31.3071, Calls: Cog Sci, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Greece

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Subject: 31.3071, Calls: Cog Sci, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Greece

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Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 21:19:22
From: Olga Spevak [spevak at univ-tlse2.fr]
Subject: Causation: from Concept(s) to Grammar

 
Full Title: Causation: from Concept(s) to Grammar 

Date: 31-Aug-2021 - 03-Sep-2021
Location: Athens, Greece 
Contact Person: Clémentine Raffy
Meeting Email: craffy at uni-koeln.de

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 05-Nov-2020 

Meeting Description:

Convenors: Marta Donazzan (LLING/Université de Nantes), Clémentine Raffy and
Klaus von Heusinger (University of Cologne)

Keynote speakers:  Artemis Alexiadou (Humbold Universität), Bridget Copley
(SFL/Université Paris 8)

A growing body of work on causation in natural language, following both formal
and cognitive approaches to grammar, has been recently showing that causation
cannot be reduced to a unique type of relation, and thus cannot be adequately
represented with a single, abstract CAUSE operator (as in e.g. Dowty 1979).

Among the formal models focusing on these different types of dependencies and
relations, force dynamic theories (Talmy 2000, Wolff & Thorstad 2016) have
decomposed causation into a set of primitives that reflect the interactions of
causers’ forces and tendencies. For instance, the English causative verb make
has been described as encoding a relation in which the Causer’s and Causee’s
tendencies have diverging directions (Wolff & Song 2003), and the predicate
let a relation where the Causer’s and Causee’s tendencies correspond.
While we have made progress in understanding the fine-grained structure of
causation at the conceptual level, its lexical and grammatical realisations
need further investigation. Cross-linguistically and within languages,
causative predicates appear to yield interpretations that are not entirely
covered by the primitive relations theorised by force dynamics. 

At the morphosyntactic level of representation, we are thus interested in
understanding how the selectional information of the causative verb is
determined and how this affects in turn the way  participants and result are
represented in syntax. One debated issue is, for instance, the division of
labour between the root and the functional head v (see, a.o., Alexiadou et al.
2006, Copley & Harley, 2020; Beavers & Koontz-Garboden 2020). In a model where
syntax and semantics inform each other, one may ask to what extent the
selectional properties of the causative v and the type of its complement
depend on the causal relation it encodes and how much of this information is
seen by grammar.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together semanticists, syntacticians
and psycho-linguists interested in causation to to discuss the links between
the cognitive structure of causation and its linguistic realisations and the
way in which the causal primitives interact with grammar at each level of
representation. 


Call for Papers: 

We encourage submissions of proposals addressing the main research questions
and other related issues, as for example:
1. Is causation in language best represented as a relation between events or
do we need other objects in the ontology ( e. g. dispositions or powers
(Mumford & Anjum 2011) or forces (Copley & Harley 2015))?
2. What are the morphosyntactic realisations of conceptual structures? Are
there recurring patterns? 
3. When morphosynctacic realisations are different, in what way do their forms
inform the interpretation?
4. What are the selectional properties and/or restrictions of the causative
verb? 
5. What is the role of functional heads (e.g. Voice) for the selection of
arguments? What type of information do they receive from other levels of
representation?

We invite submissions of preliminary abstracts of max. 300 words for 20-minute
presentations. Abstracts in PDF format should be sent to:
CausationSLE2020 at gmail.com

We kindly ask you to submit your abstract by November 5, 2020. Notification of
acceptance will be sent around Nov. 15.

If the workshop proposal is accepted, all selected participants will be
invited to submit the full versions of their abstracts (max 500 words
excluding references) to the general call for papers of SLE 21 before January
15 2021.




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