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Call for expressions of interest: theme session at ALT 2019 - "<b style="font-family:Cambria; text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Adjectives, property concepts, and beyond</span></b>"<br>
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<div style="margin:0px 0cm 0.00013333333481568843px; font-size:medium"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Convenors: Jingting Ye (Leipzig University, <a style="margin:0px; font-family:Cambria; font-size:13.333333015441895px">jingting.ye@studserv.uni-leipzig.de</a>)<span> </span></span></div>
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</span><span> </span>Pernilla Hallonsten Halling (Stockholm University, <a style="margin:0px; font-family:Cambria; font-size:13.333333015441895px">
pernilla.hallonsten@ling.su.se</a>)</span></div>
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<a style="margin:0px; font-family:Cambria; font-size:13.333333015441895px">lbecker.berlin@gmail.com</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; font-size:10pt; text-indent:22pt">Theme session description:</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Adjectives are notorious for their heterogeneity and have been claimed to make up a mixed category, with [+N] and [+V] as its characterizing features (Chomsky 1970). Cross-linguistically,
strong variation can be observed regarding the size, semantic scope, and syntactic behavior of adjectives. In many Indo-European languages, adjectives are considered to constitute an open word class, while in some other languages, only a restricted set of
words are regarded as adjectives. The counterparts of many adjectives in English are then either coded as nouns (e.g. in many Australian languages) or as stative verbs (e.g. in many African languages), which Wetzer (1992, 1996) terms ¡®nouny¡¯ and ¡®verby¡¯ adjectives
respectively. Even in languages where adjectives are found as a sub-category of nouns or verbs, careful in-depth studies still reveal certain characteristics of this adjectival sub-category, however small it may be (Dixon & Aikhenvald 2004). It is clear that
the nature of adjective as a potential language-independent category can only be captured through cross-linguistic study.<span> </span></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Though the semantic scope of adjectives varies across languages, Dixon (1977) identifies seven semantic types (DIMENSION, AGE, COLOR, VALUE, HUMAN PROPENSITY, PHYSICAL PROPERTY, SPEED),
which tend to be coded as adjectives. Dixon (1977) also shows that DIMENSION, AGE, COLOR and VALUE are core semantic types for adjectives. However, according to Hallonsten Halling (2018), VALUE is a core semantic type also for adverbs. In addition, Ye (forthc.)
shows that adjectives in the semantic type VALUE tend to exhibit different syntactic behavior.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Different semantic types may further exhibit coding discrepancies shown in different subclasses of adjectives (Dixon & Aikhenvald 2004). When examining cross-linguistic patterns of the
attributive use of adjectives, it can be observed that further measures (e.g. adding an attributive marker) are taken only for adjectives from certain semantic types, while adjectives from other semantic types are unmarked. This coding discrepancy in different
semantic types points to a cross-linguistic hierarchy, called the attributive prominence hierarchy following Ye (forthc.), which can be used to predict the coding patterns for different semantic types. For instance, adjectives from the AGE type (e.g. ¡®old¡¯)
are less likely to be marked by an attributive marker in the attributive position than adjectives from the VALUE type (e.g. ¡®good¡¯).<span> </span></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">This theme session aims at bringing together scholars interested in adjectives, attempting to shed new light on our understanding of adjectives. For this purpose, the theme session will
discuss the following topics, but is also open to other related ones:<span> </span></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>(i)</b><span> </span><b>Cross-linguistic studies on the lexical semantic variation of adjectives</b>: Can the semantic variation of adjectives be connected to their encoding in single
languages?<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">What are the prototypical semantic types of adjectives?<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Which
semantic types are less likely to be marked in the attributive or predicative position? Do the semantic types exhibit differences in time-stability (Giv¨®n 1984)?<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Attributive
adjectives can often also host definiteness marking; can they mark other semantic properties of the referent as well?<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">(ii) The morphosyntactic properties of adjectives</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">: What is the range of inflectional categories for
adjectives? Which categories are typologically uncommon for adjectives? What are typical word-class-changing strategies (e.g.<span> </span><i>vague</i>becomes<span> </span><i>vagueness<span> </span></i>by adding<span> </span><i>-ness,<span> </span></i>whereas<i>rare<span> </span></i>becomes<span> </span><i>rarity<span> </span></i>by
adding<i>-ity</i>)? Do adjectives from different semantic types show different behavioral potential (Croft 2001)? Is there any (implicational) interaction between the inflection of adjectives and the inflection of other elements (e.g. determiners, possessives
and nouns)?<span> </span></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>(iii)<span> </span>Word order</b>: What cross-linguistic generalizations can be drawn concerning the word order of adjectives from different semantic types? How do such findings relate
to the word order correlations pertinent to adjectives presented by e.g. Greenberg (1963) and Dryer (forthc.)?<span> </span></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>(iv)<span> </span>Adjective-specific constructions<span> </span></b>(e.g. comparatives, superlatives, elatives): What are the morphosyntactic properties of adjective-specific constructions?
What cross-linguistic generalizations can be drawn concerning adjective-specific constructions?<span> </span></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>(v)</b><span> </span><b>In-depth grammatical descriptions about adjective subclasses</b>: Grammatical descriptions about adjective classes (Dixon & Aikhenvald 2004) of less documented
languages are also welcome.<span> </span></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Submissions: Potential participants are invited to send a preliminary title and a short abstract to the conveners by November 12<sup>th</sup>.<span> </span></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Contact:<span> </span></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><a>jingting.ye@studserv.uni-leipzig.de</a></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><a>pernilla.hallonsten@ling.su.se</a></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><a>lbecker.berlin@gmail.com</a></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Other important dates:</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">November 15<sup>th</sup>: Notification of inclusion of the title in the theme session proposal.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">November 25<sup>th</sup>: Notification of acceptance/rejection of the theme session by the ALT organizers.</span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">References:</span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black">Chomsky, N. 1970. Remarks on nominalization.<i>Readings in English Transformational Grammar</i>. Ginn, Waltham, Massachusetts. Blaisdell: 184-221.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:white; background-position:initial initial; background-repeat:initial initial"></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black">Croft, W. 2001.<i>Radical construction grammar: Syntactic theory in typological perspective</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:white; background-position:initial initial; background-repeat:initial initial"></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black">Dixon, R.M. 1977. Where have all the adjectives gone?<span> </span><i>Studies in Language. International Journal sponsored by the Foundation ¡°Foundations of Language¡±</i>,<i>1</i><i>(1):</i>19-80.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black">Dixon, R. M. & Aikhenvald, A. (eds.) 2004.<i>Adjective classes: A cross-linguistic typology</i>. Oxford University Press.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black">Dryer, M. forthc. On the order of demonstrative, numeral, adjective and noun.<span> </span><i>Language.</i></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black">Giv¨®n, T. 1984.<span> </span><i>Syntax: A functional-typological introduction</i>. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:white; background-position:initial initial; background-repeat:initial initial">Greenberg, J.H. 1963. Some universals of grammar with particular reference
to the order of meaningful elements. </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:rgb(34,34,34)">Universals of language</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:white; background-position:initial initial; background-repeat:initial initial">, </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:rgb(34,34,34)">2</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:white; background-position:initial initial; background-repeat:initial initial">,
73-113.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:white; background-position:initial initial; background-repeat:initial initial">Hallonsten Halling, P. 2018.<span> </span></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:rgb(34,34,34)">Adverbs:
A typological study of a disputed category</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:white; background-position:initial initial; background-repeat:initial initial">.<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Ph.D
thesis,<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:white; background-position:initial initial; background-repeat:initial initial">Stockholm University.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black">Wetzer, H. 1992. ¡°Nouny¡± and ¡°verby¡± adjectivals: A typology of predicative adjectival constructions.<span> </span><i>Meaning and grammar: crosslinguistic perspectives,<span> </span></i>Walter
de Gruyter: 223-262.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><span> <span> </span></span></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black">Wetzer, H. 1996.<span> </span><i>The typology of adjectival predication</i>. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Ye, J. forthc.<span> </span><i>Property concepts and the attributive prominence hierarchy: a typological study</i>. Ph.D thesis, Leipzig University.<span> <span> </span></span></span></p>
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