Programme
Thursday 11 July
| 12:00-13:30 | Registration (workshop, lunch, dinner) |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch at the Campus (not covered by workshop fee) |
13:30-13:50 | Opening session |
13:50-14:50 | Plenary: Kristin DAVIDSE “A cognitive-functional approach to premodifiers in the English NP” |
14:50-15:20 |
Roxanne TAYLOR “Consistency of semantic roles and argument structure in Old English possessor genitives” |
| 15:20-15:40 | Coffee break |
15:40-16:10 | Tine BREBAN “Ternary genitive variation at the turning point: The redistribution of -s genitive, of-phrase and noun + noun variants in 1400-1650” |
16:10-16:40 |
Zane SENKO & Marina PLATONOVA “Aligning Power-Bound Terms in English and Latvian: Functional Approach” |
| 16:40-17:10 | Tatjana SMIRNOVA “Action Nominal Constructions in English and Latvian: Thematic Field of Handicrafts” |
| 17:10-17:40 | Daisuke UMEHARA, Hideo TOMINAGA & Takuro MORIYAMA “Attribute Category Nouns with Value-assigning Adjectives in English” |
Friday 12 July
9:00-10:00 | Plenary: Marianne HUNDT “Revisiting the emergence of N-is focaliser constructions” |
10:00-10:30 |
Marta CARRETERO “Towards delimiting the expression of epistemicity in English with shell nouns” |
| 10:30-11:00 | Evelien KEIZER “Premodification in the point-is construction” |
11:00-11:20 | Coffee break |
11:20-11:50 |
Elnora TEN WOLDE “Functional Discourse Grammar vs Construction: The development of evaluative of-binominal noun phrases” |
| 11:50-12:20 | Yolanda FERNÁNDEZ-PENA “The complexity of the binominal collective noun phrase and its implications for verb number agreement” |
| 12:20-12:50 | Carmen PORTERO MUÑOZ & Melanie BELL “The Measurement Construction in English” |
12:50-14:30 | Lunch (covered by workshop fee) |
14:30-15:00 |
Kazuya NISHIMAKI “Coordinated Phrases as Dvandvas: A Competition-Theoretic Perspective” |
| 15:00-15:30 | Lotte SOMMERER “Let’s talk face to face about N-P-N constructions in English” |
15:30-15:50 | Coffee break |
15:50-16:20 |
Kristina VALENTINYOVA “The Position of the complement: A Case Study of Transitive Adjectives” |
| 16:20-16:50 | Fuyo OSAWA “The Rivalry between Definiteness and Specificity: The Emergence of DP in English” |
| 20:00 | Workshop dinner (covered by workshop fee) |
Saturday 13 July
9:30-10:00 |
An VAN LINDEN & Lieselotte BREMS “Miracles and mirativity: Lexical versus grammatical uses of wonder, marvel, and surprise” |
| 10:00-10:30 | Charlotte MAEKELBERGHE “The nominal status of English verbal gerunds: A cross-linguistic perspective” |
| 10:30-11:00 | Katrin MENZEL “Noun phrases with informationally dense premodifiers in a diachronic corpus of English academic writing” |
11:00-11:20 | Coffee break |
11:20-11:50 |
Rahel OPPLIGER “Structural changes in noun phrase referring expressions in interactive communication” |
| 11:50-12:20 | Hongying XU “The Role of Nominal Expressions in Structuring Information” |
| 12:20-13:00 | Closing session |