33.3024, Calls: Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Singapore

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Subject: 33.3024, Calls: Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Singapore

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Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 08:12:58
From: Leslie Lee [leslie at nus.edu.sg]
Subject: Resultatives: New Approaches and Renewed Perspectives

Full Title: Resultatives: New Approaches and Renewed Perspectives 

Date: 20-Mar-2023 - 22-Mar-2023
Location: National University of Singapore, Singapore 
Contact Person: Leslie Lee
Meeting Email: leslie at nus.edu.sg
Web Site: https://blog.nus.edu.sg/resultatives2023/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

A workshop (in person) scheduled for March 20-22 2023 at the National
University of Singapore, supported by the Wan Boo Sow Centre for Chinese
Culture, Department of Chinese Studies.

Invited speakers (in alphabetical order):
Victor Acedo-Matellan (Oxford); James C.T. Huang (Harvard); Beth Levin
(Stanford); Alexander Williams (Maryland)

Co-organizers: Shiao Wei Tham and Leslie Lee

If you have questions, please contact thamsw AT nus DOT edu DOT sg

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Resultative expressions present an intriguing landscape for exploration in the
realm of form-meaning correspondence. From the presence of a result-denoting
predicate with another predicate typically describing how that result arises,
to the associated structural and argument realization patterns, and the nature
of the result predicate, resultatives have opened many fruitful avenues for
research on verb meaning and the syntax-semantics interface.

Across languages, resultatives have been studied not only for their structural
properties (Hoekstra 1988 (English, Dutch), Carrier and Randall 1992
(English), Shim and den Dikken 2007, Son 2008 (Korean)), Williams 2008
(various languages), Loos 2017 (signed languages)), but also for what they
reveal about the representation and typology of verb meaning (Washio 1997,
Thepkanjana and Uehara 2009, Acedo-Matellán 2016), the nature of predication
(Rothstein 1983, 2004), and the syntax-semantics interface, most notably
unaccusativity (Levin and Rappaport Hovav 1995), event structure (Rappaport
Hovav and Levin 2001), scalar structure (Wechsler 2005), and more recently the
nature of direct causation (Levin 2020).

Resultatives in particular bear a special status in the grammar of Mandarin
Chinese, where they are ubiquitous, and occur in both compound and phrasal
form (Huang 1988, Cheng and Huang 1994). Mandarin resultative compounds
exhibit both characteristics that reflect what is observed in other languages,
and others that seem to go against expectation, including unselected arguments
(Williams 2015), so-called “inverse” causative readings (Cheng and Huang 1994,
Li 1995), and the subject-oriented result interpretations (Li 1999) that cast
doubt on the universality of the direct object restriction (Simpson 1983),
also at issue in other languages (Rappaport Hovav and Levin 2001, Shim and den
Dikken 2007, Son 2008). Resultatives in Mandarin continue to draw
investigation, with recent forays into their syntactic analysis (Liu 2019),
and the application (Han 2021) of a force-theoretic approach (Copley and
Harley 2015).

This workshop hopes to bring together different strands of recent research to
build a picture of how our understanding of resultatives has changed over the
years: what factors have been reinforced, what adjusted, and what
reinterpreted or discarded. As this is a workshop organized under the auspices
of the National University of Singapore Department of Chinese Studies, part of
the workshop will be devoted to resultatives in Mandarin and other Chinese
languages/dialects.

Selected References
Acedo-Matellán, Victor. 2016. The morphosyntax of transitions: a case study
in Latin and other languages. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Cheng, Lisa L.-S. and C.T. James Huang. 1994. On the argument structure of
resultative compounds. In M. Chen and O. Tzeng, eds., In Honor of William
Wang: Interdisciplinary Studies on Language and Language Change, pages
187–221. Taipei: Pyramid Press.
Levin, Beth. 2020. Resultatives and constraints on concealed causatives. In S.
E. Bar-Asher and N. Boneh, eds., Perspectives on causation, Jerusalem Studies
in Philosophy and History of Science, pages 185–217. Cham: Springer.
Rappaport Hovav, Malka and Beth Levin. 2001. An event structure account of
English resultatives. Language 77:766– 797.
Williams, Alexander. 2015. Arguments in Syntax and Semantics. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press.

Final Call for Papers:

Abstracts are invited for 20 minute or 45 minute talks (with an added 10 or 15
minutes Q&A respectively) on resultatives from both empirical and theoretical
perspectives. Submissions should not be previously published or accepted for
publication elsewhere. Works that shed light on earlier points of controversy
are especially welcome, as are works pertaining to Mandarin and other Chinese
languages/dialects. In your submission, please indicate whether you would be
interested in giving a 20 minute or 45 minute talk.

Abstracts for a 20 minute talk should not exceed 1 (one) A-4 page with at
least 11 point font and 1 inch margins.

Abstracts for a 45 minute talk should not exceed 2 (two) A-4 pages with at
least 11 point font and 1 inch margins.

Please submit abstracts via email to: chsbox9 AT nus DOT edu DOT sg

Please include “Resultatives workshop” in the subject heading of your email.

Your abstract should be anonymous.  In the body of your email, please provide
author name(s), affiliation, and email address of the corresponding author.

Please submit no more than one single-authored abstract and no more than two
co-authored abstracts.

Deadline for submission: Nov 1 2022 (2359 hrs Singapore Time)

Notification of acceptance: by Dec 20 2022

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