International Conference on Information Structure 2015

Final Conference of the SFB 632 Information Structure: Advances in Information Structure Research 2003 - 2015

8 - 9 May, 2015 at the Auditorium, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum Berlin

Invited speakers

  • Felix Ameka (Leiden University)
  • Aoju Chen (Utrecht University)
  • Heidi Wind Cowles (University of Florida)
  • Danny Fox (MIT)
  • Ans van Kemenade (Radboud University Nijmegen)
  • Detmar Meurers (University of Tübingen)

Program

Donwloadable information about: program and poster session

Friday, 8th May Saturday, 9th May
9:00
  • Malte Zimmermann
  • Opening remarks
 9:00
  • Aoju Chen (invited speaker)
  • Production and comprehension of focus-to-prosody mapping in children: Developmental trajectory and individual differences
9:30
  • Danny Fox (invited speaker)
  • Embedded late merge and the presupposition of traces
 10:00
  • Frank Kügler (D5)
  • The prosodic expression of focus – Between language-specifity and cross-linguistic similarities
10:30 COFFEE BREAK 10:45 COFFEE BREAK
11:00
  • Radek Šimík & Marta Wierzba (A1)
  • Expression of information structure in West Slavic: Modeling the impact of prosodic and word order factors
 11:15
  • Susanne Genzel & Mira Grubic & Agata Renans (A5&D5)
  • Focus marking strategies in selected African languages
11:45
  • Andreas Haida (A2)
  • Focus in counterfactual conditionals
 12:00
  • Victoria Apel & Peggy Jacob & Henok Wondimu (B7)
  • A discourse-corpus approach to focus constructions in three African languages (Gamo, Kenga, and Pular)
12:30 LUNCH BREAK 12:45 LUNCH BREAK
13:45
  • Ans van Kemenade (invited speaker)
  • Clause-initial demonstratives, information structure, and the development of verb second and hypotaxis
 14:00
  • Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz (C3)
  • Non-canonical word order and hearer-givenness: How children with Specific Language Impairment comprehend spatial sentences
14:45
  • Ulrike Demske (B11)
  • Adverbials at the left periphery: Syntax and information structure in Early New High German
 14:45
  • Katharina Spalek (C7)
  • The influence of focus particles on language processing and language representation
15:30 POSTER SESSION 15:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:00
  • Heidi Wind Cowles (invited speaker)
  • Memory and alternatives in focus processing
17:00
  • Detmar Meurers (invited speaker)
  • Annotating information structure: On integrating different sources of evidence
 17:00
  • Malte Zimmermann
  • Final remarks
18:30 CONFERENCE DINNER

Venue

The conference will take place at the Auditorium at the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimmzentrum

  • Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
  • Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 3
  • 10117 Berlin

The postersession will take place at the Humboldt University of Berlin

  • Humboldt University of Berlin
  • Dorotheenstraße 24, Room 1.102
  • 10117 Berlin

Dinner

The conference dinner will take place at the 12 Apostel.

  • 12 Apostel
  • Georgenstraße 2
  • 10117 Berlin