Jeudi 25.07.2013 (sessions)


08:30-10:00 KEYNOTE

08:30 - 10:00 Keynote lecture in room: MR380
(keynote)
Tecumseh FITCH
The Evolution of Language : A Comparative Biological Viewpoint
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10:00-10:30 COFFEE BREAK


10:30-12:30

10:30 - 11:00 Session: 1 Saussure and his legacy (Frederick Newmeyer) in room: B101
(oral presentation)
Reinier SALVERDA
De Saussure and Language play
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10:30 - 11:30 Session: 2 Origin of language and human cognition (Anne Reboul) in room: MR070
(oral presentation)
Anne REBOUL
The social evolution of language and the necessity of implicit communication
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10:30 - 11:00 Session: 6A Semantics-pragmatics interfaces (Kai von Fintel & David Beaver) in room: MR290
(oral presentation)
Laia MAYOL et al.
Contrastive Topic and Conversational Implicature Cancellation
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10:30 - 11:00 Session: 7 Psycholinguistics (Uli Frauenfelder) in room: MS150
(oral presentation)
Jongsup JUN
Multi-Variate Interaction in Children's Acquisition of English Derivational Morphology
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10:30 - 11:00 Session: 8 Sociolinguistics and multilingualism (Edgar Schneider) in room: MR080
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Eleni SAVVA
Boundaries between Standard Modern Greek and Cypriot Greek, as perceived by their native speakers
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10:30 - 11:00 Session: 9 Experimental and computational approaches to language and linguistic (Eric Wehrli) in room: MS130
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Martin VOLK
Building a Multilingual Heritage Corpus. A Case Study in Digital Humanities
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10:30 - 11:00 Session: 6B Pragmatics, Discourse and Cognition (Horn & Kecskes) in room: MR280
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Mira ARIEL
Interpreting or Constructions
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11:00 - 11:30 Session: 1 Saussure and his legacy (Frederick Newmeyer) in room: B101
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Michelle BRAZÃO
The importance of foreign languages in Saussure's studies
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11:00 - 11:30 Session: 6A Semantics-pragmatics interfaces (Kai von Fintel & David Beaver) in room: MR290
(oral presentation)
Christopher DAVIS
Focus Particles, GIVENness, and Wh-Questions in A Southern Ryukyuan Language
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11:00 - 11:30 Session: 7 Psycholinguistics (Uli Frauenfelder) in room: MS150
(oral presentation)
Chiara MELLONI et al.
Antisymmetry In Early Two-Word Utterances
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11:00 - 11:30 Session: 8 Sociolinguistics and multilingualism (Edgar Schneider) in room: MR080
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Concha Maria HÖFLER
Constructing and negotiating inter- and intra group boundaries in Georgia's Greek community
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11:00 - 11:30 Session: 9 Experimental and computational approaches to language and linguistic (Eric Wehrli) in room: MS130
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Giuseppe G. A. CELANO
The Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank: Grammatical and Technical Nodes
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11:00 - 11:30 Session: 6B Pragmatics, Discourse and Cognition (Horn & Kecskes) in room: MR280
(oral presentation)
Noureddine ELOUAZIZI et al.
Ostensive demonstratives in multimodal contexts
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11:30 - 12:00 Session: 1 Saussure and his legacy (Frederick Newmeyer) in room: B101
(oral presentation)
Antonio DOMÍNGUEZ REY
The Notional a priori of the Ontological and Predicative Correlation of Language
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11:30 - 12:00 Session: 2 Origin of language and human cognition (Anne Reboul) in room: MR070
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Philippe SCHLENKER et al.
Dialectal variation in the meanings of Campbell's monkey alarm calls
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11:30 - 12:00 Session: 6A Semantics-pragmatics interfaces (Kai von Fintel & David Beaver) in room: MR290
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Allyson ETTINGER et al.
Mandarin utterance-final particle ba in the conversational scoreboard
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11:30 - 12:00 Session: 7 Psycholinguistics (Uli Frauenfelder) in room: MS150
(oral presentation)
Shruti SHRUTI SIRCAR et al.
Associations between grammatical development and reading comprehension: evidence from Bengali school children
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11:30 - 12:00 Session: 8 Sociolinguistics and multilingualism (Edgar Schneider) in room: MR080
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Alina BUGHESIU
A sociolinguistic approach to virtual names in the context of migration
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11:30 - 12:00 Session: 6B Pragmatics, Discourse and Cognition (Horn & Kecskes) in room: MR280
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Christian LEHMANN
Approaches to the typology of referentiality
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12:00 - 12:30 Session: 2 Origin of language and human cognition (Anne Reboul) in room: MR070
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Andrea RAVIGNANI et al.
Dependency sensitivity is not uniquely human: evidence from a New World primate
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12:00 - 12:30 Session: 1 Saussure and his legacy (Frederick Newmeyer) in room: B101
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Zdzisław WĄSIK
Epistemological perspectives on the bilateral sign and the duality of language exhibited in Ferdinand de Saussure's Cours de linguistique générale
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12:00 - 12:30 Session: 6A Semantics-pragmatics interfaces (Kai von Fintel & David Beaver) in room: MR290
(oral presentation)
Christopher TANCREDI et al.
Qualities and Translations
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12:00 - 12:30 Session: 8 Sociolinguistics and multilingualism (Edgar Schneider) in room: MR080
(oral presentation)
Maria STOPFNER
The Construction of Identity in User Comments of the Far and Extreme Right
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12:00 - 12:30 Session: 9 Experimental and computational approaches to language and linguistic (Eric Wehrli) in room: MS130
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Michael PIOTROWSKI
Towards Concept-Based Information Retrieval for Historical Texts
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12:00 - 12:30 Session: 6B Pragmatics, Discourse and Cognition (Horn & Kecskes) in room: MR280
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Liana POP
Controle des representations
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12:30-14:00 LUNCH


14:00-16:00

14:00 - 14:30 Session: 2 Origin of language and human cognition (Anne Reboul) in room: MR070
(oral presentation)
Adrien MEGUERDITCHIAN et al.
Social interaction among baboons: issues of coordination and mutual alignment in non-human primates
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14:00 - 15:00 Session: 5 Theoretical and comparative syntax (Luigi Rizzi) in room: MS160
(oral presentation)
Luigi RIZZI
Theoretical and comparative syntax - some current issues
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14:00 - 14:30 Session: 8 Sociolinguistics and multilingualism (Edgar Schneider) in room: MR080
(oral presentation)
Adcharawan BURIPAKDI
Cosmopolitan English: Acts of Appropriation and Negotiating English Hegemony in Thailand
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14:00 - 14:30 Session: 6B Pragmatics, Discourse and Cognition (Horn & Kecskes) in room: MR280
(oral presentation)
Stefanie RÖHRIG
Evidence for context-dependent interpretation of und
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14:30 - 15:00 Session: 2 Origin of language and human cognition (Anne Reboul) in room: MR070
(oral presentation)
Lluís BARCELÓ-COBLIJN
On Evolution and the codifying properties of communication systems in primates
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14:30 - 15:00 Session: 8 Sociolinguistics and multilingualism (Edgar Schneider) in room: MR080
(oral presentation)
Ying WANG et al.
Social Identity and Cantonese Learning: The Impact of the Length of Residence and Gender on Mainland Chinese Students in Hong Kong
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14:30 - 15:00 Session: 6B Pragmatics, Discourse and Cognition (Horn & Kecskes) in room: MR280
(oral presentation)
Patricia AMARAL et al.
An experimental approach to Levinson's M-based implicatures
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15:00 - 15:30 Session: 2 Origin of language and human cognition (Anne Reboul) in room: MR070
(oral presentation)
Jeffrey WATUMULL et al.
Comparative evolutionary approaches to I-Language/E-language: On theory and methods
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15:00 - 15:30 Session: 5 Theoretical and comparative syntax (Luigi Rizzi) in room: MS160
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Guglielmo CINQUE et al.
DP and CP: a Relativized Minimality approach to one of their non parallelism(s)
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15:00 - 15:30 Session: 8 Sociolinguistics and multilingualism (Edgar Schneider) in room: MR080
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Keiko HIRANO
A new-dialect formation in an L2 setting: A rudimentary levelling among native speakers of English in Japan
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15:00 - 15:30 Session: 6B Pragmatics, Discourse and Cognition (Horn & Kecskes) in room: MR280
(oral presentation)
Cecile BARBET et al.
Generating scalar implicatures: context, defaultness, and sense-selection
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15:30 - 16:00 Session: 2 Origin of language and human cognition (Anne Reboul) in room: MR070
(oral presentation)
Ermenegildo BIDESE et al.
Why generative linguistics does resist the concept of Protolanguage
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15:30 - 16:00 Session: 5 Theoretical and comparative syntax (Luigi Rizzi) in room: MS160
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Ur SHLONSKY
Labels, phases and VSO order
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15:30 - 16:00 Session: 8 Sociolinguistics and multilingualism (Edgar Schneider) in room: MR080
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Jakob LEIMGRUBER
Visualising multilingualism: Linguistic landscapes in Singapore, Wales, and Québec
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15:30 - 16:00 Session: 6B Pragmatics, Discourse and Cognition (Horn & Kecskes) in room: MR280
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Jessica SOLTYS et al.
Why imply something when you could say it explicitly? Cross-cultural motivations for off-record indirect speech
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16:00-16:30 COFFEE BREAK


16:30-18:30

16:30 - 17:00 Session: 2 Origin of language and human cognition (Anne Reboul) in room: MR070
(oral presentation)
Cedric BOECKX
Lexicon, Syntax, and Grammar: Biolinguistic concerns
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16:30 - 17:00 Session: 5 Theoretical and comparative syntax (Luigi Rizzi) in room: MS160
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Ameen ALAHDAL
On C/T-v relation: Feature inheritance and feature sharing
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16:30 - 17:00 Session: 6A Semantics-pragmatics interfaces (Kai von Fintel & David Beaver) in room: MR290
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Ariel COHEN
Embedded Epistemic Modals: An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation
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16:30 - 17:00 Session: 7 Psycholinguistics (Uli Frauenfelder) in room: MS150
(oral presentation)
Romy LASSOTTA et al.
Garden-path recovery and cognitive control in children and adults: Evidence from French wh-questions with filled-gaps
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16:30 - 17:00 Session: 8 Sociolinguistics and multilingualism (Edgar Schneider) in room: MR080
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Olga IVANOVA
Language identity and identification in a Post-Soviet bilingual community
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16:30 - 17:30 Session: 9 Experimental and computational approaches to language and linguistic (Eric Wehrli) in room: MS130
(oral presentation)
Eric WEHRLI
Collocations and anaphora resolution in machine translation
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16:30 - 17:00 Session: 6B Pragmatics, Discourse and Cognition (Horn & Kecskes) in room: MR280
(oral presentation)
Chiou-shing YEH et al.
Psych-verbs in Sinitic Languages: Lexical Properties, Constructions and Speaker's Epistemological Stances
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17:00 - 17:30 Session: 2 Origin of language and human cognition (Anne Reboul) in room: MR070
(oral presentation)
Koji FUJITA
A Merge-only Theory of Human Language Evolution: How Plausible Is It?
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17:00 - 17:30 Session: 5 Theoretical and comparative syntax (Luigi Rizzi) in room: MS160
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Anna GREENWOOD
Questioning anti-c-command: A comparative study of parasitic gaps
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17:00 - 17:30 Session: 6A Semantics-pragmatics interfaces (Kai von Fintel & David Beaver) in room: MR290
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Luis ALONSO-OVALLE et al.
Modal indefinites beyond speaker ignorance: "uno cualquiera" and "algún que otro"
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17:00 - 17:30 Session: 7 Psycholinguistics (Uli Frauenfelder) in room: MS150
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Maria Teresa GUASTI et al.
When sensitivity to syntactic structure and contrastive stress start to influence children sentence continuation?
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17:00 - 17:30 Session: 8 Sociolinguistics and multilingualism (Edgar Schneider) in room: MR080
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Evguenia SEREBRENNIKOVA et al.
La synergie du nouveau multilingualisme: vu de la Siberie
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17:00 - 17:30 Session: 6B Pragmatics, Discourse and Cognition (Horn & Kecskes) in room: MR280
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Cristina GRISOT
Cross-linguistic variation in verb tenses: conceptual and procedural information
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17:30 - 18:00 Session: 2 Origin of language and human cognition (Anne Reboul) in room: MR070
(oral presentation)
Rie ASANO
Biolinguistics and Biomusicology: Investigating the evolution of human cognitive systems and their 'humaniqueness'
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17:30 - 18:00 Session: 5 Theoretical and comparative syntax (Luigi Rizzi) in room: MS160
(oral presentation)
Thomas LEU
Generalized x-to-C
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17:30 - 18:00 Session: 6A Semantics-pragmatics interfaces (Kai von Fintel & David Beaver) in room: MR290
(oral presentation)
Jessica RETT et al.
The effects of syntax on the acquisition of evidentiality
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17:30 - 18:00 Session: 7 Psycholinguistics (Uli Frauenfelder) in room: MS150
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Kyriakos ANTONIOU
The impact of bilingualism on children's pragmatic and cognitive development
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17:30 - 18:00 Session: 8 Sociolinguistics and multilingualism (Edgar Schneider) in room: MR080
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Anastassia ZABRODSKAJA
Attitudes towards multilingual signs in monolingual from above and multilingual from below Tallinn
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17:30 - 18:00 Session: 9 Experimental and computational approaches to language and linguistic (Eric Wehrli) in room: MS130
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Anne ABEILLE et al.
French polar questions: a corpus study
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17:30 - 18:00 Session: 6B Pragmatics, Discourse and Cognition (Horn & Kecskes) in room: MR280
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Kasia M. JASZCZOLT
Temporal reference in discourse: A modality-based asymmetric account
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18:00 - 18:30 Session: 5 Theoretical and comparative syntax (Luigi Rizzi) in room: MS160
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James MCCLOSKEY
Focus and the Grammar of Exceptives in Irish
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18:00 - 18:30 Session: 6A Semantics-pragmatics interfaces (Kai von Fintel & David Beaver) in room: MR290
(oral presentation)
Regine ECKARDT
Speaker Commentary Items
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18:00 - 18:30 Session: 8 Sociolinguistics and multilingualism (Edgar Schneider) in room: MR080
(oral presentation)
Aleksandrs BERDICEVSKIS
Internet as a source of evidence about contact-induced language change: the case of Russian
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18:00 - 18:30 Session: 9 Experimental and computational approaches to language and linguistic (Eric Wehrli) in room: MS130
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Lyne DA SYLVA et al.
Lexical semantics and automatic indexing: using semantic relations, predicates and arguments
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18:00 - 18:30 Session: 6B Pragmatics, Discourse and Cognition (Horn & Kecskes) in room: MR280
(oral presentation)
Enikő NÉMETH T.
Intentions and perspectives in the social forms of language use
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18:30-19:30 Poster session

18:30 - 19:30 Session: 2 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Lívia IVASKÓ
Ostensive inferential communication, epistemic vigilance and the human frontal lobe
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 2 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Kumon Kimiaki TOKUMARU et al.
Exploitation of the Both Variable and Constant Regions of Immunoglobulin Molecular Structure for a Concept and Grammar Complex - The Human Consciousness as Immune Networks inside Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) in the Ventricular System (VS) Hypothesis
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 2 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Hiroyuki NISHINA
The Complexity of the Motion Planning for Actions as Possibly Equivalent to That of Phrase Structure Grammar
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 2 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Yvon KEROMNES
Some thoughts, and a few words, on language, cognition and evolution
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 2 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Kumon Kimiaki TOKUMARU
The Digital Language operated by Logical Syllables - Hypotheses for the Origin and Mechanism of Human Language
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 2 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Sławomir WACEWICZ et al.
Language Evolution: Why Hockett's Design Features Are A Non-Starter
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 2 in: Hall Uni Mail
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Efthymia TSAROUCHA
English Phrasal Verbs: A Case of Metonymy
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 2 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Karine ABRAHAMYAN et al.
Cognitive word-formation: synchronic and diachronic approaches
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 2 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Fusa KATADA
Ludling Acquisition in Williams-Beuren Syndrome and Its Implications to Neuroplasticity for Language Development
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 2 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Thomas ROBERT
Darwin et l'origine du langage, une théorie passionnelle
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 2 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Katharina ZIPSER
Proto-Language, phrase structure and nominal compounds - which of them fit together?
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 2 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Masayuki IKE-UCHI
On the Irrelevance of E-languages to the Question of Language Evolution
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 4 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Ina VISHOGRADSKA-MEYER et al.
The native element in 'brand new' loan verbs: adaptation strategies in Bulgarian and Hungarian
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 5 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Dongsik LIM et al.
Event complexity and subjecthood of dative arguments of Korean psych-predicates
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 5 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Kuanming TENG
Negative Imperatives in Taiwanese Southern Min
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 5 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Xosé SOTO ANDIÓN
The Semantics of CAER
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 5 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Michelle SHEEHAN
Towards a parameter hierarchy for alignment
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 5 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Sarah OUWAYDA
Mass Plurals, Neither Mass Nor Plural
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 5 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Anna RICCIO
Transitivity alternation and lexicon-syntax interface in Italian
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 5 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Mario SALTARELLI
The Indexical Syntax of Demonstratives
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 5 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
I-hao WOO
Chinese resultative constructions: A comparative analysis
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 5 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Shruti SHRUTI SIRCAR
Null and Overt Subjects in the Speech of Bengali children
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 5 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Oleh KSHANOVSKY
Verb Serialization As Cognitive Universal (Slavonic and Iranian data)
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 5 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Ameen ALAHDAL
A Phase-based Account of Movement-contingent Agreement
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 5 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Hideki KISHIMOTO
Coordination and Movement of Honorific Heads in Japanese
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 5 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Saeko URUSHIBARA
A Morphosyntactic reflex of root and epistemic modals: Evidence from a Japanese negative future element
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 5 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
ETHER SOSELIA
Argument Coding By Genitive In Georgian
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 5 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Ciro GRECO
The Hybrid Status Of Criterial Subjects: Locality Effects In Italian Wh-Questions
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 5 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Ching Hsin CHANG
La relative: une etude comparative
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 5 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Isabella PEDERNEIRA
Learning about the syntax-semantics interface
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 5 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Yasuyuki FUKUTOMI
Light Noun-in-situ in Japanese
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 5 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Hisao TOKIZAKI
Branching direction and the morphology-syntax connection
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 5 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Ching-Yu YANG
On the Shou Construction in Mandarin Chinese: a Non-Unified Approach
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 5 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Mikhail DYMARSKIY
Syntax Modeling and Process of Generating an Utterance
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 5 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Isabelle CHARNAVEL
A Unified Analysis of Iddi Terms (terms expressing identity and difference) based on French data (même 'same', différent 'different', autre 'other'...)
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 7 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Judy Yu-Li HSU et al.
Collaborative Reasoning to Promote Second Language Acquisition
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 7 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Sviatlana KARPAVA et al.
Acquisition of Aspect by Bilingual Russian-Cypriot Greek Children
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 8 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Rouhollah REZAPOUR
Contact du persan moderne avec les traces régionales en Iran. Une approche comparative avec la situation diglossique en France; langue standard vs trace régionale
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 8 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Ioli AYIOMAMITOU
The schooling factor and its impact on the attainment of second dialect competence: evidence from dialect-speaking children in Cyprus
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 9 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Dosya DUBRAVSKA
The Phenomenon of English Composites
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18:30 - 19:30 Session: 9 in: Hall Uni Mail
(poster)
Katarzyna KLESSA
Computer-assisted analysis of scalar features in spoken language corpora
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20:00-21:30 Noam Chomsky

20:00 - 21:30 The University of Geneva Grandes conférences in room: U600 (UNI DUFOUR)
Noam Chomsky