LINGUIST List: Vol-31-3072. Fri Oct 09 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.
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Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 21:30:29
From: Alexandra Rehn [alexandra.rehn at uni-konstanz.de]
Subject: Adjective: The Unknown Category
Full Title: Adjective: The Unknown Category
Date: 31-Aug-2021 - 03-Sep-2021
Location: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Contact Person: Alexander Pfaff
Meeting Email: a.p.pfaff at ilos.uio.no
Linguistic Field(s): Typology
Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2020
Meeting Description:
Adjective: The unknown Category - Inflection, articles and other functional
material in the AP
In spite of a substantial body of research on the status of A(djectives), from
both a generative (e.g. Baker 2003) and functionalist (e.g. Bhat, 1994) as
well as a diachronic and typological (Dixon 1982; Rießler 2016) perspective,
there does not seem to be a broad consensus on a number of relevant questions
like
(i) Is A a universal category?
(ii) Is A a category at all or is it rather a version of N or V?
(iii) Are there (sub-)categories like “nouny” and “verby” As?
(iv) Which categorial properties make A clearly distinct from N and V?
Against the backdrop of these rather broad and general questions, this
workshop addresses a relatively specific domain – functional elements
(inflection, articles, ezafe) in the AP and their (possible) contribution to
or interaction with the categorial status of A:
(v) Are there functional elements/morphemes in the AP that are intimately
related to or dependent on the category A, or even determine adjectivehood?
(vi) Do they have cognates in other domains (NP, VP), and if so, how are they
related (morphologically/semantically/etymologically)?
The general aim of the workshop is to gain new insights regarding the – up to
this day unanswered – question of what it is that makes an A an A. Do As have
specific properties that allow a definition of their categorial status, and if
so, are they substantial or merely functional properties (e.g. attributive
modification) – or are As simply the least specified category (see Baker 2003)
that are best characterized by what they are not rather than by what they are?
The workshop has an empirical and a theoretical component, and explicitly
welcomes diachronic, comparative and typological, as well as theoretical
perspectives. On the empirical side, we want to bring together a number of
relevant phenomena from a range of languages, and try to establish a
(small-scale) typology of relevant items. The goal is to formulate diagnostics
that allow us to compare such AP internal material across languages. On the
theoretical side, we are interested in what role these items play regarding
the categorial status of A.
Call for Papers:
Participants should try to make reference to one or more of the following
questions:
--> What is the role/function/contribution of AP-internal elements?
- Are they responsible for “adjectivehood”?
- Do they presuppose a category A?
- Can they serve as unambiguous diagnostics?
- How do they vary crosslinguistically?
- Do we find the same morphology with other “attributes” (e.g. appositions)?
- Do we find interesting cases of systematic multifunctionality/polysemy or
common grammaticalization paths with VP-/NP-internal elements
Important notice:
This is a preliminary call for papers for submitting a Workshop to the annual
SLE conference https://societaslinguistica.eu/
Submission deadline: 15.11.2020
Length: 300 words max.
Submit to: a.p.pfaff at ilos.uio.no or to alexandra.rehn at uni-konstanz.de
References:
Baker, Mark C. 2003. Lexical categories: Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives.
Cambridge: University Press.
Bhat, DN Shankara. 1994. The adjectival category: criteria for differentiation
and identification, vol. 24. John Benjamins Publishing.
Dixon, R. M. W. 1982, ‘Where have all the adjectives gone?’, Where have all
the adjectives gone? and other essays in semantics and syntax. Berlin: Mouton.
Rießler, Michael. 2016. Adjective attribution. Language Science Press, Berlin.
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