An alphabetical list of all accepted participants is available here.
All registered participants will receive a hard copy of the schedule on arrival. The registration desk will be located in Ülikooli 18 lobby before the first plenary, and on the 4th floor of Jakobi 2 afterwards (follow the signs).
A downloadable .pdf can be found here.
May 8 |
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9.00-9.45 |
Registration (Ülikooli 18, lobby) |
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9.45-10.00 |
Opening: welcome by the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, prof. Margit Sutrop (Ülikooli 18, room 139) |
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10.00-11.00 |
Plenary talk I: Michael Dunn, "Time, Space and Meaning: An interdisciplinary synthesis." (Ülikooli 18, room 139) Chair: Martin Eessalu |
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11.00-11.30 |
Coffee break |
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Session 1 (Jakobi 2-428) |
Session 2 (Jakobi 2-438) |
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Chair: Christian Horn |
Chair: Natalia Levshina |
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11.30-12.00 |
”But how can you explain a language?” Laypersons’ Perceptions of and Attitudes to Latgalian Language Lazdiņa, Sanita |
Is significantly better than chance good enough? Evaluating the performance of probabilistic statistical classification models for predicting constructional choices Klavan, Jane & Divjak, Dagmar |
12.00-12.30 |
Towards Multilingual Constraint-Based Grammars Trawinski, Beata |
Testing low-frequency verbs in grammatical constructions, Szczesniak, Konrad |
12.30-13.00 |
The linear nature of generative models as a methodological problem Gritz, Maria |
On the Edge of Acceptability: the Flemish External Possessor D'Hulster, Tijs & Buelens, Liisa |
13.00-14.30 |
Lunch |
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Chair: Kateřina Danielová |
Chair: Liisa Buelens |
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14.30-15.00 |
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Language contact meets psycholinguistics in Northwestern Amazonia Kohlberger, Martin |
15.00-15.30 |
Changing linguistic repertoires: An analysis of the workplace discourse of Lithuanian city dwellers Pinkevičienė, Dalia |
How universal are focal colours after all? A different approach and analysis for identifying focal colours Uusküla, Mari & Bimler, David |
15.30-16.00 |
Acquisition of Semantic Fields for Learning the Cultural Environment: Based on Novels by J. Grisham Balama, Vita |
A method for investigating the mass-count distinction on a larger scale Horn, Christian |
16.00-16.15 |
Short break |
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16.15-17.15 |
Plenary talk II: Daniel Cohnitz, "What is the role of intuitive judgments in linguistics and philosophy of language?" (Ülikooli 18, room 139) Chair: Alex Davies |
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17.15-17.45 |
Coffee break |
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Chair: Roger Gee |
Chair: David Lorenz |
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17.45-18.15 |
Semantic Field Theory in Teaching Vocabulary in English: Lexico-semantic Groups of Topics in Education, Work and Career Kačanova, Baiba |
Applying quantitative methods to dialect Dutch verb clusters van Craenenbroeck, Jeroen |
18.15-18.45 |
Acquisition and Learning of Basic Spatial Prepositions IN and ON Matrosova, Olga |
Cluster analysis in a typological study of participles Shagal, Ksenia |
20.00 |
Social event (Kastani 38, Trükimuuseum / Printing museum) |
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May 9 |
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9.30-10.30 |
Plenary talk III: Terttu Nevalainen, "Studying language change using historical corpora" (Ülikooli 18, room 139) Chair: Peeter Tinits |
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10.30-11.00 |
Coffee break |
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Session 1 (Jakobi 2-428) |
Session 2 (Jakobi 2-438) |
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Chair: Beata Trawinski |
Chair: Stefan Hartmann |
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11.00-11.30 |
Mystery of Meaning Transformation: Metaphoric Terms Iljinska, Larisa; Platonova, Marina & Smirnova, Tatjana |
New wave of quantitative dialect studies Honkola, Terhi |
11.30-12.00 |
Diachronic corpus-based study of Estonian semantic cases: methodological basis and possible methods Trainis, Jekaterina |
Exploratory and confirmatory methods of investigation of causative constructions in a multilingual parallel corpus Levshina, Natalia |
12.00-12.30 |
The position and internal connections of Finno-Saami: A computational perspective Lehtinen, Jyri |
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12.30-14.00 |
Lunch |
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Chair: Alo Merilo |
Chair: Andres Karjus |
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14.00-14.30 |
Interdisciplinary cooperation: methods of functional stylistics and normative theory of mass media Bednarikova, Bozena; Jilek, Viktor & Danielová, Kateřina |
A multivariate approach to measuring change Lorenz, David |
14.30-15.00 |
Discursive definition of the U.S.-Russian ‘reset’ in the messages of Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev in 2008-2012 Zueva, Oksana |
Morphological Productivity and Linguistic Creativity: Measuring Linguistic Innovation and Change Hartmann, Stefan |
15.00-15.30 |
“Like us on Facebook!” A case study on the use of the most popular social networking site by the top U.S. universities. Pikusa, Michał |
Using synchronic corpus data to infer the diachronic development of a construction Sahkai, Heete & Vainik, Ene |
15.30-15.45 |
Short break |
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15.45-16.45 |
Plenary talk IV: Guillaume Thierry, "Sit back, relax, enjoy the ride: Philosophical lessons from five years of seemingly scattered research"(Ülikooli 18, room 139) Chair: Mari Uusküla |
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16.45-17.15 |
Coffee break |
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Chair: Ksenia Shagal |
Chair: Martin Kohlberger |
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17.15-17.45 |
Building a SMT Engine for Improved Automated Translation from English to Estonian Karjus, Andres |
Mapping colour: BLUE category in Estonian Rätsep, Kaidi & Bimler, David |
17.45-18.15 |
The author’s stylistic fingerprint translated? Using keyword analysis to find individual features in lexicon Mikhailov, Mikhail |
Mediated linguistic contact as a mediator between language learning orientations and L2 confidence Vincze, Laszlo; Marton, Eniko & Holley, Peter |
18.15-18.45 |
Quantitative Analysis of Literature: Dialogues in Russian Novels of the 19th Century Sobchuk, Oleg |
Entrenchment of innovative language usage in Dutch-Turkish bilinguals: An experimental study Şahin, Hülya & Backus, Ad |
19.30 |
Social meet-up |
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May 10 |
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Session 1 (Jakobi 2-428) |
Session 2 (Jakobi 2-438) |
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Chair: Mikhail Mikhailov |
Chair: Konrad Szczesniak |
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10.30-11.00 |
Applying type theory and higher order logic on natural language syntax and semantics Luuk, Erkki |
Learning Estonian: an insiders’ view. A preliminary analysis of language learning diaries Bernhardt, Kristiina |
11.00-11.30 |
A resource of validated emotional and neutral lexical stimuli to test the identification of emotions in Persian Keshtiari, Niloofar & Klann-Delius, Gisela |
Language delay, language attrition, language loss. Early multilingualism and language development. Toth, Tünde |
11.30-12.00 |
Coffee break |
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Chair: Kristiina Bernhardt |
Chair: Jyri Lehtinen |
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12.00-12.30 |
Corpus linguistic methods in a Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) program Gee, Roger |
Dialectal distribution of word meanings Oja, Vilja |
12.30-13.00 |
Training Language Teacher: An Educational Semiotic Model Mohammadi Hassanabadi, Firoozeh |
On the corpus-based method of investigating the semantics of emphatic particles (on the material of the Besermyan dialect of the Udmurt language) Zubova, Yulia |
13.00-13.30 |
Learner corpus research methods and requirements for the corpora used Znotina, Inga |
Reflexive markers in Latvian from typological perspective Kalnača, Andra |
13.30-13.45 |
Short break |
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13.45-14.45 |
Plenary talk V: Alexander Borg, "Methods in historical and comparative linguistics" (Ülikooli 18, room 139) Chair: Gerson Klumpp |
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14.45-14.55 |
Closing (Ülikooli 18, room 139) |
University of Tartu, Institute of Estonian and general Linguistics