32.2095, Calls: Gen Ling, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Subject: 32.2095, Calls: Gen Ling, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 14:09:34
From: Paola Fritz-Huechante [paola.fritz at hu-berlin.de]
Subject: Change of State Verbs – Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives

 
Full Title: Change of State Verbs – Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives 
Short Title: DGfS 2022 

Date: 23-Feb-2022 - 25-Feb-2022
Location: Tübingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Paola Fritz-Huechante
Meeting Email: dgfs2022.cos at lists.hu-berlin.de
Web Site: https://hu.berlin/CoS 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2021 

Meeting Description:

This workshop is part of the 44th annual meeting of the German Linguistic
Society (DGfS 2022) to be held at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen from
23rd to 25th February 2022.

Organizers: Paola Fritz-Huechante & Antonio Machicao y Priemer
(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Invited Speakers: 
Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Stephanie Solt (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft – ZAS)

The compositional semantics of change of state (CoS) verbs –e.g. ''to wet'',
''to dry'', ''to lengthen''– has commonly been approached in terms of
gradability. Scalar analyses focus on the degree of a property (e.g. wetness)
that an object undergoing a CoS has at the end of the event, and to what
extent this degree counts as manifesting the property specified at the
semantic core (e.g. the adjective ''wet'') of such particular verb (cf.
Kennedy & Levin 2008). These analyses lead to a finer distinction of scale
structures encoded at the lexical level, e.g. as open vs. closed scale verbs
(cf. Kennedy & McNally 2005). Yet, empirical studies have also tested these
scales with respect to the different implicature readings and polarity effects
specific items yield (Gotzner et al. 2018; Solt 2018). CoS verbs are also
puzzling due to their different telicity readings (Rappaport Hovav 2014). For
instance, telicity variation in transitive CoS has been attributed to the
properties of the object undergoing a change. In this case, the object is
described as an 'incremental theme', establishing a homomorphism from object
to event. Alternatively, other analyses assume a relation between scale
structure and telicity. In a nutshell, predicates specifying a maximal degree
on a scale allow a telic interpretation, whereas if there is no specification
of a maximal degree, they are atelic. Besides telicity, analyses on event
structure have centered on the type of changing ''process'' these predicates
denote, e.g. durative vs. punctual (Beavers 2013). 

At the syntax-semantics interface, three main issues arise (cf. Rappaport
Hovav & Levin 1998; Martin 2020): 
(i) to which extent is the (complex) event structure of CoS verbs better
mapped onto (or is a consequence of) the syntactic structure vs. a lexicalist
approach, 
(ii) what can the morphosyntactic structure tell us about the combinatory
potential of CoS verbs with specific degree phrases, modifiers and PPs (e.g. 5
cm, to 5 degrees) and the corresponding inferences drawn, 
(iii) is there a correlation between the morphosyntactic structure (viz.
external vs. internal causer) and the semantics of CoS verbs (e.g. entailment
of a result state).

This workshop brings together scholars working on semantic, pragmatic or
morphosyntactic aspects of CoS verbs from theoretical or empirical
perspectives. It addresses (but is not limited to) the following questions:

- Which role do features of gradable adjectives play for the analysis of CoS
verbs? 
- What are the criteria to account for the relation between telic/atelic
interpretations and scalar structure? 
- What are the limits between durative and punctual readings and how can they
be accounted for? 
- Which (cross-linguistic) morphosyntactic mechanisms can be used to alter CoS
readings? 
- What is the impact of morphosyntactic structure in processing different
scalar readings? 
- How does the structural complexity of (causative) CoS verbs interact with
theta roles and the (gradual) achievement of a result state? 
- How can we model the (in-)compatibility of degree modifiers and measure
phrases with CoS verbs? 
- To which extent can positive and negative environments affect the
implicatures/entailments of degree phrases and modifiers?
- What are the effects of vagueness or polarity in language use and how can
they be captured?


Call for Papers: 

We invite submissions of anonymous abstracts from both theoretical or
empirical perspectives by August 1, 2021. Authors should submit 1-page
abstracts (including references) in a 12 point font (e.g. Times New Roman) in
PDF-format to: dgfs2022.cos at lists.hu-berlin.de

Questions regarding the workshop will be received at the same mail.

Talks will be given 30 or 60 minute slots including discussion, depending on
the program. Please specify your preferred length (30', 60', or both) in your
submission. The workshop language is English for both abstracts and talks.
Please note that according to the DGfS regulations presenters may not present
in more than one workshop. However, they can be named as co-authors in other
talks.

Abstract deadline: 1 August 2021
Notification of acceptance: 30 August 2021
Conference date: 23–25 February 2022 

Note that the format (in person or online) in which the annual conference will
take place will be decided by the end of October. Find all information on the
conference on the following websites:

CoS-workshop: https://hu.berlin/CoS
Conference (Tübingen): www.dgfs2022.uni-tuebingen.de

In addition, a limited number of travel grants of up to 500 euro each are
available for accepted contributions by DGfS members with low income or
without income.




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