(Pisa, October 8-10 2009)
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Wednesday, October 7th (Department of Linguistics, Via S. Maria, 36)
16.00 -18.30 Registration
Thursday, October 8th - Morning session (AulaU. Dini, Piazza del Castelletto)
8.30 Registration
9.30 Opening
10.00 Barbara Landau, Johns Hopkins University
The representation of paths in language and cognition: Universal asymmetries and their cause
11.00 Coffee Break
11.30 Norbert Ross, Language and spatial cognition: one more spin on the table
11.50 Cinzia Citraro, Approcci alla semantica preposizionale: quale il valore delle schematizzazioni?
12.10 Alexandra Corina Stavinschi, Fra pronomi e avverbi: concettualizzazione dello spazio e codifica linguistica
12.30 Jean-Pierre Desclés, Zlatka Guentchéva, Quasi Topological Representations (QTR) of spatial places and spatial temporal movements in natural languages
12.50 Lunch
Thursday, October 8th - Afternoon session (Polo Carmignani, piazza dei Cavalieri)
15.00 Leonard Talmy, University of Buffalo
Spatial primitives in language
16.00 Caroline Imbert, What adpositions do that satellites cannot. Semantic and conceptual constraints on path-coding categories
16.20 Benjamin Fagard, Laure Sarda, Anetta Kopecka, Descriptive strategies in the representation of path of motion: a cross-linguistic perspective
16.40 Coffee Break
17.00 Short presentations and poster session
Alexandriu Laurentiu Cohal, Margherita Donati, Elías Gallardo, Francesco Grande, Claudio Iacobini and Concetta Di Biase, Marion Krause-Burmester, Anna Lentovskaya, Maria Ivana Lorenzetti, Alberto Manco
Friday, October 9th - Morning session (Aula U. Dini, piazza del Castelletto)
9.00 Domenico Silvestri, University of Napoli "l'Orientale"
La rappresentazione linguistica dello spazio: greco e sumerico a confronto
10.00 Giacomo Ferrari, Monica Mosca, Preverbs and prepositions in some ancient indoeuropean languages
10.20 Gard Jenset, Space, time and existence: the case of there in Early English
10.40 Linda Meini, Barbara McGillivray, Between semantics and syntax: spatial verbs and prepositions in Latin
11.00 Coffee Break
11.30 Nora Ruesch, Categorizing placement events in German as a second language
11.50 Cinzia Citarrella, La connessione spazio-tempo nei sistemi preposizionali
12.10 Yinglin Ji, Henriette Hendriks, Maya Hickmann, Adults’ expression of voluntary and caused motion events in Chinese and in English
12.30 Wojciech Lewandowski, Typological differences in the construal of deictic space and their implications for SLA
12.50 Valentina Cuccio, Linguaggio e rappresentazione spaziale nella sindrome di Williams
13.10 Lunch
Friday, October 9th - Afternoon session (Polo Carmignani, piazza dei Cavalieri)
15.00 Pietro Pietrini, University of Pisa
Space representation in the absence of sight in the human brain
16.00 Catalina Iricinschi, Space and language: Crossed-hands effects on language processing
16.20 Efstathia Soroli, Maya Hickmann, Spatial cognition in French and in English: evidence from eye-movements
16.40 Coffee Break
17.00 Short presentations and poster session
Marco Carmello, Daniele Franceschi, Konstantina Garoufi and Alexander Koller, Dorothea Hoffmann, Miyuki Ishibashi, Agnieszka Latos, Liliana Martinez, Anna Pompei, Alexander Rostovtsev-Popiel
Conference Dinner
Saturday, October 10th - Morning session (Aula U. Dini, piazza del Castelletto)
9.00 Giuliano Bernini, University of Bergamo
Codificazione di relazioni spaziali e classi di parola
10.00 Laila Craighero, University of Ferrara
Spazio, movimento e sistema motorio
11.00 Coffee Break
11.30 Maurizio Gnerre, Claudia Fabrizio, Per una tipologia dei mutamenti e delle derive pragmatiche dei deittici spaziali
11.50 Gian Claudio Batic, Lexicon and grammar of space in West Chadic
12.10 Luna Filipović, Beyond manner and path: Subcomponents of motion events and their role in language and memory
12.30 Narayan Sharma, Four-way locative system in Puma
12.50 Closing remarks