PLM 2016 Programme
PLM2016 Programme, subject to change (status as of 13 Sept 2016)
14 Sep 2016 (Wednesday)
17:00 Registration opens [Collegium Novum building Hall, al. Niepodległości 4]
15 Sep 2016 (Thursday)
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8:45 |
Conference opening [Room: C1] |
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9:00-10:00 |
Plenary talk: Daniel Everett: Homo erectus and the semiotic progression [PDF abstract] |
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10:00-10:30 |
Coffee break |
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Embodiment in cross-linguistic studies: The body part term ‘head’ |
Correlations of valency-changing operations within and across languages |
A new era for cross-linguistic databases Conveners: H. Hammarström, C. Anderson, P. Heggarty |
General sessions: Phonetics & phonology |
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10:30-11:00 |
Gąsiorowski: The embarrassment of riches: "Head" words in the Indo-European family [PDF abstract] |
Levshina: What causes causatives? A multifactorial study based on a parallel corpus [PDF abstract] |
Atkinson & Gray: Going global: new databases, new analysis tools and the Glottobank project [PDF abstract] |
Altendorf & von Gruben: Embryonic variants as seeds of things to come - Tracing the phonetic origins and social trajectory of S Retraction in the South-East of England [PDF abstract] |
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11:00-11:30 |
Rezo & Klincic: The concept of "head" in the 17th and 18th century Croatian dictionaries [PDF abstract] |
Filko et al.: Prefixed vs. base verbs in Croatian - how prefixes affect argument structure [PDF abstract] |
Forkel: Glottolog 3.0: A collaborative, versioned catalog of languages and dialects [PDF abstract] |
Alexander: Influence of indexical information on sound processing [PDF abstract] |
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11:30-12:00 |
Wójtowicz & Kraska-Szlenk: Derivation and semantic autonomy: A corpus study of Polish głowa ‘head’ and its diminutive główka [PDF abstract] |
Neshcheret & Witzlack-Makarevich: Passives with intransitive verbs: typology and distribution [PDF abstract] |
Bentz: Phylogenetic signals of language external factors [PDF abstract] |
Zając: Rhoticity and /r/ quality in the speech of L2 speakers of English [PDF abstract] |
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12:00-12:30 |
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Nichols & Grünthal: Transitivizing/detransitivizing typology and language family history [PDF abstract] |
Greenhill: How reticulate are the languages of New Guinea? [PDF abstract] |
Zydorowicz & Kul: A corpus-based study of vowel reduction in two speech styles: A comparison between English and Polish [PDF abstract] |
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00-15:00 |
Plenary talk: Przemysław Tajsner: On the alleged bankruptcy of armchair linguistics: Reassessing the data base for generative syntax [PDF abstract] |
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Embodiment in cross-linguistic studies: The body part term ‘head’ |
Correlations of valency-changing operations within and across languages |
A new era for cross-linguistic databases |
General sessions: Morphology |
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15:00-15:30 |
Badibanga & Pasch:The bodypart term "head" in some Bantu and non-Bantu languages of the Oriental Province of DR Congo [PDF abstract] |
Nau & Pakerys: Transitivity pairs in Baltic: between Finnic and Slavic? [PDF abstract] |
Anderson & Heggarty: Data-bases for the new historical linguistics: an expert-led database of cognacy in basic vocabulary across Indo-Europ. [PDF abstract] |
Hamans: Paradigms in derivational morphology [PDF abstract] |
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15:30-16:00 |
Will: The conceptualization of ‘head’ among the Hausa based on verbal and nonverbal representation [PDF abstract] |
Zúñiga: A survey of grammatical voice in Algonquian [PDF abstract] |
Dellert et al.: A deep-coverage lexical database of Northern Eurasia [PDF abstract] |
Harris: The “unbound” use of ish: A contextualist approach [PDF abstract] |
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16:00-16:30 |
Mutlu et al.: "Head" idioms in Turkish: contrasts and correlations [PDF abstract] |
Klumpp: Valency operators in Kamas [PDF abstract] |
List and Hill: Beyond Cognacy: Challenges of Representing and Analyzing Etymological Data of South-East Asian Languages [PDF abstract] |
Dressler & Tumfart: New corpus-linguistic approaches to the investigation of poetic occasionalisms: the case of Johann Nepomuk Nestroy [PDF abstract] |
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16:30-17:00 |
Coffee break |
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Embodiment in cross-linguistic studies: The body part term ‘head’ |
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A new era for cross-linguistic databases |
General sessions: Morphology |
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17:00-17:30 |
Kraska-Szlenk: Metonymy in extending the body part ‘head’ in mental and social domains [PDF abstract] |
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Moran: Worldwide phonological diversity [PDF abstract] |
Schwaiger et al.: Scaling morphosemantic transparency/opacity: a corpus-linguistic and acquisitionist study of German diminutives [PDF abstract] |
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17:30-18:00 |
Manasterska: The head in Akkadian [PDF abstract] |
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Heggarty: Sound Comparisons: Documenting, Exploring and Quantifying Linguistic Divergence in Phonetics [PDF abstract] |
Templ et al.: Input and output of monolingual and bilingual 4-year-old children: The role of socio-economic status (SES) and linguistic background [PDF abstract] |
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18:00-18:30 |
Pikulska & Manasterska: The Sumerian "head" [PDF abstract] |
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Longobardi et al.: Syntactic theory and the science of (language) history [PDF abstract] |
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18:30-19:00 |
Discussion |
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Bickel et al.: Better Data with Late Aggregation: AUTOTYP and beyond [PDF abstract] |
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19:00 |
“Glass of wine” reception |
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16 Sep 2016 (Friday)
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9:00-10:00 |
Plenary talk: Russell Gray: The big, bright future of linguistics [PDF abstract] Chair: P.Gąsiorowski [Room: C1] |
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10:00-10:30 |
Coffee break |
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Nominal classification in South-East Asia |
Correlations of valency-changing operations within and across languages |
Doubtful cases: A fresh look |
General sessions: Sociology of language |
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10:30-11:00 |
Senft: Classifiers in Kilivila: introducing referents and keeping track of them [PDF abstract] |
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Barton: Optional definite article use in generic expressions in German? Evidence from L1- and 2L1-speakers' performance and metalinguistic comments [PDF abstract] |
Kretzer: The usage and appearance of Setswana in public domains: Case study of urban and rural areas in Botswana and South Africa [PDF abstract] |
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11:00-11:30 |
Saikia & Tang: Nominal classification in Assamese: An analysis of function [PDF abstract] |
Rozhanskiy: The Uralic causative marker and cognate suffixes [PDF abstract] |
Vilanova: Semantic ambiguity and language change: on Past Participle Agreement in Catalan [PDF abstract] |
Ong: Observing creative writing forms on signboards in Australia [PDF abstract] |
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11:30-12:00 |
Feist: The reference tracking role of nominal classification systems [PDF abstract] |
Forker et al.: Antipassives in Nakh-Daghestanian languages [PDF abstract] |
Altenkirch & Dolberg: Have you doubts or do you have doubts when to use do-support with possessive have? [PDF abstract] |
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12:00-12:30 |
Singer: Multiple systems or just a multi-faceted system? Differences in the use of gender agreement in different syntactic domains in Mawng [PDF abstract] |
Dom et al.: (Quasi)middle voice in Bantu: The "neuter" suffix -ik- in a typological perspective [PDF abstract] |
Schröder: Who and Whom in Contemporary American English [PDF abstract] |
Niculescu-Gorpin: The challenges of data collection in contemporary Romanian linguistic research [PDF abstract] |
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00-15:00 |
Poster session Chair: M.Kul Cegłowski: Left Branch Extraction and nominal structure in Polish – conclusions on an experimental study [PDF abstract] |
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Nominal classification in South-East Asia |
General sessions: Syntax |
General sessions: Phonetics & phonology |
General sessions: Sociology of language Chair: U.Altendorf [Room: 101] |
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15:00-15:30 |
Kim: A Feature-based Account of Classifiers in Southeast Asia [PDF abstract] |
Smith: An onomasiological approach to subjectification: the semantic redistribution of Spanish copular verbs [PDF abstract] |
Bican: Phonological synchronic foreignisms in Czech [PDF abstract] |
Dufek: “The law shall prevent our national language from devastation”: Language ideologies in the Czech Parliament [PDF abstract] |
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15:30-16:00 |
Huber: Gender marking in Shumcho [PDF abstract] |
Jarrah: A Criterial Freezing approach to subject extraction in Some Arabic varieties [PDF abstract] |
Simon: The acquisition of double word-initial consonant clusters in Polish and English: a markedness account [PDF abstract] |
Leuschner & Jaworska: New Issues and New Data in Lexical Borrowing: a Discourse-Based Approach to 'Kulturkampf' in Polish, English and German [PDF abstract] |
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16:00-16:30 |
Ring: Classifiers, Gender, Plural Nouns, and Diachrony in Khasian [PDF abstract] |
Chromý et al.: Bi-aspectual verbs or aspectless verbs in Czech: Do all Czech verbs express grammatical aspect? [PDF abstract] |
Anderson: The phonology of reduplication in Old Irish [PDF abstract] |
Śmigielska: Discursive construction of the ‘Other’ in the Polish press articles on the migration crisis [PDF abstract] |
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16:30-17:00 |
Coffee break |
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General sessions: Discourse analysis |
General sessions: Psycholinguistics Chair: I. Kokorniak |
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17:00-17:30 |
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Kamasa: Corpus Linguistics for Critical Discourse Analysis: What can we do better? [PDF abstract] |
Bromberek-Dyzman et al.: Emotion- and emotion-laden words effects in Polish-English and Romanian-English bilinguals [PDF abstract] |
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17:30-18:00 |
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Shulha: Internet linguistics: vocabulary internationalization and loanword adaptation [PDF abstract] |
Brzoza & Witczak: Post-edited text is processed as effectively as a translated one: A psycholinguistic investigation [PDF abstract] |
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18:00-18:30 |
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20:00 |
PLM Party GALERIA U JEZUITÓW, Ul. Dominikańska 8 |
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17 Sep 2016 (Saturday)
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9:00-10:00 |
Plenary talk: Jóhanna Barðdal: To Be or Not to Be an Oblique Subject – That is the Question Chair: L.Kulikov [Room: C1] |
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10:00-10:30 |
Coffee break |
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Non-canonical subjects: Their rise and development (Evidence from Indo-European and beyond) |
The Three A’s: Data acquisition, annotation and analysis in multimodal communication studies |
A fresh look at contact-induced changes in language structure: The role of large-scale corpora in contact linguistics |
Doubtful cases: A fresh look |
General sessions: Pragmatics |
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10:30-11:00 |
Opening and introduction |
Zlatev: Keynote talk - Different definitions lead to different findings concerning (iconic) gestures [PDF abstract] |
Lüpke: Multilingual corpora for differentiated approaches tolanguage contact [PDF abstract] |
Vieregge: Speakers’ doubts about prepositional case government in German [PDF abstract] |
Garassino et al.: Implicit communication in Twitter: a corpus-based analysis of the pragmatic functions of implicatures and presuppositions [PDF abstract] |
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11:00-11:30 |
Żychliński: On shaky ground: Polish Dative Experiencers and adjunct control [PDF abstract] |
Jelec & Fabiszak: They say - I say. Shrugs, head tilts and palm up open hand gestures as markers of uncertainty in the context of collective memory [PDF abstract] |
Hantgan: Methodological Approaches to Multilingual Annotated Corpus Design [PDF abstract] |
Schmitt: Caught in between norm and deviation? A psycholinguistic perspective on the case of wegen+dative [PDF abstract] |
Schützler: Concessive conjunctions and prepositions: Frequencies and degrees of subjectivity in varieties of English [PDF abstract] |
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11:30-12:00 |
Manevskaia & Kulikov: Dative subject construction in Eastern Slavic: Early innovation or archaism? [PDF abstract] |
Juszczyk & Kamasa: Synchrony and metaphoricity in Career Clean Coaching Conversations [PDF abstract] |
Sullivan: Tlahtolxitlauhcayotl. Converting the IDIEZ Monolingual Dictionary of Modern Huastecan Nahuatl into a tool for studying changes in Nahuatl language structure [PDF abstract] |
Zimmer: The Destiny of Nominal Case Markers in German [PDF abstract] |
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12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30-15:00 |
Debate on linguistics and data [Room: C1] Moderator: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk Discussants: Jóhanna Barðdal (Ghent University) |
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Non-canonical subjects... |
The Three A’s... |
A fresh look at contact-induced changes in language structure... |
Doubtful cases: A fresh look |
General sessions: Pragmatics & cognitive linguistics Chair: J. C. Smith |
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15:00-15:30 |
Vihman & Lindström: Oblique argument omission: How subject-like are the experiencer arguments in Estonian ‘need’ and ‘remember’ constructions? [PDF abstract] |
Jehlička: Gesture and eventuality – multimodal constructions in English [PDF abstract] |
Olko: Nahuatl Language Change and Shift: bridging diachronic and synchronic perspectives [PDF abstract] |
Nowak: Klar und klärer: umlaut comparison as a doubtful case in contemporary German [PDF abstract] |
Schützler: Language change in the domain of concessive prepositions: 'In spite of' and 'despite' in British and American English [PDF abstract] |
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15:30-16:00 |
Discussion and concluding remarks |
Bakeer: You know, I don’t know: A multimodal investigation into turn-taking organisation in institutional intercultural interactions [PDF abstract] |
Olko & Borges: Structural Convergence and Typological Change in Nahuatl [PDF abstract] |
Final discussion |
Otani: A cognitive analysis of the use of prepositions and adverbial particles in English [PDF abstract] |
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16:00-16:30 |
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Krawczak & Debras: Multimodal profiling of intersubjectivity in spoken English: A multifactorial quantitative account [PDF abstract] |
Haimovich: From Synthetic to Analytic Modality: Contact-Induced Evolution of Potential Mood in Quechua [PDF abstract] |
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Horejsi & Leheckova: Complex topic-sensitive concepts in argumentation: a socio-cognitive approach [PDF abstract] |
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16:30-17:00 |
Coffee break |
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The Three A’s... |
A fresh look at contact-induced changes in language structure... |
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General sessions: Historical linguistics |
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17:00-17:30 |
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Juszczyk: Towards reliable gestural metaphor identification procedure [PDF abstract] |
Dolberg: Why “big data” might not always be the best data in historical linguistics: a case study on the role of contact in structural changes of mediaeval English [PDF abstract] |
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Keller & Schulz: Creating a part-of-speech tagged and parsed corpus of historical code-switching data [PDF abstract] |
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17:30-18:00 |
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Rutkowski et al.: Data acquisition, annotation and analysis in the corpus of Polish Sign Language (PJM) [PDF abstract] |
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Zagórska: Early Middle English morphology: morphological innovations and archaisations in the Old English gloss to the Eadwine Canterbury Psalter [PDF abstract] |
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18:00-18:30 |
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Final discussion |
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