28.4737, Confs: Gen Ling, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 14:12:59
From: Giorgos Spathas [g.spathas at gmail.com]
Subject: Endpoints, Scales, and Results in the Decomposition of Verbal Predicates

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: Giorgos Spathas 
Contact Email: endpoints.results at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/site/endpointsscalesandresults/ 

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

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)

Tuesday, January 30th 2018
09:00 - 09:30 
Registration 

Session 1 
09:30 - 10:30  Invited talk
Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
t.b.a.

10:30 - 11:10 
Lena Miashkur and Galit Weidman Sassoon (Bar-Ilan University)
The frequency of use of gradable participles with different modifiers:
Interactions between verb type and participle type

11:10 - 11:40 Coffee break 

Session 2 
11:40 - 12:20  
Jeremy Kuhn (Institut Jean Nicod) 
Telicity and iconic scales in ASL

12:20 - 13:00  
Ashley Kentner  and Ronnie B. Wilbur (Purdue University) 
ASL and Homomorphic Accounts of Resultatives

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break 

Session 3 
14:30 - 15:30  Invited talk
Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete)
t.b.a.

15:30 - 16:10  
Josep Ausensi Jimenez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
The semantics of kill, murder, and slay

16:10 - 17:10  
Poster session and coffee break 

Session 4 
17:10 - 18:10  Invited talk
Joost Zwarts (University of Utrecht)
t.b.a.

Wednesday, January 31st 2018 
Session 1 
09:00 - 10:00 Invited talk
Malka Rappaport Hovav (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
t.b.a.

10:00 - 10:40  
Maria Teresa Espinal and Jaume Mateu (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
Manner and result readings of degree adjuncts. The case of the V ben V
construction in Catalan

10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break 

Session 2 
11:00 - 12:00 Invited talk
Christopher Piñón (Université Lille 3)
t.b.a.

12:00 - 12:40  
E. Matthew Husband (University of Oxford) 
Zero telicity and no results

12:40 - 14:00 Lunch break 

Session 3 
14:00 - 14:40  
Yulia Zinova and Rainer Osswald (University of Düsseldorf)
Time measure phrases, terminativity and telicity in Russian

14:40 - 15:20  
María Eugenia Mangialavori Rasia (Conicet, Buenos Aires) 
Less-known scalar bounds, scalarity and telicity across deadjectival verbs

15:20 - 16:00  
Gabriel Martinez Vera (University of Connecticut), 
[BECOME P] and [BECOME more P]? The case of -pta and -ra in Southern Aymara

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break 

Session 4 
16:30 - 17:10  
Elisabeth Verhoeven, Paola Fritz and Julian Rott (Humboldt Universität Berlin)
Inchoative states, gradable states and (anti-)causativization in the psych
domain: the cases of Spanish and Korean

17:10 - 18:10  Invited talk
John Beavers (The University of Texas at Austin)
t.b.a.

Alternate talk:  
Nora Boneh (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)  and Lea Nash (Paris 8 University)
Scaling up ditransitives

Poster session:
Tatiana Bondarenko (MIT)
Results, Repetitives and Datives: towards an account of cross linguistic
variation

Nora Boneh (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)  and Lea Nash (Paris 8 University)
Scaling up ditransitives

Patrick Caudal (U. Paris Diderot/CNRS) 
Areal-typological variations in the connection between resultativity, telicity
and scalarity

Imola-Ágnes Farkas  (Babes-Bolyai University) and Éva Kardos (University of
Debrecen) 
A unified scalar analysis of the aspectual effect of particles, the
pseudo-object egyet 'one.ACC' and created/consumed objects in Hungarian

Jens Fleischhauer and Thomas Gamerschlag (University of Düsseldorf) 
Reflections on dynamicity, scalarity and telicity with special reference to
fictive motion

Tillmann Pross (University of Stuttgart) 
Severing away the incremental theme

María Eugenia Mangialavori Rasia (Conicet, Buenos Aires) and Rafael Marín
(Lille 3/CNRS) 
Endpoints, location and stativity: a boundary directional P as a key to richer
locatives

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