29.115, Calls: Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Semantics, Syntax/Spain

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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 17:31:28
From: Cristina Real-Puigdollers [cristina.real at upf.edu]
Subject: Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adverbs/Adjectives and Prepositions/Participles 4

 
Full Title: Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adverbs/Adjectives and Prepositions/Participles 4 
Short Title: WAASAP 4 

Date: 07-Jun-2018 - 08-Jun-2018
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact Person: Cristina Real-Puigdollers
Meeting Email: waasap2018 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/waasap4/home 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

WAASAP is an international Workshop series celebrated biannually that focuses
on the aspect and argument structure of adjectives and participles and adverbs
and prepositions. In the time of its existence, it has developed into a
referential forum of discussion of the theory of predicative non-verbal
categories. Past editions have taken place at the University of Greenwich
(2012), The Artic University of Norway at Tromsoe (2014) and The University of
Lille 3 (2016).
  
The different topics that we want to discuss include but are not restricted to
the following:

- Aspect: paths, scales and part/whole structures
- The syntax and semantics of possession and its relationship with auxiliary
selection in perfective forms
- Prepositions, applicatives and voice: argument introducer heads.

Invited Speakers:

Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete)
Hana Filip (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf)
Berit Gehrke (Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7)

Organizers:

María J. Arche
Josep Ausensi
Antonio Fábregas
Josep Maria Fontana
Rafael Marín
Anna Pineda 
Cristina Real-Puigdollers


2nd Call for Papers:

The different topics that we want to discuss include but are not restricted to
the following:

Aspect: paths, scales and part/whole structures

- How are the concepts of aspect, part-whole relations, and location related?
Is aspect a primitive concept or is it derived from more basic cognitive
notions such as location or part-whole relations? 
- How should we explain the relationship between prefixes, prepositions and
adverbials? Why are prefixes that affect the event structure of the predicate
associated with a directional meaning (Filip 2003)?
- What is the relation between telicity, boundedness, gradability, scalarity
and end-points? How can we provide a better understanding of these concepts
and their cross-categorial instantiations? 

The syntax and semantics of possession and its relationship with auxiliary
selection in perfective forms

- Is the predicative possession derived from the attributive one
(Szabolcsi1981,1994, Kayne 1993)? Is the possessive relation derived from a
locative relation (Freeze 1992, den Dikken 1997) or are there different and
unrelated types of possessives as shown by the different morphological and
syntactic shapes that possessives exhibit (Francez and Koontz Garboden 2015,
2016, Koontz Garboden and Francez 2010, Myler 2016)? 
- Auxiliary selection in perfective forms that take a participle can be of two
types: auxiliary have and auxiliary be, the two verbs that are also involved
in possessive constructions. The nature of participles (Alexiadou and
Anagnostopoulou 2008; Gehrke 2011, 2012, 2015; Alexiadou, Gehrke and Schäffer
2014) and the fact that have and be usually combine with predicates denoting
properties set the basis for an account of auxiliary selection that is related
with predicative possession and predication. How can we derive the perfective
meaning in these cases?

Prepositions, applicatives and voice: argument introducer heads

- What is the relation between applicatives, prepositions and adjectives? 
- If internal arguments are also severed from the verbal lexical root as
proposed in different works like Borer (2005), Alexiadou (2014) and
Acedo-Matellán (2016), among many others, are internal arguments also
introduced by i*? If so the difference between core arguments and non-core
arguments introduced by applicatives is not a fundamental one. What are the
consequences of such an approach for differences between internal arguments
and arguments of applicative heads?

Submission Guidelines: 

https://sites.google.com/view/waasap4/call-for-papers

Please submit your abstracts via the following Easychair link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=waasap4

We invite abstract submissions from all theoretical frameworks discussing
these and related issues. 

Presentations will be 30 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. 

Submissions are limited to two per author, with at most one paper being
single-authored. A poster session might be added in the program depending on
the number of submissions. Please indicate whether you would be willing to
present your work as a poster. 

Abstracts, including references and data, must not exceed two A4 pages in
length with 2.5 cm (1 inch) margins on all sides, set in Times New Roman with
a font size no smaller than 12pt. Examples, tables, graphs, etc. must be
interspersed into the text of the abstract, rather than collected at the end. 

Important Dates:

Extended Deadline for abstract submission: January 15, 2018.
Notification of acceptance: February 15, 2018.
Date of the workshop: June 7-8, 2018.




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