Anaphoric uses of demonstrative expressions
Workshop at the 29th annual meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS)
28 February - 2 March, 2007, Siegen 

workshop programme (+ handouts/presentations)
(including the plenary programme)



Wednesday, 28.2.2007
10.00 – 12.30 plenary talks by Harald Baayan (MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) and John Hawkins (University of Cambridge)
12.30 – 14.00 lunch break
workshop sessions, workshop "Anaphoric uses of demonstrative expressions":
14.00 – 15.00 Konrad Ehlich
(Institut für Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Transnationale Germanistik, Universität München)
Anadeixis — Anaphora (abstract)
15.00 – 15.30 Maria Averintseva-Klisch (Universität Tübingen),
Manfred Consten (Universität Jena)
Can Demonstratives be Discourse Topics? Evidence from German Right Dislocation (abstract, handout)
15.30 – 16.00 Olga Krasavina
(Moscow State University, Humboldt University of Berlin),
Christian Chiarcos (University of Potsdam)
Aspects of topicality in the use of demonstrative expressions in German and Russian (abstract, presentation)
16.00 – 16.30 coffee break
16.30 – 17.00 Peter Bosch, Carla Umbach
(Universität Osnabrück)
Some apparently unconnected parameters in demonstrative reference (abstract, presentation)
17.00 – 17.30 Frances Wilson, Frank Keller, Antonella Sorace
(University of Edinburgh)
Antecedent preferences of personal pronouns and anaphoric demonstratives in German in comprehension (abstract, presentation)
17.30 – 18.30 Klaus Geyer 
(University of Vilnius)
Two systems of anaphorically used pronouns in plain text and in reported speech: der/die and its counterparts in spoken German (abstract, handout)
18.00 – 18.30 Jenny Audring 
(Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Gender loss and demonstrative anaphors (abstract)
19.00 – ... "Geselliger Abend" (social event)

Thursday, 1.3.2007
workshop sessions, workshop "Anaphoric uses of demonstrative expressions":
cancelled Massimo Poesio
(University of Essex, University of Trento)
Salience and demonstratives: a corpus-based analysis (abstract)
9.30 – 10.00 Emmanuel Schang
(Université d'Orléans)
Anaphoric use of the demonstrative article in Saotomense (abstract, presentation)
10.00 – 10.30 André Bittar
(Université Paris 7)
Some constraints on anaphoric reference to events in French (abstract, presentation)
10.30 – 11.00 Iker Zulaica 
(Ohio State University)
Neuter Demonstrative Expressions and Temporal Perspective: An Integrated Approach (abstract, presentation)
11.00 – 11.30 coffee break
11.30 – 12.00 Francis Cornish
(University of Toulouse-Le Mirail)
Deictic, discourse-deictic and anaphoric uses of demonstrative expressions in English (abstract, handout)
12.00 – 12.30 Milena Kühnast, Dagmar Bittner, Natalia Gagarina, Insa Gülzow
(Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin)
Comprehension and production of anaphoric demonstratives by German-, Russian-, and Bulgarian-speaking children (abstract, presentation)
12.30 – 13.00 Jacqueline van Kampen, Manuela Pinto
(UiL OTS, Utrecht University)
Anaphoric demonstratives in acquisition (abstract, presentation)
13.00 – 14.30 lunch break
DGfS-SIG Computational linguistics: posters and demonstrations
14.30 – 18.30 DGfS general meeting
19.30  reception by the mayor of Siegen

Friday, 2.3.2007
9.00 – 11.00 plenary talks by Peter Auer (Universität Freiburg) and Michael Tomasello (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
workshop sessions, workshop "Anaphoric uses of demonstrative expressions":
11.30 – 12.00 Marjan Fanaei , Mojgan Fanaei
(Islamic Azad University, Shahreza)
Anaphoric and Deictic use of Demonstrative expressions in Old Persian (abstract)
12.00 – 12.30 Ananda Lima
(University of California, Los Angeles)
Exhaustivity in anaphoric simple demonstratives in Portuguese (abstract, handout)
12.30 – 13.00 Tanja Milicev
(University of Novi Sad, Radboud University Nijmegen)
Weak and strong demonstratives in Old English (abstract)
13.00 – 14.00 Elsi Kaiser
(University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
Comparing pronominal and demonstrative anaphors in Finnish and Estonian (abstract)

For details of the plenary programme see also the web pages of the “29. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft”.
You will also find links there concerning travel and accommodation.

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