LINGUIST List 26.1756
Wed Apr 01 2015
Calls: Semantics, Syntax/China
Editor for this issue: Erin Arnold <earnoldlinguistlist.org>
Date: 01-Apr-2015
From: Xuping Li <xupingli
zju.edu.cn>
Subject: Workshop on Varieties of Adjectival Modification
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Date: 17-Oct-2015 - 18-Oct-2015
Location: Hangzhou, China
Contact Person: Xuping Li
Meeting Email:
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Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax
Meeting Description:
This workshop on “Varieties of Adjectival Modification” is to be held at Zhejiang University, China on 17-18 October, 2015. It is devoted to the exploration of various non-canonical adjectival modification relations at the interface of syntax and semantics. Since Montague (1970), adjective meanings are analyzed as functions from properties to properties. This argument can be maintained in canonical cases like “a carnivorous animal”, but the complexity of adjectival modification goes far beyond that. The complexity of adjectival modification relations is manifested at least in the following aspects:
- Adjectives may occur at various syntactic positions, including the adnominal position, the predicate position, and the
position before classifiers (Jackendoff 1977: a delicious cup of coffee) and on the left-periphery of DP etc.;
- A variety of adjectives can be distinguished based on their lexical meanings, such as privative adjectives (Partee 1995),
adnominal degree adjectives (Morzycki 2012), numerical adjectives (Rothstein 2010, 2012, Nouwen 2010, 2014), expressive
adjectives (Gutzmann 2012, Potts 2007), multidimensional adjectives (Sassoon 2007);
- Adjectives may modify various types of nouns, such as gradable nouns (Morzycki 2009: a big idiot), event nouns (Larson 1995: a beautiful dancer) etc.
Invited Speakers:
Susan Rothstein, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Rick Nouwen, University of Utrecht, Netherland.
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission: 30 June, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: 15 July, 2015
Workshop Dates: 17 -18 Oct, 2015
Venue:
Center for the Study of Language and Cognition, Zhejiang University, China
Wiki-link to the City of Hangzhou:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangzhou Call for Papers:
Submissions of abstracts for 30 minute talks (each followed by a 10 minute question period) are invited. One person can submit at most one single-authored abstract and an additional co-authored one.
Papers may address—but are not limited to—the syntax or semantics of the above following issues:
- Gradability across categories;
- Semantics of subtypes of adjectives;
- The compositionality of non-canonical modification relations;
- The semantics of denominal adjectives and deadjectival nouns;
- Comparative constructions
As planned, altogether, 12 abstracts will be selected from the submissions. Abstracts must be anonymous, at most 2 pages long including references and examples, 12 pt Times New
Roman font, and in .pdf format. Submission must be sent as PDF files to the following address: xupingli
zju.edu.cn
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