32.396, Confs: Gen Ling, Hist Ling, Ling Theories, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 32.396, Confs: Gen Ling, Hist Ling, Ling Theories, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2021 10:26:12
From: Lutz Gunkel [gunkel at ids-mannheim.de]
Subject: On the Nouniness of Propositional Arguments

On the Nouniness of Propositional Arguments 
Short Title: dgfs2021 

Date: 24-Feb-2021 - 26-Feb-2021 
Location: Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany 
Contact: Jutta M. Hartmann 
Contact Email: nouniness2021 at uni-bielefeld.de 
Meeting URL: https://dgfs2021.uni-freiburg.de 

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

Meeting Description: 

Organizers: Katrin Axel-Tober, Lutz Gunkel, Jutta M. Hartmann, Anke Holler

Workshop at the 43rd Annual Conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), Freiburg i. B., Germany
(https://dgfs2021.uni-freiburg.de)

The linguistic properties of propositional arguments—broadly understood as
arguments expressing events, propositions, situations, usually realized as
finite, non-finite or gerundival structures—have been subject to extensive
research from different perspectives. Recent research in the syntax and
semantics of such clauses has concentrated on the question of whether or not
(finite) clauses are all underlyingly nominal in contrast to earlier research
where that-type clauses have been argued to exhibit a low degree of
“nouniness” (Ross 1973) and only a subclass of clauses has been considered
nominal (e.g. factives or extraposed clauses). Those arguing for a nominal
analysis either assume that clauses are complements to nominal heads or based
on relative clauses. From a semantic perspective, clauses have been considered
to be propositions or properties of individuals (see a.o. Kratzer 2006,
Moulton 2015), which partially corresponds to a relative-clause analyses. At
present these proposals have been prominently argued for in the theoretical
literature, but they still require a broader investigation.

The aim of this workshop thus is to bring together researchers from a variety
of backgrounds that consider to what extent different kinds of propositional
arguments can be analysed as underlyingly nominal, and/or properties of
individuals, including the question of the correspondence between the presence
of a nominal projection and its interpretation. We invite original papers, who
address the topic fo the workshop, especially considering the following
issues:

(i) What is the status of non-canonical types of propositional arguments such
as non-finite clauses, different types of correlate structures, interrogative
clauses, etc.? Do they differ with respect to nouniness from other types of
clauses?

(ii) How did different types of propositional arguments evolve? How does the
historical development influence the status of different types of
propositional arguments?

(iii) What kind of cross-linguistic or typological variation do we find in the
expression of propositional arguments?

Program Information: 

Invited Speakers:
– Carlos de Cuba (New York), Relatively nouny?
– Patrick D. Elliott (Cambridge, MA), Objects of attitude ascriptions
– Katalin É. Kiss (Budapest), The evolving of nouny subordination in
Hungarian: From parataxis or from correlatives?

Program and Abstracts:
http://www.juttahartmann.de/nouniness/DGfS2021AG7_Programm_Abstracts.pdf

Registration:
https://www.linguistik.uni-freiburg.de/dgfs-jahrestagung-2021/anmeldeformular

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