Beyond semantics: Corpus-based investigations of pragmatic and discourse phenomena

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Coordinators: Stefanie Dipper, Heike Zinsmeister

Ana Aguilar-Guevara (Utrecht), Maria Aloni, Angelika Port (Amsterdam), Radek Šimík (Potsdam), Machteld de Vos (Cambridge), Hedde Zeijlstra (Amsterdam)

Semantics and pragmatics of indefinites: methodology for a synchronic and diachronic corpus study

Matthias Buch-Kromann, Daniel Hardt & Iørn Korzen (Copenhagen Business School)

Syntax-centered and semantics-centered views of discourse. Can they be reconciled?

Christian Chiarcos (Potsdam)

On the dimensions of discourse salience

Philippa Cook & Felix Bildhauer (FU Berlin)

Annotating information structure: the case of “Topic”

Stefania Degaetano & Elke Teich (Saarbrücken)

The lexico-grammar of stance: an exploratory analysis of scientific texts

Ilka Flöck (Oldenburg)

Suggestions in British and American English: a corpus-linguistic study

Iørn Korzen & Matthias Buch-Kromann (Copenhagen Business School)

Anaphoric relations in the Copenhagen Dependency Treebanks

Constanza Navarretta (U Copenhagen)

Antecedent and referent types of abstract pronominal anaphora

Arndt Riester (Stuttgart) & Stefan Baumann (Köln)

Information structure annotation and secondary accents

Rebecca Passonneau (Columbia)

Making sense of word sense disambiguation

Galina Tremper & Anette Frank (Heidelberg)

Extending semantic relation classification to presupposition: relations between verbs

Yannick Versley (Tübingen)

Towards finer-grained tagging of discourse connectives

Nynke van der Vliet, Ildikó Berzlánovich, Gosse Bouma (Groningen), Markus Egg (HU Berlin) & Gisela Redeker (Groningen)

Building a discourse-annotated Dutch text corpus

Bonnie Webber (Edinburgh University)

Patterns of explicit and implicit clausal connectors: what this might suggest for “beyond semantics”

Iker Zulaica-Hernández & Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach (Ohio State)

On the information status of antecedents: referring expressions compared