Program
program
Wed 6 March
13:45-14:15 Introduction by organizers [slides]
14:15-15:15 Peter Jenks (invited). Anaphoric definites as anchored definites [slides]
15:15-15:45 Ruoying Zhao. Temporal definiteness [slides]
15:45-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:00 Alexandra Simonenko and Anne Carlier. Maximality and situation-sensitivity: The evolution of French possessives [slides]
17:00-17:30 Dominika Skrzypek and Alicja Piotrowska. Familiar vs. unique in a diachronic perspective: Case study of North Germanic [slides]
17:30-18:00 Jan Dvorak. The emerging definite article ten in contemporary (spoken) Czech: a further analysis in terms of ‘semantic’ and ‘pragmatic’ definiteness [handout]
Thu 7 March
9:00-9:30 Olga Borik and Daria Seres. Definiteness in the absence of uniqueness: the case of Russian [slides]
9:30-10:00 Halima Husic and Agata Renans. The definite interpretation carried by accusative is an implicature — evidence from Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian [slides]
10:00-10:30 Ljudmila Geist. Definiteness without determiners
10:30-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-11:45 Fereshteh Modarresi and Manfred Krifka. Bare noun vs. indefinite objects in Persian and their anaphoric uptake [slides]
11:45-12:15 Klaus von Heusinger and Roya Sadeghpoor. Strong definites in Colloquial Persian and referentiality
12:15-12:45 Miriam Yifrach and Elizabeth Coppock. Definiteness-marking in Turoyo
12:45-13:45 Lunch break
13:45-14:45 Liz Coppock (invited). Relative readings of definite comparatives
Fri 8 March
11:30-12:00 Klaus von Heusinger and Andreas Brocher. Indefinite demonstratives, definiteness and referentiality [slides]
12:00-12:30 Frederike Weeber. Conditions for weak readings in German
12:30-13:00 Fereshteh Modarresi, Jette Fortmann and Manfred Krifka. Weak definites vs. implicit entities vs. indefinites in German [slides]
13:00-13:30 Stefan Hinterwimmer and Umesh Patil. A comparison of anaphoric complex demonstratives and demonstrative pronouns [slides]
13:30-14:00 Werner Frey and Jette Fortmann. German weak definites and incorporation [slides]