Programme

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Pre-workshop warm-up on Wednesday, May 23
You’re welcome to join us from 6.30 p.m. at Amodomio Pizzeria Ristorante Heger Str. 12/Marienstr. 3, 49074 Osnabrück
Please notify us by May 22 if you plan to attend the warm-up event.
Thursday, May 24
Osnabrück University, Building 22, Room 104 (Heger-Tor-Wall 14, 49078 Osnabrück)
08.45 – 09.00 Registration and coffee
09.00 – 09.05 Opening
09.05 – 10.05 Invited speaker
Vera Demberg
Individual differences play an important role in the interpretation of implicit relations (Abstract)
10.05 – 10.45 Short oral presentation of posters (see list below)

Coffee break
10.45 – 11.30 Jet Hoek, Sandrine Zufferey, Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul & Ted Sanders
Connective or no connective? The influence of default expectations and the presence of segment-internal cues on the linguistic marking of coherence relations (Abstract)
11.30 – 12.15 Debopam Das & Maite Taboada
Multiple Signals of Coherence Relations (Abstract)
12.15 – 13.45 Lunch break
13.45 – 14.30 Merel Scholman, Vera Demberg & Hannah Rohde
Signaling with one hand: A cross-linguistic comparison of the facilitative effect of “On the one hand” (Abstract)
14.30 – 15.15 Yipu Wei, Pim Mak, Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul & Ted Sanders
On the role of perspective markers and connectives during reading (Abstract)
15.15 – 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 – 16.15 Karin Harbusch & Gerard Kempen
A neurocomputational mechanism selecting verb-second versus verb-final word order in causative clauses of spoken German and Dutch (Abstract)
16.15 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 – 17.30 Invited speaker
Anastasia Giannakidou
Veridicality and commitment with propositional attitude verbs and modals (Abstract)
18.30 Workshop dinner at Hausbrauerei Rampendahl
Friday, May 25
Osnabrück University, Building 22, Room 104
09.30 – 10.30 Invited speaker
Katrin Schulz
Another Go at Fake Tense (Abstract)
10.30 – 10.45 Coffee break
10.45 – 11.30 Kaibo Xie
Belief and Causality in the Epistemic Reading of Counterfactuals (Abstract)
11.30 – 12.15 Osamu Sawada & Jun Sawada
The Japanese inferential -no koto-da-(kara): Explicit and implicit causal marking (Abstract)
12.15 – 13.45 Lunch break
13.45 – 14.30 Katja Jasinskaja
More than one way of being unmarked
14.30 – 15.15 Hannah Rohde, Bonnie Webber, Nathan Schneider, & Alexander Johnson
Multiple concurrent discourse relations (Abstract)
15.15 – 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 – 16.15 James Reid
Causality and Discourse Coherence in English Free Adjuncts (Abstract)
16.15 – 17.00 Henk Zeevat
Against Discourse Relations as Primitives for Discourse Structure (Abstract)

Poster presentations

  • Oliver Bott & Torgrim Solstad: Causal Relations in and out of Sentences: A Text Production Study
  • Constanze Fleczoreck: Different Meanings of Causal Clauses in Historical German (Abstract)
  • Mingya Liu: Semantic and Pragmatic Modulations of the Conditional Discourse Relation
  • Elisabeth Witzenhausen: A pronoun, a negative marker and a modal particle – what it takes to mark exceptive clauses in Middle Low German, Middle Dutch and Middle High German (Abstract)