34.3067, Calls: "Adjectives, categorization and argument structure"

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Subject: 34.3067, Calls: "Adjectives, categorization and argument structure"

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Date: 16-Oct-2023
From: Martina Werner [martina.werner at univie.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: 30-Nov-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).

Call for Papers:

“Adjectives, categorization and argument structure”

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

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, NTNU

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). Cross-cutting the distinction in terms of lexical category is
the difference between what Francez & Koontz-Garboden (2017) term the
“predicative” and the “possessive” strategy: While the predicative
strategy makes use of canonical predication devices available in a
given language (e.g., the copula), (1a), the possessive strategy uses
possessive morphology to express property concepts, (1b).
(1)     Predicative vs. possessive lexicalization of property concepts
(Francez & Koontz-Garboden 2017: 22)
a.      Pierre  is      hungry.         (English)
b.      Pierre  a       faim.           (French)
        Pierre  has     hunger
Property concept adjectives or qualitative adjectives (QAs), which
encode properties such as brave cat, funny dog, loud car are formally
and semantically distinct from relational adjectives (RAs; cf. e.g.
Gunkel & Zifonun 2008; Zifonun 2011; Rainer 2013, 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 only 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
(3a), RAs of the second type (3b) are called thetic (theta
role-providing; after Fábregas 2007).
(2)     German non-thetic/classificatory and thetic RAs
a.      angeblicher Spion       gestriges Mahl,         tönerner Krug
        ‘alleged spy’           ‘yesterday‘s meal’      ‘clay jug’
b.      betriebliche Entwicklung        studentisches Lernen
richterliche Entscheidung
        ‘company development’   ‘student learning’      ‘judicial
decision’
Furthermore, 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.

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