August 12-13, 2013

Program

Monday, August 12, 2013
MPI EVA Lecture hall, 2nd floor

9.30-9.45	Welcome
9.45-10.45	Wallace Chafe: Keynote: Languages with an Astonishing Wealth of Verbs
10.45-11.00	Coffee
11.00-11.45	Jean-Pierre Koenig & Karin Michelson: Counting nouns is not always the right question [Abstract]
11.45-12.30	Frank Seifart, Jan Strunk et al: Noun frequencies and speech rate
12.30-14.00	Lunch
14.00-14.45	Luis Pastor, Josu Landa & Itziar Laka: Noun to Verb ratio in Basque, Spanish, Catalan and Galician [Abstract]
14.45-15.30	Martin Kohlberger: Verbal Tales in the Amazon: Noun-to-Verb Ratio in Shiwiar Narratives [Abstract]
15.30-15.45	Coffee
15.45-16.30	Antonis Anastasopoulos, Stella Markantonatou & Yanis Maistros: Using object noun and clitic frequencies in the study of transitivity in Modern Greek [Abstract]
16.30-17.15	Geoffrey Haig: Where do all the objects go? Investigating the impact of bound object marking on the relative frequencies of lexical expression of objects in discourse [Abstract]
17.15-18.00	Discussion time (optional)
19.00	Dinner at Auerbachs Keller (German food) (everybody welcome)

9.15-10.15	Stefan Evert: Keynote: On Corpus Frequencies
10.15-11.00	Arne Zeschel & Thomas Schmidt: FOLK taxonomies: Text type stratification by POS n-grams in a monolingual conversation corpus [Abstract]
11.00-11.15	Coffee
11.15-12.00	Roland Schäfer & Felix Bildhauer: Frequencies of Nouns, Pronouns, and Verbs by Document Types in German and Spanish Web Corpora [Abstract]
12.00-12.45	Marion Bendinelli: POS ratios in the American presidential debates (1960-2008) A computer-based analysis of political speeches and parties [Abstract]
12.45-14.15	Lunch
14.15-15.00	Kenjiro Matsuda: The effect of the speaker’s sex and age on the relative frequencies of nouns, pronouns and verbs [Abstract]
15.00-15.45	Kristel Uiboaed, Liina Lindströma & Kadri Muischnek: Frequencies of verbs and verbal constructions across Estonian dialects and standard language [Abstract]
15.45-16.00	Coffee
16.00-16.45	Reili Argus & Helen Kõrgesaar: The acquisition of Estonian: frequency of verbs and adverbs [Abstract]
16.45-17.15	Concluding Discussion: Future directions for interdisciplinary research on frequencies of parts of speech
18.45	Dinner at Basamo (African food) (everybody welcome)