Stress-free Focus Workshop 2019
October 18-19, 2019 - University of Vienna
The workshop is not only stress-free, but also registration fee free! Please register following this link.
Program
Venue: Department of Linguistics, Seminarraum 3, 1.OG (1st floor)
Address: Sensengasse, 3A, 1090, Vienna, Austria
Thursday, 17.10.2019 :
BINGO CANCELLED!
We are meeting directly at 7pm at Ungar Grill.
If you are unsure on how to get to the restaurant, we'll be in front of the Linguistics Department at 6:30pm and we'll go together.
Friday, 18.10.2019
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Welcome & Registration | |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Invited talk: Focusing and destressing: two sides of the same coin? | Kriszta Szendroi (UCL) |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Coffee break | |
| 11:45 - 12:25 | Anti-pied-piping | Kenyon Branan & Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (both authors: National University of Singapore) |
| 12:30 - 13:10 | Ex-situ morphological focus marker in complex sentences | Alexandra Vydrina (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) |
| 13:10 - 14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30 – 15:10 | Ex-situ verb focusing and its interpretation in Igbo | Ezeamuzie Onyinyechukwu Rhoda (University of Hong Kong) |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 - 16:10 | Why is focus not enough? | Karolina Grzech (Stockholm University) |
| 16:15 - 16:55 | Alternative-sensitive enclitics and focus in Cuzco Quechua | Martina Faller (University of Manchester) |
| 18:30 onwards | Social event/dinner | Lokal Mittendrin |
Saturday, 19.10.2019
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Invited talk: Focus Interpretation in Stressless Languages | Katharina Hartmann (Goethe University) |
| 12:00 - 12:40 | 'Stress focus' is paralinguistic in Egyptian Arabic | Dina El Zarka (University of Graz) |
| 12:40 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Towards a Theory of Morphosyntactic Focus Marking | UAS Team (University of Vienna) |
| 14:40 - 16:30 | Plenary + coffee break |
You can find a pdf version of the workshop's program here.