Functional Discourse Grammar

Conference IC-FDG-2016

The programme of the conference is presented below. Abstracts of papers and posters can be found here.

Tuesday 30 August: 19:00 – Registration and welcome drinks

Wednesday 31 August

9:00 – 9:30	Registration Coffee / tea
9:30 – 10:00	Opening
10:00 – 10:40	Kees Hengeveld & Lachlan Mackenzie Negation in FDG
10:40 – 11:20	Marize Mattos Dall'Aglio Hattnher & Hella Olbertz On objective and subjective epistemic modality again: modal verbs
11:20 – 11:40	Coffee / tea
11:40 – 12:20	Marieke Olthof Transparency in Norwegian and Icelandic: language contact vs. language isolation
12:20 – 13:00	Edson Rosa Francisco de Souza Transparency and opacity in the expression of subject pronoun and verb agreement in the indigenous Portuguese of the Upper Xingu (Brazil)
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 15:10	Elnora ten Wolde A FDG account of premodification in the of-binominal noun phrase
15:10 – 15:50	Pilar Guerrero An FDG account of English get-passives
15:50 – 16:10	Coffee / tea
16:10 – 16:50	Paolo Driussi An FDG account of Hungarian constituent order
16:50 – 17:30	John Connolly Construal and the Conceptual Component of Functional Discourse Grammar

Thursday 1 September

9:00 – 9:40	Carlos García Castillero Complementary expected associations in core argument and clause type distinctions
9:40 – 10:20	Ventura Salazar Towards a subcategorization of quantifying nouns in FDG
10:20 – 10:40	Coffee / tea
10:40 – 11:20	Thomas Schwaiger Morphology in FDG from a comparative theoretical perspective
11:20 – 12:00	Kees Hengeveld Functional Discourse Grammar and grammar writing
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch (board meeting)
14:00 –	Social event

Friday 2 September

9:30 – 10:10	Elena Martínez Caro & Margarita Borreguero Discourse markers in reported speech: a contrastive analysis of English and Spanish
10:10 – 10:50	Ewa Zakrzewska Quotative indexes and reported discourse in Bohairic Coptic narratives
10:50 – 11:10	Coffee break
11:10 – 11:50	Joceli Stassi-Sé Transparency and opacity in Brazilian Portuguese: operations in the Morphosyntactic Level
11:50 – 12:30	Taísa Peres de Oliveira & Andreia Dias de Souza Subject alignment in Brazilian Portuguese
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 14:40	Evelien Keizer Interpersonal adverbial modifiers in FDG: function, distribution, analysis
14:40 – 15:20	Inge Genee The typology of polysynthesis in Functional Discourse Grammar
15:20 – 16:15	Poster session: Núria Alturo Testing dependent and equipollent relations in discourse Lois Kemp An FDG analysis of the English evidential expression apparently Julia Skala The interaction of the English present perfect with relative and absolute time adverbials in FDG
15:20 – 16:15	Coffee / tea
16:15 – 17:00	Business meeting
17:00 – 17:30	Closing session
20:00	Conference dinner

Saturday 3 September

10:00 – 12:00

Guided tour + visit to a Viennese Kaffeehaus (optional)