Corpus-based and Experimental Approaches to Ellipsis

Samedi 29 Juillet 2017, 09:00 to 19:00
Organisation: 
Anne Abeillé (Paris-Diderot), Philip Miller (Paris Diderot) et Jeffrey Runner (Rochester). Avec le soutien de l'IUF et du Labex EFL
Lieu: 

2017 LSA Institute
The University of Kentucky
Jacobs Science Building (JSB), room: 108.
Lexington, KY

Registration: https://ecbae.sciencesconf.org/

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Programme

9.00-10.00 Invited talk: Andrew Kehler (UC, San Diego)
Opportunities and Challenges for a Referential Theory of VP-ellipsis

10.00-10.20 Coffee break

10.20-11.00 Dan Parker
Navigating ellipsis structures in memory: New insights from computational modeling

11.00-11.40 Jong-Bok Kim and Joanna Nykiel
Direct Compositionality in English Why-Stripping: A Corpus-based Approach

11.40-12.20 Gabriela Bilbîie and Óscar García Marchena
A Romance perspective on subordination and fragments

12.20-13.40 Lunch Break

13.40-14.20 Robin Lemke
Movement or in situ deletion? — Experimental investigations on the syntax of fragments

14.20-15.00 Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler
Verb Phrase Ellipsis is discourse reference: novel evidence from dialogue

15.00-15.40 Ming Xiang, Julian Grove and Jason Merchant
Deep and surface anaphora can both prime, but demand different resources

15.40-16.00 Coffee break

16.00-16.40 Aoi Shiraishi, Anne Abeillé, Barbara Hemforth and Philip Miller
Verbal mismatch and phonological identity in Right Node Raising

16.40-17.40 Invited talk: Lyn Frazier (UMass, Amherst)
Processing ellipsis and the circumstances of repair

18.00-19.00 Round table on sharing experimental and corpus data for research on ellipsis

Organizers