NORMS Workshop on Argument structure
Lund, February 5 – 6, 2008
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The aim of this NORMS thematic workshop on Argument Structure is twofold: we invite papers that examine the microparametric variation in the argument structure across languages, and papers that want to develop syntactic theory in such a way that the restrictions on argument structure can be calculated.
Organizers:
The GRIMM-group at Lund
University
Christer Platzack (christer.platzack@nordlund.lu.se)
Mai Tungseth (mai.tungseth@hum.uit.no)
Pre-registration:
Pre-registration required at latest January 28, also by speakers. No registration fee. Please send an e-mail to christer.platzack@nordlund.lu.se, telling us that you will participate in the workshop.
Workshop dinner:
The price for a ticket to the dinner is 100 SEK (little more than 10 Euro). You have to tell us if you want to participate in the workshop dinner at latest Monday January 28. Payment (in cash) directly to the organizers only in connection with the reception Monday February 4, 17-19, or before lunch Tuesday February 5.
Of further interest!
Note that the workshop will be followed by the 22nd annual symposium Grammatik i Fokus (February 7 and 8). See the GRIMM web pages for information.
Program (last update: 18.12.2007)
Monday, February 4 |
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SOL-center, Helgonabacken 12, Building L, room L303a. |
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| 17:00-19:00 | Reception |
Tuesday, February 5 |
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| 09:00-09:15 | Welcome |
| 09:15-10:15 | Invited speaker Artemis Alexiadou, University of Stuttgart: The properties of nominalizers revisited: inner vs. outer aspect and the decomposition of nominalizations |
| 1015-1045 | Coffee break |
| 1045-1130 | Christer Platzack, Lund University Parametrized Argument Structure and Root-Root compounds |
| 1130-1215 | Jaume Mateu & Gemma Rigau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Widening out P-cognation and Working out M-conflation |
| 1215-1330 | LUNCH |
| 1330-1415 | Eva Klingvall, Lund University: Agent Arguments in Generic Contexts |
| 1415-1500 | Andrew Koontz-Garboden, The University of Manchester: Anticausativization is reflexivization |
| 1500-1530 | Coffee break |
| 1530-1630 | Invited speaker Gillian Ramchand, University of Tromsø: Structure Building and Structure Matching in Complex Predications |
| 1630-1715 | Ángel J. Gallego, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Cognate Objects and (Clitic) Doubling |
| 1715-1730 | Short break |
| 1730-1815 | John Beavers, The University of Texas at Austin: Variation in Argument Realization: Why Semantics Really Matter |
| 1815-1900 | Mai Tungseth, Lund University s-verbs, argument structure and event participants |
| 1930- | WORKSHOP DINNER |
Wednesday, February 6 |
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| 0900-1000 | Invited speaker Heidi Harley, University of Arizona: Roots, Concepts and the Canonical Use Constraint |
| 1000-1030 | Coffee break |
| 1030-1115 | György Rákosi, University of Debrecen: The diversity of cause PPs: evidence from Hungarian |
| 1115-1200 | Florian Schäfer, University of Stuttgart: Oblique causers in change-of-state contexts |
| 1200-1330 | LUNCH |
| 1330-1415 | Idan Landau, Ben Gurion University: Ways of Being Rude |
| 1455-1500 | Kaori Takamine, University of Tromsø: Two types of resultatives in Japanese |
| 1500-1530 | Coffee break |
| 1530-1615 | Michelle Troberg, University of Toronto: Diachronic change as evidence of event structure: two-place dative verbs in French |
| 1615-1700 | Stephen Wechsler, University of Texas at Austin: Idioms, Light Verbs, and Lexical Decomposition |
| 1700 | Closure |
| Cancelled | Effi Georgala, Cornell University, Waltraud Paul, CRLAO-EHESS/CNRS, & John Whitman, Cornell University: Raising and Thematic Applicatives |