Information structure working group
The Information Structure working group is a collaborative cluster between the various linguistic disciplines at the University of Graz. Researchers from the following institutes are involved:
- Institute of German Studies
- Institute of Romance Studies
- Institute of Linguistics
- Institute for Slavic Studies
The short-term goal of the working group is to coordinate and deepen teaching and research activities in the areas of: Information Structure, Prosody Research and Grammar-Pragmatics Interface.
The longer-term goal is to increase the international visibility of these linguistic research areas at the University of Graz and to successfully acquire third-party funding.
| Name / Title | Contact information |
|---|---|
E-Mail:boban.arsenijevic@uni-graz.at Phone:+43 316 380 - 2522 | |
E-Mail:dina.elzarka@uni-graz.at Phone:+43 316 380 - 8283 | |
E-Mail:steffen.heidinger@uni-graz.at Phone:+43 316 380 - 8215 | |
E-Mail:edgar.onea-gaspar@uni-graz.at Phone:+43 316 380 - 2633 |
The Information Structure Working Group organizes guest lectures on the topics covered, thereby increasing the national and international visibility of its activities.
List of guest lectures
- 12.11.2018 - Silvio Cruschina (Vienna): Two types of topicless construction in Italian
- 11.03.2019 - Viola Schmitt (Vienna): Propositions and their parts
- 01.04.2019 - Daniel Büring (Vienna): Focus interpretation is relational (but not stochastic)
- 15.04.2019 - Anke Holler (Göttingen): Bridges to the island? How word constituents become accessible
- 25.04.2019 - Benjamin Spector (Paris) - What do we learn from game-theoretic pragmatics?
- 17.06.2019 - Emilie Destruel Johnson (Iowa) - It's not what you expected! The surprising nature of cleft alternatives in French and English
- 12.11.2019 - Alexandre Cremers - Two steps towards a pragmatic of questions
- 14.11.2019 - Olga Borik - Nominalization and participle formation
- 02.12.2019 - Markus Steinbach (Göttingen) - Manual and Nonmanual Response Strategies in German Sign Language (DGS)
- 05.12.2019 - Todd Snider (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - Constraints on Propositional Anaphora
- 11.12.2019 - Richard Huyghe (Université de Fribourg) - Aspect in the nominal domain: a perspective on the Aktionsart of French action nouns
Workshop "Grammatical change and information structure"
Date: January 08 - 09, 2024
Venue: University of Graz, Institute of German Studies. Mozartgasse 8, 8045 Graz, LingLab language laboratory
Organizers: Edgar Onea
Program:
10:00-11:00 Eric Fuß: Verb second
11:00-11:30 Break/Discussion
11:30-12:30 Eric Fuß:The historical development of 'prefield' expletives
12:30-13:00 Discussion
After the workshop (until January 9, 2024) there will be the opportunity to discuss your own research with the speaker.
Workshop on Argument Structure, Information Structure and Binding
Date: May 30, 2023
Venue: University of Graz, Institute for German Studies. Mozartgasse 8, 8045 Graz, LingLab
Organizers: Svitlana Antonyuk and Edgar Onea
The workshop is jointly organized by the project M 3361-G "Deriving Discourse Configurationality of East Slavic" (Svitlana Antonyuk) and the Theoretical Linguistics Lab of the University of Graz.
Program:
9:00-10:30 Daniel Hole (Stuttgart, invited guest): Argument alternations and theta-induced binding.
10:30-12:00 Boban Arsenijevic: Intensified pronouns and reflexivization: a reflexive cycle.
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 Svitlana Antonyuk: Internal arguments and what to do with them.
15:30-17:00 Edgar Onea: Topicality and intentionality: A new analysis of embedded and matrix topics
Workshop EMPIRICAL APPROACHES TO INFORMATION STRUCTURE
Friday, May 17, 2019 SR 33.4.032, Institute for Romance Studies Merangasse 70, 8010 Graz
Program:
09:00 - 10:00 Steffen Heidinger & Edgar Onea (Graz) Focus affinity and the optimal background
10:00 - 11:00 Eva Schultze-Berndt (Manchester) Topicality and grammatical relations: towards an empirical approach
Coffee break
11:15 - 12:15 Dina El Zarka (Graz) Information structural constraints on prosody are soft in Egyptian Arabic
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00 Daniele Panizza (Göttingen) Adults are not always faster than children. An eye-tracking study on the online comprehension of Indirect Scalar Implicatures
Workshop NEW APPROACHES TO FOCUS and related phenomena
April 1, 2019 SZ 15.22 (Universitätsstraße 15 Building G, 2nd floor)
Program:
09:30 - 10:15 Swantje Tönnis Clefts, Narration, and the QUD
10:15 - 11:00 Lea Fricke & Edgar Onea Testing exhaustive readings of embedded questions
11:15 - 12:00 Madeleine Butschety Additives, Quantifiers, and other unorthodox Laisons
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30 Daniel Büring with Muriel Assmann, Izabela Jordanoska, Max Prüller (University of Vienna) Focus interpretation is relational (but not stochastic)
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:45 Muriel Assmann, Daniel Büring, Izabela Jordanoska, Max Prüller Crosslinguistic Relational Focus Semantics
16:45 - 17:30 Muriel Assmann, Daniel Büring, Izabela Jordanoska, Max Prüller Second Occurrence Focus in Wolof