AG 5 (Building B 4.1, room 0.26)
Sprachliche Kodierungs-Asymmetrien, Gebrauchsfrequenz und Informativität
Organizer
Martin Haspelmath, MPI-SHH Jena und Universität Leipzig, haspelmath@shh.mpg.de
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Call for abstracts
Short abstract
Asymmetrische Muster in der Morphosyntax sind ein Kernproblem der Grammatik und wurden früher oft mit dem Begriff Markiertheit beschrieben. Asymmetrische Paare wie Nominativ/Akkusativ, 3./2. Person, Singular/Plural, Präsens/Futur, Aktiv/Passiv, Lokativ/Ablativ werden manchmal auch mit Ikonizität erklärt, aber in dieser AG steht der Gesichtspunkt der Informativität im Vordergrund, denn es gibt viele Hinweise darauf, dass Gebrauchsfrequenz und Vorhersagbarkeit zentral für ihr Verständnis sind.
Program
Wedsneday, March 8th, 2017
| Time | Event |
| 13:45 – 14:45 | Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon Frequency, coding asymmetries, and the constant flow of linguistic information |
| 14:45 – 15.15 | Laura Becker & Matías Guzmán Naranjo Coding asymmetries, frequency and predictability: The case of to vs from |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Alice Blumenthal-Dramé & Bernd Kortmann Causal and concessive relations: Typology meets cognition |
| 15:45 – 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Livio Gaeta Diachrony as a source of coding asymmetries |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Geoffrey Khan Asymmetry in the historical development of the copula in Neo-Aramaic |
| 17:30 – 18:00 | Simon Kasper The asymmetry between morphology and word order with respect to informativity |
Thursday, March 9th, 2017
| Time | Event |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Sander Lestrade Simulating the development of encoding asymmetries in argument marking |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Natalia Levshina Explaining coding asymmetries: Frequency or informativity? |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Matti Miestamo Making sense of the asymmetry between affirmation and negation |
| 10:30 – 11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Na’ama Pat-El The Semitic Perfect and the problem of zero subjects |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Dirk Pijpops & Freek Van de Velde Processing shapes grammar: But whose processing are we talking about?? |
| 12:15 – 12:45 | Ulrike Schneider & Britta Mondorf Why bring is doing the splits: Exploring transitivity as an explanatory factor for coding asymmetries |
| 12:45 – 13:45 | Lunch break |
| 13:45 – 14:15 | Martin Haspelmath On the scope of the form-frequency correspondence principle |
| 14:15 – 14:45 | Karsten Schmidtke-Bode On the optionality of boundary markers (and pro-forms) of subordinate clauses |
Friday, March 10th, 2017
| Time | Event |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Ilja Seržant Towards functional motivation for the reduced third person indexing |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Helen Sims-Williams A diachronic mechanism for form-frequency asymmetries in inflectional paradigms |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Eva van Lier & Marlou van Rijn Differential possessive marking of arguments in action nominalizations: A typological survey |
| 13:00 – 13:30 | Jingting Ye Coding asymmetry between independent and dependent pronominal possessors: A cross-linguistic study |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Natalia Zaika Markedness disharmony in Basque |