Syntactic Categories and their interpretation in Chinese
- workshop -
MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet

Program

Október 16, szombat:
 

I. General 'keynote':
9:00-10:15 Marie-Claude PARIS (Univ. Paris 7): On parts of speech in contemporary Chinese

II. 'NPs in Chinese'
10:15-11:30 Wynn CHAO (SOAS, London) - Emmon BACH (Univ. of  Massachusetts): The semantics of noun phrase structures in Chinese
11:30-12:45 Rint SYBESMA (Leiden Univ.): Classifiers, demonstratives, definiteness

PAUSE (12:45-14:15)

III. 'Focus-related phenomena':
14:15-15:30 Waltraud PAUL (CRLAO/EHESS, Paris) - John WHITMAN (Cornell Univ.): The fine structure of shi...de clefts
15:30-16:45 Lisa Lai-Shen CHENG (Leiden Univ.): Clefts and inversed clefts in Chinese
16:45-18:00 Paul LAW (ZAS, Berlin): The adverb daodi 'after all' in Mandarin Chinese

Október 17, vasárnap

IV. 'Quantification'

9:30-10:45 Daniel HOLE (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ., München): Sentences that only foreigners find weird: Apparent syntax-semantics mismatches in Mandarin
10:45-12:00 Huba BARTOS (RIL/HAS and ELTE, Budapest): Pronominal variables and quantification: Chinese vs. Hungarian