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Determiners and predication in the nominal domain in Romance

X.NEREUS Workshop

The research network NEREUS aims at establishing contacts between researchers in Europe who are interested in referential categories and their morphosyntactic realisation in Romance languages. The X. edition of NEREUS is dedicated to the interaction between determiners and predication in the nominal domain in Romance.

22–23 October 2021 

University of Freiburg, Wilhelmstr. 26, Room 00 006

Friday, 22 October 2021

09.30 – 09.45

Introduction

09.45 – 10.30

Klaus von Heusinger (University of Cologne) & Georg Kaiser (University of Konstanz): Argument Encoding in Causative Constructions and Affectedness

10.30 – 11.15

Coffee Break

11.15 – 12.00

Susann Fischer (University of Hamburg): PCC reloaded

12.00 – 12.45

Anna Pineda (Sorbonne University/ University of Cologne): DOM in Catalan: an overview

12.45 – 14.30

Lunch

14.30 – 15.15

Marco García García (University of Cologne): Passive and subject prominence

15.15 – 16.00

M. Teresa Espinal (UAB Barcelona): The status of de in Romance indefinites, partitives and pseudopartitives

16.00 – 16.45

Coffee Break

16.45 – 17.30

Elisabeth Stark (University of Zürich): Distribution and function of ‘indefinite definite’ articles in Francoprovençal

Saturday, 23 October 2021

9.45 – 10.30

Ingo Feldhausen (University of Lorraine): Reanalyzing the stress-focus mismatch in the Spanish DP

10.30 – 11.15

Coffee Break

11.15 – 12.00

E. Tsiakmakis (UAB Barcelona): On the structure of Greek polydefinites: Determiner spreading and predication in the nominal domain

12.00 – 12.45

Manuel Leonetti (UCM Madrid): There is no information structure inside DPs

12.45 – 14.30

Lunch

14.30 – 15.15

Daniel Jacob (University of Freiburg): Information structure within the DP

15.15 – 15.45

Conclusion – Final remarks

Contact: 

Daniel Jacob

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

daniel.jacob@romanistik.uni-freiburg.de

Marco García García

Universität zu Köln                                                 

marco.garcia@uni-koeln.de