28.112, Calls: Gen Ling, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/Switzerland

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Subject: 28.112, Calls: Gen Ling, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/Switzerland

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Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2017 15:37:27
From: Berit Gehrke [erdbeerita at gmail.com]
Subject: Participles: Form, Use and Meaning

Full Title: Participles: Form, Use and Meaning 
Short Title: PartFUM 

Date: 10-Sep-2017 - 13-Sep-2017
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Olga Borik
Meeting Email: olga.borik at gmail.com, erdbeerita at gmail.com

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

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2017 

Meeting Description:

This workshop is dedicated to the form, meaning and use of all types of
participles (labeled with different combinations of present, past, perfect,
active, passive, imperfective, perfective, etc.), also including adverbial
participles/converbs (e.g. deepričastija in Russian), both from a synchronic
and a diachronic perspective. While considerable attention in the recent
literature has been paid to the use and meaning of past/passive participles
(cf. Rapp 1997, Kratzer 2000, Anagnostopoulou 2003, Embick 2004, Maienborn
2007, Alexiadou & Anagnostopoulou 2008, McIntyre 2013, Gehrke 2012, 2015, and
many others) the other participle classes have not attracted that much
attention. We aim at bridging this gap by expanding the workshop theme to all
possible classes of participles, ultimately in the search for an answer to a
fundamental question of what is the proper characterization of participles in
general. Traditionally, participles are often treated as a hybrid of a verb
and an adjective. This simple characterization already raises several
important issues:

- What is ‘adjectival’ and what is ‘verbal’ in the grammatical makeup of
participles? Do these ‘verbal’ and ‘adjectival’ properties characterize a
participle itself or are they (partially) conditioned by the context in which
a participle appears? 
- Can participles in predicative position be verbal or adjectival, but those
in attributive position only adjectival, or can attributive participles also
be reduced relatives of verbal constructions involving participles?
- What about participles that are used in periphrastic verb forms (e.g. verbal
passive, perfect, progressive), do they retain adjectival properties? Is there
a possible diachronic perspective, in the sense that the combination of
be/have with a (possibly adjectival) participle developed into a periphrastic
verbal form? 

Further questions we are interested in include the following:

- How many classes of participles do we need to distinguish? Is there strong
independent evidence that we need more than one class of, for instance,
passive participles, as suggested in Parsons (1990), Embick (2004), Kratzer
(2000)? Why, though, do those participles still fall under the same label?
What is the defining property? 
- What are the grammatical categories that participles express? Do the terms
past/present, perfective/imperfective etc. in the characterization of a
participle convey the same meaning as in verbs? 
- What are the exact formal (semantic, morphological etc.) restrictions on the
formation of a particular type of participle, as well as on the use of such a
participle (e.g. as adjectival/verbal participle, passive, progressive,
perfect, etc.)? In particular, it has been claimed that adjectival participles
can only be formed on the basis of verbs that have a state component in their
meaning (for passive participles, see, e.g., Rapp 1997, Gehrke 2015), that
only perfective participles can be used in ‘proper’ periphrastic passives in
Russian (Schoorlemmer 1995, Paslawska & von Stechow 2003), that complex
relationships hold between related categories of resultativity, passive and
perfect in various languages (cf. Nedjalkov 1988). The restrictions have
mostly been stated for the passive participles, but are there restrictions on
other classes of participles and how can they be explained from a theoretical
perspective?

Organizers: 

Olga Borik (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Berit Gehrke (CNRS-LLF / Paris Diderot)

Final Call for Papers:

Abstract submission:

- For all abstracts, the submission deadline is January 15 2017. The abstracts
should be submitted via Easychair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sle2017) by the deadline. The
participants of the workshop should select the PartFUM workshop upon abstract
submission.

- Abstracts should i) be anonymous, ii) contain between 400 and 500 words
(exclusive of references), and (iii) state research questions, approach,
method, data and (expected) results. 

- Participants are allowed to present only one single-authored paper. In
addition, they may either have a joint paper (but not as a first author) or be
a discussant in a workshop. Two co-authored papers are also allowed. 

For a  full workshop description please consult the pdf document on the SLE
homepage:
http://sle2017.eu/downloads/workshops/Participles%20Form%20Use%20Meaning.pdf

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