Program

Wednesday, 6 March 2019

13:45 – 14:45 Invited speaker. Katja Jasinskaja: On the disambiguation of but

14:45 – 15:15 Regina Zieleke: German contrastive connectives beyond aber

15:15 – 15:45 Jonathon D. Coltz: Parallel puzzles: Concessives, adversatives, and presuppositions in infelicitous conditionals

Coffee break

16:30 – 17:00 Werner Frey: Linking some syntactic and semantic features of concessives and adversatives

17:00 – 17:30 Madeleine Butschety: Epistemic vs. concessive at least: A matter of epistemic Uncertainty

17:30 – 18:00 Doris Penka: A closer look at concessive at least in English and German

Thursday, 7 March 2019

09:00 – 09:30 Ekkehard König: Concessivity: Admissible and inadmissible background assumption

09:30 – 10:30 Elena Karagjosova: On the type of concession expressed by concessive subjunctions and bipartite concessive constructions in German: a synchronic and diachronic analysis

Coffee break

11:15 – 11:45 Lukas Rieser: Frustrated expectation and conditional modality: the Japanese concessive no-ni

11:45 – 12:15 Ksenia Ershova & Itamar Francez: From Quotation to Concession: The Case of East Circassian

12:15 – 12:45 Hanzhi Zhu: The additivity of concessive still

Lunch break

13:45–14:45 Invited speaker. Mingya Liu: The Siblings in the Shadow of if: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives

Friday, 8 March 2019

11:30 – 12:30 Laura Baranzini & Alda Mari: Concessivity: reasoning per absurdum with epistemic modals and adversatives

12:30 – 13:00 Maria Barouni: Concessive elements and the role of superlative morphology

13:00 – 14:00 Martina Faller: Concessive conditionals with non-scalar additives in Cuzco Quechua and German

For the rest of the DGfS program go to: http://www.dgfs2019.uni-bremen.de/programme