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Venue:
Cecil Green Park House
University of British Columbia
6251 Cecil Green Park Road
Vancouver, B.C.
V6T 1Z1
https://cecilgreenpark.ubc.ca/facilities/
December 5th
| 9:00 – 9:15 | Registration |
| 9:15 – 9:30 | Opening |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Focus and constructions Peter Culicover |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Stranding in Disguise and Locality
Shoichi Takahashi |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Questioning Questions
Johannes Heim and Martina Wiltschko |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | A configurational account of contrastive and given topics in Brazilian Portuguese
Renato Lacerda |
| 12:15 – 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 – 2:00 | Exhaustivity and the in-situ/ex-situ partition in Bamileke Medumba
Hermann Keupdjio |
| 2:00 – 2:30 | Pragmatic effects on word order in double object sentences: A comparison of Nata vs. English
Emily Sadlier-Brown |
| 2:30 – 2:45 | Break |
| 2:45 – 3:45 | The V in deverbal nominals: PROs and cons.
Hagit Borer |
| 3:45 – 5:45 | A walk at the beach |
| 7:00 | Dinner at Martina’s |
December 6th
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Ambiguity of Questions! – German-Swedish Contrasts
Valéria Molnár |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Break |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Deaccenting and focus-sensitivity in the context of German nur (‘only’)
Johannes Heim |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Gestural contribution to information structure of spoken utterances
Oksana Tkachman |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | A pragmatic account of subject focus clefts in Québec French
Anne Bertrand |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Plain futurates, schedules, and information structure
Hotze Rullmann, Marianne Huijsmans, Lisa Matthewson and Neda Todorovic |
| 12:15 – 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 – 2:00 | Narrow Focus Constructions in ʔaʔayǰuθəm Kaining Xu |
| 2:00 – 2:30 | The scalar exclusive ʔut in ʔayʔaǰuθəm
Marianne Huijsmans |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Raising is Tough to Analyze in St’át’imcets
Henry Davis |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | Negotiating reference in discourse: parallels between prosodic (de-)accenting and the proximate-obviative partition
Rose-Marie Déchaine |
| 3:30 – 3:45 | Break |
| 3:45 – 4:45 | Corpus evidence supporting a theory of Givenness marking in English Nancy Hedberg |
| 4:45 – 5:00 | Goodbyes |
A .pdf copy of the Given! Workshop Program is also available.