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<br /></br><hr /><b>Petición de contribuciones (evento):
</b>International Workshop “Ser & estar at the interfaces”<br
/>Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) (España), del 18 al 19 de octubre de
2012<br />(1ª circular)<br />URL: <a
href="http://www2.uah.es/ser_estar"
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/><b>Descripción</b><br /><p>Meeting Description:<br />The workshop
seeks to bring together researchers working on different aspects of
the 'ser/estar' distinction, in particular those related to the
lexicon-syntax and syntax-semantics-pragmatics interfaces, mainly from
a formal perspective. It will touch upon issues such as the relevance
of the individual/stage level distinction in the distribution of
copular verbs; aspectual coercion; aspectual composition; syntactic
differences between copular verbs; information structure of
predications with 'ser' and 'estar'; truth and non-truth conditional
meaning of copular verbs.<br /><br />Call for Papers: 10 talks will be
selected among the submissions. Talks will be allotted 30 minutes for
presentation plus 10 minutes for discussion. A poster session will
take place on October 19.<br /><br />Papers may address - but are not
limited to - the following questions:<br />- The meaning of 'ser' and
'estar'. What are the truth conditional /non-truth conditional
semantic differences between the two Spanish copulae,'ser' and
'estar'? Can the differences between these two verbs be described in
davidsonian (eventive) terms, or in terms of different
discourse-dependent properties? (cf. Clements 1988, Maienborn 2003,
2005, Schmitt 2005, Schmitt &Miller 2007, a.o.)<br />- The syntax of
'ser' and 'estar'. Are there syntactic differences between the two
Spanish copulae? Should they be understood as differences in the
featural content of these verbs, or as the result of a process of
preposition incorporation? Can these differences explain the
distributional (and also semantic) properties of these two verbs? (cf.
Brucart 2009, Zagona 2009, Gallego & Uriagereka 2011, Camacho to
appear, a.o.)<br />- Information structure. What are the differences
between predications involving 'ser' and 'estar' regarding information
structure? It has been claimed in the literature that the notions of
thetic vs. categorial judgments or the notion of topic time are
relevant to account for some differences between 'ser' and 'estar',
for example with respect to word order (cf. Uriagereka & Raposo 1995,
Maienborn 2005, Gallego & Uriagereka 2011).<br />- 'Ser/estar' as an
aspectual distinction. What is the syntactic or semantic property that
explains the selectional restrictions of 'ser' and 'estar'? It has
generally been claimed that the different selectional properties of
'ser' and 'estar' are linked to aspectual notions (cf. Luján 1981,
Fernández-Leborans 1995, Roby 2009, Zagona & Contreras 2011, Camacho
to appear, among many others), and, crucially to the distinction
between Individual and Stage level predicates (Leonetti 1994, Lema
1995, Bosque 1999, Escandell & Leonetti 2002, Marín 2004, 2010, Arche
2006, a.o.). However, it has been shown that the IL/SL distinction in
fact cross-cuts but does not overlap with the 'ser/estar'
distribution. Moreover, the properties of 'ser/estar' have been used
to reject a view of the IL/SL distinction as a lexically encoded
property (Gallego & Uriagereka 2011), or even as a grammatical
phenomenon with a conceptual foundation (Maienborn 2005).<br /> -
Coercion as an interface phenomenon. In what contexts and under what
conditions does the coercion mechanism generally associated with
'estar' take place? Why can only some adjectival predicates be
coerced? What is the role played by the subject of the predication in
the coercion process? How can the coercion process be characterized as
an interface phenomenon? (cf. Demonte 1979, Escandell & Leonetti 2002,
Brucart 2005, Romero 2009, Batllori & Roca in press, a.o.)<br />-
Language acquisition. What can the first language acquisition process
of 'ser/estar' tell us about the semantic/syntactic differences
between the two copulas? What does the acquisition process of
'ser/estar' tell us about the relevance of semantic / pragmatic and
syntactic cues in first language acquisition? (cf. Sera 1992,
Holtheurer 2003, Schmitt et al. 2004, Schmitt el al. 2007, a.o.)<br
/>- Non-copular uses of 'ser' and 'estar'. Can the copular and
non-copular uses of these verbs (in progressive verb forms, passives
or locative sentences) receive a unified explanation? Is there a
syntactic or semantic core common to all uses of these verbs? (cf.
Brucart 2009, Gallego & Uriagereka 2011, Camacho to appear, a.o.)<br
/>- 'Ser' & 'estar' from a cross-linguistic / dialectal perspective.
How can the cross-linguistic differences in the uses of the copulas
equivalent to Spanish 'ser/estar' (for example in Portuguese and
Catalan) be explained (cf. Brucart 2009, Gallego & Uriagereka 2011,
a.o.)? And, more generally, how are the syntactic/semantic/pragmatic
differences expressed by 'ser' and 'estar' shown in other languages
lacking two different copulas (cf. Costa 1988, a.o.)?<br /> <br
/>Submission guidelines:<br />- Abstracts must be submitted
electronically via Easychair (<a
href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=serestar2012"
target="_blank">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=serestar2012</a>).
<br />- Please, add 5 keywords and whether your submission is for an
oral presentation, poster or both. Abstracts should be anonymous.<br
/>- Abstracts should not exceed two pages, including examples and
references.<br />- Submissions are restricted to one single-authored
and one co-authored abstract at most.<br />- The conference language
is English: abstracts and talks will be in English.<br />- Page
format: A4, 2.5 cm margins on all sides, at least 12 pt Times New
Roman font, single line spacing.<br />- File format: .pdf<br />- File
name: surname.pdf<br /><br />Recall that the deadline for abstract
submission is February 28 2012, and that notifications of acceptance
will be sent by April, 30.<br /><br />References:<br /> - Arche, M. J.
2006. Individuals in Time. Tense, Aspect and the individual/stage
distinction, Amsterdam, John Benjamins.<br /> - Bosque, I. 1999. ''El
sintagma adjetival. Modificadores y complementos del adjetivo.
Adjetivo y participio'', in I. Bosque & V. Demonte (dirs.), Gramática
descriptiva de la lengua española, Madrid, RAE-Espasa Calpe, chapter
4.<br />- Batllori, M. & F. Roca. In press. ''Grammaticalisation of
ser and estar in Romance'', in D. Jonas (ed.), Grammatical Change:
Origins, Nature, Outcomes, Oxford, Oxford University Press.<br />-
Brucart, J. M. 2009. ''La alternancia ser / estar y las construcciones
atributivas de localización'', in A. Avellana (comp.), Actas del V
Encuentro de Gramática Generativa, 2009, Neuquén, EDUCO.<br />-
Camacho, J. to appear. ''Ser and estar: The individual/stage level
distinction and aspectual predication'', to appear in the Blackwell
Handbook of Hispanic linguistics.<br />- Clements, J. C. 1988. ''The
semantics and pragmatics of the Spanish Copula + Adjective
construction'', Linguistics, 26, 779-822.<br />- Costa, J. 1998.
''L'opposition ser/estar en Portugais'', en A. Rouveret (ed.),
''Être'' et ''avoir'' - Syntaxe, sémantique, typologie, Sciences du
Langage, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 139-153.<br />- Demonte,
V. 1979. ''Semántica y sintaxis en las construcciones con ser y
estar'', Revista Española de Lingüística, 9, 133-171.<br />-
Escandell, V. & M. Leonetti. 2002. ''Coercion and the stage/individual
distinction'', in J. Gutiérrez-Rexach (ed.), Semantics and Pragmatics
of Spanish, Amsterdam, Elsevier.<br />- Gallego, A. & J. Uriagereka.
2009. ''Estar = ser + P'', talk given at the XIX Colloquium on
Generative Grammar, April 1-3 2009, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea,
Vitoria-Gasteiz.<br />- Gallego, A. & J. Uriagereka. 2011. ''The
lexical syntax of ser and estar''. Ms. Universitat Autónoma de
Barcelona & U. Maryland.<br />- Holtheuer, C. 2003. The acquisition of
the copula in Spanish child language. Masters Thesis. Michigan State
University. <br />- Leborans, M. J. 1995. ''Las construcciones con el
verbo estar: aspectos sintácticos y semánticos'', Verba, 22,
253-284.<br />- Lema, J. 1995. ''Distinguishing Copular and Aspectual
Auxiliaries: Spanish Ser and Estar'', in J. Amastae, G. Goodall, M.
Montalbetti & M. Phinney (eds.), Contemporary Research in Romance
Linguistics, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 257-274.<br />- Leonetti, M. 1994.
''Ser y estar: estado de la cuestión'', Barataria, 1, 182-205.<br />-
Luján, M. 1981. ''The Spanish copulas as aspectual indicators'',
Lingua, 54, 165-210.<br />- Maienborn, C. 2003. ''Against a
Davidsonian analysis of copula sentences'', NELS 33 Proceedings, GLSA,
167-186.<br />- Maienborn, C. 2005. ''A discourse-based account of
Spanish ser/estar'', Linguistics, 43,1, 155-180.<br />- Marín, R.
2004. Entre ser y estar, Madrid, Arco Libros.<br />- Marín, R. 2010.
''Spanish adjectives within bounds'', in P. Cabredo y O. Matushansky
(eds.), Adjectives: formal analyses in syntax and semantics,
Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 307-331.<br />- Roby, D. B. 2009. Aspect
and the categorization of States. The case of ser and estar in
Spanish, Amsterdam, John Benjamins.<br />- Romero, J. 2009. ''El
sujeto en las construcciones copulativas'', Verba 2009, 36, 195-214<br
/>- Schmitt, C. & Miller, K. 2007. ''Making discourse-dependent
decisions: The case of the copulas ser and estar in Spanish'', Lingua,
117, 11, 1907-1929.<br />- Schmitt, C. 2005. ''Semi-copulas: Event and
aspectual composition'', in P. Kempchinsky & R. Slabakova (eds.),
Syntax, semantics and the acquisition of aspect, Springer, Kluwer,
121-145.<br />- Schmitt, C., C. Holtheuer & K. Miller. 2004.
''Acquisition of copulas ser and estar in Spanish: learning
lexico-semantics, syntax, and discourse'', in Proceedings of Boston
University Conference on Language Development, Cascadilla Press,
Somerville, MA.<br />- Sera, M. D. 1992. ''To be or to be: use and
acquisition of the Spanish copulas'', Journal of Memory and Language,
31, 408-427.<br />- Uriagereka, J. & E. Raposo. 1995. ''Two Types of
Small Clauses (Toward a Syntax of Theme/Rheme Relations)'', in A.
Cardinaletti and M.T. Guasti (eds.), Small Clauses (Syntax and
Semantics 28), New York, Academic Press, 179-206.<br /> Zagona, K.
& H. Contreras. 2011. ''Sobre la incompatibilidad entre ser y los
adjetivos con complemento'', in M. V. Escandell, M. Leonetti & C.
Sánchez (eds.), 60 Problemas de gramática, Madrid, Akal.<br />
Zagona, K. 2009. ''Ser and Estar: Phrase structure and aspect,'' to
appear in Cahiers Chronos, Proceedings of 2008 Chronos, Austin,
University of Texas.</p><br /><b>Área temática:</b> Pragmática,
Semántica, Sintaxis<br /><br /><b>Entidad Organizadora:
</b>Universidad de Alcalá<br /><br /><b>Contacto:</b> Isabel
Pérez-Jiménez <ser.estar@uah.es><br /><br /><b>Programa</b><br
/><p>Invited Speakers: José Camacho (Rutgers University) & Karen
Zagona (University of Washington)</p><b>Comité científico</b><br
/><p>María Jesús Arche (U. Greenwich)<br />Ignacio Bosque (UCM /
RAE)<br />Josep M. Brucart (UAB)<br />Elena Castroviejo (CCHS –
CSIC)<br />José Camacho (Rutgers)<br />Joao Costa (U. Nova de
Lisboa)<br />Violeta Demonte (CCHS – CSIC)<br />Victoria Escandell
(UNED)<br />Ángel Gallego (UAB)<br />Silvia Gumiel (UAH)<br />Manuel
Leonetti (UAH)<br />Claudia Maienborn (U. Humboldt Berlin)<br />Rafael
Marín (U. Lille 3)<br />Louise McNally (UPF)<br />Isabel Pérez
Jiménez (UAH)<br />Juan Romero (U. Extremadura)<br />Cristina Schmitt
(U. Michigan State)<br />Juan Uriagereka (U. Maryland)<br />Karen
Zagona (U. Washington)</p><b>Comité organizador</b><br /><p>Manuel
Leonetti (UAH)<br />Silvia Gumiel (UAH)<br />Isabel Pérez Jiménez
(UAH)</p><b>Plazo de envío de propuestas: </b>hasta el 28 de
febrero de 2012<br /><b>Notificación de contribuciones
aceptadas: </b>30 de abril de 2012<br /><br /><b>Lengua(s) oficial(es)
del evento: </b>inglés<br /><br /><b>Nº de información:</b> 1<br
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