conf érence de Linnaea Stockall à Paris 8 le 29 novembre

[Elena Soare]

L'équipe Structure Argumentale - Structure Aspectuelle a le plaisir de vous
inviter à deux conférences dans le cadre d'un projet sur les Nominalisations
France-Norvège (Egide, PHC Aurora)
le 29 novembre de 14h à 17h30
au Centre Pouchet, salle 129 (voir détails en bas de ce message).

Intervenants :
Peter Svenonius
Things, Places, and the Construct State
Abstract. There is a well-trodden historical path by which nouns like
"front" and "back" come to be adpositions. In the course of this category-
changing journey they lose a certain kind of conceptual content, prosodic
independence, and nominal syntax and gain the ability to take arguments and
express locations and paths (cf. Longobardi on casa— >chez). The construct
state possessive construction of Semitic languages has two of these
properties : the loss of prosodic independence and the ability to take
arguments. I discuss the role of the construct state in the development of
nouns into prepositions.

Monika Basic

Scales, gradable adjectives and nominalizations in Serbian

Abstract. An influential analysis of gradable adjectives by Kennedy (1999,
2007), Kennedy & McNally (2005) treats positive forms of gradable adjectives
as syntactically complex. Ramchand (2006) assumes the same for a subset of
gradable adjectives, namely those with relative standards of comparison, but
argues that gradable adjectives with absolute standards are semantically and
syntactically different. In this talk, I will confront these predictions
(and others made by these approaches) with empirical facts from Serbian.
Serbian provides a nice testing ground because, unlike in English, the
positive forms of gradable adjectives are often morphologically complex. I
will argue that the distinction between relative and absolute adjectives is
morphologically coded in Serbian. We will then turn to some interesting
facts regarding the form and interpretation of nominals derived from
gradable adjectives. As we will see, investigating nominalization patterns
might prove extremely significant in determining the true nature of
adjectives, given that some adjectival suffixes are kept and some are lost
when adjectives are nominalized.

Plan d'accès au Centre Pouchet:
http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/Plans-d-acces,672.html en bas de la page.

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> Elena Soare
> Université de Paris 8
> UFR Sciences du Langage
> Bâtiment A salle 145
> 2 Rue de la Liberté,
> 93526 SAINT-DENIS CEDEX
> Phone:+33149406418
> site web: www.esoare.ro
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Elena Soare
Université de Paris 8
UFR Sciences du Langage
Bâtiment A salle 145
2 Rue de la Liberté,
93526 SAINT-DENIS CEDEX
Phone:+33149406418
site web: www.esoare.ro
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