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Table of contents:1

Year Venue Page

1st 1999 University of Illinois, U.S.A. P. 2

2nd 2000 International Center of Croatian Universities – ICCU, Don Frane Bulića 4, Dubrovnik, Croatia

P. 4

3rd 2001 The University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.

P. 6

4th 2002 University of La Rioja, Spain p. 8

5th 2003 Universidade Estadual Paulista Instituto de Biociencias, Letras e Ciencias Exatas Campus de São José do Rio Preto)

p. 11

6th 2004 Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Dublin, Ireland p. 14

7th 2005 Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan p. 17

8th 2006 University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany p. 19

9th 2007 Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

p. 22

10th 2009 University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. p. 25

11th 2011 The Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile p. 28

12th 2013 The Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

p. 31

Last modified: September 6, 2013

1 The content of this document was reproduced based on the programs of the past RRG conferences by K. Toratani. The order in each conference reflects the order of presentations.

Role and Reference Grammar Conferences

1999 - 2013

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Role and Reference Grammar Workshop and Conference

LECTURE

Van Valin, Robert D. Jr Intro to RRG 1 (Clause structure and focus structure), Intro to RRG 2 (Semantic representation and linking)

WORKSHOP

Boutin, Michael Austronesian linguistics

Kemmerer, David Psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic implications of RRG

Shimojo, Mitsuaki Japanese linguistics

Van Valin, Robert D. Jr Lexical decomposition

Yang, Byong-seon Korean linguistics

CONFERENCE

Abdoulaye, M.L. Arguments vs. agreement markers: Preverbal pronouns in Hausa

Amazaki, Osamu RRG analysis of quantifier floating in Japanese

Ameka, Felix, James Essegbey, & David Wilkins

Semantically underspecified verbs in Ewe: An RRG analysis of dze

Boutin, Michael Locative predicates in RRG

Brush, Beaumont Mental predicates in semantics and complementation

Centineo, Giulia Two types of 'die' in Old Italian: The contrast between Morire and Morirsi

Eschenberg, Ardis Focus structure in Polish complex sentences

Hasegawa, Yoko On the notion of focus domain in RRG

July 23 – 25, 1999 Venue: The University of Illinois, U.S.A., in conjunction with the Linguistic

Society of America Summer Institute.

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Paris, Luis An RRG description of the Spanish causative construction 'Hacer-infinitive'

Park, Ki-seong The case marking in periphrastic causative construction and two related constructions in Korean

Rangkupan, Suda An application of RRG to quantitative methods for pragmatic studies of referring expressions

Shimojo, Mitsuaki Island constraints in RRG: Extractability and information structure

Toratani, Kiyoko Honorific and compound verbs in Japanese

Van Valin, Robert D. Jr Some remarks on the acquisition of complex sentences

Yang, Byong-seon Split intransitivity in Korean and Japanese

Zovko, Irena Impersonal constructions in Croatian

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CSSCC-2000 –NEW THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE

COURSES (September 3 – 7, 2000)

Bowerman, Melissa Crosslinguistic perspectives on first language acquisition

Everett, Daniel Lexical Integrity and Word-formation in Optimality Theory

Matasović, Ranko Synchronic and Diachronic Typology of Syntactic Structures

Pustejovsky, James Generative Lexicon

Van Valin, Robert D. Jr. Syntactic Theory

CONFERENCE (September 8 – 10, 2000)

Belaj, B. Nominalization as a Strategy of Passivization

Brala, M. M. Decomposing English, Croatian and Italian Prepositions on a Cognitive Basis

Di Sciullo, A. M. Layers in Words

Eckardt, R. Reanalysing selbst

Fulgosi F S. & N. Tuđman-Vuković

A New View of Frequency and Prototypes

Grishina, N. Focus Constructions in Ket

Haman, E. Why Word Formation is Underestimated in Child Language Research

Jensen, A. Sentence Intertwining in Danish

Jelaska, Z. Synonymic Words Figured out Alone

Korźyk, K. Lexical Representations within the Model of “Communicative Grammar”

Koshkaryova, N. Sentences with Ditransitive Verbs in Khanty

Maltseva, A. The Morphosyntactic Mechanisms of Argument Adjusting in

September 2 to 10, 2000 Venue: International Center of Croatian Universities – ICCU,

Don Frane Bulića 4, Dubrovnik , Croatia

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the Chukotkan Languages

Kovačević, M.

Medved-Krajnović, M. Early Lexical Acquisition – A Croatian Example

Ozonova, A. Analytic Constructions with Semantics of Possibility in Altai-Kizhi

Ohori, T. Some RRG Predictions on the Diachrony of Clause Linkage

Pavelin, B. Speech Gestures and Cognitive Development

Petroska, E. The Categories of Quantity in Macedonian

Raffaelli, I. Some Thoughts on the Typology of Adjectives

Sagaan, N. Spatial Constructions in Tuvan

Škara, D. The Poetics of Mind: Interpreting Metaphors and Idioms

Shimojo, M. A Cognitive Theory of Island Phenomena: The Case of an “Island-Free” Language

Van Valin, R. D. Some remarks on the nature of universal grammar

Wilbur, R. The Cognitive-Semantic-Syntactic (and Prosodic) Interface: Focus in ASL

Winther-Nielsen N. How to do Role and Reference Grammar in Ancient Hebrew: exploring the challenges of Judges 1-24.

Winther-Nielsen, N. & G. Yaeger

A Semi-Automatic Tool for the Assignment of Verb Argument Structures in a Role and Reference Grammar Framework

Yang, B. Split Intransitivity in Japanese and Korean: a Role and Reference Grammar Account

Yamamoto, M. Cognitive Meaning of Japanese tense morphemes: [-ta] and [-ru] Based on Mental Space Model

Žic-Fuchs, M.

Zovko, I. Dative Shift in Croatian

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2001 International Workshop and Conference on Role and Reference Grammar

The Organizing Committee: o Everett, Dan (University of Manchester) o Mairal Usón, Ricardo (UNED, Madrid) o Matasović, Ranko (University of Zagreb) o Ohori, Toshio (University of Tokyo) o Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. (University at Buffalo) o Byong-seon Yang (Jeonyu University)

WORKSHOPS (July 27-28, 2001)

Everett, Dan Introductory lectures on RRG

Mairal Usón, Ricardo &

Francisco Cortes Workshop on lexical representation and the lexicon

Everett, Dan Workshoop on morphology in RRG

Weist, Richard Workshop on language acquisition

Matasović, Ranko & Toshio Ohori

Workshop on diachronic syntax

CONFERENCE (July 29, 2001)

Bentley, Delia On 'ne'-cliticisation

Bickel, Balthasar PSAs, valence and the theory of grammatical relations

Eschenberg, Ardis Pragmatic pivots and Omaha

Grishina, Natalia Topics in Ket

Kailuweit, Rolf Psych-verb linking in Romance – a Role and Reference Grammar approach

Koshkaryova, Natalya Syntactic functions of the dative case in Khanty, Nenets and Russian

Lee, Hee-chul The semantics and syntax of the Korean periphrastic

July 27-29, 2001 Venue: The University of California, Santa Barbara, in conjunction with the

Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute.

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causative construction

Mairal Usón, Ricardo Linking lexical templates to semantic constructions: A case study of cut, hit and break verbs

Matasović, Ranko The possessive constructions in Croatian

Ohori, Toshio Some thoughts on a new systematization of interclausal semantic relations

Paris, Luis Syntactic expression of event relations: the case of the Spanish gerund clauses

Park, Ki-seong A comparative study on the semantis and pragmatics of complementizers in Korea, Japanese and English

Shimojo, Mitsuaki Syntactic constraints on quantifier float and information processing: The case of Japanese

Toratani, Kiyoko On the meaning of –kake 'almost/be about to/do halfway' in Japanese

Van Valin, Robert D. Jr. RRG approach to three-place predicates

Watanabe, Ryoko Introducing speaker's construal in semantic relations hierarchy: a case of Japanese causal clauses

Wu, Joy Clausal modifiers in Amis

Yang, Byong-seon A Role and Reference Grammar's account of unaccusativity in Korean and Japanese: split intransitivity

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The 2002 International Course and Conference on Role and Reference Grammar New Topics in Functional Linguistics: The Cognitive and Discursive dimension of Morphology, Syntax and Semantics

COURSES and WORKSHOPS (July 22-26, 2002)

Everett, Dan Course lecture: RRG I & II, Morphology I & II

Van Valin, Robert D. Jr. Course lecture: RRG III, VI, V

Hengeveld, Kees Course lecture: FG I & II

Nuyts, Jan Cognition and Grammar I & II

Elizabeth Guest & Nicolai Winter-Nielsen

RRG Hebrew analysis and translation

CONFERENCE (July 27-28, 2002)

Alves, Elisabeth Idiomatization and variation of verbal phraseologisms in specialized communication

Bellosta von Colbe, Valeriano. & Jacques François,

Windowing of attention and the core-periphery boundary

Bentley, Delia Definiteness effects: evidence from Sardinian

Butler, Chris (Plenary Session)

Verbs of cutting and the FLM/RRG lexical grammar model: a detailed corpus-based study

Cennamo, Michela Transitivity and argument linking in late Latin

Conti Jiménez, Carmen Existential interpretation of Spanish naked NNPP in postverbal subject position

Cortés Rodríguez, Francisco & Dolores Torres Medina

Lexical Templates and Linking Rules for Some Old English Verbs of Motion. (Available on RRG web site.)

July 22-28, 2002

Venue: University of La Rioja, Spain

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Everett, Dan (Plenary Session)

The particular vs. the general in the understanding of phrase structures

González Orta, Marta María Linking syntax and semantics in simple and complex sentences: the case of old English speech verbs

Guerrero Medina, Pilar Lexical constrainsts on the English middle construction

Guerrero Valenzuela, Lilián Complex constructions and macroroles assignment in Yaqui

Hengeveld Kees (Plenary Session)

Functional discourse Grammar

Jensen, Anne

The interaction of syntax and prosody – templates and speech

Kailuweit, Rolf A RRG description of locative alternation verbs in German, English and Romance

Kwee, Tjoe Liong More-than-complex sentences – modifiers, layering,a nd recursion, in Functional Grammar and in Role and Reference Grammar

Lemmer, Katrin Word formations with the preposition a in the Spanish language: an analysis within the Role and Reference Grammar framework

Levin, Beth (Plenary Session)

What alternates in the dative alternation?

Matasović, Ranko Adjective phrases

Mattos Dall’Aglio-Hattnher, Marize & Maria Helena de Moura Neves

A functional approach to modality and evidentiality in Portuguese

Nolan, Brian Periphrasitc causative constructions in Modern Irish

Nuyts Jan Qualificational notions in grammar and cognition

Ortigosa, Ana Tense and time adverbials: their scope in the sentence

Paducheva, Elena V. Images and imprints as roles

Park, Ki-seong A comparative study on the semantics and pragmatics of complementizers in Korean, Japanese and English

Pavey, Emma Information structure in Manitoban French

Pino Marta Towards a semantic and syntactic description of result state passives in Spanish

Premper, Walfried On a multi-purpose syntactic paradigm in Arabic

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Rezai, Wali Two place activity – predicates in Persian: An RRG analysis

Shimojo, Mitsuaki Linking in RRG and sentence processing – the case of internally headed relative clause in Japanese

Toratani, Kiyoko Macrorole assignment and the distributive marker –aw in Japanese

Van Valin, Robert D. Jr. (Plenary Session)

Lexical representation, lexical rules and linking syntax and semantics

Verstraete, Jean-Christophe Asymmetric operator dependencies and coordination in RRG: Arguments against a constituency view of coordination in complex sentence structures

Wedekind, Klaus, Charlotte Wedekind, & Abuzaynab Musa

RRG universal verb classes vs. Beja verb classifications based on morphologies and textual functions

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The 2003 International Course and Conference on Role and Reference Grammar Exploring the interfaces among meaning, function and morphosyntactic form

COURSE (July 14-17, 2003)

Bickel, Balthasar Clause linkage typology

Everett, Dan Introdução à Grammàtica de Papel e Referência Morphology in RRG

Goreti Pezatti, Erotilde Introdução à Grammàtica Functional

Siewierska, Anna The typology of person agreement and expression rules in Functional Grammar

Van Valin, Robert D. Jr. Information structure, syntax and linking: Recent developments in RRG

CONFERENCE (July 18-20, 2003)2

Armendariz, Rolando Fèlix Quantifiers and information structure in Warihio

Bentley, Delia Aspectual and modal constructions in Italian: an RRG approach

Bickel, Balthasar (Plenary Session)

Constraining focus and extraction domans

Conti Jiménez, Carmen Instrumental alternations with hitting-verbs and throwing-verbs

Everett, Dan (Plenary Session)

Why we should be concerned about syntaxes we don’t know

2 Papers presented at Parallel session on FG are not included.

July 14-20, 2003 Venue: IBILCE – UNESP – BRAZIL (Universidade Estadual Paulista Instituto de Biociencias, Letras e Ciencias Exatas Campus de São José do Rio Preto)

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Guerrero, Lilian On verb agreement in the Uto-Aztecan family: the case of Yaqui

Guest, Elizabeth, Lena Moburg, John Etchells, Rolf Kailuweit, Tobias Bender, Matthias Hartung, Eva Staudinger, & Alexander Valet

Parsing English, Swedish and French using the RRG Paradigm

Ibañez, Sergio Defining the argument status of the third participant of three place predicates

Kailuweit, Rolf RRG resources for French – preliminary work for implementation

Martin Arista, Javier & Elisa Gonzalez Torres

Non-macrorole PSAs in Old English: tilian ‘provide’ with genitive

Martínez Fernández, Beatriz

The definition of aspect in the absence of Linguistic markers: the simple form of the verb

Nemvalts, Peep Outlining a sender’s grammar of Estonia

Ortigosa, Ana & Ana Ibañez

On the compositionality of Aktionsart

Pavey, Emma An analysis of it-clefts within a Role and Reference Grammar framework

Rangkupan, Suda The layering of preverbal modals in Thai

Sandvei, Beate Relative clauses with resumptive pronouns in Buenos Aires Spanish: a Role and Reference account

Siewierska, Anna (Plenary Session)

Agreement versus double indexation in a functional theory of grammar

Souza, Edson Rosa Francisco de

The behaviour of focus adverbs in Brazilian spoken Portuguese: a functional approach

Toratani, Kiyoko Suppression of the actor in Japanese

Tosqui, Patricia Analysis of motion verbs in Portuguese: a lexical semantic approach

Vali, Rezai Information structure and word ordr in Persian

Van Valin, Robert D. Jr. (Plenary Session)

Constructional templates in Role and Reference Grammar

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WORKSHOP (July 18-20, 2003)

Angotti, Mary Lourdes Morphological causativity in Mundurukú

Everett, Dan Autochthonouns languages in Brazil and syntactic theory: functional and formal consideration

Franceschini, Dulce The values of middle construction in Sateré-Mawé

Ribeiro, Eduardo Rivail Noun inforporation and the ‘lexicalist polemic’: evidence from Karajá (Macro-Jê)

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2004 International Role and Reference Grammar Conference

WORKSHOPS

Bentley, Delia Introduction to RRG I, II, III

Bornkessel, Ina & Matthias Schlesewsky

Neurocognitive models of language processing

Guest, Elizabeth Using the RRG paradigm to design a parser to handle languages with varying word order flexibility

Kailuweit, Rolf, Matthias Hartung, & Eva Staudinger

Computational approaches to RRG

Mairal Usón, Ricardo Lexical representation and lexical semantics in RRG

Ward, Cecil Celtic linguistics and RRG

Wiemer, Bjorn Application of RRG in diachronic syntax

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Belloro. Valeria A Canibalistic” datives in Spanish

Bentley, Delia Argument suppression and demotion: Si-constructions in Italian

Cabello de Alba, Beatriz Perez

A lexical-syntactic study of cooking verbs in Spanish

Diedrichsen, Elke The German ‘bekommen-passive’ and RRG

Eschenberg, Ardis The operator projection, Omaha and diachronic dyntax in RRG

González Orta, Marta María

The syntax-semantics interface of verbs of ‘ordering’ in present-day English and Spanish

Guerrero Valenzuela, Complement types of perception verbs in Yaqui

July 21-25, 2004 Venue: Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Dublin, Ireland

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Lilián

Ibáñez, Sergio Locative-theme alternations with ‘put’ verbs and ‘take off’ verbs in Spanish

Jiménez Briones,Rocío Lexical templates and the frighten-type verbs: An enriched approach to RRG logical structures

Kalova, Anelia Stefanoval Ignatova

Aspects of Bulgarian within the framework of Role and Reference Grammar

Klingler, Dominique The syntactic-semantic relation of some French infinitival constructions, within the framework of RRG

Kwee, Tjoe Liong Adverbial clauses, recursion, and a missing linkage type

Matasović, Ranko Infixed pronouns and case marking in Old Irish

McDonald, Edward A cross-theoretical exploration of information structure in Scottish Gaelic

Medina, Dolores Torres The syntax-semantic interface in some Old English motion verbs

Muñoz, Carmen Portero The syntax of English-Spanish compounds: a contrastive analysis using the RRG framework

Nicolle, Steve The Grammaticalization of Be Going To from A RRG Perspective

Nolan, Brian An RRG account of reflexive constructions in Modern Irish

Rupnik, Maja Case assignment in Classical Greek

Saeed, John (Plenary Session)

Focus in Cushitic: What’s old and what’s New

Sasaki, Kan Derived environment effect in the case marking system: A case of the Mitsukaido dialect of Japanese

Sosa Acevedo, Eulalia Lexical templates for locative prefixes in English

Toratani, Kiyoko The logical structure of verb-te-ar ‘-linker-exist’ in Japanese

Toyota, Junichi Development of cleft construction in Irish

Van Valin, Robert D. Jr. (Plenary Session)

The notion of ‘periphery’ in simple and complex sentences

Vihman, Virve-Anneli The return of the actor: effects of construction-level grammaticalisation

Wedekind, Klaus Number in NPs of Beja (Afro-Asiatic): Morphology and

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layered structure

Wiemer, Bjorn Alternative undergoer-marking by ACC vs. GEN – Where are the rules to be described?

Note:

A selection of papers from RRG2004 appeared on-line in Nolan, Brian. 2004. Ed. Linguistic Theory and Practice: Description, Implementation and Processing.

Proceedings of the RRG 2004 Dublin Conference.

Papers in PDF are accessible at: http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/vanvalin/rrg/RRG2004%20Book%20of%20Proceedings.pdf

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The 2005 International Course and Conference on Role and Reference Grammar

COURSE AND WORKSHOPS (June 26-28, 2005)

Wu, Joy Basic course on RRG I-IV

Van Valin, Robert D. Jr. Advanced course on RRG I-IV

Nolasco, Ricardo & Maureen J. Saclot

m- and s- transitivity in Philippine type languages

Workshop on

Joy Wu The state predicates in Amis Austronesian

Dery, Jeruen Focus and constituent order in Tagalog

Languages

Nagaya, Naonori Information structure and constituent order in Tagalog

CONFERENCE (July 22-25, 2004)

Belloro. Valeria A Spanish focus structure in cliticized three-place verb constructions

Nolan, Brian The role of definiteness in the impersonal passives of Modern Irish: Towards an RRG characterisation

Toratani, Kiyoko Mimetics in the layered structure of the clause

Van Valin, Robert D. Jr. (Invited speaker)

Recent developments in the RRG theory of clause linkage

Bril, Isabelle Complex predicates in oceanic languages: studies in compression

Ohori, Toshio (Invited speaker)

More thoughts on the semantic representation in RRG: Event types and the semantics of clause linkage

June 26-30, 2005 Venue: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan

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Chang, Jung-Hsing Linking semantics and syntax in Mandarin serial verbs

Mairal Usón, Ricardo & Pamela Faber

Decomposing semantic decomposition: Towards a semantic metalanguage in RRG

Mairal Usón, Ricardo Lexical templates within the domain of complex structures

Rangkupan, Suda (Invited speaker)

The syntax and semantics of give-complex construction in Thai

Phillips, Audra & Prang Thiengburanathum

Verb classes in Thai

Wu, Joy Ma-verbs in Amis: A Role and Reference Grammar analysis

Hölzner, Mathias The syntax-semantics interface of German nouns

Note:

A selection of papers from RRG2005 appeared in: Zeitoun, Elizabeth, and Van Valin, Robert D. Jr.. 2007. Eds. Language and Linguistics 8(1).

Special Issues: Role and Reference Grammar in Taiwan. Taiwan: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica.

Articles in PDF are accessible at:

http://www.ling.sinica.edu.tw/publ_j_en.asp-aid=25.htm

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2006 International Course and Conference on Role and Reference

Grammar

WORKSHOPS

González Torres, Elisa, Gema Maíz Villalta, Javier Martín Arista & Roberto Torre Alonso

Workshop: Gathering evidence for the development of a functional theory of morphology

Cortés, Francisco, Elizabeth Guest, Javier Martín Arista & Ricardo Mairal Usón

Workshop: First steps towards a semantic representation for language comprehension by computer

PAPERS

Belloro, Valeria What is this clitic doing in my sentence? The pragmatic role of Spanish clitic doubling

Bellosta von Colbe, Valeriano

Is Role and Reference Grammar an adequate grammatical theory for punctuation?

Bentley, Delia Syntactic and pragmatic principles of word order: Italian and Sicilian

Bickel, Balthasar (Invited speaker)

Cosubordination and typological adequacy in theory design

Bornkessel, Ina, & Matthias Schlesewsky (Invited speakers)

Minimality and unmarked transitivity: Two universal principles of sentence comprehension

Diedrichsen, Elke Where is the precore slot? Mapping the layered structure of the clause and German sentence topology

Everett, Daniel (Invited speakers)

Non-endocentric structures in morphology and syntax: RRG vs. the world

September 28–October 1, 2006

Venue: University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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García, Carmen & Elba Vera

The lexical representation of the impersonal construction in Old English verbs of happiness

Guerrero, Lilián The choice of subject coding in Uto-Aztecan complementation: Economy and iconicity

Haspelmath, Martin (Invited speakers)

Ditransitive constructions in RRG and some other approaches

Ibáñez Cerda, Sergio The verbs of ‘communication’ in Spanish and the use of frame semantics in lexical description

Kailuweit, Rolf Prodrop, agreement and optimal clitics – a RRG approach

Klingler, Dominique The ellipsis of the proclitic in a complex construction in French

Koga, Hiroaki & Toshio Ohori

Reintroducing inverse constructions in Japanese

Löwenadler, John Complementizer gap phenomena: Syntactic or pragmatic constraints?

Mairal Usón, Ricardo (Invited speaker)

Constructing meaning in Role and Reference Grammar

Malchukov, Andrej On RRG analysis of mixed categories

Martín Arista, Javier Morphological nexus and juncture in Old English

Matasović, Ranko Transitivity in Kabardian

Melikishvili, Irene The hierarchy of macroroles in active, ergative and nominative constructions of Kartvelian languages

Miura, Hidematsu Against raising analysis in Japanese: Juncture mixture and multiple projections.

Morita, Takahiro Some operator constraints on French complementation patterns

Nakamura, Wataru Variable transitivity: A challenge to linking theory

Nolan, Brian Modality in RRG: Towards a characterisation using Irish Data

O’Connor, Rob A prosodic projection for RRG

Pavey, Emma Predication and reference in specificational sentences — Functions of English noun phrases.

Rezai, Vali Focus structure and word order in Persian

Shimojo, Mitsuaki How missing is the missing verb? The verb-less numeral quantifier construction in Japanese

Slodowicz, Szymon & Lexical entries for verbs with sentential arguments

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Björn Wiemer

Tomasello, Michael (Invited speaker)

Constructing a language

Toratani, Kiyoko Split intransitivity in Japanese revisited

Trajcev, Sonia Teaching the structure of French clauses: What can RRG provide?

Van Valin, Robert D. Jr. (Invited speaker)

RPs and the nature of syntactic categories in RRG

Wedekind, Klaus Producing a simple RRG grammar for language learners

Note:

A selection of papers from RRG2006 appeared in: Van Valin, Robert D. Jr. Ed. 2008. Investigations of the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface.

Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS%20105

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2007 International Course and Conference on Role and Reference Grammar

August 6 – 10, 2007

Venue: Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

COURSE (August 6-7, 2007)

Guerrero Valenzuela, Lilián.

Introducción a RRG: la estructura sintáctica

González Vergara, Carlos

Introducción a la RRG: algunos aspectos morfo-sintácticos del español, las construcciones con “se”

Ibañez Cerda, Sergio Introducción a RRG: la descomposición léxica

Mora-Bustos, Armando

Introducción a RRG: el estatus de los operadores

Belloro, Valeria Introducción a RRG: la estructura de la información

[Talk]

Van Valin, Robert D. Jr.

RRG and language processing

PAPERS (August 8-9, 2007)

Armendáriz Félix, Rolando

The accusative –ka in Warihío and Yaqui

Belloro, Valeria A. The pragmatics of dative doubling in Spanish

Bogard, Sergio Spanish atelic activity sentences complemented by a bare nominal phrase: Two macroroles or just one?

Chang, Jung-hsing Linking syntax and semantics in simple sentences of Taiwan sign language: A Role and Reference Grammar account

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Conti Jiménez, Carmen Applicative constructions and Role and Reference Grammar

Danielle Lillehaugen, Brook & John O. Forman

Body parts and the encoding of THING, PLACE and PATH in Zapotec

Diedrichsen, Elke Exploring the role of pragmatics in the interface: On the interrelations between activation status, choice of RP and syntax

Eugenia Vázquez Laslop, María

A puzzle on operators’ values: Spanish modal verbs in perfect and dialectal variation

Farrell Patrick The conceptual structure of “with”

García-Miguel, José M (Keynote speaker)

A corpus-based approach to argument structure

González Vergara, Carlos

One rule to rule them all: Logical structures for Spanish non-reflexive “se” constructions

González, Luis Simplifying actor and undergoer selection in RRG

Graciela Montes, Rosa & Alaide Rodríguez Corte

Subject positioning and thematic role in children’s narratives

Guerrero Valenzuela, Lilián.

The participant’s mental disposition in complementation

Ibañez Cerda, Sergio Different functions of prepositional phrases in Spanish

Ibáñez Moreno, Ana An RRG account of non-relational morphology in OE: verbs in –gian

Islas, Martha Aspect shift: Phase verbs and quantitative aspect in Spanish

Jiménez-Briones, Rocío Lexical templates for the Spanish verbs of feeling: A further elaboration of RRG logical structure

Maldonado Soto, Ricardo (Keynote speaker)

Middle as basic voice pattern

Matasović, Ranko A typology of control constructions within the framework of RRG

Mora-Bustos, Armando Mood alternation in Spanish

Nichols, Johanna (Keynote speaker)

Juncture-based split alignment and aspectuality in Ingush

Nieto, Cecilia Rojas Before grammar. Cut and paste in early complex sentences

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Nolan, Brian The functions, semantics and syntax of the adjective in Irish

Shimojo, Mitsuaki Focus structure and beyond: discourse-pragmatics in RRG

Silverstein, Michael (Keynote speaker)

The several faces of gradience in grammatical theory

Toratani, Kiyoko The layered structure of the reduced adnominal construction in Japanese

Van Valin, Robert D. Jr. (Keynote speaker)

Privileged syntactic arguments, pivots, and controllers

Watters, James K. Tepehua verb morphology, operator scope, and the encoding of arguments

Winther-Nielsen, Nicolai

Refining logical structure for ancient hebrew: Testing the role-lexical module

Zaefferer, Dietmar German infinitive-governing nouns and the RRG theory of control

[Ttalk/workshop]

Defining argument structure

Wilson, Chris Data sharing and software tools

Note:

A selection of papers from RRG2007 appeared in: Guerrero Valenzuela, Lilián, Sergio Ibáñez, and Valeria A.

Belloro. Eds. 2009. Studies in Role and Reference Grammar. México: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.

Book URL:

http://www.etienda.unam.mx/artDetalle.html?artDetalle=Libro2-122

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Last modified: August 22, 2009

2009 International Course and Conference on Role and Reference Grammar

August 7– 9, 2009

Venue: University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A., in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute.

The Organizing Committee: o Bentley, Delia (University of Manchester) o Everett, Dan (Illinois State University) o Guerrero, Lilián (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) o Kailuweit, Rolf (Universität Freiburg ) o Mairal Usón, Ricardo (UNED, Madrid) o Ohori, Toshio (University of Tokyo) o Van Valin, Robert D., Jr.

(Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, University at Buffalo)

PAPERS (August 7-9, 2009)

Bentley, Delia Focus fronting in the layered structure of the clause

Bohnemeyer, Jürgen & Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.

The macro-event property and the layered structure of the clause

Boutin, Michael Towards a realizational approach to morphology in Role and Reference Grammar

Chang, Jung-hsing Interrogative constructions in Taiwan Sign Language: A Role and Reference Grammar account

Diedrichsen, Elke Towards a reconsideration of constructional schemas in RRG: Are all constructions driven by ‘constructions’?

Dingemanse, Mark The interaction of syntax and expressivity in Siwu ideophones

Evans, Nicholas (Invited Speaker)

The great middle makeover: puzzles of argument structure in Nen (Southern New Guinea)

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González-Vergara, Carlos

Se incompatible predicates in Spanish: an RRG explanation

Guerrero, Lilián Extending the challenge of control phenomena

Hawayek, Antoinette Topic, focus and word order in the acquisition of Spanish

Henson, Bonnie J. The nucleus as tonal domain

Ibáñez-Cerda, Sergio Arguments, adjuncts and PP types in Spanish

Jiménez-Briones, Rocío & Beatriz Pérez-Cabello de Alba

An account of selection restrictions within a conceptual framework

Kailuweit, Rolf Romance anticausatives: a constructionist RRG account

King, Deborah Verb class restrictions on NP referentiality in Falam Chin verbs

Latrouite, Anja & Silke Lambert

An RRG approach to German resultative constructions

Lin, Chien-hung & Jung-hsing Chang

Modality in Taiwan Sign Language

Mairal Usón, Ricardo & Francisco J. Cortés Rodríguez

Ontological semantics in Role and Reference Grammar

Matasovic, Ranko Kabardian causatives, core junctures and case marking domains

Mora-Bustos, Armando Fixed adjuncts

Nakamura, Wataru Functional/absolute case syncretism: An RRG-OT account

Nolan, Brian The layered structure of the Irish word: An RRG account of inflectional and derivation processes

Osswald, Rainer Semantic representation and complement realization: The case of remember revisited

Pavey, Emma A preliminary RRG account of functional positions in American Sign Language

Periñán-Pascual, Carlos & Ricardo Mairal Usón

Conceptual logical structures: The lexico-conceptual linkage in Role and Reference Grammar

Riccio, Anna Serial verb constructions in three-participant events: Argument structure and lexical-syntactic interface

Roberts, John How to find serial verbs in English: An RRG analysis of phase verb construction

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Shimojo, Mitsuaki The left periphery and focus structure in Japanese

Toratani, Kiyoko Argument structure of compound verbs in Japanese: Against bottom-up models

Van Meter, Benjamin J. Predicativeness of sub-nuclear elements and aspectual modifiers

Van Valin, Robert D. Jr. On the analysis of head-marking languages in Role and Reference Grammar

Ward, Gregory (Invited Speaker)

Demonstrative Equatives and information structure

Zaefferer, Dietmat V2 subordination in German and the RRG theory of clause linkage

COMPUTATIONAL WORKSHOP

Guest, Elizabeth, Brian Nolan & Ricardo Mairal Usón

Natural Language Processing applications in an RRG framework

Nolan, Brian & Yasser Salem

UniArab: an RRG Arabic-to-English machine translation software

Periñan-Pascual, Carlos & Francisco Arcas Túñez

A source of knowledge for Role and Reference Grammar: The architecture of FunGram KB

Note:

A selection of papers from RRG2009 appeared in: Nakamura, Wataru. Ed. 2011. New Perspectives in Role and Reference Grammar. Newcastle upon

Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Book URL: http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/New-Perspectives-in-Role-and-Reference-Grammar1-4438-

3388-6.htm

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2011 International Course and Conference on Role and Reference Grammar

August 11– 13, 2011

Venue: The Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile,

hosted by the Facultad de Letras.

The Organizing Committee: Marcia Barrera, Camila Gallegos, Francisca Gallegos, Carlos González Vergara, María José Hepp, Daniela Ibarra, Sanndy Infante, Estrella Léniz, Ricardo Mairal Usón, Valeria Mora, Fredy Núñez, Pilar Oplustil, María Teresa Oteíza, Josué Pino, Claudio Pinuer. Scientific Committee:

Delia Bentley, University of Manchester; Lilián Guerrero, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Rolf Kailuweit, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg; Brian Nolan, Institute of Technology Blanchardstown; Toshio Ohori, University of Tokio; Luis París, Incihusa-Conicet, Argentina; Kiyoko Toratani, York University; Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf

WORKSHOPS

Carlos Periñán, Francisco Arcas, Marcia Barrera, Daniela Ibarra, Pilar Oplustil, Josué Pino, Camila Gallegos, Sanndy Infante, Valeria Mora, Fredy Núñez, Rocío Jiménez, Alba Luzón, Nazaret Garrido, Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza, Carlos Periñán, Llanos Carrión, Francisco Cortés, Fátima Guerra, Elena Sacramento, Ricardo Mairal, Carlos González, Ángel Felices, Pedro Ureña

Lingüística computacional: el modelo FunGramKB

Lilián Guerrero, Rocío Jiménez Briones, Valeria Belloro, Carlos González Vergara

Taller introductorio a la Gramática del Papel y la Referencia

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PAPERS (August 11-13, 2011)

Francisco Cortés Rodríguez: (Keynote Speaker)

Word formation and lexical semantics in Role and Reference Grammar

Javier Martín Arista: Recursion, recursivity and the morphological template. Evidence from old English

Elke Diedrichsen: The layered structure of the German word: an RRG approach to inflectional morphology

Antoinette Hawayek: Lexical representation of verbs in Mexican sign language

Valeria Belloro: A proposal for a redefinition of discourse-status categories in Role and Reference Grammar

Jeruen Dery & Cristin Kalinowski:

A contextual projection for Role and Reference Grammar

Saskia van Putten: The left-detached position in Avatime

Kiyoko Toratani: Swarm alternation in Japanese

Jeremy Hammond : Echo subject and clause linkage

Robert Keller: Privileged syntactic arguments in Movima

Armando Mora-Bustos: Split intransitivity in Mazahua

Francisco Cortés, Carlos González & Rocío Jiménez:

A methodological proposal to determine Aktionsart in Spanish

Sergio Ibáñez: From states to achievements. Aspectual alternations with psyche verbs in Spanish

Guillermo Soto: Coercion, pragmatics, and grammar

Ricardo Mairal & Carlos Periñán:

Looking at constructional meaning from a conceptual grounding

Brian Nolan: Constructions as grammatical objects: a new perspective on constructions in RRG

César Aguilar & Olga Acosta:

Searching definitions on texts: a complementary process for FunGramKB

Irene Murtagh: Towards an RRG-enabled Irish sign language avatar

Rolf Kailuweit: (Keynote Speaker)

Constructional event schemas and the lexicon - evidence from romance weather verbs

Sonja Riesberg: Linking symmetrical voice in West Austronesian Languages

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Simeon Floyd: Conjunct/disjunct alignment and experiencer constructions in Cha'palaa

Dejan Matić: Partial coreference and reflexives in Even

Cristin Kalinowski & Jeruen Dery:

Contextually-informed linking in Role and Reference Grammar

Luis París & Sonia Suárez: The status of PPs and natural boundaries in an experimental study

Elke Diedrichsen & Brian Nolan:

The syllable in the LSW: a proposal for an RRG morpho-phonological interface

Lilián Guerrero: Revising the controller-controllee relations: evidence from purpose, rationale and other control structures

Luis París: Contingent coding and the causee degree of affectedness

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.: (Keynote Speaker)

Constructions in RRG

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Role and Reference Grammar Conference 2013

Scientific Committee:

Lilián Guerrero (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico)

Rolf Kailuweit (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

Ricardo Mair´l Usón (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia Madrid)

Brian Nolan (Institute of Technology Blanchardstown)

Toshio Ohori (University of Tokio)

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)

Local organizers:

Rolf Kailuweit (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

Eva Staudinger (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

PAPERS (August 1–3, 2013)

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (Keynote Speaker)

Some issues regarding active accomplishments

Delia Bentley (Keynote Speaker)

Subject in RRG and definiteness effects in THERE sentences

Anna Riccio The syntax-semantics interface in Italian result-oriented constructions

Dawei Jin Towards a theory of the morphology-syntax interface

Angel Felices, Pedro Ureña

Conceptualization of entities in a FunGramKB legal subontology: Analysing a sample under the #SELF_CONNECTED_OBJECT metaconcept

Ranko Matasović Aspect and Aktionsart in Slavic, Inflection and Derivation in Role and Reference Grammar

Aoife Finn Adherence to Conditions on Reflexivization in Māori

August 1– 3, 2013

Venue: The Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

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Koen Van Hooste A Role and Reference Grammar Description of the Finnish Partitive Case

Soteria Svorou Motion and Posture Verb Event Integration and Cosubordination

Wataru Nakamura The Second Dative in Russian: A Case for the Last-Resort Case Assignment

Armando Mora Bustos Noun phrase in Mazahua

Glenda Zoé Lizárraga Navarro

Focus markers in Purepecha

Lilián Guerrero (Keynote Speaker)

Adjoined clause linkage and clause hierarchy: consequence clauses in Yaqui

Raquel Vea Escarza, Javier Martin Arista

Non-nominative passives in Old English. A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis

Mona Syrbe The passives of German in an RRG account

Jone Bruno The pragmatic implication of Lithuanian Passives: the Analysis of Voice and Valence in a Role and Reference Grammar account

Rolf Kailuweit

Remodelling the Syntax-Semantics-Interface – three levels of structural articulation

Sergio Ibañez Cerda Commercial event verbs in Spanish. A corpus based study

René Venegas Semantic roles in authorial knowledge attribution: An empirical approach using Role and Reference Grammar and corpus linguistics

Lisann Künkel RRG, HPSG and GG applied to Spanish verbs of precipitation – a comparison

Antoinette Hawayek Variable Telicity in Mexican Sign Language

John Peterson Multilingualism, multilectalism and register variation in RRG: Extending the diasystematic approach

Elke Diedrichsen A Role and Reference Grammar Parser for German

Rainer Osswald, Laura Kallmeyer

Outline of a formal framework for Role and Reference Grammar

Judith Gottschalk The Persuasive Tutor - a BDI Teaching Agent with an RRG Language Interface – Judith Gottschalk

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Karin Zeibig, Wil Snyder

Event Quantification in Bouyei

Avelino Corral Esteban Typology of Complex Constructions in Cheyenne: a case of nuclear juncture including a CLM

Anelia Stefanova Ignatova

Aspectual evidence for nuclear and core junctures

Luis París Molina (Keynote Speaker)

Adjuncts and the syntax-semantics interface: Spanish gerund phrases

Farhad Moezzipour Towards rethinking the Left-Detached Position in RRG: Evidence from the External Possession construction in Persian

Mitsuaki Shimojo Zero anaphora and topicalization in L1 and L2 Japanese narratives: a Role and Reference Grammar analysis

Kiyoko Toratani Logical structures of mimetic adverbs in Japanese: a preliminary analysis

Brian Nolan The encoding of negation in Modern Irish: Negation at the layered structure of the clause and noun phrase