21.2501, Calls: Semantics, Syntax/Spain

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Date: 06-Jun-2010
From: Olga Borik < Olga.Borik at uab.cat >
Subject: Verb Meaning, Event Semantics and Argument Structure
 

	
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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:20:30
From: Olga Borik [Olga.Borik at uab.cat]
Subject: Verb Meaning, Event Semantics and Argument Structure

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Full Title: Verb Meaning, Event Semantics and Argument Structure 

Date: 02-Dec-2010 - 03-Dec-2010
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact Person: Olga Borik
Meeting Email: cr.clt at uab.cat

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 20-Jun-2010 

Meeting Description:

Workshop on the Lexicon-Syntax Interface: 
Verb Meaning, Event Semantics and Argument Structure

The design of the lexicon-syntax interface in the architecture of the 
language faculty remains one of the most fascinating and controversial 
issues in theoretical linguistics. Continuing attempts to improve our 
understanding of this interface help us gain further insights into many 
intriguing puzzles, including the linguistic behaviour of verbs and their 
arguments.

Location: 
The workshop will be hosted by CLT Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, 
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
(http://webs2002.uab.es/clt/index.html)

Contact: 
Olga Borik (Olga.Borik at uab.cat) 
Jaume Mateu Fontanals (Jaume.Mateu at uab.cat) 

Second Call for Papers

This workshop aims at bringing together researchers working on the 
relation between verb meaning, event semantics and argument structure. 
The relationship between verb meaning and argument realization has been 
a widely debated topic in linguistics for decades but no general consensus 
has been reached despite the amount of high quality research in the area. 
A relatively recent concept of event structure (since Pustejovsky 1991) has 
been extensively argued to play a major role in argument realization.

Notably, a large body of knowledge has accumulated in the field. On the 
one hand, a crucial distinction is commonly assumed between structural 
meaning and idiosyncratic/root verbal meaning, which plays a role in 
argument realization.

One of the debated issues, however, is how precisely this distinction affects
the interface issues, in particular those related to argument realization and
alternations. Different solutions have been proposed by Borer (2005), 
Goldberg (1995), Hale & Keyser (2002), Levin & Rappaport-Hovav (2005), 
Marantz (2001), Ramchand (2008) and many others. A related question is 
whether the meaning ingredients that largely determine argument 
realization are syntactic or semantic in nature (cf. (neo-)constructionist vs. 
projectionist approaches). Yet another problem is to determine which 
aspects of idiosyncratic/root meaning (if any) contribute to argument 
realization and how this contribution should be modeled (e.g. Levin & 
Rappaport-Hovav 2005, Reinhart & Siloni 2005).

On the other hand, there is a considerable variation in the morphosyntactic
realization of arguments and possible argument structure alternations of the
same type of verbs, both within one language, and cross-linguistically. The
question that arises is how to account for the observed variations and what 
are the ingredients involved in predicting possible alternations?

The challenge of the present workshop is to attempt to successfully 
combine these observations in a theory of lexicon-syntax interface, which is 
powerful and restrictive enough to account for both regularities and 
variation in the verbal domain.

Invited Speakers:
Hagit Borer (University of Southern California)
Andrew McIntyre (Université de Neuchâtel)
Paul M. Pietroski (University of Maryland)
Malka Rappaport Hovav (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Abstracts are invited for oral presentations (30-minute presentation plus 10-
minute discussion) on any topic that contributes to improving our 
understanding of the relationship between verb meaning, event structure 
and argument structure, including, but not limited to the following questions:

- What kind of guiding principles should be adopted to draw a distinction
between lexical knowledge and syntactic/semantic computation?
- When dealing with the interface between lexical semantics and syntax, 
what are the minimal tools required to derive all aspects of argument 
realization?
- Do we need event structure or any other system to mediate the relation 
between a verbal root and its syntactic realization?
- To what extent is the elasticity of verb meaning lexically determined?
- What are the precise mechanisms to establish a connection between root 
meaning and structural meaning? Is there any pre-syntactic/lexical semantic 
correlation between root meaning and event and/or argument structure?
- How are argument structure alternations to be dealt with in different 
models of the lexicon-syntax interface?
- How is cross-linguistic variation in argument alternations to be dealt with in
different models of the lexicon-syntax interface?

Abstracts should be at most two pages long (A4 paper), including examples 
and references, with 1 inch/2.5 cm margins on all sides and 12pt font size. 
The abstract should have a title but should not identify the author(s). 
Submissions are limited to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract per author, or 2 
joint abstracts per author. Abstracts should be written in English.

Abstracts must be submitted electronically, ONLY in PDF format to the 
following address: cr.clt at uab.cat

The subject of the message should be: Abstract Lexicon-Syntax workshop.

The body of the message should include the title of the abstract, the name 
of the author(s), his/her (their) affiliation(s) and contact details.

Important Dates:
June 20, 2010: Deadline for abstract submission
July 31, 2010: Notification of acceptance
December 2-3, 2010: Workshop





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