Program

The time frame for the workshop is:
Oct 5, 7pm: Welcome dinner
Oct 6, 9am-5.30pm: Workshop sessions
Oct 7, 9am-12noon: Workshop sessions; afternoon excursion
Oct 8, 9am-12noon: Workshop sessions and closing; after lunch: optional guided tour (in English) to Chorin monastery

Detailled program is available here (updated 04/10/05)

List of accepted papers

Birgitta Bexten (Leiden Centre for Linguistics / ULCL):
Salience in hypertext

Philippe De Brabanter (Institut Jean Nicod):
Metalinguistic anaphora and salience

Christian Chiarcos (University Potsdam):
Mental salience and grammatical form: generating referring expressions

Dan Cristea (University of Iasi):
The right frontier constraint holds unconditionally

Liesbeth Degand and Anne-Catherine Simon (Université catholique de Louvain):
"My brother, he drives like crazy". Contextual salience, linguistic marking and discourse organisation in spoken French

Andrei Filchenko (Rice University / Tomsk State Pedagogical University):
Parenthetical constructions in Eastern Kanthy: Discourse salience vis-\'{a}-vis referring expressions (passive and ergative constructions)

Rachel Giora, Ofer Fein (Tel Aviv University / Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo):
Irony processing: Expectation versus salience-based inferences

Roland Hinterhölzl and Svetlana Petrova (Humboldt University of Berlin):
Rhetorical relations and verb placement in early Germanic languages - evidence from the Old High German Tatian translation (9th century)

John Kelleher (DFKI Saarbrücken):
Visual salience and the other one

Olga Krasavina (Humboldt University of Berlin):
Types of third-person pronouns and salience conditions

Rolf Kreyer (University Bonn):
The use of full-verb inversion as a salience marking device in written academic discourse

Luuk Lagerwerf and Thamar Siebring (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam):
Salience in visual context: effects on appreciation of advertisements

Wiebke Ramm and Catherine Fabricius-Hansen (University of Oslo):
Coordination and discourse-structural salience from a cross-linguistic perspective

Hannes Rieser (Bielefeld University):
Pointing and grasping in concert. With an encore on salience

Ralph Rose (Gunma Prefectural Women's University):
Joint informativity of syntactic and semantic prominence for subsequent pronominal reference

Daniel Rothschild (Princeton University):
Accommodating salience and familiarity in definite descriptions

Invited speakers

In addition to the regular paper sessions, the workshop features the following invited talks:

Jon Oberlander (University of Edinburgh):
Salience and reasoning in symbolic communication
Kristiina Jokinen (University of Helsinki):
New information and topic in dialogue systems
Thomas Noll (Technical University Berlin)
Salience and musical discourse

Social programme

The following excursions are planned:

On Friday Aug 7, we arranged an excursion to the Niederfinow Boat Lift and from there, a boat trip to the town of Oderberg.
The Niederfinow boat lift ... [is] the oldest of the boat lifts still "serving on duty" in Germany today. But it remains unchallanged in attracting the highest number of annual visitors. Why is that ?
If you ask a visitor how they enjoyed their visit or why they come back to Niederfinow again and again, the answer is often that it is "lovely, interesting and impressive". Certainly, there are many factors which play a role, like the size of the structure, its technology and its beautiful location in the Eberswalde glacial valley, between the Oderbruch and the Barnim. Not least of all however, it is the successful harmony of technology and landscape, the interplay of people and water. One watches the boats entering and leaving, the movement of the boat tank, the caisson, the gates opening, or one simply enjoys the lovely view from the visitors' gallery.
Eberswalde Office of Waterways and Shipping (2001), The Niederfinow Boat Lift, p.2
On Saturday Aug 8, the Cistercian Chorin monastery will be visited.
Surrounded by wooded hills, the former Cistercian monastery of Chorin on quiet days can sometimes convey something of the atmosphere of the age in which it was built. Theodor Fontane describes his first impression of Chorin in his "Walks in Mark Brandenburg": "Chorin Monastery is not one of those delightful ruins in which one can daydream as in a spring cementary when the graves are covered with flowers in bloom... Whoever passes along here in the twilight and suddenly through the poplars glimpses this magnificent solitary buildung looming up like an appartition half ghostly and half enchanted will have experienced the bast that these ruins - which are hardly ruins - have to offer him." ... The monastery of Chorin, once the house monastery of the Ascanians, is today one of the finest examples of German early Gothic brick architecture. ... The unique importance of Chorin both in architectural and historical terms as well as the dignitiy of the building underline the importance of careful preservation of the monument and its environment.
Friedrich, V. and Knight, P. (1995): The Monastery of Chorin, Passau: Kunstverlag Peda, p. 30
Further information:
- on Chorin monastery
- on the Niederfinow Boat Lift
- on Oderberg (German only)