Program
Thursday 30.01.2020
From 18.30: warming up @ Zur Schönen Müllerin
Friday 31.01.2020
Campus Westend, IG 0.454
9.00 – 9.30: registration
9.30 – 10.00: opening
10.00 – 11.00: Invited talk by Klaus von Heusinger (University of Cologne). Postnominal demonstratives and adjectives [abstract]
11.00 – 11.15: coffee
11.15 – 11.55: Ahmad Al-Bitar (Goethe University Frankfurt). On the superlative in Syrian Arabic [abstract]
11.55 – 12.35: Carolin Reinert (Goethe University Frankfurt). On the compositionality of adjective noun constructions [abstract]
12.35 – 14.00: lunch @ Mensa Westend
14:00 – 14:40 Astrid Gößwein (Goethe University Frankfurt). A comparison of German participle constructions and relative clauses in online processing [abstract]
14.40 – 15.20: Merle Weicker (Goethe University Frankfurt). The role of semantic complexity for the acquisition of adjectives [abstract]
15.20 – 15.40: coffee
15.40 – 16.20: Lydia Grohe (Goethe University Frankfurt). Big square table or square big table: adjective ordering preferences in acquisition [abstract]
16.20 – 17.20: Invited talk by Louise McNally (Pompeu Fabra University). Adjectival modifiers in a multi-level semantics [abstract]
From 19.00: dinner @ Cafe Metropol
Saturday 01.02.2020
Campus Bockenheim, H10
9.30 – 10.30: Invited talk by Zoe Belk (University College London). A sheyne vertl: What Yiddish can tell us about adjectival modification [abstract]
10.30 – 11.10: Priscilla Lola Adenuga (Goethe University Frankfurt). A dual function of attributive modifiers in Ògè [abstract]
11.10 – 11.25: coffee
11.25 – 12.05: Ruby Sleeman (Goethe University Frankfurt). Modifying superlatives: cardinal or ordinal? [abstract]
12.05 – 13.30: lunch @ Leipziger Straße
13.30 – 14.10: Kathryn Barnes (Goethe University Frankfurt). Gradability and scales in modals: A semantic analysis of root necessity modals in Malay [abstract]
14.10 – 15.10: Invited talk by Petra Sleeman (University of Amsterdam). Superlatives and licensing of non-modal infinitival subject relatives [abstract]
15.10 - 15.15: closing