Workshop
Workshop “Grammatical change and information structure”
Date: January 08 - 09, 2024
Venue: University of Graz, Institute for German Studies. Mozartgasse 8, 8045 Graz, LingLab language laboratory
Organizers: Edgar Onea
Program:
10:00-11:00 Eric Fuß: Verb second
11:00-11:30 Break/Discussion
11:30-12:30 Eric Fuß: The historical development of 'prefield' expletives
12:30-13:00 Discussion
After the workshop (until January 9, 2024) there will be the opportunity to discuss your own research with the speaker.
Workshop on Argument Structure, Information Structure and Binding
Date: 30. May 2023
Venue: University of Graz, Department of German Studies.
Mozartgasse 8, 8045 Graz, LingLab
Organizer: Svitlana Antonyuk and Edgar Onea
The workshop is jointly organized by project M 3361-G “Deriving Discourse Configurationality of East Slavic” (Svitlana Antonyuk) and the Theoretical Linguistics Lab of the University of Graz.
Program:
9:00-10:30 Daniel Hole (Stuttgart, invited guest): Argument alternations and theta-induced binding.
10:30-12:00 Boban Arsenijevic: Intensified pronouns and reflexivisation: a reflexive cycle.
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 Svitlana Antonyuk: Internal arguments and what to do with them.
15:30-17:00 Edgar Onea: Topicality and intentionality: A new analysis of embedded and matrix topics
Workshop EMPIRICAL APPROACHES TO INFORMATION STRUCTURE
Friday, 17.05.2019 SR 33.4.032, Institut f. Romanistik, Merangasse 70, 8010 Graz
Program:
09:00 – 10:00 Steffen Heidinger & Edgar Onea (Graz) Focus affinity and the optimal background
10:00 – 11:00 Eva Schultze-Berndt (Manchester) Topicality and grammatical relations: towards an empirical approach
Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:15 Dina El Zarka (Graz) Information structural constraints on prosody are soft in Egyptian Arabic
Lunch Break
13:00 – 14:00 Daniele Panizza (Göttingen) Adults are not always faster than children. An eye-tracking study on the online comprehension of Indirect Scalar Implicatures
Workshop NEW APPROACHES TO FOCUS and related phenomena
1. April 2019 SZ 15.22 (Universitätsstraße 15 Bauteil G, 2.Obergeschoß)
Program:
09:30 – 10:15 Swantje Tönnis Clefts, Narration, and the QUD
10:15 – 11:00 Lea Fricke & Edgar Onea Testing exhaustive readings of embedded questions
11:15 – 12:00 Madeleine Butschety Additives, Quantifiers, and other unorthodox Laisons
Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30 Daniel Büring with Muriel Assmann, Izabela Jordanoska, Max Prüller (Universität Wien) Focus interpretation is relational (but not stochastic)
Coffee break
16:00 – 16:45 Muriel Assmann, Daniel Büring, Izabela Jordanoska, Max Prüller Crosslinguistic Relational Focus Semantics
16:45 – 17:30 Muriel Assmann, Daniel Büring, Izabela Jordanoska, Max Prüller Second Occurrence Focus in Wolof
