33.607, Confs: General Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Germany
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Subject: 33.607, Confs: General Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Germany
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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 17:53:04
From: Paola Fritz-Huechante [dgfs2022.cos at lists.hu-berlin.de]
Subject: Change of State Verbs – Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives
Change of State Verbs – Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives
Short Title: DGfS 2022
Date: 23-Feb-2022 - 25-Feb-2022
Location: Tübingen, Germany
Contact: Paola Fritz-Huechante
Contact Email: dgfs2022.cos at lists.hu-berlin.de
Meeting URL: https://hu.berlin/CoS
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Meeting Description:
This workshop is part of the 44th annual meeting of the German Linguistic
Society (DGfS 2022) to be held at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen from
23 - 25 February 2022.
Organizers: Paola Fritz-Huechante & Antonio Machicao y Priemer
(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Invited Speakers:
Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Stephanie Solt (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft – ZAS)
The compositional semantics of change of state (CoS) verbs –e.g. ''to wet'',
''to dry'', ''to lengthen''– has commonly been approached in terms of
gradability. Scalar analyses focus on the degree of a property (e.g. wetness)
that an object undergoing a CoS has at the end of the event, and to what
extent this degree counts as manifesting the property specified at the
semantic core (e.g. the adjective ''wet'') of such particular verb (cf.
Kennedy & Levin 2008). These analyses lead to a finer distinction of scale
structures encoded at the lexical level, e.g. as open vs. closed scale verbs
(cf. Kennedy & McNally 2005). Yet, empirical studies have also tested these
scales with respect to the different implicature readings and polarity effects
specific items yield (Gotzner et al. 2018; Solt 2018). CoS verbs are also
puzzling due to their different telicity readings (Rappaport Hovav 2014). For
instance, telicity variation in transitive CoS has been attributed to the
properties of the object undergoing a change. In this case, the object is
described as an 'incremental theme', establishing a homomorphism from object
to event. Alternatively, other analyses assume a relation between scale
structure and telicity. In a nutshell, predicates specifying a maximal degree
on a scale allow a telic interpretation, whereas if there is no specification
of a maximal degree, they are atelic. Besides telicity, analyses on event
structure have centered on the type of changing ''process'' these predicates
denote, e.g. durative vs. punctual (Beavers 2013).
At the syntax-semantics interface, three main issues arise (cf. Rappaport
Hovav & Levin 1998; Martin 2020):
(i) to which extent is the (complex) event structure of CoS verbs better
mapped onto (or is a consequence of) the syntactic structure vs. a lexicalist
approach,
(ii) what can the morphosyntactic structure tell us about the combinatory
potential of CoS verbs with specific degree phrases, modifiers and PPs (e.g. 5
cm, to 5 degrees) and the corresponding inferences drawn,
(iii) is there a correlation between the morphosyntactic structure (viz.
external vs. internal causer) and the semantics of CoS verbs (e.g. entailment
of a result state).
This workshop brings together scholars working on semantic, pragmatic or
morphosyntactic aspects of CoS verbs from theoretical or empirical
perspectives. It addresses (but is not limited to) the following questions:
- Which role do features of gradable adjectives play for the analysis of CoS
verbs?
- What are the criteria to account for the relation between telic/atelic
interpretations and scalar structure?
- What are the limits between durative and punctual readings and how can they
be accounted for?
- Which (cross-linguistic) morphosyntactic mechanisms can be used to alter CoS
readings?
- What is the impact of morphosyntactic structure in processing different
scalar readings?
- How does the structural complexity of (causative) CoS verbs interact with
theta roles and the (gradual) achievement of a result state?
- How can we model the (in-)compatibility of degree modifiers and measure
phrases with CoS verbs?
- To which extent can positive and negative environments affect the
implicatures/entailments of degree phrases and modifiers?
- What are the effects of vagueness or polarity in language use and how can
they be captured?
Program:
The program of the workshop is available on:
https://www.linguistik.hu-berlin.de/de/staff/amyp/CoS/program
To register for the conference:
https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/213769
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