Complexities of Grammar
18 December, 2009
Room C, Coombs Bldg
Announcing the first ANU workshop on Complexities of Grammar.
Grammatical complexity is a hallmark of human language. Syntactic embedding and complex predicate formation are among the topics which have been often singled out for typological and theoretical reasons. The workshop will address a range of issues on these topics and also other topics on complexities in the grammar of human language from different perspectives, both theoretical and functional.
We plan to organise this workshop annually, addressing different topics each year.
Papers
9.00 - 9.30
Mark Donohue
Kinds of complexity: complex predicates seen through the lens of Skou grammar
9.30 - 10.30
Nick Evans
Complementarity, unification, and incompatibility: bound pronominals, free NPs and argument status in a double-marking language (Nen)
10.30 - 11.00
BREAK
11.00-11.30
Wayan Arka
Complexity-based resources in phrasal and word-internal syntax: evidence from Morori
11.30-12.00
Avery Andrews
Glue Semantics and Complex predicates
12.00 - 12.30
Cathryn Donohue
Complex predicates: a new view on causatives from Basque
12.30-14.00
LUNCH
14.00 - 14.30
Meladel Mistica
Reduplication as complex predicate formation in Indonesian
14.30 - 15.00
Anneliese Kuhle
TBA
15.30-15.30
General participation
Discussion, clarification
16.00 - 17.00
General participation
Book Launch: The Proto-Oceanic Lexicon Vol. 3
