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Workshop "Semantic and syntactic aspects
of specificity in Romance languages"
10.-12. Oktober 2002, University of Konstanz, Room H 304
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10.-12. Oktober 2002, University of Konstanz, Room H 304
[Organizers] [Workshop Description] [Invited Speakers] [Programme] [German Site Version]
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| Klaus von Heusinger
Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft |
Georg A. Kaiser
Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft |
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The semantic-pragmatic category specificity is a very recent category – it was introduced in the late sixties. Since then it has been used in many descriptive grammars for describing a great variety of grammatical phenomena, such as different articles, cases markings (e.g., differen-tiated object marking), the modality in relative clauses, word order and information structure, clitic doubling, to list only a few. Thus specificity seems to be a category that is realized in very different grammatical areas.
The workshop intends to investigate the semantic and syntactic aspects of this category in the Romance language family. Romance languages provide an interesting field for investigating specificity since they show some common realizations of specificity (such as the interaction of modality in the relative clause with the specificity of the head noun), but they also show language particular grammatical reflexes of specificity, such as Spanish a or Romanian pe.
The workshop brings together experts in Romance languages that will discuss different semantic and syntactic aspects of specificity. We hope that the presentations and discussions will provide us with a more detailed picture of the linguistic realization of specificity in Romance languages, but also about a more detailed linguistic model of specificity in general.
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| Agnes Bende-Farkas (Stuttgart) | Specific Indefinites in Romanian and the Marker PE |
| Susann Fischer (Potsdam) | Overridden Specificity |
| Rodrigo Gutierrez (UC Santa Cruz, USA) | Prominence Scales and Unmarked Word Order in Spanish |
| Daniel Jacob (Köln) | "Possession", Noun Combining, and Specificity |
| Manuel Leonetti (Madrid, Spanien) | Specificity Marking and Specificity Types in Spanish |
| Teresa Parodi (Cambridge, UK) | Clitic doubling and clitic-left dislocation in Spanish and Greek as native and as L2 grammars |
| Uli Reich (Köln) | Specifically Brazilian |
| Elisabeth Stark (München) | Indefiniteness, countabilitity and specificity in Old Italian |
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Thursday, October, 10th
| 15.00-15.30 | Opening by the Rektor of the University of Konstanz G. von Graevenitz |
| 15.30-16.30 | Uli Reich (Köln) Specifically Brazilian |
| 16.30-17.00 | coffee |
| 17.00-18.00 | Daniel Jacob (Köln) "Possession", Noun Combining, and Specificity |
| 19.00 | Evening programme |
Friday, October, 11th
| 9.30-10.30 | Susann Fischer (Potsdam): Overridden Specificity |
| 10.30-11.00 | coffee |
| 11.00-12.00 | Teresa Parodi (Cambridge, UK) Clitic doubling and clitic-left dislocation in Spanish and Greek as native and as L2 grammars |
| 12.00-14.00 | lunch |
| 14.00-15.00 | Rodrigo Gutierrez (Mexiko) Prominence Scales and Unmarked Word Order in Spanish |
| 15.00-15.30 | coffee |
| 15.30-16.30 | Manuel Leonetti (Madrid, Spanien) Specificity Marking and Specificity Types in Spanish |
| 16.30-17.00 | coffee |
| 17.00-18.00 | Klaus von Heusinger & Georg A. Kaiser Animacy, Specificity, and Definiteness in Spanish - A Research Project |
| 19.00 | evening programme |
Saturday, October, 12th
| 9.15*-10.15 | Agnes Bende-Farkas (Stuttgart) Specific Indefinites in Romanian and the Marker PE |
| 10.15-10.45 | coffee |
| 10.45-11.45 | Elisabeth Stark (München) Indefiniteness, countabilitity and specificity in Old Italian |
| 11.45-12.30 | final discussion |
| 13.00 | Lunch, downtown, and afternoon programme |
Bus number 4 from "Bahnhof" at 8.38. Leave at stop "Egg" 8.53 and walk up to university.
Bus number 2 from "Bahnhof" 8.50. Change at stop "Zähringerplatz" at 8.55 o number 9 (8.58), which arrives University main entrance at 9.07.
Next trains leave at
13.41 or 14.43 from main station
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The workshop will be founded by the Forschungszentrum für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs of the Universität Konstanz. The workshop language will be English (and Spanish)
last updated: 09.10.2002