12:30 Atefeh Shahbazi: Syncretic Analytic Non-Active Voice Also Exists: Kurdish and Baxtiari
12:30-13:00 Viktor Köhlich: The Japanese DP from a Macro-, Meso- and Micro-Perspective

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-14:30 Katja Friedewald: The Addressee as Syntactic Antecedent in French Presentatives
14:30-15:00 Nehir Aygül: Quantifier Scope: Experimental Investigations in German and Turkish
15:00-15:30 Lucia Vlaskova: Visible Scales

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-16:30 Maik Thalmann: Definite Singulars Presuppose Uniqueness, Not Existence
16:30-17:00 Maximilian Berthold: On Nominal Tense and Aspect
17:00-17:30 Marianthi Koraka: Do Sign Languages Have Imperatives? Examining Some Constructions in Three Sign Languages
17:30-18:00 Dimitrios Kotopoulis: Greek Compound Adpositions, Their Arguments and Case

from 19:00 Dinner at Chennai Masala (Wendenstraße 8a, 37073 Göttingen)



Day 2 (February 9th)

09:10-10:00 Keynote by Guido Mensching (Göttingen): Some Remarks on Romance Nominal Split Construction
10:00-10:30 Nasimeh Bahmanian: The Role of Argument Structure in Relative Clause Extraposition
10:30-11:00 Gautam Ottur: Serialization across Modalities

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:00 Prudence Pontbriand: Accounting for Change: The Evolution of Null Objects in Medieval French
12:00-12:30 Anna Preßler: What Diverse Experimental Approaches Tell Us about the Comprehension and Production of French Adjective-Noun Pairs
12:30-13:00 Feras Saeed: Prenominal vs. postnominal modification
13:00-13.30 Madeline Ladore: An Experimental Investigation into the Semantics of Akan’s Plural Morphology

13:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:00 Diletta Comunello: Comprehending Compositional Telicity: The Role of Measure Phrases
15:00-15:30 Yunhuan Wang: Nominal Reference and Nominal Incorporation in Mandarin Chinese


15:30-16:00 Wrap up and coffee


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