18.20, Confs: Cognitive Science,Semantics,Syntax/France
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Subject: 18.20, Confs: Cognitive Science,Semantics,Syntax/France
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Date: 07-Jan-2007
From: Bridget Copley < bridget.copley at univ-paris8.fr >
Subject: Forces in Grammatical Structures
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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:29:25
From: Bridget Copley < bridget.copley at univ-paris8.fr >
Subject: Forces in Grammatical Structures
Forces in Grammatical Structures
Short Title: FiGS
Date: 18-Jan-2007 - 20-Jan-2007
Location: Paris, France
Contact: Bridget Copley
Contact Email: figs2007 at free.fr
Meeting URL: http://figs2007.free.fr
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Semantics; Syntax
Meeting Description:
FiGS is an interdisciplinary conference on how causality, physical and mental forces, agentivity, and related ideas are represented in the grammar.
University Paris 8, UMR 7023, the CNRS, and the École Normale Supérieure are pleased to announce the program for Forces in Grammatical Structures (FiGS)
http://figs2007.free.fr''>http://figs2007.free,
a conference exploring the linguistic representations of causality, to take place in Paris January 18-20, 2007.
L'Université Paris 8, l'UMR 7023, le CNRS, et l'École Normale Supérieure ont le plaisir de vous annoncer la tenue de la conférence, Forces in Grammatical Structures (FiGS) http://figs2007.free.fr''>http://figs2007.free.fr,
un colloque qui explorera les réprésentations linguistiques de la causalité, et qui aura lieu du 18 au 20 janvier, 2007.
Program (please see http://figs2007.free.fr)
Thursday, January 18, 2007
13h00-13h45 registration
13h45-14h00 welcome
14h00-15h00 Raffaella Folli (University of Ulster) and Heidi Harley
(University of Arizona) TBA
15h00-15h30 Ekaterina Lyutikova and Sergei Tatevosov (Moscow State
University) Causativization and Event Structure
15h30-16h00 Jaume Mateu (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
Vandals splashed red paint on the walls and ran the rats
into the White House: Manner Conflation as 'Welcome
Invasion'
16h00-16h30 break
16h30-17h00 Anja Latrouite (Heinrich Heine Universitaet Duesseldorf)
Event-structural prominence and forces in verb meaning
change
17h00-18h00 Max Kistler (Institute Jean Nicod)
Two types of causal statements
18h00-19h30 reception
Friday, January 19, 2007
9h30-10h30 Phillip Wolff (Emory University)
Force dynamics in causal meaning and reasoning
10h30-11h00 Wilhelm Geuder and Matthias Weisgerber (Universität
Konstanz) Force antagonism in the semantics of movement
verb
11h00-11h30 break
11h30-12h00 Sergey Say (Institute for Linguistic Research, Russian
Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg) Between causation
and intention: semantic bleaching of causatives in Kalmyck
dependent clauses
12h00-12h30 Gillian Ramchand (University of Tromsø)
Direct and Indirect Causation in Hindi
12h30-14h30 lunch
14h30-15h30 Sabine Iatridou (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Causal conjunction
15h30-16h00 Patrick Caudal (LLF, UMR 7110, CNRS & Université Paris 7)
Narration, causality, and epistemic modality
16h00-16h30 Kerstin Schwabe (ZAS Berlin)
Force and German solitaires
16h30-18h00 poster session
20h00-? dinner
Saturday, January 20, 2007
9h30-10h30 Paul Egré (Institut Jean Nicod)
''Kill'', ''Intend to Kill'', ''Kill Intentionally'' - On
the Knobe Effect and the semantics of intentional action
10h30-11h00 Fabienne Martin (Universität Stuttgart)
On ''Non Agentive Verbs'' Presupposing an Action, Agent-
Oriented Adverbs and Psych-verbs
11h00-11h30 break
11h30-12h30 Ayumi Matsuo (University of Sheffield)
Young Children's Understanding of Ongoing vs. Completion
in Imperfective and Perfective Participles
12h30-13h00 Nigel Duffield (University of Sheffield)
Interesting Facts? Events, Inadvertent Cause and
Unaccusativity in English present participles
13h00-15h00 lunch
15h00-15h30 Tatjana Ilic (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Involuntary state construction in Serbo-Croatian
15h30-16h30 Richmond Thomason (University of Michigan)
Logical Semantics for Causal Constructions
16h30-17h00 break
17h00-18h00 discussion
Poster session
First alternate: Monika Schulz (Freiburg University)
Causer, recipient and possessor: the grammatical subject of GET and the context-sensitivity of empty preposition PHAVE
Second alternate: Shin Fukuda (University of California, San Diego)
Interdependency between Object Case and Event Type: Accusative-Dative Alternation in Japanese
John Beavers (Georgetown University)
The Interaction of Causation and Affectedness in Transitivity
Casilda Garcia de la Maza (University of the Basque Country)
The Semantic Role of the Middle Subject
Yahiro Hirakawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
On a non-volitional transitive construction
Kyoko Kuroda (Shimane Prefectural Women's College)
Evénement causatif et ses structures prédicatives
Sumayya Racy (University of Arizona)
The Raising/Control Distinction and the Pragmatic Nature of Modals
Eva-Maria Remberger (Universität Konstanz)
Volitional force in WANT constructions
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