Venue
The workshop will take place in the Belle
exit of the shopping center (the last businesses you
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Van Zuylenzaal of the Academy building of
will see are Albert Heijn, Hema and the Chinese res-
> the SUB workshop (September 9th 2011)
Utrecht University (Domplein 29,
taurant Tai Soen).
Utrecht)
Once you have left the station complex, it’s
organized by Henriëtte de Swart, Martin Everaert, Joost
Zwarts, Ellen-Petra Kester, Bert Le Bruyn & Ana AguilarGuevara
only a 7 minute walk to the Domplein:
The Academy building is located in a corner of the (fairly big) Domplein (Cathedrale’s Square). In the following picture, it’s marked with a circle:
> invited speakers:
Travel
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Paula Menéndez-Benito
Luis Alonso-Ovalle
The easiest way to reach Utrecht and the
workshop is to come by train.
Once you are in the Station hall the only
challenge is to get to the right exit:
Walk towards ‘Smullers’ and pass it, leaving it to
your right. Walk straight on (passing Bruna, Australian and Charlie Chiu) until you reach ABN-Amro.
Take a right there and continue until you reach the
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Henriëtte de Swart
Trans 4, 3512 JK Utrecht
Room 1.46
@
[email protected]
www.hum.uu.nl/medewerkers/b.s.w.lebruyn/
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on nominal expressions that do not set up
10:15-11.00
individual discourse referents (e.g. John is
in jail. #It is a big building). Weakly referential nominals can appear bare (e.g. in jail),
11:00-11:15
coffee / tea
but in other cases they come with a (weak)
11:15-12:00
Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga
(University of Crete)
The distribution and interpretation of
bare singular count nouns in Greek
Elena Gorishneva
(ZAS & Humboldt)
Bare NPs vs. edin-NPs in Bulgariang
definite or even an indefinite article (listen
to the radio, take a taxi).
12:00-12:45
We aim to develop a cross-linguistic analysis of weakly referential nominals that does justice
to their lexical, syntactic and semantic properties.
12:45-14:15
lunch*
14:15-15:15
Paula Menéndez-Benito & Luis AlonsoOvalle
(University of Göttingen & McGill)
Scalarity and Dependent Plurality in
Spanish
15:15-15:30
coffee / tea
15:30-16:15
Maria Cieschinger & Peter Bosch
(University of Osnabrück)
Seemingly weak definites—German
preposition-determiner contractions
16:15-17:00
Kyle Rawlins
(John Hopkins)
Existential prepositional possessives
early evening
dinner at Delphi’s**
Alternates
Tibor Kiss et al. (Bochum University)
Our methodology includes corpus research, and
eye-tracking. Our analyses incorporate insights
from theories on idioms, dynamic theories of referentiality and bi-directional OT.
The weak referentiality project is Utrecht based and
brings together the following researchers:
Henriëtte de Swart
Martin Everaert
Joost Zwarts
Ellen-Petra Kester
Bert Le Bruyn
Ana Aguilar-Guevara
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semantics interface' (2008-2012) focuses
A refined model of determiner
omission in German PPs
* Lunch will be served in the canteen of Trans (reachable through
the garden of the Academy Building). We will have wok delivery to
make sure anyone can join (almost) last minute and choose something they like. We would like to ask a personal contribution of € 7.5
per person (to be paid cash on site).
** We will go for dinner at Delphi’s (see After the workshop). The
restaurant serves a three course group menu for € 29.95 per person
(excluding drinks) and is located close to the station. If you’re intending to join, please contact us at [email protected].
that is closest to Delphi’s
Gisi Cannizzaro et al.
(University of Groningen)
Are Dutch children delayed in their
production of scrambled
indefinites, too?
Shen Yuan
(Fudan University)
‘Weakly referential’ bare NPs in
Chinese
c. Entrance to the station complex
coffee / tea and welcome
09:30-10:15
b. Delphi’s (Neude 29)
ty: bare nominals at the lexicon-syntax-
09:00-09:30
a. Domplein
The NWO funded project 'Weak referentiali-
After the workshop
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Programme