PROGRAM

Thursday May 14 Friday May 15
10.00-11.00 William McGregor (Invited speaker, Aarhus) 'Spatial frames of reference in Gooniyandi' (tentative title) 10.00-11.00 Melissa Bowerman (Invited speaker, Max Planck Nijmegen) 'Semantic categories of space in adult and child language: A cross-linguistic perspective'
11.00-11.30 (coffee) 11.00-11.30 (coffee)
11.30-12.15 Nana Kusuma (Leiden) 'Localizers in Mandarin Chinese: The Hakka Connection' 11.30-12.15 Narayan Sharma (Tribhuvan, Kathmandu) 'Deictic expressions in Puma'
12.15-13.00 Adboulaye Laziz Nchara (NYU) and Arhonto Terzi (Patras) 'The syntax of spatial expressions: Evidence from Shupamen' 12.15-13.00 Berit Gehrke (Pompeu Fabra) 'Word order and case alternations with PPs as reflexes of complex predicate formation'
13.00-14.00 (lunch) 13.00-14.00 (lunch)
14.00-14.45 Tafseer Ahmed (Konstanz) 'Modeling different semantic usages of spatial markers using underspecified features' 14.00-14.45 Laura Janda and Tore Nesset (Tromsø) 'From going somewhere to getting things done: Spatial prefixes as aspectual markers in Russian'
14.45-15.30 Marina Pantcheva (Tromsø) 'On the locative uses of Route expressions: A syntactic account' 14.45-15.30 Svetlana Sokolova (Tromsø) 'Ingressive usage of the Russian verbal prefixes za- and po: Any spatial features?'
15.30-16.00 (coffee) 15.30-16.00 (coffee)
16.00-16.45 Berit Gehrke (Pompeu Fabra) and Veronika Hegedűs 'The licensing of paths' 16.00-16.45 Julia Kuznetsova (Tromsø) 'Do speech verbs have a spatial argument?'
16.45-17.30 Minjeong Son (Tromsø) 'Two ways to express directed manner of motion in Indonesian/Malay and different event construals' 16.45-17.30 Pavel Caha (Tromsø) 'The jungle of Czech local cases'
17.30-18.00 Summary Discussion led by Peter Svenonius (Tromsø) 17.30-18.00 Summary Discussion led by Peter Svenonius (Tromsø)
19.30 Dinner 19.30 Dinner