Program
Program
- The 18th International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar
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Day 1: July 14, 2025 (Mon.)
9:00 – 9:30
Registration
9:30 – 9:40
Welcome
9:40 – 10:40
Keynote Lecture - From double-accusatives to passives and impersonals: Yaqui contributions to Role and Reference Grammar
Lilián Guerrero (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
10:40 – 11:00
Break
11:00 – 11:30
Adverbs and operator classes in Mexican languages
Sergio Ibáñez Cerda (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Armando Mora-Bustos (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana), Alejandra Ortiz (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana), and Antonio García (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia)
11:30 – 12:00
Re-examining the relative clauses in Amis
Joy J. Wu (National Taiwan Normal University)
12:00– 13:45
Lunch break
13:45 – 14:15
The juncture-nexus types and the interclausal relations of the evaluative complex predicates in Toda Seediq
Yuan-Lin Mickey Yang (National Taiwan Normal University)
14:15 – 14:45
On resultative V-V compounds in Japanese
Hideki Kishimoto (Kobe University)
14:45 – 15:15
Exploring the scope of nuclear subordination: Unifying restructuring, light verb, and linking verb constructions
Wataru Nakamura (Tohoku University)
15:15 – 15:35
Break
15:35 – 16:05
Perspectivization in argument representation for serial verbs in Taiwan Sign Language
Chien-hung Lin (Institute of Linguistics at National Chung Cheng University)
16:05 – 17:05
Special contribution:
Applying brain function with RRG to automate question-answering
John Ball (Founder and Chief Science Officer, Pat Inc.)
17:30– 19:30
Conference/Workshop Welcome Dinner (The dining hall, 1st floor of Takigawa Memorial Hall, Rokkodai 2nd Campus, Kobe University)
Day 2: July 15, 2025 (Tue.)
9:00 – 9:10
Registration
9:10 – 9:40
Holophrastic use of ideophones in Japanese
Kiyoko Toratani (York University)
9:40 – 10:10
Semantic Representation of Grammaticalization: A Case Study of the Verb 'bei2畀' in Cantonese within the RRG Framework
Chow Pui Lun (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
10:10 – 10:30
Break
10:30 – 11:00
The structure of simple sentences in Breton
Eric Corre (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
11:00 – 11:30
Locative adjuncts and their latent verb
Ronald P. Schaefer (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) and Francis O. Egbokhare (The University of Ibadan)
11:30– 13:15
Lunch break
13:45 – 14:15
On the syntax-semantics interface of the negative markers “đâu” and “nào” in Vietnamese
Thị Tuyết Mai Tăng (Ho Chi Minh City University of Education)
13:45 – 14:15
Types of ambiguity in reflexive constructions in German
Yoshiko Ono (Independent scholar)
14:15 – 14:45
Apprehensive modal marker 别bie35 ‘don’t’ in Mandarin Chinese
Ying Fan and Tiansong Lin
(Fujian University of Technology)
14:45 – 15:05
Break
15:05 – 15:35
Towards a new representation of discourse in RRG
Kata Balogh (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf), Delia Bentley (The University of Manchester), and Mitsuaki Shimojo (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York)
15:35 – 16:35
Keynote Lecture - Information structure and argument linking revisited
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
16:35 –16:40
Closing
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