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Congreso: Workshop on Modification (with & without modifiers)
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We are very happy to announce the forthcoming workshop on modification (with & without modifiers) "MDF2011", to be held at the Center of Human and Social Sciences (CCHS-CSIC) in Madrid on December 15 and 16 2011.
Meeting description:
Modification is a process we often resort to, but which we have little understanding of. It has been identified with the particular mode of composition that amounts to intersection (as in Heim & Kratzer's (1998) predicate modification). But then, predicate modifiers have also been treated since Siegel (1976) as properties of properties. And in the literature, we also see it used in a rather intuitive manner in expressions such as “adverbial modification” or “degree modifier”, where the term here seems to be closer to the concept of predication instead of the set-theoretic notion of intersection. In fact, intersection and predicate modification happen to be opposite ways of analyzing constructions, as in the case of relational adjectives (McNally & Boleda 2004) or Larson’s (1998) “beautiful dancer”.
Much effort has been made lately to understand what modification is, especially when it comes to adjectives, adverbs and relative clauses (see e.g. Kennedy & McNally 2008 and the workshop “Adjectives and Relative Clauses” held in Venice in 2010). The purpose of this workshop is to work along the same lines and perhaps extend this picture by looking at new cases of modification and considering psycholinguistic as well as theoretical approaches and methodologies. We invite submissions in semantics and its interfaces (syntax, pragmatics, morphology, phonology) that focus on questions of a conceptual nature, but also (and especially) those that are concerned with under-described and/or cross-linguistic phenomena dealing with adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases, or intonation, to mention a few.
More information available here.
Programa
Thursday, 15 December 2011
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-9:45 Welcome
9:45-10:45 Invited talk: Louise McNally (UPF)
Distributional modifiers
10:45-11:25 Berit Gehrke (UPF)
Event-related modification with adjectival passives
11:25-11:50 Coffee break
11:50-12:30 Thomas Ernst (UMass, Amherst & Dartmouth College)
Modification of state predicates
12:30-13:10 M. Teresa Espinal & Ía Navarro (UAB & Sonora)
Fake arguments: Nouns and clitics as event modifiers
13:10-13.50 Mike Oliver (Johns Hopkins)
Interpretation as Optimization: Constitutive Material Adjectives
13:50-15:30 Lunch
15:30-16:10 Andreea C. Nicolae & Greg Scontras (Harvard)
Saturating Syntax: Linkers and Modification in Tagalog
16:10-16:40 Coffee break
16:40-17:20 Fabienne Martin (Stuttgart)
Decomposing (non)restrictivity. Evaluative modifiers in post-head positions
17:20-18:00 Carla Umbach (Osnabrück)
Modification by similarity - the meaning of the German demonstrative so
21:00 Dinner (TBA)
Friday, 16 December 2011
10:00-11:00 Invited talk: Christopher Potts (Stanford)
Veridicality and (parenthetical) attitude predications
11:00-11:40 Lidia Bogatyreva (UAB)
Weak case modifiers: Russian instrumental nominals as a counterpart of bare nominals in Romance
11:40-12:10 Coffee break
12:10-12:50 Ai Matsui (Michigan State)
Transforming Manner Adverbs into Subject-Oriented Adverbs: An Evidence from Japanese
12:50-13:30 Jens Fleischhauer (Düsseldorf)
Modification vs. Quantification: Evidence for the distinction based on verb gradation
13:30-15:00 Lunch
15:00-15:40 Andrea Beltrama & M. Ryan Bochnak (UChicago)
Intensification without degrees cross-linguistically
15:40-16:20 Sveta Krasikova & Lucas Champollion (Konstanz & Tübingen)
Two "many" modifiers
16:20-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:00 Invited talk: Marcin Morzycki (Michigan State)
Degrees and state kinds
Alternate
Boban Arsenijevic (UPF)
Aspectual concord and aspectual relativisation: verb prefixation in Serbo-Croatian
Organization
Organizing Committee
Violeta Demonte
Elena Castroviejo
Carmen Gallar
Dongsik Lim
Isabel Oltra Massuet
Isabel Pérez Jiménez
Juan Romeu
Scientific Committee
Boban Arsenijevic (UPF)
Olivier Bonami (Paris-Sorbonne)
Olga Borik (UAB)
Ignacio Bosque (UCM)
Josep M. Brucart (UAB)
Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (Paris VIII)
Elena Castroviejo (CCHS-CSIC)
Violeta Demonte (CCHS-CSIC)
Jenny Doetjes (LUCL)
Thomas Ernst (UMass, Amherst and Dartmouth College)
Maria Victoria Escandell (UNED)
M. Teresa Espinal (UAB)
Berit Gehrke (UPF)
Chris Kennedy (UChicago)
Dongsik Lim (CCHS-CSIC)
Louise McNally (UPF)
Marcin Morzycki (MSU)
Rick Nouwen (UiL-OTS)
Isabel Pérez-Jiménez (CCHS-CSIC)
Christopher Potts (Stanford)
Maribel Romero (Konstanz)
Peter Sells (York)
Henriëtte de Swart (Utrecht)
Carla Umbach (Osnabrück)
Xavier Villalba (UAB)