Conference 2014

The Interfaces of Adjective and Adverb in Romance and English

• Date: June 5^th to 7^th, 2014
• Location: Department of Romance Studies, University of Graz
• Presentation

Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge) INVITED SPEAKER
Parameters in Romance Adverb Agreement

Blanca Croitor (The Romanian Academy Bucharest) / Carmen Mirzea Vasile (The Romanian Academy & University of Bucharest)
Agreement of Romanian superlative adverbs

Giuseppina Silvestri (University of Cambridge & University of Trieste)
Adverb (and participle) agreement and split intransitivity in Northern Calabria dialects

Silvio Cruschina / Eva-Maria Remberger (University of Vienna)
Before the complementizer: Adverb types and root clause modification

Avel•lina Suñer (Universitat de Girona)
Bare adjectives and VP layers

Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University) INVITED SPEAKER
A register perspective on the diachronic development of simple versus derived adverbs in English

Salvador Valera (Universidad de Granada) INVITED SPEAKER
On subject-relatedness in English ‘-ly’ adverbs

Adrian Chircu (Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca)
Alternatives in the Romanian Language to Romance Adverbs Ending in –mente

Lorena Medina Gómez / Luisa Josefina Alarcón Neve / Juliana De La Mora Gutiérrez (Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro)
Descriptive and functional analysis of the pair sólo and solamente in oral Mexican Spanish

Concepción Company Company (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) INVITED SPEAKER
Struggle or complementarity? Adverbial adjectives and -mente adverbs: similar or different syntactic contexts?

Anna Gazdik (University of Graz)
A historical dictionary of invariable adjectives in French: lexicographical and theoretical challenges

Rosa María Ortiz Ciscomani (University of Sonora)
From Adjective to Adverbial Modal Locutions in Spanish

Ventura Salazar-García (University of Jaén)
Adverbial scope and flexibility in Spanish

Dan Van Raemdonck (Université libre de Bruxelles - Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Are intrapredicative Adjectives Adverbs?

Anne Abeillé (Université Paris 7) INVITED SPEAKER
The categories Adjective and Adverb in the Grande Grammaire du français

• Financial Support

Vice-rector for research and promotion of young academics / University of Graz

Deanery of Humanities / University of Graz

Styria [Science & Research]

City of Graz

Prof. Dr. Hugo Schuchardt‘sche Malvinenstiftung

• Organization: Martin Hummel & Steffen Heidinger