Explorations in Syntactic Government and Subcategorisation
Wednesday 31 August 2011 - Saturday 3 September 2011
University of Cambridge, UK
Programme
WEDNESDAY • THURSDAY • FRIDAY • SATURDAY • Other accepted papers
Keynote speakers
- Farrell Ackerman (UC San Diego)
'Predicates and argument selection: unselected objects in Moro' - Balthasar Bickel (Zurich)
'Government and agreement: what's where why?' - Christian Lehmann (Erfurt)
'Conceptual bases and structural correlates of government' - Silvia Luraghi (Pavia)
'A canonical approach to government and the case for variable case' - Andrej Malchukov (Mainz/ MPI Leipzig/ Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg)
'Predicting case frames across languages: a competing motivations approach to (differential) case marking' - Adam Przepiórkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
'Automatic acquisition of subcategorisation from large text corpora' - Ian Roberts (Cambridge)
'Government, agreement and minimality' - Peter Sells (SOAS London/ York)
'A declarative perspective on agreement and government' - Andrew Spencer (Essex)
'Governed cases vs semantic cases - a view from morphology' - Nigel Vincent & Kersti Börjars (Manchester)
'Arguments with adjectives'
Participation of the non-UK speakers has been made possible thanks to a Conference Support Grant from the British Academy.
WEDNESDAY 31 August 2011
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| 9:00 - 9:55 | REGISTRATION |
| 9:55 - 10:00 | WELCOME |
| Chair: | Eva Schultze-Berndt (The University of Manchester) |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Keynote talk: 'Conceptual bases and structural correlates of
government'
[abstract]
[handout] Christian Lehmann (University of Erfurt) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | TEA/COFFEE |
| Chair: | Adam Przepiórkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | 'Syntactic government and subcategorisation: an overview' Anna Kibort (University of Cambridge & Surrey Morphology Group) |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | 'Clausal identity types'
[abstract]
[slides] Dorothee Beermann (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | 'Agreement and government in adjective attribution marking'
[abstract]
[slides] Michael Rießler (University of Freiburg) |
| 13:00 - 14:15 | LUNCH |
| 14:15 - 14:45 | Group 1 visit to the Wren Library, Trinity College by special permission of the Librarian, Prof. David McKitterick |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Group 2 visit to the Wren Library, Trinity College by special permission of the Librarian, Prof. David McKitterick |
| Chair: | Andrew Spencer (University of Essex) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | 'The alternating predicate puzzle: comparing Icelandic and German'
[abstract]
[slides] Jóhanna Barðdal (University of Bergen) & Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | 'Examining competition in sentential complementation, with evidence
from large electronic corpora' [abstract] Martti Juhani Rudanko (University of Tampere) |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Keynote talk: 'Arguments with adjectives'
[abstract]
[slides] Nigel Vincent & Kersti Börjars (The University of Manchester) |
| 19:30 | Dinner at the Bella Italia at the Watermill (Cambridge CB3 9EY). Beautiful location on the river. Student discount 50% on all food on Wednesdays. |
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THURSDAY 1 September 2011
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| 9:00 - 9:15 | In Memoriam Anna Siewierska |
| Chair: | Christian Lehmann (University of Erfurt) |
| 9:15 - 10:15 | Keynote talk: 'Government and agreement: what's where why?'
[abstract]
[slides] Balthasar Bickel (University of Zurich) |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | 'Topic and government in Thai, an isolating language'
[abstract]
[slides] Makoto Minegishi (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | TEA/COFFEE |
| Chair: | Jim Blevins (University of Cambridge) |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | 'Gradience in subcategorisation? Locative phrases with Italian verbs of motion'
[abstract]
[handout] Michela Cennamo (University of Naples) & Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa) |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | 'Looking for the governor, or the problem of argument status in double-marking
languages. A Conctruction Grammar perspective'
[abstract]
[slides] Eva Schultze-Berndt (The University of Manchester) |
| 12:15 - 13:15 | Keynote talk: 'Predicates and argument selection: unselected
objects in Moro'
[abstract]
[slides] Farrell Ackerman (University of Calfornia San Diego) |
| 13:15 - 14:15 | LUNCH |
| Chair: | Peter Sells (SOAS London/ University of York) |
| 14:15 - 14:45 | 'Inconsistent governors and challenging complements: a generative perspective'
[abstract] Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge) |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | 'Head & dependent marking and the Pamiri verb: a defaults-based
account in Network Morphology'
[abstract]
[slides]
[handout] Andrew Hippisley & Greg Stump (University of Kentucky) |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | 'Tracking the dependencies of dependencies'
[abstract]
[handout] Niina Ning Zhang (National Chung Cheng University) |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | TEA/COFFEE |
| Chair: | David Lightfoot (Georgetown University) |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | 'Government in Dependency Grammar'
[abstract]
[slides] Timothy Osborne & Thomas Gross (Aichi University) |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Keynote talk: 'Government, agreement and minimality'
[abstract]
[handout] Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge) |
| 19:30 - 23:00 | EVENING EVENT Conference dinner at Queens' College, Cambridge (the Old Hall) |
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FRIDAY 2 September 2011
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| Chair: | Edith Moravcsik (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Keynote talk: 'Predicting case frames across languages:
a competing motivations approach to (differential) case marking'
[abstract]
[slides] Andrej Malchukov (Mainz/ MPI Leipzig/ Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | 'To agree or not to agree: what variable case government tells us
about possessor raising'
[abstract]
[handout] Joan Maling (Brandeis University) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | TEA/COFFEE |
| Chair: | Tibor Laczkó (University of Debrecen) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | 'Structural government effects in Hungarian locative incorporation'
[abstract]
[handout] Balazs Suranyi (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | 'Case government vs case agreement: modelling Modern Greek case attraction
phenomena in LFG'
[abstract]
[handout] Kakia Chatsiou (University of Essex) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Keynote talk: 'A declarative perspective on agreement and government'
[abstract]
[slides] Peter Sells (SOAS University of London/ University of York) |
| 13:00 - 14:15 | LUNCH |
| Chair: | Tibor Kiss (Ruhr University Bochum) |
| 14:15 - 14:45 | 'Modeling subcategorization through co-occurrence: a computational lexical
resource for Italian verbs'
[abstract]
[slides] Gabriella Lapesa (University of Osnabrück) & Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa) |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | 'Fine-grained valence acquisition from large corpora for treebank grammars'
[abstract]
[slides] Tejaswini Deoskar (University of Edinburgh) |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | 'Learning relational nouns from corpora'
[abstract]
[slides] Berthold Crysmann (University of Bonn) |
| 15:45 - 16:45 | POSTER/SYSTEM SESSION |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | TEA/COFFEE |
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'Syntactic government patterns in the Sketch Engine and in syntagmatic dictionaries for Estonian'
[abstract]
[poster] Jelena Kallas (Institute of the Estonian Language, Tallinn University) 'Government models for cross-lingual transformations' [abstract] [poster] Elena Kozerenko (Institute for Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences) 'Directional asymmetry in agreement and case-marking: deriving Greenberg's Universals 33 and 41' [abstract] [poster] Hisao Tokizaki (Sapporo University) 'Valency classes and the coding of arguments in the Leipzig Valency Project' [poster] Andrej Malchukov, Iren Hartmann, Martin Haspelmath, Bernard Comrie & Søren Wichmann (Max Planck Institute Leipzig) 'Catenae. Rising. Morph catenae. Clitics.' [poster] Thomas Gross (Aichi University) & Timothy Osborne | |
| Chair: | Lars Hellan (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) |
| 16:45 - 17:45 | Keynote talk: 'Automatic acquisition of subcategorisation
from large text corpora'
[abstract]
[slides] Adam Przepiórkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) |
| 19:30 | Dinner at the St. John's Chop House (Northampton St, Cambridge CB3 0AD). North-west edge of the city centre, in a characterful 17th century building. Top class British food, including non-meat options. |
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SATURDAY 3 September 2011
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| Chair: | Joan Maling (Brandeis University) |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Keynote talk: 'A canonical approach to government and the
case for variable case'
[abstract]
[slides] Silvia Luraghi (University of Pavia) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | 'Modelling variable government in Russian pseudosynonymous verb-preposition
constructions: a Construction Grammar approach'
[abstract]
[slides]
[handout] Irina Iakovleva (Ulyanovsk State University) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | TEA/COFFEE |
| Chair: | Jim Blevins (University of Cambridge) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | 'On adverbial complements in German'
[abstract]
[slides] Tibor Kiss, Antje Müller & Claudia Roch (Ruhr University Bochum) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | 'Locative particle dependencies in Hungarian'
[abstract]
[slides] György Rákosi & Tibor Laczkó (University of Debrecen) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Keynote talk: 'Governed cases vs semantic cases - a view from morphology'
[abstract]
[slides] Andrew Spencer (University of Essex) |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 | END of conference |
| 19:30 | Dinner for those who are still around at the Café Rouge (Bridge St, Cambridge CB2 1UJ). |
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Other accepted papers
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Paper which were accepted but could not be presented at the conference:
- 'Empirical valency research and the problem of predicting syntactic behaviour from semantics'
[abstract]
Susen Faulhaber & Thomas Herbst (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg)
- 'Verbal "stem-agreement" in Algonquian languages as semantic-constructional selectionality'
[abstract]
Conor McDonough Quinn (University of Southern Maine)
- 'Non-subcategorized CP arguments in German'
[abstract]
Jennifer Rau (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
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