9.00Conference opening

9.15 Plenary talk: Martin Haspelmath (Leipzig) The World Atlas of Language Structures

10.15 Plenary talk: Gereon Müller (Leipzig) On Pro-Drop and Impoverishment: Towards a New Concept of Morphological Richness

11.15–11.30 Coffee break

SYNTAX

Session organizers: Gisbert Fanselow (Potsdam University) Przemysław Tajsner (AMU, Poznań) Jacek Witkoś (AMU, Poznań)

TYPOLOGY (SYNTAX)

Session organizers: Nicole Nau (AMU, Poznań) Szymon Słodowicz (Christian Albrecht University, Kiel)

PHONOLOGY

Session organizers: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk (AMU, Poznań), Grzegorz Michalski (AMU, Poznań)

11.30

Słodowicz (Kiel) Temporal interpretation of controlled complement clauses in Polish

Tobias Scheer (Nice) The line of division between procedural and representational management of interface information

12.00

Mojmír Dočekal (Brno) WCO and Focus in Czech

Marcin Michalski (Poznań) The difficulty of being different: ‘Reversed’ adjectival syntagms in Classical Arabic

Rajendra Singh (Montreal) The generative management of morphophonology

12.30

Ewa Bułat (Wrocław) Empty categories revisited and revised cross-linguistically

Nikolaus Ritt (Vienna) Vowel quantity before dentals: on the interaction between morphology and phonology in English monosyllables

13.00–14.15 Lunch

14.15–15.00 Plenary talk:Jerzy Rubach(Warsaw/Iowa)Feature geometry in Optimality Theory

SYNTAX

TYPOLOGY (CAUSATIVES)

PHONOLOGY

15.00

Michael Moss (Gdańsk) Polish functional projections

Martin Haspelmath (Leipzig) Universals of causative verb formation

Artur Kijak (Katowice) Sonorant conspiracy: a unified solution to vowel syncope and bogus clusters in English

15.30

Bartosz Wiland (Poznań) Feature valuation by sideward movement

Seppo Kittilä (Turku) Causativization as a de-transitivizing device

Roland Noske (Lille) Constraint rank border crossing

16.00–16.30 Coffee break

16.30

Katarzyna Miechowicz-Mathiasen / Paweł Scheffler (Poznań) A corpus-based analysis of the peculiar behaviour of the Polish verb 'podobac sie'

Camiel Hamans (Brussels) Between Hamasstan and Dumbfuckistan:About blends

17.00

Grzegorz Michalski (Poznań) Spot the pigeon. Between representation and derivation in Polish nouns with alternative virile/non-virile declensions

19.00–00.00 Banquet

9.00 Plenary talk:Lorraine Ramig (Colorado Boulder) The science and practice of LOUD: voice treatment for Parkinson disease

10.00 Plenary talk:Ron Cole (Colorado Boulder) Poznań Progress Report Four: Scaling up virtual tutors and  therapists for global use

11.00–11.30 Coffee break

LANGUAGE AND MEDICINE (Room 301)

Session organizers: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk Monika Połczyńska-Fiszer (AMU, Poznań)

SYNTAX (Room 402)

TYPOLOGY (MORPHOLOGY AND LEXICON) (Room 405)

PHONOLOGY (Room 302)

11.30

Yishai Tobin (Be’er Sheva) Phonology as human behavior: theoretical implications and clinical applications

Bostjan Dvorak (Berlin) Definitness and clitic predicatisation in Slovenian

Fedor Rozhanskiy (Moscow) Typology of derivational reduplication in African languages

Małgorzata Kul (Poznań) Effort management as a lenition/fortition criterion

12.00

Cieślicka / Rataj / Gorzelańczyk / Kuklińska (Poznań / Bydgoszcz) Idiom and metaphor comprehension in schizophrenia

Bożena Cetnarowska (Sosnowiec) Syntactic optionality in Optimal Theoretic framework: Genitive/possessive variation

Thomas Hanke (Berlin) Deconstructing the links of addition

Małgorzata Kul / Dafydd Gibbon (Poznań / Bielefeld) Economy strategies in English and Polish text messages as examples of channel constraints

12.30

Jean-Michel Mazaux (Bordeaux) Communication disability of aphasic persons in daily living

Radek Šimík (Olomouc) On the Nature of the Foot of Relative Clause

Marcin Kilarski (Poznań) Comparing apples to oranges: On classifying noun classification systems

Rosalia Rodriguez-Vasquez (Edinburgh) Time in language and music: the rhythm of speech, verse and vocal music in English and Spanish

13.00–14.15 Lunch

14.15–15.00 Plenary talk: Itzhak Fried (Los Angeles / Tel Aviv) Mapping language in patients undergoing brain surgery (Room 402)

LANGUAGE AND MEDICINE (Room 301)

SYNTAX (Room 402)

TYPOLOGY (LEXICON) (Room 405)

PHONOLOGY (Room 302)

15.00

Monika Połczyńska-Fiszer / Anna Pufal (Poznań / Bydgoszcz) Classification of dysarthria in Polish TBI patients

Adam Biały (Wrocław) Results and feature specification of Polish prefixes

Bernhard Waelchli (Leipzig) Are there really lexicalization patterns in motion verbs?

Paula Orzechowska (Poznań) The interaction of morphology and phonology – a functional approach

15.30

Magdalena Wrembel (Poznań) Medical supports for practical pedagogy phonetics; potential applications of phoniatrics and logopedics to foreign language pronunciation

Martin Prinzhorn / Joanna Śmiecińska (Vienna / Poznań) Null stress in Polish and German, syntax based assignment?

Tuomas Huumo (Turku) Finnish verbs of perception in a typological perspective

Geoff Schwartz (Poznań) Cruciality – a link between grammar and the outside world in Natural Phonology

LANGUAGE AND MEDICINE (Room 301)

SYNTAX (Room 402)

TYPOLOGY (LEXICON) (Room 405)

HISTORY OF ENGLISH DIALECTS (Room 302)

Session organisers: Radosław Dylewski (AMU, Poznań)Adrian Pablé (University of Berne)

16.00

Csilla Keresztes (Szeged) Recognizing English contact induced features in medical texts

Christopher Wilder (Trondheim) The ‘Directional+with+DP’ construction and the empty verb GO

Olga Tretyakova (Moscow) Towards a typology of bare indefinites: Russian and Thai

Isabella Buniyatova (Kiev) Comparing the Old English and Old Norse syntax of hypotactic structures

16.30

Eva Demeter (Szeged) The patient's perspective: Sociolinguistic analysis of illness narratives

Barbara Tomaszewicz (Wrocław) The functional layers of DP and the morphology of Polishnominals

Szymon Grzelak (Kyoto) Measure phrases and negative degrees in Japanese, English and Polish

Agnieszka Dziołak (Wrocław) Challenging Labov’s account of negative inversion constructions in AAVE

17.00–17.30 Coffee break

17.30

(Room 402)

Takashi Toyoshima (Kyushu) Non-finite verb fronting in South/West Slavic and Germanic

TYPOLOGY (PHONOLOGY) (Room 405)

Małgorzata Haładewicz-Grzelak (Opole) Beats-and-Binding typology of the dispreferred clusters of RP

(Room 302)

Willem Hollmann / Anna Siewierska (Lancaster) Reduction phenomena in Lancashire dialect: Implications for grammaticalisation theory

18.00

Helen Trugman (Holon) Movement versus Merge: Stylistic and semantic perturbations versus neutral style

Geoff Schwartz (Poznań) Dynamic vowel quality – typology and phonological implications of ‘phonetic detail’

Maciej Baranowski (Manchester) The curvilinear hypothesis revisited: Sound change in Charleston, South Carolina

18.30

Rajendra Singh (Montreal) IN, OF and ABOUT: Some unfinished reflections from South Asia (Room 402)

Adrian Pablé / Radosław Dylewski (Bern/Poznań) Postcolonial dialectal features in Colonial New England

9.30 Plenary talk: Adam Jaworski (Cardiff) Distant Countries Brought Home: Linguascaping the Exotic in British TV and Newspaper Travelogues (Room 402)

10.30–11.30 Coffee break

11.15–approx. 13.00 LSVT WORKSHOP Lorraine Ramig: Essential elements of LSVT/LOUD for Parkinson disease and other neurological disorders (Room 302)

NATIONAL IDENTITIES (Room 401)

session organizers: Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky (AMU, Poznań), Małgorzata Fabiszak (AMU, Poznań)

SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE ENGLISHES (Room 405)

session organizer: Jarosław Weckwerth (AMU, Poznań)

LOGIC AND COMMUNICATION (Room 301)

session organizers: Dorota Lipowska (AMU, Poznań), Włodzimierz Lapis  (AMU, Poznań)

HISTORY OF ENGLISH DIALECTS (Room 402)

11.30

Olga Blanco-Carrión (Córdoba) The tourist mind: National Stereotypes at heart

Jean Mulder / Sandra Thompson (Melbourne / UCSB) The grammaticization ofbut as a final particle in English conversation

Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska / Jacek Waldmajer (Poznań / Opole) Language communication and its adequacy

Paul Kerswill / Eivind Torgersen / Sue Fox (Lancaster / London) London as the origin of change in British dialects? Conflicting processes of innovation and levelling in south-east England

12.00

Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky (Poznań) Do fixed expressions reflect national stereotypes? On impoliteness in English, German, and Polish

Minna Korhonen (Helsinki) Sociolinguistic variation in present-day Australian English

Mariusz Urbański (Poznań) On abductive reasoning

Göran Wolf (Dresden) Standard dialect codified and written English established

12.30

Mira Podhajecka (Opole) Locked in the language: Loanwords and national stereotypes

Waldemar Skrzypczak (Toruń) Cognitive dimensions of stylistic novelty in Australian literary expression

Andrzej Wiśniewski (Poznań) Minimal erotetic semantics

Joanna Bugaj (Poznań) Standardising variety in the British Isles: administration, etymologies and patterns in 16th-century Scots and English

13.00–14.30 Lunch

14.30

(Room 401)

Wiesława Ferlacka (Poznań) The conceptualization of immigration in children's narratives

(Room 302)

Gerhard Leitner (Berlin) The making of Australian English: contact with the Aboriginal languages habitat

(Room 301)

Wojciech Buszkowski (Poznań) Rough set approach in formal learning theory

(Room 402)

Anna Hebda (Poznań) Consonant dissimilations in Middle English

15.00

Christopher Hart (Norwich)Containers and conceptual blends in immigration discourse: description and explanation in a cognitive critical discourse analysis

Aleksandra Łukomska (Poznań) Lexical borrowings in South African English from Nguni languages in the realm of traditional healing and witchcraft

Jan Wawrzyniak (Poznań) The logical discipline of normative discourse

Piotr Jakubowski (Poznań) Adjectival inflection in medieval Irish English texts

15.30

Małgorzata Fabiszak (Poznań) The representation of Polish migrants in the UK as constructed in the Polish press

Anna Dziemianko (Poznań) On the non-Africanness of A Dictionary of South African English

Max Urchs (Szczecin) True lies

Elżbieta Adamczyk (Poznań) The disintegration of the nominal declension in Anglian: The case of i-stems

16.00–16.30 Coffee break

16.30

(Room 401)

David Singleton (Dublin) Globalization, language and national identity: the case of Ireland

(Room 302)

Agata Rozumko (Białystok)Folk sayings in Southern Hemisphere Englishes

(Room 301)

Ewa Rudnicka / Maciej Piasecki (Wrocław) The multi-dimensional feature-based dynamic model of the semantics of BNs

17.00

Katarzyna Olejniczak-Gołembowska (Poznań)Celtic pastimes as a form of expressing the national identity of the Irish

Ewa Waniek-Klimczak / Jarosław Weckwerth (Łódź / Poznań) The recognition of Southern Hemisphere Englishes by Polish students of English: a native – non-native speech continuum approach

Jacek Marciniec (Poznań) Learnability of semi-rigid grammars

17.30

Małgorzata Haładewicz-Grzelak  (Opole) Silesian and Cashubian ethnolects as contrasting types of ethnic identity strengthening

Polina Kobeleva: Proper names recognition in ESL listening

Katarzyna Moroz (Poznań) PTIME transformation of pregroup grammar into CFG and PDA

18.00

Maciej Kandulski (Poznań) Defining logics and refining structures: On type reduction systems underlying categorial grammars

NATIONAL IDENTITIES

LOGIC AND COMMUNICATION

TEXT TECHNOLOGY

session organizers: Alexander Mehler (Bielefeld University), Thorsten Trippel (Bielefeld University)

9.00

Paweł Stachura (Poznań) The stereotypical images of Native Americans in a variety of American texts from the 19^thcentury

Joanna Rabiega-Wiśniewska (Warsaw) On root-based concept of an electronic lexicon for Polish

9.30

Anatolij Dorodnych (Poznań) National stereotypes, mentalities and discourse

Tomasz Stępień (Wrocław) Recognising senses of way for the purpose of machine translation

10.00

Liliane Meyer (Neuchâtel) Language as the topic and the instrument of research: Analysing social representations about language and identity of Russian-speaking students in Estonia

Thorsten Trippel (Bielefeld) Representation formats and models for lexicons

10.30

Andrea Steinbach (Regensburg) 'Mirovoj agressor' and ’Evil Empire’ – political propaganda in the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War period – a linguistic approach

Tsvetana Dimitrova (Trondheim) Preliminaries on Old Bulgarian Corpus building

11.00–11.30 Coffee break

11.30

Ruprecht von Waldenfels (Regensburg) The Regensburg Parallel Corpus: a bootstrap multilingual parallel corpus of Slavonic

12.00

Alexander Mehler (Bielefeld) The Wiki Way to corpus analysis: aspects of automatic text classification

12.30

Dafydd Gibbon (Bielefeld) Annotating prosody: design specifications for a prosodic ontology