27.2166, Confs: Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/France

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Subject: 27.2166, Confs: Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/France

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Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 13:33:35
From: Rafael Marín [rafael.marin at univ-lille3.fr]
Subject: Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adjectives and Participles

Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adjectives and Participles 
Short Title: WAASAP III 

Date: 13-Jun-2016 - 14-Jun-2016 
Location: Lille, France 
Contact: Rafael Marín 
Contact Email: waasapiii at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://stl.hypotheses.org/5489 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

In this conference, continuing the exploration of cross-categorial relations
between the main lexical classes that was initiated in WAASAP I (University of
Greenwich) and WAASAP II (University of Tromsø), we want to concentrate on the
semantic, morphological and syntactic relations between adjectives and verbs
and their extended projections. The topics we are particularly interested in
include:

- The hypothesis that aspect and degree are built using the same restricted
set of primitives: relations between scalarity and Aktionsart (eg., Hay,
Kennedy & Levin 1999) and scales' sensitivity to boundednes (Kennedy & McNally
2005). We welcome submissions that explore the relationship between the
lexical aspect of a verb and the scalar properties of their related
participles; the exploration of degree achievement verbs (such as whiten); the
exploration of the similarities and differences between grammatical aspect in
the verbal domain and external degree modifiers and comparative structures in
adjectives (de Vries 2010, Bochnak 2013), among other issues.

- The relation between mood and modality in adjectives and verbs; the notion
of intensionality in adjectives, versus non-intersectivity, non-subsectivity
or privativity and their relation to gradability (Beck 2000, Partee 2005,
Matushansky 2008, Constantinescu 2011); the relation between modal operators
in nominal and verbal domains (Schäfer 2005, Fleischer 2008); the expression
of mirativity or evidentiality through adjectives. 

- The morphological relations between adjectives and verbs in word formation:
classes of verbs derived from adjectives, beyond degree achievements; classes
of adjectives derived from verbs, beyond participial formations (Oltra-Massuet
2014, Fábregas 2015); the emergence of episodic and non episodic readings of
derived adjectives; affix rivalry; relations between adverbs and adjectives in
word formation.

- The different modification relations of verbs and adjectives. On the
assumption that adverbial modification is prototypically verbal, e.g.,
noun-modifying adverbs and their alternations with adjectives with similar
semantics (as in Spanish el anteriormente presidente, lit. 'the previosly
president'); the conditions under which syncategorematicity is allowed in
adjectival modification, as in frequent flyer (Abusch & Rooth 1997, Larson
1998, Zimmermann 2000, Morzycki 2005, Gehrke & McNally 2010, Sassoon 2013,
among many others).

- Argument structure asymmetries and relations between adjectives and verbs:
do adjectives introduce their subjects of predication? Are thematic relations
as restricted in adjectives as it is typically assumed? (Cinque 1990, Baker
2002, Meltzer-Asscher 2011).

- Agreement asymmetries between adjectives and verbs (cf. for instance Baker
2008).

Keynote Speakers:

Isabel Oltra-Massuet (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
Christopher Piñón (Université de Lille)
Galit Sassoon (Bar Ilan University)

Program:

Monday 13 June 2016   

9:00-9:45 
Registration

9:45-10:00  
Welcome 

10:00–11:00 
Opening Plenary by Isabel Oltra-Massuet (University Rovira i Virgili)
On the (im)possibility of -ble adjectives from unaccusatives in Germanic and
Romance

11:00-11:30 Coffee break  

11:30-12:05 
Guillaume Enghehard (Université de Lille)
Reduplication as a derivational mechanism for Russian secondary imperfectives
and long adjectives

12:05-12:40  
John Beavers (Univ. of Texas, Austin) & Andrew Koontz-Garboden (Univ. of
Manchester)
Change of state verbs and the semantics of roots

12:40-13:15 
Peter Hallman (University of Vienna)
Active result state adjectival participles in Syrian Arabic

13:15-14:30 Lunch 

14:30-15:05   
Cilene Rodrigues (PUC, Rio de Janeiro)
Past participial forms are predicted by argument structure

15:05-15:40  
Alfredo García-Pardo (University of Southern California) 
Argument structure in adjectival passives: an aspect-based approach

15:40-16:15 
Antje Rossdeutscher (University of Sttutgart)
Scale based particles and prefixes in German de-adjectival verbs

16:15-16:45 Coffee break  

16:45-17:20 
Dennis Wegner (University of Wuppertal)
Past participial identity in periphrases – and beyond?

17:20-18:20 
First Day Closing Plenary by Christopher Piñón (Université de Lille) 
Generous behavior

Tuesday 14 June 2016  

9:15-9:50 
Jiyoung Choi (Université de Nantes)
A study of degree inchoative states in Korean

9:50-10:25 
Tillman Pross (University of Stuttgart)
Nominalizations as a window into the structure and analysis of participles

10:25-11:00 
Carmelo Bazaco (Ohio State University)
Estar predication in Spanish. Scales, adjectives and participles

11:00-11:25 Coffee break 

11:25-12:00 
Masaharu Shimada (University of Tsukuba) & Akiko Nagano (Tohoku University)
Mirative interpretations with verbal past-tense forms in Japanese 

12:00-13:00 
Closing plenary by Galit W. Sassoon (Bar Ilan University) 
Degree modified participles

13:00-13:15 
Closing remarks

Alternates:
- Isabel Crespí (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Valuating aspect in Spanish verbal participles: the case of passives
- Alfredo García-Pardo & Mythili Menon (University of Southern California)
Ser and estar: back to aspect

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