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Subject: 31.2755, Confs: Ling Theories, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/United Kingdom

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Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2020 11:36:59
From: Víctor Acedo-Matellán [victor.acedo-matellan at oriel.ox.ac.uk]
Subject: Events and Event Structure at the Limits of Grammar

 
Events and Event Structure at the Limits of Grammar 
Short Title: EESLiG 

Date: 15-Sep-2020 - 16-Sep-2020 
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom 
Contact: Víctor Acedo-Matellán 
Contact Email: eeslig2020 at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/eeslig/home 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The idea that the grammar makes reference to events has a long and storied
history, going back at least to Aristotle, and revived by the works of Vendler
(1967) or Verkuyl (1993). More recently, Borer (2005), Ramchand (2008), and
Travis (2010), among others, provide specific empirical arguments (e.g., the
different roles of the subject and the object, the impact of case, the use of
particles/prefixes/prepositions, etc.) that at least parts of event structure
are represented grammatically. In spite of these results, an ongoing tension
concerns the scope of the grammar in relation to events. To provide an
illustration regarding telicity, some researchers like Rappaport Hovav (2008)
wonder what it is that distinguishes verbs like EAT and PUSH, so that the
former yields telicity with a certain type of object and the latter do not; on
the contrary, Borer (2005) points out that this distinction does not depend on
the verbs themselves qua particular entries of our mental dictionary or
lexicon, but purely on grammatical structure, and observes that verbs like
PUSH do yield telicity when a compatible conceptual scene is provided. A
consensus is far from reached in this and other areas of the representation of
events.

The fundamental question encompassing discussions of this sort is: How much
should we attribute to grammatical mechanisms in the encoding of event
structure and how much is a function of extragrammatical processes (lexical,
pragmatic, or more broadly cognitive)? Answers to questions like this one have
been foundational to our understanding of the organization of the grammar
itself, the extent to which aspectual and event interpretations are carried by
elements of grammar or by words of descriptive category, the difference
between grammaticality and acceptability, and the role of arbitrary listedness
vs. generative rule-governed behaviours.

Keynote Speakers: 
Prof. Hagit Borer (Queen Mary University of London)
Prof. Malka Rappaport Hovav (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Important Dates: 
10 July: deadline for submission of abstracts
31 July: notification of acceptance

Organizers: 
Víctor Acedo-Matellán (Un. of Oxford)
Matthew E. Husband (Un. of Oxford)
Arkadiusz Kwapiszewski (Un. of Oxford)
 

Program Information: 

The conference programme can be accessed here:
https://sites.google.com/view/eeslig/programme

References: 
Borer, Hagit. 2005. Structuring Sense, vol. ii: The Normal Course of Events.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Rappaport Hovav, Malka. 2008. Lexicalized meaning and the internal temporal
structure of events. In Susan D. Rothstein (ed.), Theoretical and
crosslinguistic approaches to the semantics of aspect, 13–42. Amsterdam/New
York: John Benjamins.
Ramchand, Gillian C. 2008. Verb Meaning and the Lexicon. A First Phase Syntax.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Travis, Lisa dM. 2010. Inner Aspect. Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London/New York:
Springer.
Vendler, Zeno. 1967. Linguistics in Philosophy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press.
Verkuyl, Henk. 1993. A Theory of Aspectuality. The Interaction between
Temporal and Atemporal Structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.





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