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Thursday, 2nd July 2015 

8.30 – 9.00

REGISTRATION

9.00 – 9.15 INTRODUCTION
9.15 – 10.15 Greville G. CORBETT (Surrey)
Canonicity and categorization
10.15 – 11.00 Diana FORKER (Bamberg & JCU)
Categorization in typology

11.00 – 11.30

COFFEE BREAK

11.30 – 12.15 Antje DAMMEL (Mainz)

On the relativity of classifying inflection – The case of German conjugations and declensions

 12.15 – 13.00 Monika BUDDE (TU Dortmund)

Functional definition & formal identification of grammatical categories: Two directions of axiomatisation in linguistic theory nets and some consequences on linguistic methodology

 13.00 – 14.30

LUNCH

 14.30 – 15.15 Christian FORCHE (FU Berlin)

Wir schätzen das oft fehlein. Remarks on German verbs that cannot occur in V2 position

 15.15 – 16.00 Malte BATTEFELD (Gent)
Affixoids in a constructional perspective. Empirically-based reflections on a controversial notion
 16.00 – 16.45 Tabea REINER (München)
An old case reopened: German [werden+ infinitive] as a category of tense, aspect or mood; with special reference to a putative infinitive of [werden+ infinitive]

 16.45 – 17.15

COFFEE BREAK

 17.15 – 18.00 Joanna BŁASZCZAK, Piotr GULGOWSKI, Dorota KLIMEK-JANKOWSKA (Wrocław) & Anna Czypionka (Konstanz)
Negotiating the noun-verb borders – Psycholinguistic research on the processing of nominalizations
18. 00 – 19.00 Gisbert FANSELOW & Jana HÄUSSLER (Potsdam)
A single counterexample suffices: Item construction in the systematic collection of acceptability judgments

19.30

DINNER

Friday, 3rd July 2015
9.00 – 10.00 Manfred KRIFKA (ZAS & HU Berlin)
Dealing with fuzzy categories by coercion
10.00 – 10.45 Federica COMINETTI & Raffaele SIMONE (Rome)
“Nouns of Once” in Modern Standard Chinese

10.45 – 11.15   

COFFEE BREAK

11.15 – 12.00 Teodora RADEVA-BORK (Potsdam)
Cues to grammatical categories learning
12.00 – 12.45 Kerstin HOGE (Oxford)
From wh-routines to wh-categories

12.45 – 14.15

LUNCH

14.15 – 15.15  Peter AUER (Freiburg)
Grammatical categories are sensitive to positioning
15.15 – 16.00 Alexander HASELOW (Rostock)
Würd ich so machen dann, ja - Categorizing ‘final elements’ in spoken syntax

16.00 – 16.30

COFFEE BREAK

16.30 – 17.15 Ariel COHEN (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) & Irit MEIR (University of Haifa)
Figurative interpretation of different syntactic categories: The view from sign language
17.15 – 18.00 Rea PELTOLA (Caen)
The human-animal interface in Finnish

20.00

SURPRISE

Saturday, 4th July 2015
9.00 – 10.00 Hans C. BOAS (Austin)
Deep cases and frame elements at the syntax-semantics interface
10.00 – 10.45 Torsten LEUSCHNER (Gent)
V1-conditionals in German and English: A constructional(ization) approach to issues of category status and category change

10.45 – 11.15

COFFEE BREAK

11.15 – 12.00 Caroline DÖHMER (Luxembourg)
The particular features of Luxembourgish pronouns
12.00 – 12.45 Kirsten MIDDEKE (FU Berlin)
Does Old English have subjects? A critical evaluation of the usefulness of syntactic categories in a constructionist approach to an inflecting Germanic language

12.45 – 14.15 

LUNCH

14.15 – 15.00 Julia BACSKAI-ATKARI (Potsdam)
Categories in the CP-domain
15.00 – 15.45 Lauren FONTEYN (Leuven) & Stefan HARTMANN (Mainz)
Categories under construction: Functional motivations for category shifts in morphology

15.45 – 16.15 

COFFEE BREAK

16.15 – 17.00 Susanne CHRAMBACH (FU Berlin)
Manner – Place – Time – A “rather crude aggregation”:  Defense from a diachronic perspective
17.00 – 18.00 Olga FISCHER (Amsterdam)
Analogy: Synchrony, diachrony, and explanation
18.00 – 18.30 FINAL CONVERSATION

19.00

BEER GARDEN

Alternates:

Zuzana NADOVA (Košice & Utrecht)
Reduplication in cross-linguistic perspective

Sebastian GÜNNEL (Wien)
On the relation between accoustic landmarks and linguistic borders: Investigating an auditory illusion within acoustic boundaries