16.1696, Confs: Linguistic Theories/Cambridge, MA, USA

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Date: 26-May-2005
From: Anna Maria Di Sciullo < di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca >
Subject: Issues on the Form and Interpretation of Argument Structure 

	
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Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 16:00:31
From: Anna Maria Di Sciullo < di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca >
Subject: Issues on the Form and Interpretation of Argument Structure 
 

Issues on the Form and Interpretation of Argument Structure 

Date: 01-Jul-2005 - 01-Jul-2005 
Location: Cambridge, MA, United States of America 
Contact: Anna Maria Di Sciullo 
Contact Email: di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca 
Meeting URL: http://web.mit.edu/lsa2005/events/di_sciullo.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories 

Meeting Description: 

2005 LSA INSTITUTE WORKSHOP
Cambridge, MA, July 1, 2005
Emerson 101, Harvard Yard

The proper characterization of argument structure is a central question in
linguistic theory. One can contrast a projectionist approach according to which
verbs lexically determine the expression of their arguments, to a
constructionist approach according to which argument structure is constructed in
the syntax rather than being lexically determined. Alongside these approaches
one can also distinguish what has been referred to as the Davidsonian tradition
emphasizing the importance of events. Notwithstanding the substantial progress
achieved, several aspects of the properties of arguments structure and their
legibility at the semantic interface are yet to be fully understood. The purpose
of this workshop is thus to address questions on the form and the interpretation
of argument structure from different theoretical perspectives and to raise the
question of whether a novel integrated approach can be envisioned.

Organizers:
Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Calixto Aguero-Bautista, Marcin Morzycki
http://www.interfaceasymmetry.uqam.ca

Sponsors:	 
SSHRC, MCRI on Interface Asymmetry
The Federation on Natural Language Processing 

9:00 - 9:05 	
Welcome

9:05 - 9:50	
Hagit Borer (USC) - Invited speaker
Decomposition Revisited

9:50 - 10:35	
Beth Levin (Stanford) - Invited speaker
and Malka Rappaport Hovav (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - Invited speaker
One Size Doesn't Fit All: In Support of a Non-Uniform Treatment of Dative Verbs

10:35 - 10:45	
Break

10:45 - 11:15	
Anna Maria Di Sciullo (UQAM)
Two Properties of Argument Structure in Morphology

11:15 - 12:00	
James Pustejovsky (Brandeis) - Invited speaker 
Typing and Presupposition in the Selection of Arguments

12:00 - 12:30	
Discussion

12:30 - 13:30	
Lunch

13:30 - 14:15	
Liina Pylkkanen (NYU) - Invited speaker
Missing Meanings: An Experimental Approach

14:15 - 14:45	
Jon Nissembaum (McGill)
Purposive Adjuncts, Argument-Introducing Heads, and the Structure of the VP

14:45 - 15:15	
Yves Roberge (Toronto) and Virginia Hill (UNBSJ)
On the Transitivization of Unergatives

15:15 - 16:00
Andrea Moro (Università Vita Salute San Raffaele) - Invited speaker
Decomposing Unaccusatives 

16:00 - 16:30	
Break

16:30 - 17:15	
Adele Goldberg (Princeton) - Invited speaker 
Don't Throw Out the Verb with the Pro-Verbial Bathwater

17:15 - 17:45	
Rosmin Mathew and Ayesha Kidwai (Jawaharlal Nehru) 
Argument Structure by Phase: Malayalam Datives

17:45- 18:30	
Richard Larson (Stony Brook) - Invited speaker
The Thematic Structure of Determiners

18:30 - 19:00	 
Boban Arsenijevic (ULCL) 
Arguments in a Fully Temporal Event Structure

19:00 - 19:45	
Carol Tenny (Clairvoyance Corporation) - Invited speaker
Predicate-Argument Structure and the Grammar of Sentience

19:45 - 20:15	
Discussion





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