On 'Emergent Construction'

Organisers: Peter Auer (FRIAS & HPCL) and Stefan Pfänder (Romance Philology & HPSL)

Programm

THURSDAY MAY 8
9.00 Welcome by Werner Frick (Speaker of the FRIAS)
9.15-10.15 Paul Hopper (FRIAS & Carnegie Mellon)
Emergent Grammar and Temporality in Interactional Linguistics
10.15-11.00 Stefan Pfänder (U Freiburg)
Emergence, Constructions and Improvisation
– comments on Paul Hopper’s approach
COFFEE BREAK
11.30-12.15 Susanne Uhmann (U Wuppertal)
On parentheses
LUNCH BREAK
14.00-14.45 Christian Koops (Rice University), Martin Hilpert (FRIAS)
"The role of pragmatic accommodation of presuppositional structure in the
diachronic emergence of pseudo-clefts"
14.45-15.30 K.K. Luke (U of Hong Kong)
On the Emergence of the Focus-First Construction in Chinese
COFFEE BREAK
16.00-16.45 Yael Maschler (U Haifa)
On the emergence of Hebrew discourse markers from metalingual constructions
16.45-17.30 Dagmar Weingarten (U Potsdam) / Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (U Potsdam)
Prosody, conversational structure and emergent constructions
20.00 DINNER IN TOWN

FRIDAY MAY 9
9.00-9.45 Peter Auer (FRIAS)/ Jan Lindström (U Helsinki)
‚Inverted conditionals’ in German and Swedish
9.45-10.30 Susanne Günthner (U Münster)
Between emergence and sedimentation - communicative patterns in interaction
COFFEE BREAK
11.00-12.15 Mario Soto Rodríguez (I.B.L.E.L., La Paz)
Emergence in language contact: Spanish constructions in Quechua
LUNCH BREAK
14.00-14.45 Wolfgang Imo (U Münster)
On-line changes of syntactic gestalts in spoken German.
Or: Do garden path sentences exist in everyday conversation?
14.45-15.30 Arnulf Deppermann (IDS Mannheim)
Constructions using the verb verstehen
COFFEE BREAK
16.00-16.45 Camilla Wide (U Helsinki) & Christine Mertzlufft (U Freiburg)
Freestanding or loosely adjoined att/dass ('that')-clauses in Swedish and German
16.45-17.30 Simona Pekarek Doehler (U Neuchâtel)
Sequential organization and syntactic configurations in detachment constructions