Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adverbs and Prepositions
TROMSØ, 12-13 JUNE 2014
Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2014
We invite submissions for 30 minute presentations (+10 of discussion) on any of these topics. If we get a high number of submissions, those that obtain a high score but cannot make it into the general session will be considered for a poster session. Abstracts should not be longer than two pages, including examples, tables, figures and references, and should be submitted to: waasaptwo@gmail.com
Deadline for submission: 15 February 2014
Deadline for notification of acceptance: 11 April 2014
Workshop: 12-13 June 2014, University of Tromsø
In this workshop we would like to contribute to a better understanding of the nature of prepositions and adverbs and the limits between arguments and adjuncts by gathering researchers working on different aspects of argument structure and aspect of adverbs and prepositions. The questions we are interested in include, but are not restricted to, the following:
- Can inner and outer aspect primitives be reduced to the same prepositional-like elements?
- The argument structure of PPs: What are the theta-roles associated to Ps, and how is it different or similar to those of verbs?
- How rich is the internal structure of PPs and what correlations can be established between levels of complexity, argument structure and aspect?
- Is the internal structure of PPs similar, in terms of argument structure, to a split VP? - Can Ps define events by themselves?
- How do prepositions contribute to the definition of internal aspect in verbs and adjectives?
- What is the role of prepositions inside verbal periphrases?
- Choice of P and the semantic interpretation of the argument introduced by P
- Adverbs and adverbial phrases as diagnostics for aspectual properties
- The internal structure of adverbs and the definition of their internal aspectual properties
- The position of adverbs and the interpretation of arguments
- NPs behaving as adverbs (Larson 1985) and adjuncts. What are the limits between arguments and adjuncts, and between nouns and adverbs, in terms or referentiality, modificability, etc.?
- What defines an adverb? What are the relevant subclasses of adverbs for grammar?
- Adverbs as arguments of verbs: Under which circumstances can an adverb be an argument of a verb?
- Adverbs as derived categories: Do adverbs inherit nominal or adjectival properties of their morphological bases?
- Vocatives in the limit between arguments and adjuncts, nouns and adverbs
Keynote Speakers:
Peter Svenonius (CASTL, Universitetet i Tromsø) M. Teresa Espinal (CLT, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
