LINGUIST List 12.1430

Thu May 24 2001

Confs: Workshop on Verbs, Arguments, and Polysemy

Editor for this issue: Dina Kapetangianni <dinalinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Wilhelm Geuder, Workshop on Verbs, Arguments, and Polysemy, Germany

Workshop on Verbs, Arguments, and Polysemy

July 23-25, 2001
SFB 471, Universit�t Konstanz,


Programme


Monday, July 23

14.00 Welcome address

14.15 Wilhelm Geuder et al. (Konstanz): Introduction: Verbs, arguments,
and polysemy

15.00 Charles Fillmore (Berkeley): Why frame semantics has made me a
splitter

16.00 Coffee break

16.30 Hans Kamp & Antje Ro�deutscher (Stuttgart): Presupposition
Triggers: What the Lexicon ought to say about them and how it should say
that.


Tuesday, July 24

9.15 Dietmar Zaefferer (M�nchen): Lexical grammar or grammatical
lexicon?

10.15 Jaume Mateu (Barcelona): The elasticity of verb meaning and the
locative alternation

11.15 Coffee break

11.45 Irene Rapp (T�bingen): The locative alternation in German:
Semantic differences, semantic restrictions, and argument linking properties

12.45 Lunch break

14.30 Christoph Schwarze (Konstanz): Underspecification in the
semantics of word formation: the case of denominal verbs of removal in
Italian

15.30 Ingrid Kaufmann (Wuppertal): The Middle: interaction of
argument structure and the referential properties of verbs

16.30 Coffee break

17.00 Richard Waltereit (T�bingen): Diachronic changes and polysemy
in valency patterns


Wednesday, July 25

9.15 Beth Levin (Stanford) and Malka Rappaport Hovav (Jerusalem):
Polysemy, monosemy, and the dative alternation

10.15 Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton): Where are the benefits? A
lexical-semantic examination of the benefactive

11.15 Coffee break

11.45 David Dowty (Ohio): <Title to be announced>


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If you want to attend the workshop please register before July 6, by simply
sending an e-mail to:
wilhelm.geuderuni-konstanz.de

For further information, please see the website of the workshop:
http://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/conferences/polysemy/