北京语言大学语言科学与资源学院

1.An explanation of Condition C effects under reconstruction, keynote speech, at 9:30am on 20 March 2015 at the 3rd Symposium on Prominence and Locality in Natural Language, 20-21 March 2015 at 北京梦溪宾馆二楼会议室;

2.Questions. From embedded questions to speech acts, post-symposium tutorial, at 2:00pm (about 4 hours) on 21 March 2015 at北京语言大学综合楼707;

3.Speech acts as commitment changes: A new view on assertions and questions,  at 9:30am on 23 March 2015 at the Conference Room of the Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 中国社会科学院语言研究所会议室;

4.Response particles as propositional anaphors, at 3:00pm on 25 March at北京语言大学综合楼707;

5.Information structure: What it is? How it is expressed?, at 4:30pm on 25 March at北京语言大学综合楼707;

6.Modality and temporal reference in the Austronesian language Daakie (Ambrym, Vanuatu), at 4:00pm on 27 March 2015 at B7603, AC1, the Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong.

Professor Krifka is Professor of General Linguistics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany since 08/2000; the Director of the Center for General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin since 01/2001,funded by the state of Berlin and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany; and Editor-in-chief of the international journals “Theoretical Linguistics” since 2002, “Studia Grammatica” since 2008, and “Linguistics and Philosophy” (1997-2003).

According to Google Citations, Professor Krifka has a total citation of 9827, with an h-index of 40 and an i10 index of 62 (http://scholar.google.com.hk/citations?user=gGxSw8cAAAAJ&hl=en). Some of his published works can be accessed at http://philpapers.org/rec/KRISIU.  A more comprehensive list of his publication can be found at http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/256.html.