29.5066, Confs: Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-5066. Thu Dec 20 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.5066, Confs: Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 19:22:11
From: Giorgos Spathas [spathas at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: The DP-Border: Syntax and Semantics

 
The DP-Border: Syntax and Semantics 

Date: 11-Jan-2019 - 11-Jan-2019 
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact: Giorgos Spathas 
Contact Email: spathas at leibniz-zas.de 
Meeting URL: http://www.leibniz-zas.de/workshop_dpborder-sas.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

While most research at the syntax-semantics interface has focused on
clause-level phenomena, the DFG-funded project DP-Border (PIs: Artemis
Alexiadou and Uli Sauerland) focuses instead on the DP level, and more
specifically on “DP border” phenomena in which elements appear to be extracted
from inside a DP. Examples of DP border phenomena include:

--Krifka (1990) observes that in certain contexts, measurement phrases allow
for event-related readings, as in the sentence “Sixty tons of radioactive
waste were transported through the lock last year.” Krifka offers an account
in which the measurement nominal (“sixty tons”) is extracted and takes clausal
scope.

--Certain adjectives that appear inside the DP can take apparent clausal
scope, such as “occasional” in “An occasional sailor strolled by” (cf.
“Occasionally, a sailor strolled by”; Bolinger 1967). Many (though not all)
analyses of this fact involve movement of “occasional” to a position outside
of the DP.

--As noted by Ahn & Sauerland (2017), proportion-denoting phrases like “75%”
allow for seemingly non-conservative construals in certain configurations (in
certain languages), as in “The company hired 75% women”. Ahn & Sauerland’s
analysis involves extraction of the proportion-denoting constituent outside of
the DP.

The Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) will be hosting a
one-day workshop on January 11, 2019, on syntactic and semantic analyses of
such DP Border phenomena. The workshop will feature talks by the three invited
speakers, as well as by project members Artemis Alexiadou, Uli Sauerland,
Robert Pasternak, and Giorgos Spathas.
 

Program:

9:30-10:00: 
Uli Sauerland (ZAS)
Conservativity 

10:00-11:00: 
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7)  
Three types of proportional MOST 

11:00-11:30 Coffee break 

11:30-12:30: 
Robert Pasternak (ZAS)   
Overt and covert proportional partitives 

12:30-14:00: Lunch break

14:00-14:30: 
Artemis Alexiadou and Giorgos Spathas (Humboldt/ZAS) 
DP-Border phenomena: a case study of Greek 

14:30-15:30: 
Berit Gehrke (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) 
Adverbial readings of (frequency) adjectives and external modification in
idioms  
(based on joint work with Louise McNally) 

15:30-16:00: Coffee break 

16:00-17:00:
Giorgos Spathas (ZAS) 
Proportional modification of gradable adjectives  

17:00-18:00: 
Sebastian Löbner (Universität Düsseldorf)  
The nominal onion – its functional layers





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