Workshop "The building blocks and mortar of meaning II"
3rd to 4th November 2017
Tübingen, Brechtbau, Wilhelmstr. 50, room 215
Organizers
A collaboration of
- Project A1, SFB 833, Tübingen (Sebastian Bücking, Frauke Buscher, Claudia Maienborn)
- Project B4, SFB 732, Stuttgart (Hans Kamp, Tillmann Pross, Antje Roßdeutscher)
- SRF Language and Cognition, Stuttgart (Fabian Bross, Daniel Hole)
Invited Speakers
Louise McNally
Giorgos Spathas
Carla Umbach
Description
The workshop will focus on the question of how conceptual knowledge (as context and world knowledge) interacts with the linguistic system. In particular, we want to address controversies that arise with regard to the structural encoding of semantic and conceptual information. Broadly speaking, one can distinguish between three approaches:
- Traditional approaches link conceptual resources neither to compositional semantics nor to syntactic configurations (see the traditional Montague grammar and approaches based on it).
- Conceptual-semantic approaches point to a direct influence of conceptual knowledge on the compositional meaning constitution, without directly reflecting it in the syntax (see two-level semantics as in Bierwisch 1982, Lang & Maienborn 2011, or type compositional logic as in Asher 2011).
- Structure-oriented approaches link conceptual-semantic knowledge to syntactic configurations (see Distributed Morphology and (Neo-)Constructional Approaches as, for instance, advanced by Borer 2005, Ramchand 2013).
Against this background, the workshop invites contributions which:
- demonstrate the advantages of the respective approaches through case studies, or
- contrast the explanatory potential of the different approaches.
Program
Friday, 3rd November
9:15 | Coffee |
9:30 - 10:30 | Carla Umbach Constraints on kind formation by similarity (Abstract) |
10:30 - 11:30 | Fabian Bross & Daniel Hole Scope-taking strategies and the order of clausal categories in German Sign Language (Abstract) commented by Fabian Schlotterbeck |
11:30 - 12:00 | Coffee |
12:00 - 13:00 | Daniel Hole & Katherine Fraser Evidentiality and scalarity in argument alternations (Abstract) commented by Sebastian Bücking |
13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
14:00 - 15:00 | Louise McNally 'Figurative' uses of verbs and grammar (joint work with Alexandra Spalek) (Abstract) |
15:00 - 16:00 | Julia Lukassek Accounting for the combinatorial options of aspectual verbs (Abstract) commented by Anne Temme |
16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee |
16:30 - 17:30 | Frauke Buscher (Re)interpreting verbs of sound emission as intransitive verbs of motion (Abstract) commented by Boris Haselbach |
18:30 | Dinner: "Ludwigs", Uhlandstr. 1, 72072 Tübingen |
Saturday, 4th November
9:15 | Coffee |
9:30 - 10:30 | Giorgos Spathas Results in the decomposition of verbal predicates: evidence from additive operators (Abstract) |
10:30 - 11:30 | Tillmann Pross On the syntax and semantics of German participles (Abstract) commented by Irene Rapp |
11:30 - 12:00 | Coffee |
12:00 - 13:00 | Hans Kamp & Antje Roßdeutscher From Roots to Riches (Abstract) commented by Claudia Maienborn |