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Generative Linguistics in the Old World 34,
April 28-30, 2011

Program for workshop on the phonological marking of focus and topic

Wednesday, April 27 2011
Department of Linguistics
Sensengasse 3a
1090 Wien
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time title speaker chair
8.30 coffee
8.50 opening remarks Edwin Williams
9.00 A syntactic feature [Focus]: The P-side (invited talk) Elisabeth Selkirk
(University of Massachusetts Amherst)
10.00 Interaction of tone and intonation in Lhasa Tibetan: A working hypothesis Irina Monich (University of Connecticut)
10.45 coffee break
11.15 Unexpected prosodic marking of focus in Akan - the case of tonal lowering Frank Kügler &
Susanne Genzel (Potsdam University)
12.00 Focus as phrasing in Georgian Caroline Féry (Goethe University Frankfurt) &
Skopeteas Stavros (Potsdam University)
12.45 lunch break
14.15 Shifting Prominence: Grammatical Factors, Cross-linguistic Differences (invited talk) Michael Wagner
(McGill University)
15.15 Focus (non-)realization in Ngamo (West Chadic) Susanne Genzel & Mira Grubic
(Potsdam University)
16.15 hot chocolate and pastries
16.30 To Phrase or Not to Phrase: The Effect of Focus in Standard Chinese Yiya Chen
(Leiden University Center for Linguistics)
17.15 Topics in Questions (invited talk) Beste Kamali (Harvard University) &
Daniel Büring (University of Vienna)
18.15 general discussion


Alternate
title speaker
Focus as Prosodic Alignment Caroline Féry (Goethe University Frankfurt)