Program

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  • Some presentation slides, handouts, and papers are available via the [pdf] link under each title.
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August 19 (Mon)
9:00-9:30Registration & Opening
9:30-10:00Maria Katarzyna PrennerDifferent degrees of agentivity in sentience verbs? On the decomposition of proto-agent features in Polish
10:00-10:30Delia BentleyThe logical structure of verbs of quantized and non-quantized change
[pdf]
10:30-11:00Break
11:00-11:30Felipe HaslerClausal cosubordination in Mapudungun: Relevance of referential hierarchies for the RRG Linking Algorithm
11:30-12:00Carmen ContiClausal cosubordination in Spanish
12:00-12:30Hideki KishimotoWhen intransitives behave like passive: De-causativization in Japanese
[pdf]
12:30-14:00Lunch
14:00-14:30Christian Chiarcos, Christian Fäth & Monika Rind-PawlowskiTowards a Role and Reference Grammar corpus for English
14:30-15:00Tatiana Bladier, Kilian Evang, Laura Kallmeyer, Robin Möllemann & Rainer OsswaldCreating RRG treebanks through semi-automatic conversion of annotated corpora
[pdf]
15:00-15:30David Arps, Tatiana Bladier & Laura KallmeyerChart-based RRG parsing for automatically extracted and hand-crafted RRG grammars
[pdf]
15:30-16:00Break
16:00-16:30Saima Hafeez Neither dative nor instrumental as default in Urdu: Dative/instrumental marked non-MR arguments as PSA
[pdf]
16:30-17:00Kiyoko TorataniSyntax of Japanese dish names on restaurant menus: An emerging structure
17:00-18:00Plenary: Daniel EverettDid Homo erectus use an RRG grammar?
[pdf]
18:00-18:30Reception
18:30-19:30John Ball, Chief Technology Officer, Pat, Inc.Introducing Pat, a natural language understanding system using RRG
August 20 (Tue)
10:00-10:30Hanno Beck Formalizing hierarchy-related generalizations in RRG: The brittle and the supple
[pdf]
10:30-11:00Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.On the status of lexical categories in RRG
[pdf]
11:00-11:30Break
11:30-12:00Nicolai Winther-Nielsen A Role and Reference Grammar of Biblical Hebrew clause linkage
12:00-12:30Armando Mora-Bustos & Verónica Fidencio NúñezOperators, associated movement and subject in Mazahua (Otomanguean)
[pdf]
12:30-14:00Lunch
14:00-14:30Kata BaloghInformation-structurally driven syntactic configurations
[pdf]
14:30-15:00Mitsuaki Shimojo On the interactions with pragmatics in Role and Reference Grammar
[pdf]
15:00-15:30Anja Latrouite & Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.Degrees of discourse configurationality and beyond
[pdf]
15:30-16:00Break
16:00-16:30Sergio Ibáñez CerdaIntraclausal complexity in Spanish: The case of depictive constructions
[pdf]
16:30-17:00Erika Bellingham, Pia Järnefelt, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Yu Li, Alice Mitchell, Guillermo Montero Melis, Sang-Hee Park, Anastasia Stepanova, Emanuel Bylund & Jürgen BohnemeyerModeling causative complexity across languages with the Interclausal Relations Hierarchy
[pdf part-1]
[pdf part-2]
17:00-18:00Plenary: Wataru NakamuraTwo ways of “undoing” the linking process: Impersonal constructions in Russian and beyond
19:00-21:00Conference dinner
August 21 (Wed)
10:00-10:30Christian Canu Højgaard Agency and lexical decomposition of Biblical Hebrew verbs
[slides pdf]
[paper pdf]
10:30-11:00Lilián Guerrero & Valeria BelloroDouble locatives: The case of external possession in Yaqui
[pdf]
11:00-11:30Break
11:30-12:00Yoko HasegawaA Study of the annotative dual-sentence juxtaposition construction in Japanese
[pdf]
12:00-12:30Erika BellinghamEvent integration in the English by-Ving (MEANS) construction: An RRG analysis
[pdf]
12:30-14:00Lunch
14:00-14:30Irene Murtagh Accommodating Irish Sign Language in an extended Role and Reference Grammar lexicon architecture
[pdf]
14:30-15:00Felipe Hasler, Carlos González, Silvana Guerrero, Matías Jaque & Verónica OrquedaRelevance of the meaning of operators in determining the basic meaning of a construction: The case of agarró y se fue in Spanish
15:00-15:30Kiyono FujinagaThe analysis of Japanese benefactive constructions in RRG
15:30-16:00Break
16:00-16:30Eibhlín Ní Fhallamháin The Genitive Case in Irish: A functionalist account of complex multifunctional syntax
16:30-17:00Valeria GeneralovaIntegrating head-marking and dependent-marking properties: An RRG analysis of Halkomelem ditransitive constructions
[pdf]
17:00-18:00Plenary: Jürgen BohnemeyerOperator, information: Revisiting the operator projection in RRG, with special emphasis on tense, aspect, and finiteness
[pdf part-1]
[pdf part-2]
18:00-18:10Closing