LINGUIST List 21.3877 Sun Oct 03 2010 Calls: Semantics/Germany Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.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.    Jens Fleischhauer, Scalarity in Verb-Based Constructions Message 1: Scalarity in Verb-Based Constructions Date: 01-Oct-2010 From: Jens Fleischhauer <fleischhauerphil.uni-duesseldorf.de> Subject: Scalarity in Verb-Based Constructions E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Scalarity in Verb-Based Constructions Date: 07-Apr-2011 - 08-Apr-2011 Location: Duesseldorf, Germany Contact Person: Jens Fleischhauer Meeting Email: fleischhauerphil.uni-duesseldorf.de Web Site: http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/fff/workshops/scalarity/ Linguistic Field(s): Semantics Call Deadline: 03-Dec-2010 Meeting Description: The workshop 'Scalarity in Verb-Based Constructions' will take place April, 7./8. 2011 at the University of Duesseldorf, Germany. The workshop is intended as a forum for discussing empirical evidence and theoretical approaches with respect to the role of scalarity in the verbal domain. Invited Speakers Hana Filip (University of Düsseldorf) Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) Malka Rappaport Hovav (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (University of Düsseldorf) Call For Papers Traditionally, the notions of scale and scalarity have been used as a key to the understanding of phenomena related to gradable adjectives. In recent years various approaches have been put forward which emphasize the role of scalarity in verb meaning and verb-based constructions: Rappaport Hovav (2008) and Rappaport Hovav & Levin (2010) analyze change of state verbs, incremental theme verbs, and verbs of directed motion as expressing scalar predications, which are related to different types of scales; Hay et al. (1999), Kennedy & McNally (1999, 2005), Filip (2007), and Kennedy & Levin (2008), among others, assume a relation between scale structure and telicity; Beavers (2008) extends the scalar approach to the analysis of durativity and punctuality of events. Moreover, scalarity is assumed to constrain different types of verb-based constructions. In particular, there are different accounts of the resultative construction that are directly based on the notion of scalarity (e.g. Vanden Wyngaerd 2001, Wechsler 2005). This workshop is intended as a forum for discussing empirical evidence for the scalar viewpoint and its impact on formal semantic analysis. It addresses the following questions: - What is the significance of scalarity for the analysis of verbs? - Which verbal phenomena can be analyzed in terms of scalarity? - How is scalarity represented in verb semantics? Some of the more specific questions related to these general questions are the following: - Are there precise criteria to distinguish scalar and non-scalar verbs and verb-based constructions? - How can scalarity be integrated in decompositional approaches to verb meaning? - What is the precise relation between gradability and scalarity? Are there instances of scalarity without gradability? - Which elements of the analysis of gradable adjectives can be transferred to the analysis of verbs? - How do degree and measure phrases interact with verbal semantics? How can the analysis of degree and measure phrases be transferred from the adjectival to the verbal domain? - Is the scalar approach to the above-mentioned phenomena superior to approaches which do not make use of scalarity? We invite the submission of abstracts on all kinds of empirical and theoretical approaches that address the role of scalarity in the domain of verbs. Submission Guidelines Abstracts are not to exceed two A4 pages in length, including examples and references, with at least 2 cm margins on all sides and 12pt font size. The abstract should not identify the author(s). Details of the submission procedure will be provided soon on the workshop homepage: http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/fff/workshops/scalarity/ Important Dates --------------- Abstract submission deadline: 03.12.2010 Notification of acceptance: 22.01.2011 Revised abstracts due: 07.03.2011 Workshop date: 07/08.04.2011 Invited Speakers ---------------- Hana Filip (University of Düsseldorf) Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) Malka Rappaport Hovav (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (University of Düsseldorf) Reviewer Board -------------- John Beavers (University of Texas at Austin) Johannes Dölling (University of Leipzig) Stefan Engelberg (IDS Mannheim) Hana Filip (University of Düsseldorf) Jens Fleischhauer (University of Düsseldorf) Thomas Gamerschlag (University of Düsseldorf) Wilhelm Geuder (University of Düsseldorf) Ingrid Kaufmann (University of Tokyo) Chris Kennedy (University of Chicago) Anja Latrouite (University of Düsseldorf) Sebastian Löbner (University of Düsseldorf) Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) Ralf Naumann (University of Düsseldorf) Rainer Osswald (University of Düsseldorf) Chris Pinón (Université de Lille) Malka Rappaport Hovav (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (University of Düsseldorf) Organization ------------ Jens Fleischhauer, Thomas Gamerschlag, Rainer Osswald Contact Information ------------------- Jens Fleischhauer Institute for Language and Information Department of General Linguistics Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Universitätsstraße 1 40225 Düsseldorf Email: fleischhauerphil.uni-duesseldorf.de Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 03-Oct-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.