Adjectives, categorization and argument structure

A workshop at the 21st International Morphology Meeting

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Convenors
Martina Werner
(Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities & Cultural Heritage, Austrian Academy of Sciences & Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg)
Laura Grestenberger
(Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Program (updated Aug. 07, 2024)

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Wednesday, Aug. 28, Room TC.3.06

Part IIntroduction & keynote
16.00-16.30Martina Werner & Laura Grestenberger
(Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Introduction to the workshop
16.30-17.30Keynote: Antonio Fábregas
(Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU)
Adjectives, prefixation and argument structure: symmetric and non-symmetric relations within the AP complex” (abstract)
17.30-18.00Coffee break
Part IIAdjectives at the lexicon-syntax interface
18.00-18.30Thórhallur Eythórsson
(University of Iceland)
“Adjectival predicates with oblique arguments in Icelandic” (via Zoom) (abstract)
18.30-19.00Carolina Marescotti
(University of Pisa)
“Verbalizing qualitative vs. relational adjectives in Ancient Greek” (abstract)
19.00-19.30Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo
(Universitat de Girona)
The nature of adjectives in the light of Spanish (categorizing?) prefixes” (abstract)

Thursday, Aug. 29, Room TC.3.06

Part IIIa: Universal category or not?
14.30-15.00Luca Alfieri, Daniela Baldassarre, Diego Luinetti,
Leonardo Montesi & Maria Simoniello
Università degli Studi G. Marconi, Roma)
Levels of analysis and adjectival typology” (abstract)
15.00-15.30Víctor Acedo-Matellán (University of Oxford) &
Isabelle Roy (Nantes Université / CNRS)
“Adjectives in an adjective-deficient language: Wolof” (abstract)
15.30-16.00Phoevos Panagiotidis
(University of Cyprus)
“Adjectives: from bicategoriality to relationality” (abstract)
16.00-16.30Coffee break
Part IVArgument structure, gradability and morphosemantics
16.30-17.00Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
(Mohammed V University, Rabat)
Arabic adjective words and classes and their complexity at the interfaces“(abstract)
17.00-17.30Maria Bloch-Trojnar
(John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
“The interaction of event structure and argument structure with gradability in deverbal active adjectives in Polish” (abstract)
17.30-18.00Madeleine Butschety (University of Nova Gorica) &
Petra Mišmaš (University of Nova Gorica)
For better or worse, we need to talk about –š” (abstract)

FWF P32415-G “Relational Adjectives in the History of German” (RAHiG)

FWF V850-G “Verbal categories and categorizers in diachrony