DGfS 2018

Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Start Date: 07-Mar-2018 – 09-Mar-2018
Contact: Daniel Hole

Conference Website: https://www.dgfs2018.uni-stuttgart.de/en/index.html

The 40th Annual Meeting of the DGfS (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft) will be hosted by the University of Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany) from March 7- 9, 2018. 3 plenary talks and 16 parallel sessions on all sorts of linguistic topics are scheduled for the conference as well as a poster session organized by the DGfS Special Interest Group on Computational Linguistics (see conference) website. The general topic of the 40th Annual Meeting of the DGfS is ”Reference and Relation”.

Confirmed plenary speakers:

Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Anette Frank (Universität Heidelberg)
Julie Anne Legate (University of Pennsylvania)
Roberto Zamparelli (Università de Trento)

Workshops:

1. Variation and phonetic detail in spoken morphology: Mar. 7-9, 2018.

Invited Speaker: Sharon Peperkamp, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Paris

Submission deadline: Aug. 20, 2017.
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgfsag1
Workshop webpage: http://linguistlist.org/callconf/browse-conf-action.cfm?ConfID=292636
Organizers:Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Gero Kunter, Ruben van de Vijver, Fabian Tomaschek

2. The relation between prosodic and referential structure: Mar. 7-9, 2018.

Invited Speakers:
Jennifer Arnold (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Jennifer Cole (Northwestern University)

Submission deadline: August 15, 2017.
Email: prosody-reference@uni-koeln.de
Workshop website: http://idsl1.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/index.php?id=34526
Organizers: Stefan Baumann, Klaus von Heusinger & Petra B. Schumacher (University of Cologne)

3. Evaluative meanings: Theoretical and computational perspectives: Mar. 7-9, 2018.

Invited Speakers:
Andrea Beltrama (Universität Konstanz)
Farah Benamara (IRIT-Université de Toulouse)

Submission deadline: Aug. 6, 2017.
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evalsemdgfs2018
Workshop website: https://evalsem.wordpress.com/
Organizers: Valentina Bianchi (University of Siena), Patrick Georg Grosz (University of Oslo)

4. One-to-many relations in Morphology, Syntax and Semantics: Mar. 7-9, 2018.

Invited speakers:
Andrew Spencer (U Essex)
Hedde Zeijlstra (U Göttingen)

Submission deadline: Aug. 15, 2017.
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=onetomanydgfs2018
Workshop website: http://drehu.linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr/one2many-dgfs2018/
Organizers: Berthold Crysmann (CNRS, Paris)

5. Possessive relations: interpretation, syntax and argument structure: Mar. 7-9, 2018

Invited speaker: Nora Boneh (the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Submission deadline: Aug. 16, 2017.
Submission email: possessionworkshop@gmail.com
Workshop webpage: http://linguistlist.org/callconf/browse-conf-action.cfm?ConfID=288176
Organizers: Ljudmila Geist (University of Stuttgart), Daniel Jacob (University of Freiburg), Ilja Seržant (University of Leipzig)

6. Referential and Relational Approaches to Asymmetries: Mar. 7-9, 2018.

Invited Speakers:
Norbert Hornstein (University of Maryland)
Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University)

Submission deadline (extended): Aug. 25, 2017
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rrasa2018
Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/asymmetries2018/home
Organizers: Doreen Georgi (Universität Potsdam), Fabian Heck, Johannes Hein, Andrew Murphy, Gereon Müller (Universität Leipzig)

7. Why Indeed? Questions at the Interface of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics: Mar. 7-9, 2018

Submission deadline: Aug. 26, 2017.
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=questionsdgfs2018
Workshop website: https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/dgfs18/
Organizers: Annette Hautli-Janisz (Konstanz), Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli (Konstanz), Tatjana Scheffler (Potsdam)

8. Reference beyond the DP: Mar. 7-9, 2018.

Invited speakers:
Kristine Bentzen (UiT, Tromsø)
Marcin Morzycki (MSU, East Lansing)

Submission deadline: August 25, 2017
Email: proforms.dgfs2018@gmail.com
Workshop website: https://proforms2018.wordpress.com/
Organizers: Vera Hohaus, Andreas Konietzko (U of Tübingen)

9. Lost in change: Mar. 7-9, 2018.

Submission deadline: Aug. 15, 2017.
Submission email: skranich@uni-bonn.de
Workshop webpage: http://linguistlist.org/callconf/browse-conf-action.cfm?ConfID=288856
Organizers: Svenja Kranich (University of Bonn), Tine Breban (University of Manchester)

10. Workshop on Representation of Speech and Thought in Narrative Structures: Mar. 7-9, 2018.

Invited Speaker: Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen (Oslo)

Submission deadline: Aug. 15, 2017.
Submission email: maria.averintseva@uni-tuebingen.de
Workshop website: http://www.sfb833.uni-tuebingen.de/a-bereich-kontext/a5-rapp/veranstaltungen/dgfs-workshop-representation-of-speech-and-thought-in-narrative-structures.html
Organizers: Maria Averintseva-Klisch, Stefan Engelberg, Irene Rapp.

11. Specificity, definiteness and article systems across languages: Mar. 7-9, 2018.

Invited speaker: Nigel Vincent (University of Manchaster)

Submission deadline: Aug. 20, 2017.
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=artsys18
Workshop website: https://artsysworkshop.wordpress.com/
Organizers: Kata Balogh, Anja Latrouite, Robert Van Valin, Jr. (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)

12. Relating Elliptical Utterances to Information in Context: Mar. 7-9, 2018.

Invited Speakers:
Jason Merchant (University of Chicago)
Colin Phillips (University of Maryland)

Submission deadline: Aug. 15, 2017.
Submission page: http://pragmatics.uni-saarland.de/ellipsis/?page_id=33
Workshop website: http://pragmatics.uni-saarland.de/ellipsis/
Organizers: Ingo Reich (Universität des Saarlandes), Susanne Winkler (Universität Tübingen)

13. Referenz in der ontogenetischen Schreibentwicklung

Organizers: Musan, Renate, Christina Noack und Angela Grimm

14. Variable Perception and Production Correlates for Word Stress in First Language Acquisition and Child Second Language Learning: Mar. 7-9, 2018.

Invited speaker: Natalie Boll-Avetisyan (University of Potsdam)

Submission deadline: Aug. 8, 2017.
Submission page: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/ag14dgfs2018/
Workshop website: http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/ag14_dgfs2018/
Organizers: Janet Grijzenhout (University of Leiden), Monika Lindauer (University of Konstanz), Katharina Zahner (University of Konstanz)

15. Reference Determination: Literal and Non-literal Uses: Mar. 7-9, 2018.

Invited speaker: François Recanati (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)

Submission deadline: Aug. 27, 2017.
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=refdet2018
Workshop website: https://refdet.wordpress.com/
Organizers: Dolf Rami (University of Göttingen), T. Ede Zimmermann (University of Frankfurt), Sarah Zobel (University of Tübingen)

16. Applications of Probability Theory in Linguistics: Mar. 8-9, 2018.

Invited Speakers:
Anton Benz, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Silke Hamann, University of Amsterdam

Submission deadline (extended): August 31, 2017.
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aptling2018
Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/site/aptling2018/home
Organizers: Hendrik Zeevat, Peter Sutton, Vasiliki Tsouni (Heinrich Heine University)

Poster Session:

Computational Linguistics Poster Session: Mar. 7-9, 2018.

Submission deadline: August 31, 2017.
Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=dgfsposter18;a=12942679
Session website: http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/linguistik/dgfs2018/programm/postersession/
Organizers: kerstin.eckart@ims.uni-stuttgart.de, dominik.schlechtweg@ims.uni-stuttgart.de