Plenary speaker
Elsi Kaiser, University of Southern California:
Animacy effects in relative clauses: Insights from psycholinguistics and corpus data
Draft Programme
| 8:40–9:10 | Registration | |
| 9:10–9:30 | Opening remarks Diane Nelson & Virve Vihman University of Leeds & University of Manchester |
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| 9:30–10:30 | Plenary talk: Animacy effects in relative clauses: Insights from psycholinguistics and corpus data Elsi Kaiser University of Southern California |
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| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee | |
| 11:00–11:30 | Identifying with the non-human: modal, zero person and passive constructions with animal reference in Finnish Rea Pelolta Université de Caen Normandie, CRISCO |
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| 11:30–12:00 | Animacy and affectedness (in Germanic languages) Jens Helfer-Fleischhauer Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf |
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| 12:00–12:30 | Humans, animals, things and animacy features Shiva Bayanati & Ida Toivonen Carleton University, Ottawa |
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| 12:30–1:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:30–2:00 | Animacy as a key to morphology in L2 German – Insights from Language Acquisition and Development Jana Gamper University of Potsdam |
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| 2:00–2:30 | Linking grammar and processing: The effect of animacy and verbal information on predictive eye-gaze in Dutch Peter de Swart & Geertje van Bergen Radboud University Nijmegen & MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen |
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| 2:30–3:00 | Relativisors and animacy in L2 English Theodora Alexopoulou1, Jeroen Geertzen1, Anna Korhonen1, Detmar Meurers2 1DTAL, University of Cambridge and 2University of Tuebingen |
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| 3:00–3:30 | Coffee | |
| 3:30–4:00 | Competing motivations: Animacy, information structure and other factors influencing differential agent marking in Jaminjung Eva Schultze-Berndt University of Manchester |
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| 4:00–4:30 | Plurality, animacy and the morpheme men in Mandarin Chinese Fangfang Niu Queen Mary University |
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| 4:30–5:00 | The language of an inanimate narrator Thijs Trompenaars1, Lotte Hogeweg2, Wessel Stoop3 & Helen de Hoop1 1 Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen; 2 Dept. of Dutch Linguistics, University of Amsterdam; 3 Centre for Language and Speech Technology, Radboud University Nijmegen |
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| 5:00–5:20 | Closing remarks/discussion | |
| Alternate | Animacy effects in inflectional morphology Ekaitz Santazilia & Iván Igartua Public University of Navarre & University of the Basque Country |
Workshop on Animacy in Language and Cognition 