Date: 17-Mar-2011
From: Jens Fleischhauer <fleischhauer phil.uni-duesseldorf.de>
Subject: Scalarity in Verb-Based Constructions
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Scalarity in Verb-Based Constructions
Date: 07-Apr-2011 - 08-Apr-2011
Location: Duesseldorf, Germany
Contact: Jens Fleischhauer
Contact Email: fleischhauerphil.uni-duesseldorf.de
Meeting URL: http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/fff/workshops/scalarity/
Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
Meeting Description:
The workshop 'Scalarity in Verb-Based Constructions' will take place April,
7./8. 2011 at the University of Duesseldorf, Germany. 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?
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)
Workshop 'Scalarity in Verb-Based Constructions'
Workshop program
Thursday, 7. April 2011
09:00 - 09:30 Registration
09:30 - 10:10 Welcome and introduction
10:10 - 10:50 Yael Greenberg (Bar Ilan University)
A measure function on eventualities: the case of verbal additive 'more'
11:10 - 11:50 Anna Howell (Universität Tübingen)
Exceed-type comparatives in English and cross-linguistically
11:50 - 12:30 Daniel Lassiter (New York University and University of
London)
Bouletic and deontic modals are non-monotonic and scalar
13:45 - 14:45 Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Reflections on absolute standards, the notion of completeness, and telicity
15:00 - 15:40 Patricia Amaral (University of Liverpool)
A diagnostic for scalar verbs
15:40 - 16:20 Luciana Sanchez-Mendes (Universidade de São Paulo)
Scalar properties of degree modification on verbal domain: evidence from
Karitiana
16:20 - 17:00 Carla Umbach (Universität Osnabrück)
Intensifiers and measure phrases combined with verbs
17:15 - 18:15 Sebastian Löbner (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
The gradation of verbs and subcompositionality
Friday, 8. April 2011
09:30 - 10:30 Malka Rappaport Hovav (The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem)
Lexicalized scales, scalar change and 'lexical aspect'
10:50 - 11:30 Kristen Johannes (Johns Hopkins University)
The role of scales in directional PPs and motion events
11:30 - 12:10 Wilhelm Geuder (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
Manner-result complementarity and movement verbs
12:20 - 13:00 James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University) and Elisabetta Jezek
(Università di Pavia)
Scale shifting and compositionality
14:15 - 15:15 Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (Heinrich-Heine-Universität
Düsseldorf)
t.b.a.
15:30 - 16:10 Zsofia Gyarmathy (ELTE-MTA Theoretical Linguistics
Programme, Hungary University)
The role of granularity in the semantics of achievements in the progressive
16:10 - 16:50 Barbara Sonnenhauser (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München)
Bavarian 'der-' as subject-related scalar prefix
16:50 - 17:30 Olga Kagan (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
On the scalar nature of verbal prefixes in Slavic
17:45 - 18:45 Hana Filip (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
Sums and scales
18:45 - 19:00 Discussion and closing
For more information have a look on the workshop's webpage:
http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/fff/workshops/scalarity-in-verb-based-
constructions/
Registration
If you want to participate at the workshop, since there is limited place for
attendees, please send an email to register. Please let us know your name,
affiliation, and contact e-mail address. There will be a workshop fee of 20?
(10? for students).
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