The syntax and semantics of internal arguments
The International Workshop ´The syntax and semantics of internal arguments´ will take place at the University of Bucharest (Romania), October 24-25, 2019 and is organized by Klaus von Heusinger (University of Cologne) and Alina Tigău (University of Bucharest).
The workshop aims at discussing recent theoretical and experimental research in syntax, semantics and pragmatics, with a focus on topics such as argument structure, the projection of the arguments, the syntax and semantics of Differential Object Marking (DOM), accusative and dative pronominal clitics, Clitic Doubling (CD), incorporation and the status of arguments, case assignment a.o. Some of the questions we would like to address would be the following:
- How are internal arguments hierarchically projected?
- How do they get their case assigned? Does case assignment depend on their DP/KP/NP type? Do the mechanisms of DOM or CD have a say in this respect?
- Is there a correlation between the syntax and the semantics of DP/KP/NP types?
Invited Speakers
- Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
- Marta Donazzan (Université de Nantes)
- Susann Fischer (Universität Hamburg)
- Tabea Ihsane (Université de Genève)
- Cecilia Poletto (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main/ Università degli Studi di Padova )
Programm
| Thursday, 24.10.2019 | |
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9.30 – 10.00 | Welcome |
10.00 - 11.00 | Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) On the syntax of the partitive/accusative alternation in (the diachrony of ) Greek |
11.00 – 11.30 | Coffee break |
11.30 – 12.30 | Tabea Ihsane (Université de Genève) Arguments with a so-called “partitive article”: The subject-object asymmetry in the light of Francoprovençal data |
12.30 – 13.15 | Katalin Kiss (Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Case in languages with fused grammatical functions and discourse roles |
13.15 – 15.00 | Lunch |
15.00-16.00 | Cecilia Poletto (Universität Stuttgart) On the relation between quantification objects and adverbs |
16.00 – 16.45 | Alexandra Cornilescu and Alina Tigau (University of Bucharest) On some morphosyntactic properties of Romanian DOM |
16.45 – 17.15 | Coffee Break |
17.15 – 18.00 | Brian M. Gravely (University of Georgia) VSO and VOS orders: DOM and object shift in Galician) |
18.00 – 18.45 | Peđja Kovačević (University of Novi Sad) Not all object experiencers are the same: evidence from SE anti-causatives with Serbian psych verbs) |
Friday, 25.10.2019 |
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9.00-10.00 | Marta Donazzan (Université de Nantes), Klaus von Heusinger (Universität zu Köln), Clémentine Raffy (Universität zu Köln) Causative constructions and their arguments - the case of French laisser) |
10.00-10.45 | Rita Manzini and Ludovico Franco (University of Florence) Labelling and argument of (structural) obliques: Pseudo-partitives and DOM) de pus pe 25 |
10.45 – 11.15 | Coffee break |
11.15 – 12.15 | Susann Fischer (Universität Hamburg) On experiencers and other dative arguments in Catalan |
12.15 – 13.00 | Valeria Generalova (Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf) An RRG approach to case assignment in Altaic causative constructions |
13.00 – 13.45 | Alexandra Cornilescu On clausal arguments |
13.45 – 15.30 | Lunch |
Organisation
The workshop is organized by Klaus von Heusinger (University of Cologne) and Alina Tigău (University of Bucharest).
Support for this workshop comes from ICUB, University of Bucharest, SFB 1252 Prominence in Language, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation