Functional Discourse Grammar

FDG2018

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

Wednesday 25 July, 17:00 h ‒ registration & welcome drinks, Salão de Festas, Avenida Sete de Setembro, 1884.

Thursday 26 July

09:00‒ 09:40	Registration & welcome
09:40‒ 10:20	Episodes, new topics, and conditionals in A’ingae (Cofán/Kofán) Kees Hengeveld, Rafael Fischer, and Silvia De Grandis
10:20 ‒ 10:40	Coffee / Tea
10:40 ‒ 11:20	A functional analysis of Spanish tampoco: from additive negative marker to disapproval of the Communicated Content Abigail Carretero Hernández & Ventura Salazar García
11:20 ‒ 12:00	A hierarchical approach to the grammaticalization of ainda mais in Portuguese Michel Fontes
12:00 ‒ 13:30	Lunch
13:30 ‒ 14:10	A FDG analysis of the so called ‘oblique object’ in native languages of Brazil Marize M. Dall’Aglio Hattnher & Monielly Serafim
14:10 ‒ 14:50	Beyond the affectedness condition: the case of Yaqui external possessors Lilián Guerrero & Valeria A. Belloro
14:50 ‒ 15:20	Coffee / Tea
15:20 ‒ 16:00	Optative constructions in Golden Age Spanish Lorena Núñez Pinero
16:00‒ 16:40	Coercion in Functional Discourse Grammar Daniel García Velasco
20:00 ‒	Conference Dinner

Friday 26 July

09:00‒ 09:40	Blackfoot and the typology of demonstratives in Functional Discourse Grammar Inge Genee
09:40‒ 10:20	The representation of comparative and superlative adjectives in FDG George Nagamura
10:20 ‒ 10:40	Coffee / Tea
10:40 ‒ 11:20	Phrasal equiordination in advertisements Erotilde Goreti Pezatti & Roberto Gomes Camacho
11:20 ‒ 12:00	Transparency and opacity in Brazilian and European Portuguese Joceli Stassi-Sé
12:00 ‒ 13:30	Lunch
13:30 ‒ 14:10	The periphrasis vir + gerund in Brazilian Portuguese: a FDG approach Edson Rosa Francisco de Souza
14:10 ‒ 14:50	The expression of negation in the native languages of the Maku family Danytiele Fernandes de Paula
	Poster session (with coffee & tea)
14:50 ‒ 15:40	Conditionality in Brazilian indigenous languages (Fabiana Lourenço) Correlative constructions in Portuguese (Gabriela Oliveira & Norma Novaes) Grammaticalization of Spanish querer + infinitive (André Oliveira & Nadia Prata) The ‘focus’ of Spanish periphrastic passives (Valeria Belloro & Lilián Guerrero) Universal concessive-conditional clauses in Spanish (Camila Amorim)
15:40 ‒ 16:20	Truth-conditionality and restrictiveness in FDG Evelien Keizer
16:20 ‒ 17:00	Categorization in FDG of English ‒ly adverbs in complements of verbs and nouns Lois Kemp

Saturday 28 July

09:00‒ 09:40	The grammaticalization of third person subject pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese Hella Olbertz
09:40‒ 10:20	Alignment in Coptic: competing paradigms of transitivity, information structure and semantic functions Ewa Zakrzewska
10:20 ‒ 10:40	Coffee / Tea
10:40 ‒ 11:20	Arguments for a flatter morphosyntax Lachlan Mackenzie
11:20 ‒ 12:00	Business Meeting
12:00 ‒ 17:00	Walking tour with lunch