20.547, Confs: Cognitive Science, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Syntax/Spain

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Date: 19-Feb-2009
From: Violeta Demonte < violeta.demonte at ch.csic.es >
Subject: Events across Categories
 

	
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From: Violeta Demonte [violeta.demonte at ch.csic.es]
Subject: Events across Categories

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Events across Categories 

Date: 27-May-2009 - 28-May-2009 
Location: Madrid, Spain 
Contact: Nino Grillo 
Contact Email: event.cchs at cchs.csic.es 
Meeting URL: http://www.ile.csic.es/linguistica/event 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Language Acquisition; 
Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

Events across Categories: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to 
Event Structure

The theme of this workshop is event structure across categories: the way 
the situations are represented in natural language morphosyntax and 
semantics, with special emphasis on the patterns that are found not only in 
verbs but also related adjectives and nouns. Since experimental 
neurological and psychological approaches to the study of lexical semantics 
and the syntax-semantics interface have gained prominence in recent 
years, and there is an increasing collaboration between researchers in 
linguistic theory, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics, this workshop has 
the specific goal of bringing together experts in both theoretical and 
experimental approaches to the study of event structure. In the theoretical 
domain, the analysis of event structure will contribute to our understanding 
of the syntax-semantics interface and the relation between events and such 
general semantic phenomena as gradability and reference; in the 
experimental domain, research on the acquisition and processing of events 
will certainly have implications for general theories of language and aspects 
of cognition such as the conceptualization of space and time or causal 
relations.

The workshop is open to anyone who is interested in attending. There is no 
registration fee, but we ask that you write to event.cchs cchs.csic.es and let 
us know if you are planning to attend. Certificates of attendance will be 
available upon request for those who need them.

Parking is available by reservation in the CCHS parking lot. In order to 
reserve parking, please send us in advance your full name, passport/ID 
number, and the license plate number, make and model of your car. Space 
is limited. 

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

I) Events in the Verbal Domain
9.30-10.30  
Gillian Ramchand (CASTL, U. Tromsø): Events and Predication

10.35-11.35 
Christopher Piñón (Université de Lille 3): Aspect, Events, and 
Degrees

12.05-13.05
Commentary by Violeta Demonte and Olga Fernández Soriano (CSIC-
CCHS and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

II) The Complexity of Event Structure

13.10-14.10 
Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan University): The Semantics of Telicity

16.10-17.10 
John Beavers (University of Texas at Austin): Aspectual Classes and 
Scales of Change

17.15-18.15 
Commentary by María Luisa Rivero (University of Ottawa and Royal 
Society of Canada)

Thursday, May 28, 2009

III) Events in Non-verbal Domains

9.00-10.00  
Andrew Koontz-Garboden (University of Manchester): Derived Statives

10.05 -11.05 
Louise McNally and Rafael Marín (Universidad Pompeu Fabra and 
CNRS-U. Lille 3): From Psychological Verbs to Nouns

11.30-12.30 
Commentary by Jaume Mateu (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) 

IV) Event Structure and Acquisition and Processing 

12.35-13.35 
Liina Pylkkänen (New York University): Event Coercion in Brain and 
Development

13.40-14.40 
William Snyder (University of Connecticut): Motion Predicates and 
the Compounding Parameter: Evidence from Acquisition

16.45-17.45 
Commentary by Yosef Grodzinsky (McGill University)







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