Hagit Borer: Série de conférences

[Département d'Etudes Cognitives de l'ENS]

Le département d'études cognitives de l'Ecole 
Normale Supérieure a le plaisir d'annoncer une 
série de quatre conférences (qui seront données en Anglais):

Par:            Pr. Hagit Borer (USC)
Sujet:          The Syntax and the Morphology of Nominal Expressions
Dates:  Les lundis 30 avril, 7 Mai, 14 Mai et 21 Mai
Horaires:       13h à 15h
Lieu:           Salle INFO2, Immeuble Rataud, 45 rue d'Ulm, Paris 5ème


Abstract:
In the type of lexicon proposed in Chomsky's 
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965) and in 
"Remarks on Nominalizations" (1970), as well as 
in the "lexicalist" models that emerged in the 
'70s and '80s, a large role is played by listed 
(arbitrary) information in the lexical entries of 
(substantive) items.  Such information could 
include all or some of the following:
         a. The sound-meaning pair
         b. Syntactic category
         c. Syntactic insertion frame (subcategorization)
         d. Thematic roles
         e. Derivational affixation
         f. Inflectional affixation
At the same time, however, research during the 
same decades also attempted to reduce the amount 
of arbitrary information in the lexicon by 
deriving at least some of the properties in (a-f) 
from other components of the computational system.
The purpose of this series of  talks will be to 
investigate the structure of (referring) nominal 
expressions, with a particular focus on the following:
         A. The investigation of the possibility 
of having a highly impoverished lexicon, 
restricted to (1a), and deriving everything else 
from (various) computational systems.
         B. Postulate functional structures which 
are semantically and/or morphologically 
motivated, and which obviate the need for both 
lexical listing and type shifting.

This issue will be investigated from the 
perspective of DP structure. Topics discussed will be:
         a. The lexical inventory: functional vs. substantive elements
         b. Nominal Functional structure  its 
properties, its role, its interpretation.
         c. The syntax and the morphology of 
nominals derived from verbs and what it tells us 
about the morphology-syntax interface.  
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