35.181, Calls: Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adverbs/Adjectives and Prepositions/Participles (WASAAP2024)

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Date: 13-Jan-2024
From: Josep Ausensi [josep.ausensi at gmail.com]
Subject: Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adverbs/Adjectives and Prepositions/Participles (WASAAP2024)


Full Title: Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of
Adverbs/Adjectives and Prepositions/Participles (WASAAP2024)
Short Title: WASAAP

Date: 10-Jun-2024 - 11-Jun-2024
Location: Tarragona, Spain
Contact Person: Isabel Oltra-Massuet
Meeting Email: isabel.oltra at urv.cat
Web Site: https://www.congressos.urv.cat/waasap-2024/

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

Call Deadline: 29-Feb-2024

Meeting Description:

WAASAP is an international Workshop series celebrated biannually that
focuses on the aspect and argument structure of adjectives, adverbs,
participles and prepositions. In the time of its existence, it has
developed into a referential forum of discussion of the theory of
predicative non-verbal categories.

Past editions have taken place at the University of Greenwich (2012),
The Artic University of Norway at Tromsø (2014), the University of
Lille 3 (2016), the Pompeu Fabra University (2018), and the University
of Greenwich (2022). The 2024 edition is hosted by the Rovira i
Virgili University in Tarragona.

Call for Papers:

WAASAP is an international Workshop series celebrated biannually that
focuses on the aspect and argument structure of adjectives, adverbs,
participles and prepositions. In the time of its existence, it has
developed into a referential forum of discussion of the theory of
predicative non-verbal categories. Past editions have taken place at
the University of Greenwich (2012), The Artic University of Norway at
Tromsoe (2014), the University of Lille 3 (2016), the Pompeu Fabra
University (2018), and the University of Greenwich (2022). The 2024
edition is hosted by the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona.

WAASAP welcomes research on the aspectual and argument structure of
nonverbal categories, with a focus on adjectives, participles,
prepositions and adverbs. The questions we are interested in, but are
not restricted to, this year are the following:

(i) What syntactic and semantic parallelisms can be found between the
structure of prepositions and the structure of adjectives? To what
extent are adjectives based on a prepositional structure? Is this
structure maintained cross-linguistically?

(ii) What is the functional structure of adjectives and participles?
What are the parallelisms between them? To what extent can one state
that adjectives and participles contain a preposition as part of their
structure, and, if so, what functional role does this prepositional
element play in the structure and interpretation of participles? Is
this structure shared by other categories (gerunds, adverbs, etc.)?

(iii) How does aspectual information emerge compositionally in
syntactic combinations of verbs and their selected prepositions, i.e.
in prepositional verbs? How does prepositional selection work, and
what factors are involved in it? What is the syntactic contribution of
the preposition to the predicate and how does the preposition affect
the aspectual and eventive properties of the predicate? What is the
status and internal syntax of the prepositional constituent, whether
selected or unselected (e.g. in atransitive structures)? Are
prepositional objects arguments or adjuncts of the verb? Are they
arguments of an underlying nominal in unergative structures or
selected by a root? More generally, how do (un)selected PPs get
integrated into the event structure of different types of verbs and
deverbal categories (adjectives and participles)?

(iv) What is the relation between prefixes and prepositions? Do
prefixed verbs select a specific type of preposition? If so, what
determines this selection, and what is the relationship between the
prefix and the preposition?

(v) Can concepts like ‘path’, ‘location’, ‘central and non-central
coincidence’ be applied to the analysis of non-verbal categories
beyond prepositions (participles, adverbs)?

(vi) What are the syntactic primitives of adverbial expressions? Is
the structure of adverbs similar to the structure of prepositions? And
to other categories? Do adverbs select arguments? If so, what
interpretation do these arguments have?

(vii) How does the analysis of adjectives, participles, prepositions,
and adverbs contribute to the broader understanding of linguistic
aspect and argument structure?

Keynote Speakers (confirmed):

Andrew McIntyre (Humboldt Universität Berlin)
Malka Rappaport Hovav (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Cristina Real Puigdollers (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Isabelle Roy (Nantes Université)

Submission instructions:

We welcome submissions for 40 minute talks (30+10) in English.
Abstracts should not be longer than two pages (Times New Roman 12 pt.,
single space, 2.54 cm margins), and should be submitted via easyabs.
Submissions are restricted to a maximum of one single-authored
submission and one joint submission per author, or two joint
submissions.

Deadline for abstract submission: 29th of February 2024

Notification of acceptance: 1st of April 2024

Submissions open: Jan. 13, 2024 - Feb. 29, 2024



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