LINGUIST List 33.2592
Wed Aug 24 2022
Calls: Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Singapore
Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>
Date: 18-Aug-2022
From: Leslie Lee <leslie
nus.edu.sg>
Subject: Resultatives: New Approaches and Renewed Perspectives
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Date: 20-Mar-2023 - 22-Mar-2023
Location: National University of Singapore, Singapore
Contact Person: Leslie Lee
Meeting Email:
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https://blog.nus.edu.sg/resultatives2023/
Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax
Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2022
Meeting Description:
A workshop (in person) scheduled for March 20-22 2023 at the National University of Singapore, supported by the Wan Boo Sow Centre for Chinese Culture, Department of Chinese Studies.
Invited speakers (in alphabetical order):
Victor Acedo-Matellan (Oxford); James C.T. Huang (Harvard); Beth Levin (Stanford); Alexander Williams (Maryland)
Co-organizers: Shiao Wei Tham and Leslie Lee
If you have questions, please contact thamsw AT nus DOT edu DOT sg
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Resultative expressions present an intriguing landscape for exploration in the realm of form-meaning correspondence. From the presence of a result-denoting predicate with another predicate typically describing how that result arises, to the associated structural and argument realization patterns, and the nature of the result predicate, resultatives have opened many fruitful avenues for research on verb meaning and the syntax-semantics interface.
Across languages, resultatives have been studied not only for their structural properties (Hoekstra 1988 (English, Dutch), Carrier and Randall 1992 (English), Shim and den Dikken 2007, Son 2008 (Korean)), Williams 2008 (various languages), Loos 2017 (signed languages)), but also for what they reveal about the representation and typology of verb meaning (Washio 1997, Thepkanjana and Uehara 2009, Acedo-Matellán 2016), the nature of predication (Rothstein 1983, 2004), and the syntax-semantics interface, most notably unaccusativity (Levin and Rappaport Hovav 1995), event structure (Rappaport Hovav and Levin 2001), scalar structure (Wechsler 2005), and more recently the nature of direct causation (Levin 2020).
Resultatives in particular bear a special status in the grammar of Mandarin Chinese, where they are ubiquitous, and occur in both compound and phrasal form (Huang 1988, Cheng and Huang 1994). Mandarin resultative compounds exhibit both characteristics that reflect what is observed in other languages, and others that seem to go against expectation, including unselected arguments (Williams 2015), so-called “inverse” causative readings (Cheng and Huang 1994, Li 1995), and the subject-oriented result interpretations (Li 1999) that cast doubt on the universality of the direct object restriction (Simpson 1983), also at issue in other languages (Rappaport Hovav and Levin 2001, Shim and den Dikken 2007, Son 2008). Resultatives in Mandarin continue to draw investigation, with recent forays into their syntactic analysis (Liu 2019), and the application (Han 2021) of a force-theoretic approach (Copley and Harley 2015).
This workshop hopes to bring together different strands of recent research to build a picture of how our understanding of resultatives has changed over the years: what factors have been reinforced, what adjusted, and what reinterpreted or discarded. As this is a workshop organized under the auspices of the National University of Singapore Department of Chinese Studies, part of the workshop will be devoted to resultatives in Mandarin and other Chinese languages/dialects.
Selected References
Acedo-Matellán, Victor. 2016. The morphosyntax of transitions: a case study in Latin and other languages. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Cheng, Lisa L.-S. and C.T. James Huang. 1994. On the argument structure of resultative compounds. In M. Chen and O. Tzeng, eds., In Honor of William Wang: Interdisciplinary Studies on Language and Language Change, pages 187–221. Taipei: Pyramid Press.
Levin, Beth. 2020. Resultatives and constraints on concealed causatives. In S. E. Bar-Asher and N. Boneh, eds., Perspectives on causation, Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science, pages 185–217. Cham: Springer.
Rappaport Hovav, Malka and Beth Levin. 2001. An event structure account of English resultatives. Language 77:766– 797.
Williams, Alexander. 2015. Arguments in Syntax and Semantics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
2nd Call for Papers:
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute or 45-minute talks (with an added 10 or 15 minutes Q&A respectively) on resultatives from both empirical and theoretical perspectives. Submissions should not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. Works that shed light on earlier points of controversy are especially welcome, as are works pertaining to Mandarin and other Chinese languages/dialects. In your submission, please indicate whether you would be interested in giving a 20-minute or 45-minute talk.
Abstracts for a 20-minute talk should not exceed 1 (one) A-4 page with at least 11-point font and 1-inch margins.
Abstracts for a 45-minute talk should not exceed 2 (two) A-4 pages with at least 11-point font and 1-inch margins.
Please submit abstracts via email to: chsbox9 AT nus DOT edu DOT sg
Please include “Resultatives workshop” in the subject heading of your email.
Your abstract should be anonymous. In the body of your email, please provide author name(s), affiliation, and email address of the corresponding author.
Please submit no more than one single-authored abstract and no more than two co-authored abstracts.
Deadline for submission: Nov 1, 2022 (23:59 hrs Singapore Time)
Notification of acceptance: by Dec 20, 2022
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