Institute for German Language

Conference Programme

This is a near-final version of the conference programme (as of November 4th, 2016). This version might still be subject to minor changes.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8th, 2016
Tutorial Day
08:30 - 09:00
REGISTRATION
12:15 - 13:15
REGISTRATION
20:00
GET-TOGETHER at Wirtshaus UHLAND! Register
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9th, 2016
08:00 - 09:00
REGISTRATION
AUDITORIUM
09:00 - 09:20
OPENING SESSION
Angelika Wöllstein
Organising Committee
09:20 - 10:20
KEYNOTE SPEECH: Anke HOLLER
Tracing the implicit causality bias in corpora – A case study
Chair: Angelika Wöllstein
10:20 - 10:45
COFFEE BREAK
AUDITORIUM
Chair: Angelika Wöllstein
ROOM 1.28
Chair: Beata Trawiński
10:45 - 11:20
V2-complements in the history of German
Svetlana PETROVA
Vom Adverb über die Partikel zur Konjunktion: Der Fall des tschechischen ovšem
František MARTÍNEK
11:20 - 11:55
Object-initial sentences in German: The role of sentence topics
Markus BADER and Vasiliki KOUKOULIOTI
Polish Complex Prepositions and Grammaticalization
Urszula MODRZYK and Rafał Ludwig GÓRSKI
11:55 - 12:30
Die Wucht und Strömung war immens – wie stark ist der Ellipseneffekt
Franziska MÜNZBERG
From dictionary to morphological analyzer. The case of Baroque Polish
Witold KIERAŚ
12:30 - 14:00
LUNCH BREAK
AUDITORIUM
14:00 - 15:00
KEYNOTE SPEECH: Alexandr ROSEN
Coping with unruly language: non-standard usage and phraseology in a corpus
Chair: Marc Kupietz
AUDITORIUM
Chair: Marc Kupietz
ROOM 1.28
Chair: Elżbieta Kaczmarska
15:10 - 15:45
Automatic morphosyntactic and dependency annotation of the Anglo-Norman text database
Achim STEIN and Yela SCHAUWECKER
The grammaticality of aspect in Hungarian
Laura BECKER
15:45 - 16:10
COFFEE BREAK
16:10 - 16:45
Modelling grammatical alternation phenomena with aggregated and non-aggregated predictors
Felix BILDHAUER and Roland SCHÄFER
Multiple prenominal adjectives ordering in Russian: a corpus study
Svetlana TOLDOVA and Regina MUKHANOVA
16:45 - 17:20
Untersuchungen zur Textsortenspezifik der deutschen Stützverbgefüge mithilfe des DWDS-Wortprofils
Jörg DIDAKOWSKI and Nadja RADTKE
Predicative agreement with quantitative constructions in Russian: a corpus research
Ilya AZERKOVICH
18:00 - 20:00
SOCIAL EVENING at the IDS
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10th, 2016
AUDITORIUM
09:15 - 10:15
KEYNOTE SPEECH: Susan CONRAD
Beyond Grammar Description: Applying Corpus Analysis to Disciplinary Education
Chair: Christian Mair
10:15 - 10:45
COFFEE BREAK
AUDITORIUM
Chair: Christian Mair
ROOM 1.28
Chair: Eric Fuß
10:45 - 11:20
The Register Casino — Should you risk your grammar in an outside bet?
Roland SCHÄFER
Modifiers in early Germanic: a comparative corpus study
Kristin BECH, Hannah BOOTH, Kersti BÖRJARS, Tine BREBAN, Svetlana PETROVA, George WALKDEN and Sheila WATTS
11:20 - 11:55
The grammar and discourse of American personal blogs: A lexical bundles approach
Federica BARBIERI
Corpora and regional variation in syntax – the case of periphrastic do in Low German
Thilo WEBER
11:55 - 12:30
Asynchronous Change in Syntactic Cognates: a Hypothesis-Driven Approach to V1-Conditionals in German and English
Torsten LEUSCHNER
SyHD – ein dialektsyntaktisches Korpus und seine Nutzungsmöglichkeiten
Thomas STROBEL and Helmut WEIß
12:30 - 14:00
LUNCH BREAK
ROOM: tba
Chair: Marek Konopka
14:00 - 16:00
POSTER SESSION

16:00 - 16:20
COFFEE BREAK
AUDITORIUM
Chair: Ulrich H. Waßner
ROOM 1.28
Chair: Patrick Brandt
16:20 - 16:55
Irrelevanzkonditionalsätze als Konstruktionen – oder was auch immer. Emergenzphänomene bei W immer/auch-Konnektoren im DeReKo
Torsten LEUSCHNER and Tom BOSSUYT
Morphosyntactic perspectives on the development of the German nominalized infinitive in the Austrian Media Corpus and the Austrian Baroque Corpus
Martina WERNER, Hannes PIRKER and Claudia RESCH
16:55 - 17:30
Needles in haystacks: Semi-automatic identification of regional grammatical variation in Standard German using a large corpus
Don TUGGENER and Martin BUSINGER
Overabundance as hybrid inflection. Quantitative evidence from Czech
Matías GUZMÁN NARANJO and Olivier BONAMI
AUDITORIUM
17:30 - 18:15
MEETING OF THE ORGANISING AND THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
19:00
CONFERENCE DINNER at Gasthaus am Fluss (Rheinterrassen) Register
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11th, 2016
AUDITORIUM
09:15 - 10:15
KEYNOTE SPEECH: Anne ABEILLÉ
Grammar of extraction and ellipsis: An empirical view
Chair: Achim Stein
10:15 - 10:45
COFFEE BREAK
AUDITORIUM
Chair: Roman Schneider
ROOM 1.28
Chair: Achim Stein
10:45 - 11:20
Finding Long-distance Dependencies in Tree-banks
Gosse BOUMA
Vergangenheitstempora als patterns? Korpusbasierte Untersuchungen zu passé composé und imparfait mit Implikationen für Lernergrammatiken
Oliver WICHER
11:20 - 11:55
Prominence effects in argument linearization: A cross-linguistic corpus study
Elisabeth VERHOEVEN
Subordinated Gapping and Polar Fragments in Spanish
Oscar GARCIA-MARCHENA
11:55 - 12:30
Standard annotation for non-standard speech: tagging the Spisz Dialect Corpus
Helena GROCHOLA-SZCZEPANEK, Rafał Ludwik GÓRSKI, Ruprecht v. WALDENFELS and Michał WOŹNIAK
A sociolinguistic view on variable subjects in Italian Sign Language
Mirko SANTORO, Lara MANTOVAN, Valentina ARISTODEMO and Carlo GERACI
12:30 - 14:00
LUNCH BREAK
AUDITORIUM
Chair: Roman Schneider
ROOM 1.28
Chair: Achim Stein
14:00 - 14:35
Converging results from phonological and phonetic analyses: the role of corpora
Renate RAFFELSIEFEN and Anja GEUMANN
Defining the maximal syntactic unit in the Syntactic Reference Corpus of Medieval French: Modeling, annotation, exploitation
Nicolas MAZZIOTTA
AUDITORIUM
14:35 - 15:45
KEYNOTE SPEECH: John NERBONNE
Vaulting ambition
Chair: Eric Fuß
15:45 - 16:00
CLOSING SESSION
Ludwig M. Eichinger


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Important Dates

  • 31.05.2016: Deadline for abstract submission
  • 17.06.2016: Extended deadline for submissions
  • 15.07.2016: Notification of acceptance
  • 08.11.2016: Tutorial day
  • 09-11.11.2016: Conference

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

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