34.3614, Calls: Adjectives, Categorization and Argument Structure

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Subject: 34.3614, Calls: Adjectives, Categorization and Argument Structure

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Date: 29-Nov-2023
From: Laura Grestenberger [Laura.Grestenberger at oeaw.ac.at]
Subject: Adjectives, Categorization and Argument Structure

Full Title: "Adjectives, categorization and argument structure" (CfP)

Date: 28-Aug-2024 - 30-Aug-2024
Location: Vienna, Austria
Contact Person: Martina Werner
Meeting Email: martina.werner at univie.ac.at

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2023

Meeting Description:

Workshop at the 21st International Morphology Meeting, 28 - 30 August
2024, located at WU Vienna, Austria.

This workshop is jointly organized as part of the Austrian Science
Fund (FWF) projects “Relational adjectives in the history of German”
(FWF P 32415-G, PI Werner) and “Verbal categories and categorizers in
diachrony” (FWF V 850-G, PI Grestenberger).

2nd Call for Papers:

“Adjectives, categorization and argument structure”
Workshop at the 21st International Morphology Meeting, 28 - 30 August
2024

*Deadline extension*: Dec. 15, 2023

Convenors: Martina Werner (martina.werner at oeaw.ac.at), Laura
Grestenberger (laura.grestenberger at oeaw.ac.at),
Austrian Academy of Sciences

Keynote speaker: Antonio Fábregas (Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, NTNU)
Keynote title: “Adjectives, prefixation and argument structure:
symmetric and non-symmetric relations within the AP complex”

The aim of this workshop is to investigate and compare the morphology
and morphosyntax of different classes of adjectives or “adjectival
concepts”, their categorization/lexicalization, and their
morphosemantics and argument structure from different theoretical
perspectives. As is well known, the lexicalization of property
concepts (in the sense of Dixon 1982) differs cross-linguistically in
terms of category: some languages express these concepts as “primary”
(root-derived) adjectives, while others use a “verbal” strategy (Dixon
1982, 2004; Thompson 1989; the papers in Mitrović & Panagiotidis 2022,
a.m.o). Property concept adjectives or qualitative adjectives (QAs),
which encode properties such as "brave cat", "funny dog", "loud car"
are moreover formally and semantically distinct from relational
adjectives (RAs; also termed “classifying“, “classificatory“,
“pseudo-adjectives“; cf. e.g. Gunkel & Zifonun 2008; Zifonun 2011;
Rainer 2013), which are well-described from both a theoretical and a
cross-linguistic perspective (e.g. for Romance, cf. Fábregas 2007,
Marchis 2010, 2015, Ramaglia 2011, ten Hacken 2019 among others).
In a long-standing tradition in grammatical theory (seminal Bally
1944: 96), RAs are usually said to have “[the] morphological shape of
an adjective but behave in many respects like nouns“ (Fábregas 2007:
3). Thus, in this respect they differ clearly from
qualitative/property concept adjectives with respect to categorization
and morphosemantics, since QAs are gradable, modifiable,
nominalizable, adverbially and predicatively usable. From a
cross-linguistic perspective, recent studies have pointed out the
importance of argument structure for RAs (cf,. e.g. Holzer 1996;
Alexiadou & Stavrou 2011; Ramaglia 2011; Marchis Moreno 2010, 2015;
Fábregas 2020). Specifically, we find two types of RAs, one with and
the other one without argument structure. While the first type is also
labelled as classifying or classificatory adjectives, RAs of the
second type are called thetic (theta role-providing; after Fábregas
2007).The [+/- argument structure] divide of RAs has also been
recently confirmed by synchronic studies e.g. on German insofar as RAs
typically have subject and not object interpretations (cf. Gunkel &
Zifonun 2008: 293). In this regard, RAs differ from QAs. Furthermore,
adjectives can also display other forms of argument structure, and
QAs/property concepts are famously argument-taking when embedded under
verbal structure in the inchoative/factitive alternation
(Koontz-Garboden 2014; Francez & Koontz-Garboden 2017). The goal of
this workshop is to shed light on the interdependence of adjectival
morphology and argument structure from different theoretical
perspectives, including those that do not treat “adjective” as a
categorial primitive (cf. Mitrović & Panagiotidis 2020). We also
welcome papers that treat RAs and QAs from a cross-linguistic
typological/comparative perspective.

Abstracts (anonymous, between 500-750 words + references, and in
English) for 20-minute presentations should be sent to the workshop
organizers at the above e-mail addresses no later than Dec. 15, 2023.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent around Jan. 30, 2024.

Full Call for Papers: https://tinyurl.com/IMMadjectives

https://www.wu.ac.at/en/bizcomm/events/imm21/workshops/

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