Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adjectives and Participles (WAASAP!)

[Rafael Marin]

*2ème Appel à communications / Secon Call for papers*

Meeting Title: Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adjectives 
and Participles (WAASAP!)**

Dates: 22-23June 2012

Venue: University of Greenwich, London (UK)

Organizers: María J. Arche, Antonio Fábregas, Rafael Marín.

Contact Person: María J. Arche

Meeting Email: waasap2012 at gre.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics, Syntax, Typology

Language Family(ies): all

Call Deadline: 18 February 2012

Invited speakers:

·Professor Timothy Stowell (University of California Los Angeles).

·Dr Andrew Koontz-Garboden (University of Manchester).

In the past few years there has been an important body of literature 
about the relationship between Aspect and Argument Structure (Borer 
2005; Ramchand 2008; Ritter&Rosen 2000, 2005; Rothstein 2008). The vast 
majority of studies have concentrated on verbs and also, in a minor 
degree, on (deverbal) nouns. However, much less is known in this respect 
about adjectives and participles. In this workshop we want to fill this 
gap by gathering researchers working on different aspects of Argument 
Structure and Aspect of adjectives and participles. Our aim is to bring 
together researchers from different approaches to discuss the 
articulation of the syntax, semantics and morphology of this part of the 
grammar in order to identify points of consensus and new venues for 
research.

Issues and questions we are interested in exploring within this workshop 
include (bur are not limited to)the following:

A)*Aspectual characterization of adjectives.*In the spirit of recent 
lines of research (Bennis 2004; Borer 2005), some authors have argued 
that the argument structure of adjectives is directly related to the 
aspectual structure they embody (Arche 2006) and defend that (non 
deverbal) adjectives can be part of stative and non-stative structures. 
This view challenges the widespread tenet that adjectives yield stative 
predications only and raises new questions concerning the elements that 
can be considered as the stem of the particular aspectual 
characterization. Are adjectives to be associated with an aspectual 
characterization in the lexicon, or does this happen in the syntax? Are 
constructionist approaches more fit to discuss aspectual alternations? 
What is the role, if any, played by the Individual Level/Stage Level 
alternation in this regard? Are there other distinctions relevant for 
the analysis of adjectives? Is there any interaction between scalar 
(Kennedy & McNally 2005) and aspectual properties in the adjectival domain?

B)*Argument Structure in adjectives. *The interpretation of arguments in 
non-deverbal categories has increasingly become the focus of attention 
in the recent years. In this regard, the work developed around the 
interpretation of nominals in adjectives referring to mental properties 
(e.g. /cruel/) is an example (Stowell 1991; Kertz 2006; Arche 2006, 
2010; Landau 2009; Marín 2010). However consensus concerning the number 
of entries of this kind of adjectives in the mental lexicon as well as 
the precise characterization of their argument structure (e.g. what can 
be considered an argument vs. adjunct and how the arguments are linked 
to the predicate) still needs to be found, and rises some other 
questions. What is the relationship between the argument structure of 
adjectives and their syntactic behavior? What are the crucial argument 
structure alternations allowed by adjectives? What are the thematic 
roles possible for adjectives? Are there any thematic roles which cannot 
appear with adjectival predicates and, if so, why?

C)*Aspect and argument structure in participles. *As deverbal forms, 
participles are assumed to convey the same properties than base verbs in 
principle. Yet, how can this be conciliated with the fact that they have 
their own aspectual features as, for example, result(ant) states? What 
are the relations with the base root verb and how and where is this 
articulated (e.g. in the syntax or in the lexicon?) How much of the 
argument structure of participles depends on the heritage from the verb? 
How exactly is the theta grid constrained by the participle's aspectual 
condition?

**

*Scientific committee:*

Prof. David Adger (Queen Mary, University of London),

Prof. Artemis Alexiadou (Universität Stuttgart)

Dr. Boban Arsenijevic (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Prof. Hagit Borer (University of Southern California)

Dr. Patricia Cabredo (CNRS -- Université Paris 8)

Dr. Pavel Caha (CASTL, Tromsø)

Dr. Angel Gallego (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Dr. Berit Gehrke (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Dr. Gianina Iordachioaia (Universität Stuttgart)

Dr. Fabienne Martin (Universität Stuttgart)

Prof. Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Prof. Claudia Maienborn (Universität Tübingen)

Dr. Andrew Nevins (University College London)

Dr. Isabelle Roy (Université Paris 8)

Dr. Florian Schäfer (Universität Stuttgart)

Dr. Elena Soare (Université Paris 8)

Prof. Peter Svenonius (CASTL, Tromsø)

*Call for Papers*

We welcome abstracts for 20-minute papers (plus 10 minutes for 
discussion) which address one or more issues relating to the syntax and 
semantics of adjectives and participles and its morphological 
expression, as described in (but not confined to) the leading questions 
in the workshop description. The language of the workshop is English. 
Abstracts exclusively containing the title of the presentation should be 
submitted to the conference address at *waasap2012 at gre.ac.uk 
<mailto:waasap2012 at gre.ac.uk>* in pdf format. Abstracts should be no 
longer than two pages, including examples and references, with 2.5 cm 
margins in 12-point Times, single-spaced.

*For registration and further practical information: *please go to 
_www.gre.ac.uk/waasap <http://www.gre.ac.uk/waasap>_or contact us at 
waasap2012 at gre.ac.uk <mailto:waasap2012 at gre.ac.uk>. **

*Important dates:*

Deadline for submissions: 18 February, 2012.

Notification of acceptance: 21 March, 2012.

Registration opens: 21 March, 2012

Conference dates: 22-23 June 2012.


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