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)

8:00 Registration opens [Collegium Novum building Hall, al. Niepodległości 4]

8:45

Conference opening  [Room: C1]

9:00-10:00

Plenary talk: Daniel Everett: Homo erectus and the semiotic progression [PDF abstract]
Chair: K. Dziubalska-Kołaczyk  [Room: C1]

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

 

Embodiment in cross-linguistic studies: The body part term ‘head’
Convener: I. Kraska-Szlenk
[Room: C2]

Correlations of valency-changing operations within and across languages 
Conveners: K. Janic, N. Nau
[Room: C1]

A new era for cross-linguistic databases                         Conveners: H. Hammarström, C. Anderson, P. Heggarty
[Room: 601]

General sessions: Phonetics & phonology
Chair: E. Waniek-Klimczak             [Room: 101]

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]

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]

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]

12:00-12:30

 

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]

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:00

Plenary talk: Przemysław Tajsner: On the alleged bankruptcy of armchair linguistics: Reassessing the data base for generative syntax [PDF abstract]
Chair: G. Senft  [Room: C1]

 

Embodiment in cross-linguistic studies: The body part term ‘head’
Convener: I. Kraska-Szlenk
[Room: C2]

Correlations of valency-changing operations within and across languages
Conveners: K. Janic, N. Nau
[Room: C1]

A new era for cross-linguistic databases
Conveners: H. Hammarström, C. Anderson, P. Heggarty
[Room: 601]

General sessions: Morphology
Chair: R. Borges                              [Room: 101]

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]

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]

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]

16:30-17:00

Coffee break

 

Embodiment in cross-linguistic studies: The body part term ‘head’
Convener: I. Kraska-Szlenk
[Room: C2]


A new era for cross-linguistic databases
Conveners: H.Hammarström, C.Anderson, P. Heggarty
[Room: 601]

General sessions: Morphology
Chair: R. Borges                              [Room: 101]

17:00-17:30

Kraska-Szlenk: Metonymy in extending the body part ‘head’ in mental and social domains [PDF abstract]

 

Moran: Worldwide phonological diversity [PDF abstract]

Schwaiger et al.: Scaling morphosemantic transparency/opacity: a corpus-linguistic and acquisitionist study of German diminutives [PDF abstract]

17:30-18:00

Manasterska: The head in Akkadian [PDF abstract]

 

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]

18:00-18:30

Pikulska & Manasterska: The Sumerian "head" [PDF abstract]

 

Longobardi et al.: Syntactic theory and the science of (language) history [PDF abstract]

 

18:30-19:00

Discussion

 

Bickel et al.: Better Data with Late Aggregation: AUTOTYP and beyond [PDF abstract]

 

19:00

“Glass of wine” reception

16 Sep 2016 (Friday)

9:00-10:00

Plenary talk: Russell Gray: The big, bright future of linguistics [PDF abstract]

Chair: P.Gąsiorowski  [Room: C1]

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

 

Nominal classification in South-East Asia
Conveners: M. Tang, M. Kilarski
[Room: 601]

Correlations of valency-changing operations within and across languages
Conveners: K. Janic, N. Nau
[Room: C1]

Doubtful cases: A fresh look
Conveners: R. Szczepaniak, J. Flick, M. Gillmann, A. Vieregge
[Room: C2]

General sessions: Sociology of language
Chair: J. Pawelczyk             [Room: 101]

10:30-11:00

Senft: Classifiers in Kilivila: introducing referents and keeping track of them [PDF abstract]

 

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]

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]

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]

 

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]

12:30-14:00

Lunch

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]
Dalmi: Disjunctive questions and the syntax/semantics interface: evidence form Hungarian [PDF abstract]
Dufek: “Why don’t white people have thin lips?”: Stereotypes in Google autocomplete revisited [PDF abstract]
Kułak: "Funny (and wrong) you should say that": Studying the effect of personal epistemologies on tolerance of nonstandard language use [PDF abstract]
Laznicka: A corpus of Czech aphasic speech: development and possible applications [PDF abstract]
Leheckova and Horejsi: The topos of political correctness in Czech public discourse on refugees [PDF abstract]
Łęska: Extraction of NP genitive complements out of relative clauses in Polish [PDF abstract]
Matejka and Smolik: Acquisition of prepositions and question words in Czech – a parent-report study [PDF abstract]
Michalski: /t/-voicing in English as preventable self-weakening [PDF abstract]
Oleśkowicz-Popiel: “997EMO” database design for affective speech research [PDF abstract]
Ong: A Corpus-Based Investigation of Prevent and Stop Complementation Clauses in 19th, 20th and 21st Century American English [PDF abstract]
Osawa: The Double Object Construction: its absence and emergence in the history of English [PDF abstract]
Schoonjans: New perspectives on the relation between (verbal and kinesic) downtoning and illocution type [PDF abstract]
Zabielska and Żelazowska: Gems, stamps and anecdotes – case reports as a valuable source of data in health communication research [PDF abstract]

 

Nominal classification in South-East Asia
Conveners: M. Tang, M. Kilarski
[Room: 601]

General sessions: Syntax
Chair: J. Witkoś                              [Room: C1]

General sessions: Phonetics & phonology
Chair: J. Weckwerth            [Room: C2]

General sessions: Sociology of language                                       Chair: U.Altendorf                [Room: 101]

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]

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]

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]

16:30-17:00

Coffee break

 


General sessions: Discourse analysis
Chair: A. Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak [Room: C1]

General sessions: Psycholinguistics                 Chair: I. Kokorniak 
[Room: C2]

 

17:00-17:30

 

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]

 

17:30-18:00

 

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]

 

18:00-18:30

 

 

 

 

20:00

PLM Party

GALERIA U JEZUITÓW, Ul. Dominikańska 8

17 Sep 2016 (Saturday)

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]

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

 

Non-canonical subjects: Their rise and development (Evidence from Indo-European and beyond)
Conveners: L. Kulikov, J. Barðdal, T. Eythórsson, C.A. Johnson, E. Le Mair, S. Sigurðardóttir
[Room: 601]

The Three A’s: Data acquisition, annotation and analysis in multimodal communication studies
Conveners: A. Jelec, K. Juszczyk
[Room: 101]

A fresh look at contact-induced changes in language structure: The role of large-scale corpora in contact linguistics
Conveners: R. Borges, J. Olko
[Room: C1]

Doubtful cases: A fresh look
Conveners: R. Szczepaniak, J. Flick, M. Gillmann, A. Vieregge
[Room: C2]

General sessions: Pragmatics
Chair: K. Bromberek-Dyzman
[Room: 109]

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]

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]

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]

 

12:00-13:30

Lunch

13:30-15:00

Debate on linguistics and data   [Room: C1]

Moderator: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk

Discussants:

Jóhanna Barðdal (Ghent University)
Daniel Everett (Bentley University)
Piotr Gąsiorowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Russell Gray (MPI for the Science of Human History, Jena)
Przemysław Tajsner (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Ewa Waniek-Klimczak (University of Łódź)

 

Non-canonical subjects...
Conveners: L. Kulikov, J. Barðdal, T. Eythórsson, C.A. Johnson, E. Le Mair, S. Sigurðardóttir
[Room: 601]

The Three A’s...
Conveners: A. Jelec, K. Juszczyk
[Room: 101]

A fresh look at contact-induced changes in language structure...
Conveners: R. Borges, J. Olko
[Room: C1]

Doubtful cases: A fresh look
Conveners: R. Szczepaniak, J. Flick, M. Gillmann, A. Vieregge
[Room: C2]

General sessions: Pragmatics & cognitive linguistics                    Chair: J. C. Smith 
[Room: 109]

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]

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]

16:00-16:30

 

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]

 

Horejsi & Leheckova: Complex topic-sensitive concepts in argumentation: a socio-cognitive approach [PDF abstract]

16:30-17:00

Coffee break

 

 

The Three A’s...
Conveners: A. Jelec, K. Juszczyk
[Room: 101]

A fresh look at contact-induced changes in language structure...
Conveners: R. Borges, J. Olko
[Room: C1]

 

General sessions: Historical linguistics
Chair: M. Włodarczyk
[Room: 109]

17:00-17:30

 

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]

 

Keller & Schulz: Creating a part-of-speech tagged and parsed corpus of historical code-switching data [PDF abstract]

17:30-18:00

 

Rutkowski et al.: Data acquisition, annotation and analysis in the corpus of Polish Sign Language (PJM) [PDF abstract]

 

 

Zagórska: Early Middle English morphology: morphological innovations and archaisations in the Old English gloss to the Eadwine Canterbury Psalter [PDF abstract]

18:00-18:30

 

Final discussion