Existential Constructions in Typological Perspective - LaTTiCe

Existential Constructions in Typological Perspective - LaTTiCe

Existential Constructions in Typological Perspective November 18th-­‐19th, 2016 – Ecole Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm, Paris
Friday, November 18th
10:00-­‐10:20 Opening 10:20-­‐11:20 Louise McNally (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) Existential Sentences Cross-­‐Linguistically: Variations in Form and Meaning 11:20-­‐11:50 Katia Paykin (University of Lille) Machteld Meulleman (University of Reims) Existential Sentences and Weather Events 11:50-­‐12:50 Anne Carlier (University of Lille) Benjamin Fagard (CNRS-­‐UMR Lattice & ENS, Paris) Karen Lahousse (University of Leuven, Belgium) Machteld Meulleman (University of Reims) Existence predication and Information Structure: Comparative Perspective on Romance Languages 12:50-­‐14:00 Lunch 14:00-­‐15:00 Tuomas Huumo (University of Turku) The Finnish existential clause: structure, meaning, discourse function, and quantification 15:00-­‐15:30 Zsuzsa Gecseg (University of Szeged, Hungary) Laure Sarda (CNRS-­‐UMR Lattice & ENS, Paris) Indefinite subject and locative in French and Hungarian 16:00-­‐17:00 Daniel Petit (ENS, Paris) The negation of existential and copular ‘be’ in Latvian 17:00-­‐17:20 Coffee Break 17:20-­‐18:20 Delia Bentley (University of Manchester), Francesco Ciconte (University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras, San Juan) Silvio Cruschina (University of Vienna) Locative and implicit arguments in Italo-­‐Romance copular constructions 18:20-­‐19:00 Danièle Van de Velde (University of Lille) The French verb manquer: a negative existential predicate? 19:00-­‐20:00 Denis Creissels (University of Lyon 2, Fr.) ? 20:00 Cocktail/Dinner Saturday, November 19th 9:00-­‐10:00 Delia Bentley (University of Manchester), Francesco Ciconte (University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras, San Juan) Silvio Cruschina (University of Vienna) Locative and possessive existentials: from Late Latin to Modern Italo-­‐Romance 10:00-­‐10:30 Bert Cappelle (University of Lille) Fayssal Tayalati (University of Lille) Vassil Mostrov (University of Valenciennes) Autonomous entities and the choice between there and have existentials 10:30-­‐10:50 Coffee break 10:50-­‐11:20 Laure Sarda (CNRS-­‐UMR Lattice & ENS, Paris) Machteld Meulleman (University of Reims, Fr.) Charlotte Danino (Université de Versailles Saint-­‐Quentin, Fr.) Pierre Le Goffic (University Paris 3, CNRS-­‐UMR Lattice) Existence and perception 11:50-­‐12:20 Livio Gaeta (University of Torino, Italy) Pure existentials versus pure presentationals: finding an existence out(side) of place 12:20-­‐13:40 Lunch 13:40-­‐14:40 Charlotte Coy (University of Tübingen, Germany) A short history of the definiteness effect 14:40-­‐15:10 Karolina Krawczak (University Adam Mickiewicz at Poznan, Pol.) Frederique Becquet (CNRS-­‐UMR Lattice & ENS, Paris) Comparing parameters of existential reading in a cross-­‐linguistic perspective: a statistical approach 15:10-­‐15:40 Pierre Le Goffic (University Paris 3, CNRS-­‐UMR Lattice) Laure Sarda (CNRS-­‐UMR Lattice & ENS, Paris) The French existential construction il y a 15:40-­‐16:00 Coffee break 16:00-­‐16:30 Bert Cappelle (University of Lille) Anne Carlier (University of Lille) Machteld Meulleman (University of Reims) Benjamin Fagard (CNRS-­‐UMR Lattice & ENS, Paris) Negating presence or existence: a cross-­‐linguistic, corpus-­‐based account 16:30-­‐17:30 Denis Creissels (University of Lyon 2) 17:30-­‐18:00 Discussion & conclusions