Conference
Workshop 'Ellipsis licensing beyond syntax'
- Date
- 15 January 2016 - 16 January 2016
- Location
- Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- room 148 (Friday) and 002 (Saturday)
On 15 and 16 January LUCL will organise a workshop on 'Ellipsis licensing beyond syntax'
Program
Friday, 15 January 2016, Lipsius building, room 148
9.30-10.20 Introduction to the workshop: prosodic issues in ellipsis
10.20 - 11.20 Chris Tancredi (Keio University): The semantics/pragmatics of topic, focus and givenness
coffee break
11.40-12.40 Andrew Weir (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) : The prosodic licensing of (left-edge) ellipsis
lunch
14.15-15.15 Volker Struckmeier (University of Cologne): Two Kinds of Factors for Ellipsis and Copy Spellout
15.15-16.15 Jim McCloskey (with E. Elfner & R. Bennett) (University of California Santa Cruz): Incorporation, focus and the phonology of ellipsis in Irish
coffee break
16.40-17.40 Anikó Lipták (Leiden University): Preverb stranding in Hungarian: the role of accents
dinner
Saturday, 16 January 2016, Lipsius building, room 002
9.30-10.30 Chris Tancredi (Keio University): The phonology of topic, focus and givenness
10.30-11.30 Shinishiro Ishihara (Lund University): On Matches and Mismatches between Syntactic Clause and Intonational Phrase boundaries
coffee break
11.50-12.50 Hubert Truckenbrodt (ZAS Berlin): Prosody, information structure, and tonal height in German and Turkish in a cross-linguistic analysis
12.50-13.15 closing discussion
lunch (closing)