Program of international linguistic conference
Cognitive Perspectives on Contrastive Grammar, Sept. 26-27, 2011
University of Economics and Humanities in Bielsko-Biala, Poland
Sunday, Sept 25
g. 19.00: Pub Oscar Wilde – Wine & cheese greeting party
Monday Sept 26
8.00-10.00 – Registration – University entrance hall (1st floor).
10.00-10.15 – Opening Ceremony (Auditorium 1)
10.15 – 11.30 – Plenary lecture – “The equipollence hypothesis at work: enhancing
descriptive complexity and explanatory adequacy in systematizing contrasts across languages
at various levels of linguistic inquiry.” – F. Ruiz de Mendoza
11.30 – 12.30 – presentation sessions
Middle Constructions (Auditorium 1)
Syntax/word-formation (Room 11)
11.30 – 12.00: Isabel Negro
11.30 – 12.00: Bożena Cetnarowska
“A contrastive analysis of the middle construction in
“At the border of syntax and word-formation: English
English and French”
Adjective+Noun phrases and Polish Noun+Adjective
phrases”
12.00-12.30: Luisa Gonzales-Romero
12.00 – 12.30: Marcin Kuczok
“Middle constructions revisited. A constructional
“Metonymical mappings within the ACTION ICM in
approach to middle formation in English and Spanish”
denominal verbs in English and Polish”
12.30 – 13.00 - coffee break
13.00 – 14.30 – presentation sessions
Verb Semantics (Auditorium 1)
Concepts and Constructs (Room 11)
13.00 – 13.30: Olga Sokołowska
13.00 – 13.30: D.Glynn, K. Krawczak
“Basic Level Verbs in English and Polish – a
“Concepts across Cultures. A corpus-driven and
Comparison of Selected Examples”
contrastive study of FATE in Polish, Russian and
Ukrainian”
13.30 – 14.00: Iwona Kokorniak, K.
13.30 – 14.00: Krzysztof Kosecki
Krawczak
”Polish and American Sign Language: a contrastive
“Thinking about THINK ABOUT: Convergences and
perspective”
divergences between the English and Polish predicate”
14.00 – 14.30: Nadezda Kudrnacova
14.00 – 14.30: Grzegorz Drożdż
”Verbs in Secondary Agent Constructions: An English
”Distance as a tool of comparative analysis on the
– Czech comparison”
basis of English and Polish past tenses”
14.30- 16.00 - lunch break
16.00 – 17.30 – presentation sessions
Syntax/Semantics (Auditorium 1)
Miscellaneous (Room 11)
16.00 – 16.30: Janusz Badio
16.00 – 16.30: Anita Buczek – Zawiła
“Polish and English dative in coding events “
“Nasals as radial categories in Polish and Welsh:
an attempt at comparison”
16.30 – 17.00: Francoise Gallez
16.30 – 17.00: Marzena Wysocka
“Manner of motion: A privileged dimension of
“Symptoms of syntactic fossilization in advanced
German expressions”
learners of Polish – a teacher’s perspective”
17.00 – 17.30: Joanna Paszenda
“Motion in English and Polish resultative
constructions.”
17.30 – 17.45 - coffee break
17.45 – 19.00 - plenary lecture - “Metonymic networks, subjecthood, and topic continuity
across languages: When tiers collapse and chains break” M. Brdar &R.Brdar-Szabó
20.00 – 22.00 - Conference reception
Tuesday, Sept 27
9.00 – 10.15 - Plenary lecture – “Cognitive Corpus Studies: Qualitative &
Quantitative Parameters in Contrasting Languages” (B. Lewandowska- Tomaszczyk)
(Auditorium 1)
10.15 – 11.15 – presentation sessions
Pragmatics and Grammaticalization
(Auditorium 1)
10.15 – 10.45: Nuria del Campo Martinez
Syntax (Room 11)
“Request Constructions in English and Spanish:
„A contrastive analysis of generics in English and
Motivation, Constraints and Realization”
Polish”.
10.45 – 11.15: Hideki Mori
10.45 – 11.15: Ming-Ming Pu
“Grammaticalization and lexicalization of a verb of
”Relative Clause Processing: A Cross-Linguistics
speech in English and Japanese”
Study”
10.15 – 10.45: Daniel Karczewski
11.15 – 11.30 - Coffee break
11.30 – 12.30 – presentation session
Idioms and sayings (Auditorium 1)
Prepositions and Particles (Room 11)
11.30 – 12.00: Andrea Bellavia
11.30 – 12.00: Jerzy Gaszewski
“Cognitive constraints on Aspectuality in Idiomatic
”Contrasting fringes of prepositional networks: Polish
Context”
equivalents of English governed for”
12.00 – 12.30: Alicia Galera
12.00 – 12.30: Silvia Masi
“A contrastive analysis of cognitive operations underlying”Cognitive
the
perspectives on English – Italian spatial
interpretation of English and Spanish sayings”
particles”
12.30 – 14.00 - lunch break
14.00 – 15.30 – presentation session
Verbs: syntax/semantics (Auditorium 1)
14.00 – 14.30: Agnieszka Kaleta
“The English and Polish infinitive: a cognitive perspective”
14.30 – 15.00: Tomasz Fojt
“Metaphor-induced grammatical pattering in English and Polish”
15.00 – 15.30: Małgorzata Fabiszak, Karolina Krawczak
“Mental predicates in Polish and English: a comparative study of verb construal and complement semantics”
15.30 – 15.45: coffee break
15.45 – 17.00: plenary lecture
– “Contrasting constructions” - B. Bierwiaczonek (Auditorium 1)
17.00-17.15: Closing ceremony