LINGUIST List 21.3634 Wed Sep 15 2010 Confs: Syntax, Semantics, Morphology/Canada Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    María Cristina Cuervo, Workshop: 'The End of Argument Structure?' Message 1: Workshop: 'The End of Argument Structure?' Date: 13-Sep-2010 From: María Cristina Cuervo <mc.cuervoutoronto.ca> Subject: Workshop: 'The End of Argument Structure?' E-mail this message to a friend Workshop: 'The End of Argument Structure?' Date: 01-Oct-2010 - 02-Oct-2010 Location: Toronto, Canada Contact: María Cristina Cuervo Contact Email: mc.cuervoutoronto.ca Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Semantics; Syntax Meeting Description: This workshop, to be held on 1-2 October, 2010, will be an opportunity to explore current issues and re-assess generally accepted premises on the relationship between lexical meaning and the morphosyntax of sentences. A central question in the study of language concerns the mechanisms by which the participants in an event described by a sentence come to occupy their positions in the structure and acquire their interpretation. A long-standing approach is based on the assumption that it is the lexical meaning of a verb (or root) that determines, albeit indirectly, the basic properties of sentence structure at the level of verbal meaning, including asymmetric relations, thematic roles, case, and agreement. An alternative approach claims that the syntax itself greatly restricts possible verbal meanings on the basis of the legitimate relations that can exist between syntactic heads, complements, and specifiers. If we think that all systematic aspects of verbal meanings (licensing of external argument, number and type of 'obligatory' and extra arguments, agentivity, causativity, aksionsart, etc.) are dependent on configurational properties, what is left for lexical entries? Do generalizations such as the UTAH and other prominence hierarchies need to be stated explicitly, or are they derived from more general principles of syntactic operations (and structures) and semantic compositionality? What is left unexplained by syntax-driven approaches? In order to promote an open exchange of ideas, we have in mind a real workshop format rather than a regular conference, around themes that will be determined in consultation with the invited participants, based on their contributions. A small number of papers will be selected from open submissions. Invited Participants: Mark Baker (Rutgers University) Heidi Harley (University of Arizona) Lisa Travis (McGill University) Invited Student Participant: Grant Armstrong (Georgetown University) Workshop The End of Argument Structure? Alumni Hall, Victoria College, University of Toronto October 1-2, 2010 Friday, October 1, 2010 8:45 Coffee 9:15 Welcoming Remarks 9:30 - 10:20 Lisa Travis, McGill University: External Arguments and Roots 10:20 - 10:30 Coffee break 10:30 - 11:00 Jaume Mateu, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Strong vs. Weak Resultatives Revisited 11:00 - 11:30 E. Matthew Husband, Michigan State University: Argument Structure and State Composition 11:30 - 12:15 Open discussion 12:15 - 2:00 Lunch 2:00 - 2:50 Grant Armstrong, Georgetown University: Implicatures in Voice and Roots that Appear Twice: Syntactic Approaches to Two Recalcitrant 'Lexical' Phenomena in Spanish 2:50 - 3:00 Coffee break 3:00 - 3:30 Tatjana Marvin, University of Ljubljana: High and Low Applicatives in Slovenian and South Slavic 3:30 - 4:00 Mercedes Pujalte & Andrés Saab (CONICET; Universidad Nacional del Comahue/ Leiden University): Syncretism and EPP-repair: the Case of SE Insertion in Spanish 4:00 - 4:50 Open discussion Saturday, October 2, 2010 9:00 Coffee 9:30 - 10:20 Mark Baker, Rutgers University: ''Obliqueness'' as a Component of Argument Structure in Amharic 10:20 - 10:30 Coffee break 10:30 - 11:00 David Basilico, University of Alabama at Birmingham: The Antipassive and its Relationship to Scalar Structure 11:00 - 11:30 Jaume Mateu & Víctor Acedo-Matellán, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Conflation vs. Incorporation Processes and the Manner/Result Complementarity 11:30 - 12:15 Open discussion 12:15 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 2:20 Heidi Harley, University of Arizona: Roots, Selection & Domains for Idiomatic Meaning 2:20 - 2:30 Coffee break 2:30 - 3:00 Terje Lohndal, University of Maryland: Specifiers, Spell-Out and Logical Forms 3:00 - 3:30 Alex Trueman, University of Arizona: Structure and Agency in Sound+Motion Constructions 3:30 - 4:15 Open discussion Alternates: Kyumin Kim (University of Toronto), External Argument-introducing Heads: Voice and Appl Mercedes Pujalte (CONICET), (Non)-added Datives in Spanish Important: We ask that people who intend to participate in the workshop register in advance. There will be no registration fee, but registration is important so we can better prepare. To register, please, send an e-mail to mc.cuervo at utoronto.ca with 'Registration for workshop' as the Subject line; in the text indicate whether you plan to attend on both days or just one, and which. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 15-Sep-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.