ModUni2 @ Konstanz
Practical details
- Date: 9-11 October, 2019
- Venue: University of Konstanz
Workshop structure
The workshop consists of public talks as well as an internal meeting
where project members discuss the progress on the following three subprojects:
- Cross-linguistic variation and universals in the markings of epistemic stance (subproject lead: Malte Zimmermann)
- Attitudes and Selection: (subproject lead: Floris Roelofsen + Wataru Uegaki)
- Mood and tense marking in the embedded context (subproject lead: Maribel Romero)
Program for the public sessions: Wednesday October 9
| time |
MORNING SESSION |
| 8:30 |
Registration, coffee |
| 8:50 |
Opening remarks |
| 9-10 |
Regine Eckardt: Evidentials, modals and modal analyses for non-modal words (tentative) |
| 10-11 |
Jakub Szymanik: Explaining Semantic Universals: Learnability, Evolution, and Complexity |
| 11-11:30 |
coffee break |
| 11:30-12:30 |
Todor Koev & Maryam Mohammadi: Strong and weak readings of believe (tentative) |
| 12:30-15 |
lunch |
| time |
AFTERNOON SESSION |
| 15-16 |
Kajsa Djärv: Why knowing me is different from believing me: entailment and argument-structure asymmetries across factive and non-factive verbs |
| 16-16:30 |
coffee break |
| 16:30-17:30 |
Wataru Uegaki: Experimental investigations into the semantic nature of the selectional restriction of attitude predicates |
| 19:30 |
workshop dinner |
Participants
- Kajsa Djärv (Konstanz)
- Regine Eckardt (Konstanz)
- Todor Koev (Konstanz)
- Natasha Korotkova (Konstanz)
- Maryam Mohammadi (Konstanz)
- Floris Roelofsen (ILLC, Amsterdam)
- Maribel Romero (Konstanz)
- Jakub Szymanik (ILLC, Amsterdam)
- Wataru Uegaki (Edinburgh)
- Malte Zimmermann (Potsdam)
Local organizers
- Regine Eckardt
- Maribel Romero