28.1686, Calls: Gen Ling, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 28.1686, Calls: Gen Ling, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 11:38:27
From: Giorgos Spathas [endpoints.results at gmail.com]
Subject: Endpoints, Scales, and Results in the Decomposition of Verbal Predicates

 
Full Title: Endpoints, Scales, and Results in the Decomposition of Verbal Predicates 
Short Title: ENDPOINTS 2018 

Date: 30-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2018
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Giorgos Spathas
Meeting Email: endpoints.results at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/endpointsscalesandresults/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 16-Jul-2017 

Meeting Description:

This workshop aims to investigate the relation between the notions of
'endpoint', 'scalarity'/ 'incrementality', and 'result state' in the grammar
of verbal predicates. A great amount of research in syntax and semantics has
been dedicated to investigating the contribution of such notions in
determining the behavior of lexical verbal predicates and other descriptions
of eventualities (like, e.g., resultatives, deverbal adjectives, participles,
particle verbs, a.o.), most notably their aspectual properties (telicity,
classification in terms of Vendlerian classes, etc.). Although the notions are
logically independent, they are, at the same time, clearly interrelated. As a
result, they have been formalized and related to each other in many different
ways in the literature giving rise to a great variety of theoretical
approaches and analytical options when dealing with specific empirical
phenomena. 

Two main lines of research (though with considerable internal variation) have
been established: one that relates the aspectual properties of (verbal)
predicates with scalarity and/ or incrementality (Krifka 1989, Hay et al.
1999, Kennedy and McNally 2005, Winter 2006, Kennedy and Levin 2008, Wechsler
2005, Piñón 2008, Rappapport Hovav 2008, Landman and Rothstein 2010, Beavers
2013, a.m.o.), and one that relates aspectual properties with specific event
structures (Dowty 1979, Grimshaw 1990, Parsons 1990, Pustejovsky 1991, von
Stechow 1996, Higginbotham 2000, a.m.o.). The workshop aims to highlight
recent developments in this area and to bring together researchers working
within both traditions with the goal to clarify the relation between the two
approaches (in their different manifestations).

The workshop will be held at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

Invited Speakers:

Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete)
John Beavers (The University of Texas at Austin)
Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Christopher Piñón (Université Lille 3)
Malka Rappaport Hovav (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Joost Zwarts (University of Utrecht)

Organizers:

Margaret Grant, Nils Hirsch, Giorgos Spathas (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin,
Research Unit on (Experimental) Syntax and Heritage Languages) and Fabienne
Martin (University of Stuttgart, SFB 732, B5)

Funded by AL 554/8-1 (DFG Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Preis 2014 to Artemis
Alexiadou)


Call for Papers:

Numerous questions arise in any attempt to achieve the main goal of this
workshop. To mention a few examples:

- Which aspects of the two approaches are mutually exclusive and which are
not? How does the answer to this question differ under the different
manifestations of a scalar analysis (incrementality-based approaches,
degree-based approaches, vector-based approaches, etc.)? 
- What is the relation between 'result state' as understood in event
decompositional approaches and the 'endpoints' of scalar analyses? What are
the grammatical diagnostics (if any) that can reliably differentiate between
result states and scalar endpoints? 
- What is the relation between causativity and telicity?
- Approaches further differ on whether they syntactically decompose (verbal)
predicates (Kratzer 1996, Ramchand 1997, Embick 2004, Borer 2005, Alexiadou,
Anagnostopoulou and Schäfer 2006, a.m.o.) or not (Reinhart and Siloni 2005,
Rappaport Hovav and Levin 1998, a.m.o. ). Does syntactic decomposition affect
the relation between scalar and event decompositional approaches? For example,
do syntactically represented result states allow a semantic treatment in terms
of scalarity/ incrementality?

Topics related to answering these and related questions include (among
others):

- The classification of (a)telic and manner/result predicates within and
across languages.
- The grammar of incremental theme verbs, degree achievements, and particle
verbs.
- The grammar of resultatives, participles, and deverbal adjectives.
- Diagnostics for result states and/ or scalar endpoints. 
- Manner-result complementarity.
- Eventive vs. stative readings of scalar predicates.
- Partitive/atelic readings of telic predicates and telic readings of atelic
predicates.
- Anti-causativization, passivization and lexical aspect.
- Affectedness and the realization of internal arguments.

The workshop further aims to gain insight from a variety of empirical data,
including fieldwork or judgments from understudied languages, quantitative
judgment data from native speakers, and data from psycholinguistic or language
acquisition studies in addition to informal native speaker judgments.

We invite abstract submissions from all theoretical frameworks discussing
these and related issues. Presentations will be 30 minutes, followed by 10
minutes for discussion. Submissions are limited to two per author, with at
most one paper being single-authored. 

A poster session might be added in the program depending on the number of
submissions. Please indicate whether you would be willing to present your work
as a poster. 

Submission guidelines:

Abstracts, including references and data, must not exceed two A4 pages in
length with 2.5 cm (1 inch) margins on all sides, set in Times New Roman with
a font size no smaller than 12pt. Examples, tables, graphs, etc. must be
interspersed into the text of the abstract, rather than collected at the end.

Please submit your abstracts via the following Easychair link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=endpoints2018




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