34.716, Confs: Resultatives: New Approaches and Renewed Perspectives

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Subject: 34.716, Confs: Resultatives: New Approaches and Renewed Perspectives

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From: leslie lee [leslie at nus.edu.sg]
Subject: Resultatives: New Approaches and Renewed Perspectives

Resultatives: New Approaches and Renewed Perspectives

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

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

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.

Program:

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)
C.-T. James Huang (Harvard)
Beth Levin (Stanford)
Alexander Williams (Maryland)
Co-organizers: Shiao Wei Tham and Leslie Lee

All are welcome.

Programme and registration details can be found at the workshop
website: https://blog.nus.edu.sg/resultatives2023/

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