29.4552, Calls: Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 29.4552, Calls: Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 00:51:41
From: Curt Anderson [anderson at phil.uni-duesseldorf.de]
Subject: Modification of Complex Predicates Workshop

 
Full Title: Modification of Complex Predicates Workshop 

Date: 23-May-2019 - 24-May-2019
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany 
Contact Person: Curt Anderson
Meeting Email: anderson at phil.uni-duesseldorf.de
Web Site: http://frames.phil.uni-duesseldorf.de/mocp2018-workshop/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 07-Jan-2019 

Meeting Description:

In this workshop we are concerned with the question of what modification
reveals about the meaning and/or structure of complex predicates. With respect
to idioms, modification allows one to distinguish between two classes of
idiomatic expressions. Idiomatically combining expressions-in the sense of
Nunberg et al. (1994)-license internal modification, a notion going back to
Ernst 1981. In a case like (1), the adjective legal modifies part of the
idiom.

(1) leave no legal stone unturned (Nunberg et al. 1994: 500)

Idiomatic phrases, on the other hand, reject such modification. Thus, in (2),
the adjective modifies the whole expression, rather than part of the idiom.

(2) Carter doesn't have a political leg to stand on. (Ernst 1981: 51)

Internal modification is seen as one piece of evidence in favor of a
compositional analysis of idiomatically combining expressions (Nunberg et al.
1994) and also functions as support for a phrasal analysis of such
expressions. Without such a compositional analysis of idiomatic expressions,
it proves difficult to analyze how the modifier semantically integrates with
the rest of the expression.

Complex predicates we hope to see addressed within the context of the workshop
include (among others) idiomatic expressions and phrasal idioms, light verb
constructions, verb-verb compounds, incorporation and pseudo-incorporation,
and pseudo-coordination. Largely, we will take an informal view of what
complex predicates are, with complex predicate roughly meaning constructions
where two or more components with independent meaning come together to form a
single joint predication.

With modification in mind, our workshop aims at investigating complex
predications from this perspective, addressing (among others) questions
related to

- What types of complex predicates license internal modifiers, and why gaps
exist in which predicates license internal modifiers
- How modifiers are syntactically and semantically integrated into the complex
predicates they modify
- How and whether complex predicates license certain determiners (e.g.,
English give a/*the kiss), and how the meaning of the complex predicate is
dependent on the choice of determiner
- What restrictions exist on adverbs and adjectives that function as modifiers
(e.g., whether certain classes of adjective such as relational adjectives are
better internal modifiers)
- Cross-linguistic comparisons of the potential for internal modification with
complex predicates
- How complex predicates are constructed and how modification can be used to
gain insight into the construction of complex predicates
- What internal modification tells us about compositionality in language,
especially with respect to phenomena that, on the surface, look acompositional
e.g., idiomaticity

Invited speakers: Berit Gehrke (Humboldt University Berlin) and Manfred Sailer
(Goethe University Frankfurt)
Workshop dates: 23-24 May 2019
Where: Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf

Workshop website: http://frames.phil.uni-duesseldorf.de/mocp2018-workshop/
Contact email: anderson at phil.uni-duesseldorf.de
Organization: Curt Anderson (Düsseldorf), Jens Fleischhauer (Düsseldorf), and
Timm Lichte (Tübingen)

This workshop is funded by DFG Collaborative Research Center 991, ''The
structure of representations in language, cognition, and science.''


Call for Papers:

We invite submissions for 30 minute talks (with 10 minutes for questions) that
address the above-mentioned questions and other related questions from
theoretical (semantic and/or syntactic) as well as experimental perspectives.
In addition, abstracts focusing on corpus-based or typological work are highly
invited.

Submissions should be no more than two pages, 12pt font, on A4 or US
letter-sized paper, with 2.5cm or 1in margins. Abstracts must be submitted as
a PDF, via the EasyChair link below.

Deadline: 7 January 2019
Notification: 15 February 2019

EasyChair link: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mocp2018
Website: http://frames.phil.uni-duesseldorf.de/mocp2018-workshop/




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