SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME   TUESDAY 22nd OCTOBER 2014

15:00 - 20:00 PRE-SYMPOSIUM COURSE (1st Session) Edificio Politécnico, Sala de Grados

Jóhanna Bar∂dal: Introduction to Construction Grammar

 

 

WEDNESDAY 22nd OCTOBER 2014

8:30 - 13:30 PRE-SYMPOSIUM COURSE (2nd Session) Edificio Politécnico, Sala de Grados

Robert D. Van Valin Jr.: Introduction to Role and Reference Grammar

14:30 REGISTRATION

15:00 - 16:00 (Salón de Actos - Chair: Javier Martín Arista)

PLENARY SESSION: Hans Sauer

Complex verbs and their history, especially particle + verb and verb + particle

Sala de Grados

Chair: Conor Pyle

16:00 - 16:30 Hong Cai (e-session): Aspectual classification of Mandarin Chinese verbs: a

comprehensive approach

16:30 - 17:00 Isabel Casanova: Is the English Perfect also Perfect in Portuguese?

17:00 - 17:30 COFFEE BREAK

Chair: Ludmilla Podolski

17:30 - 18:00 Dmitry Gerasimov: Is there a category of verbal aspect in Russian?

18:00 - 18:30 Aleksandrs Berdičevskis and Hanne Eckhoff: Constructional profiling and

aspectual pairs in Russian

18:30 - 19:00 Denis Kirianov: Russian verbs of permission and prohibition and the aspect of

dependent infinitive

THURSDAY 23rd OCTOBER 2014

8:30 REGISTRATION

Salon de Actos Sala de Grados

Chair: Hans Sauer Chair: Jóhanna Bar∂dal

9:00 - 9:30 Ana Elvira Ojanguren López: On the

loss of the inflection of the Old English

participle. A quantification of strong

verbs based on the DOEC

Helen Plado: What can control implicit

subject of converb? The case of

Estonian des-converb

9:30 - 10:00 Marta Tío Sáenz: The normalization of

Old English weak verbs of the second

class. Advances and issues

Taiwo Ehineni (e-session): The Syntax of

Null Verbs and Nouns in Nigerian

English newspaper headlines

10:00 - 10:30 Darío Metola Rodríguez: Strong verb

lemmas from a corpus of Old English:

Methodology and problems

Marian Alves Castro: The interaction of

locative inversion and extraposition

from DP

10:30 -11:00 Iker Salaberri: The Syntactic structure of

Old Saxon clauses

Tania de Dios: On the relationship

between retrievability and object

omission: a corpus-based approach to

contextual object omission in English

11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK

Chair: Raquel Vea Escarza Chair: Teresa Fanego

11:30 - 12:00 Francisco Cortés Rodríguez: Rules for

the computational parsing of RRG

Phrasal constituents within ARTEMIS

Tamara Bouso: Whispering adieus and

smiling a welcome: Changes in

argument structure in the history of

English

12:00 - 12:30 María del Carmen Fumero Pérez & Ana

Díaz Galán: Parsing Rules for do-

auxiliary insertion in ARTEMIS'

Grammar Development Environment

(GDE)

Daniela Schröder: Exclamatives in the

History of English

12:30 -13:30 (Salón de Actos - Chair: Francisco Cortés Rodríguez)

PLENARY SESSION: Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.

Some Questions Concerning Accomplishments

Chair: Roberto Torre Alonso Chair: Helen Plado

15:00 - 15:30 Juan Gabriel Vázquez González: Dative-

Accusative ditransitive constructions in

Skeat’s edition of The Four Gospels in

Izaskun Elorza: Constructions of Report

in Direct Speech and their Transition

Areas in Popularizations in English

Anglo-Saxon, Northumbrian and Old

Mercian versions

15:30 - 16:00 Lachezar Perchekliyski & Yana

Chankova: Aspects of vp-internal

scrambling in Old English and Old

Bulgarian

Miriam Pérez-Veneros: Scientists vs.

research: The nominalization of

authorial voices introducing reported

speech in science popularizations from

the British press

16:00 - 16:30 Esaúl Ruiz Narbona: The treatment of

valency in dictionaries: The case of Old

English morphological causatives

David Lorenz: to-contraction in

English: The emergence of a

constructional schema?

16:30 - 17:00 COFFEE BREAK

Chair: Anna Alexandrova Chair: Rainer Osswald

17:00 -17:30 Ewa Gumul: Nominalizations and

verbal constructions in simultaneous

interpreting

Ignazio Mauro Mirto: A case study of

the zero article in Italian

17:30 - 18:00 Federica Cominetti: Syntactic

nominalization and parts-of-speech in

Modern Standard Chinese

Gareth O’Neill: Experiential

Predication in Irish

18:00 - 18:30 Federica Cominetti & Valentina Piunno:

Determined infinitives on the verb-noun

continuum. A corpus-based analysis on

Italian and other Romance languages

20:30: Tapas Dinner. Meeting Point: Tourist Information Office (50, Calle Portales)

FRIDAY 24th OCTOBER 2014

8:30 REGISTRATION

Salon de Actos Sala de Grados

Chair: Hanne M. Eckhoff Chair: Izaskun Elorza

9:00 - 9:30 Daniela Caluianu: Static motion: the

lexicalization of motion events in

Japanese-English interlanguage

Roger Pérez i Brufau: Blending theories:

An Image-schematic Construction

Grammar to explain Argument Structure

Constructions Acquisition

9:30 - 10:00 Yolanda Fernández Pena (e-session):

Verbal agreement with collective

nominal constructions: syntactic and

semantic determinants

Kevin Chan (e-session): On the condition of

grammaticalization of coordinative

conjunctions

10:00 - 10:30 Anja Latrouite: Morphological cues

for the necessity of richer lexical

decompositions

Teresa Fanego: From modifier to core

argument: the constructionalization of

English ACC-ing gerundives

10:30 -11:00 Walfried Premper: Circumstantial

clauses in Arabic: syntactic and

semantic considerations concerning

their typology

Ángel García Ferrer: Las preguntas

retóricas desde una perspectiva

multimodal: un estudio contrastivo inglés-

español

11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK

Chair: Pilar Guerrero Chair: Raquel Vea Escarza

11:30 - 12:00 Rainer Osswald & Anna Riccio: The

syntax-semantics interface of PP

resultatives in Italian and English

David Lorenz & David Tizón-Couto: The

V-to-Vinf construction and its realization in

American English

12:00 - 12:30 Stavros Kelepouris & Miriam

Taverniers: Four of a kind.

Resultative-like construction types in

English

Eva Staudinger: Psych-predicates with

discourse-level meanings: the French [ça

PRON V de INF]- construction

12:30 -13:30 (Salón de Actos - Chair: Juan Gabriel Vázquez González)

PLENARY SESSION: Jóhanna Barðdal

Dative Subjects in Germanic: A computational analysis of lexical semantic verb

classes across time and space

Chair: Aleksandrs Berdičevskis Chair: David Lorenz

15:00 - 15:30 Ilia Shatunovskiy: The Verbs of

Thought and Thinking

Ismael Iván Teomiro García & Alba

Luzondo Oyón: The Non-Selected Dative

Construction in English Dialects

15:30 - 16:00 Mohammad Al-Zahrani: The

Morpho-syntactic and Semantic

Properties of Hijazi Modals

Sandra Lucas: Semantically predictable

constructions

16:00 - 16:30 Anna Alexandrova: Redefining the

avertive: evidence from Slavic

Musavir Ahmed (e-session): A Study of

Morphological Case in Gurezi Shina

16:30 - 17:00 COFFEE BREAK

Chair: Roberto Torre Alonso Chair: Robert D. Van Valin Jr.

17:00 - 17:30 Pilar Guerrero: The distribution of

verb classes in the English

benefactive alternation: an

“agnation- based” approach

Conor Pyle: Dynamics of compounding in

two dialects of Australia’s Western Desert

17:30 - 18:00 Ludmilla Podolski: Another look at

the meaning of the verbs of the

lexical field of possession

Avelino Corral Esteban: An analysis of

´wh`- questions in Cheyenne

18:00 - 18:30 Denis Kirianov & Maria Tagabileva:

Complementation Strategies of

Russian Verbs of Request

Klaus Wedekind: Events vs. States in

Cushitic Narratives

21:00 Symposium Dinner. Meeting point: Restaurante ‘En Ascuas’ (22, Calle de los Hermanos

Moroy)