[parislinguists] matinée stativité le 23 mars

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Le projet *Ontologie et typologie des états* de la *Fédération Typologie et
Universaux Linguistiques*

a le plaisir de vous inviter, pour sa première séance de 2015, à une
« matinée stativité »

Date :  le 23 mars 2014

Heure : 10h – 13h15

*Lieu :  CNRS Pouchet – **salle 255*

Plan d’accès:

http://www.pouchet.cnrs.fr/plan.htm

*Programme*

*10h-11h30 : Monica Irimia (University of York)*

*Resultatives with stative predicates: from Romanian to Mandarin Chinese*

*11h30-11h45 pause café*

*11h45-13h15 : Magda Oiry (UMASS)*

*Know when to be happy*

La page du projet se trouve sous
http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/Description-du-projet,1465.html

Resultatives with stative predicates: from Romanian to Mandarin Chinese

Monica Irimia (University of York)

Resultative secondary predicates (ResSPs) of the type *pound flat* have
been addressed under a variety of theoretical frames. On the one hand,
there is the classic Dowtian (1979) account of resultatives as derived
accomplishments. On the other hand, syntactically-oriented analyses see
resultative interpretations as obtained via a dedicated process of
conflation, parametrized cross-linguistically (e.g., Talmy’s 1991,
2000 *co-event
conflation*, Mateu 2011, Snyder 2001, McIntyre 2004, Embick 2004, Folli
2005, Haugen 2009, Zubizaretta and Oh 2007, etc.). These accounts predict
an important property of ResSPs, namely their clash with
*stative/non-dynamic* manner roots. This absence is assumed to be due to a
restriction in the ontology of events: there are no such aspectual types as
telic states (see also Levin and Rappaport 1995). This conclusion is
apparently well-supported in English, a satellite-framed language where
ResSPs constructed from stative main predicates are indeed ungrammatical (*John
was sick/stayed/sat/lay tired - under a resultative reading; OK as a
depictive). However, what is almost ignored in the literature is that this
restriction is not exceptionless cross-linguistically. This talk addresses
the precise problem of the interactions between stative predicates and
resultative secondary predicates from a cross-linguistic perspective.
Possible implementations are reviewed for the puzzle of ‘bounded states’,
and an account building on the interaction between degrees and their
contribution to ‘state delimitation’ (Levin and Rappaport 1995) is further
articulated.

Know when to be happy

Magda Oiry (UMASS)

In this talk, I explore recent results of a study on the acquisition of
know and be happy by monolingual English speakers between the age of 6 and
11. Trying to replicate an older study by Leger (2008), on the interaction
of factive verbs and negation. We combine 4 types of statements (he
knows/is happy he got a strawberry, he doesn't know he got a strawberry, he
knows he didn't get a strawberry, he doesn't know he didn't get a
strawberry). We will see that our study yield interesting results, showing
that children have trouble parsing the presence of a negation downstairs
until really late. I will explore possible explanations for the facts
(shift of perspective, negation raising).

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Elena Soare
Université de Paris 8
UFR Sciences du Langage
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Phone:+33149406418
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