31.186, Calls: Gen Ling, Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics / Germany

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Subject: 31.186, Calls: Gen Ling, Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics / Germany

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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:09:45
From: Curt Anderson [andersc at hhu.de]
Subject: Word-formation and modificaton: events where there are none (at least on the surface)

 
Full Title: Word-formation and modificaton: events where there are none (at least on the surface) 

Date: 15-May-2020 - 16-May-2020
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany 
Contact Person: Curt Anderson
Meeting Email: andersc at hhu.de
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/events-wfm-workshop 

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

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2020 

Meeting Description:

Most semantic theories are committed to basic ontological categories such as
individuals, events, states, properties, or facts (see Moltmann 2017), with
events playing an important role in modern linguistic semantics (Davidson,
1967; Vendler, 1967, 1968; Parsons, 1990, a.o.). Some linguistic categories,
such as verbs, wear their eventivity on their sleeve. Others, such as object
nouns, are typically non-eventive. This workshop focuses on eventive
interpretations that arise from presumably non-eventive input forms.

For example, Larson (1998) proposes that certain nominals have an event
variable in their argument structure that can be targeted for modification.
This approach seems obvious for examples such as beautiful dancer, as dancer
is deverbal, but less obvious for nouns like king or violinist. Do these nouns
truly have an event in their argument structure, are eventive readings
primarily contributed by the modifiers, or are they best be modeled as the
interplay between input forms?

(1) beautiful dancer 'someone who dances beautifully'

(2) just king 'king who rules justly'

(3) talented violinist 'someone who is talented at playing violin'

The question of how events are accessed, inferred, or otherwise coerced (see
e.g. de Swart 2011) is not limited to phrasal modification. As in (4-6),
certain word-formation processes also give rise to eventive interpretations,
while the respective base categories do not (see Bauer et al. 2013):

(4) hammer → to hammer; saddle → to saddle

(5) sedimentation; distinction; festschriftee

(6) to out-absurd; to enthrone; to be little 

Denominal verbs are clearly eventive, but more basic nouns are clearly not
event nouns. It seems to be a productive process to derive new verbs from
artifact nouns, raising the question of how an event can be systematically
created in the construction of the verb. Similarly, nominalizations like
sedimentation or deadjectival out-absurd have event-related readings, while
their bases do not. Both the semantic processes at play here and the
applicability of different morphological theories are ill-understood at best.

Invited speakers: Claudia Maienborn (Tübingen) and Susan Olsen (Humboldt
University)



Call for Papers:

In this workshop, we are interested in contributions that model output forms
that denote events (or, broader, eventualities) but are based on presumably
non-eventive input. We aim to bring together researchers working on both
phrasal modification and word formation, believing that these domains
encounter similar problems in modeling the interaction between compositional
and lexical semantics, context, and world knowledge. By encouraging a mix of
contributions on modification and word-formation from different languages, we
hope to gain a deeper understanding of the semantics of eventualities
themselves as well as the categories they are based on.

Possible topics for submissions include (but aren’t limited to):

- derivational morphology (inc. denominal/deadjectival verbs and conversion)
- event-related modification
- compounding
- semantics of roots
- interfaces to lexical semantics
- event coercion, event inference, and typeshifts
- quantitative studies of available/preferred readings
- ontology of events in natural language

We welcome contributions that explore these and related issues from a variety
of descriptive, theoretical, and quantitative perspectives across frameworks.

We invite abstracts addressing any of these topics or related topics. We
encourage submission of abstracts that reflect work still in progress and/or
in its early stages.

Abstract format: 2 pages, 12pt font, A4 paper with 2.5cm margins / US letter
paper with 1in margins.  

Please submit abstracts using EasyChair, at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ewfm2020




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