Programme

Friday 11 and Saturday 12 September 2009

Annemie Demol & Kathelijne Denturck (Ghent University - University College Ghent). Introduction

Ted Sanders (Utrecht University). Causal connectives as a window on cognition.

Anna Espunya (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona). Meaning, discourse uses and translation of Ving free adjuncts in popular science.

Kathelijne Denturck (University College Ghent). Explicitation of causality in translation: a corpus-based study on French and Dutch.

Ninke Stukker & Ted Sanders (Utrecht University). Causal connectives in language use: a crosslinguistic comparison of Dutch and German.

Viktor Becher (University of Hamburg). The explicit marking of contingency relations in English and German texts: a contrastive analysis.

Annemie Demol (Ghent University). Cohesive explicitness and the use of argumentative connectives in French and Dutch newspaper editorials.

Mari Mossberg (Stockholm University). L’expression de la concession et de l’opposition dans les textes littéraires et académiques: étude contrastive français-suédois.

Eija Suomela-Salmi (University of Turku). Connectivité et connecteurs logiques dans le discours de recherche français et finnois: différences langagières, disciplinaires et/ou génériques.

Tine Defour & Ulrique D’Hondt (Ghent University). From adverbs to connectives and beyond. A contrastive study of the development of French ‘en fait’ and ‘the fait’ and English ‘in fact’ and ‘actually’ in their contemporary uses.

Torsten Leuschner (University College Ghent). The Expression of Contingency Relations from an Historical Point of View: Patterns in the Rise and Ausbau of Subordinator Inventories in the Germanic Languages.

Bart Defrancq (University College Ghent). Wh-items evolving into connective devices: Germanic and Romance languages.

Clara Vanderschueren (Ghent University). How equivalent are infinitival temporal and causal construction introduced by ao/ in Portuguese and Spanish?

Annemie Demol & Kathelijne Denturck (Ghent University - University College Ghent). Concluding remarks & prospects