Adjectives, categorization and argument structure
A workshop at the 21st International Morphology Meeting
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 03/25/2024)
Wednesday, Aug. 28
| Part I | Introduction & keynote | |
| 16.00-16.30 | Martina Werner & Laura Grestenberger (Austrian Academy of Sciences) | Introduction to the workshop |
| 16.30-17.30 | Keynote: Antonio Fábregas (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU) | “Adjectives, prefixation and argument structure: symmetric and non-symmetric relations within the AP complex” |
| 17.30-18.00 | Coffee break | |
| Part II | Adjectives at the lexicon-syntax interface | |
| 18.00-18.30 | Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo (Universitat de Girona) | “The nature of adjectives in the light of Spanish (categorizing?) prefixes“ |
| 18.30-19.00 | Carolina Marescotti (University of Pisa) | “Verbalizing qualitative vs. relational adjectives in Ancient Greek“ |
| 19.00-19.30 | Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland) | “Adjectival predicates with oblique arguments in Icelandic“ |
Thursday, Aug. 29
| Part III | a: Universal category or not? | |
| 14.30-15.00 | Luca Alfieri, Daniela Baldassarre, Diego Luinetti, Leonardo Montesi & Maria Simoniello Università degli Studi G. Marconi, Roma) | “Levels of analysis and adjectival typology“ |
| 15.00-15.30 | Víctor Acedo-Matellán (University of Oxford) & Isabelle Roy (Nantes Université / CNRS) | “Adjectives in an adjective-deficient language: Wolof“ |
| 15.30-16.00 | Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus) | “Adjectives: from bicategoriality to relationality“ |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee break | |
| Part IV | Argument structure, gradability and morphosemantics | |
| 16.30-17.00 | Abdelkader Fassi Fehri (Mohammed V University, Rabat) | “Arabic adjective words and classes and their complexity at the interfaces“ |
| 17.00-17.30 | Maria 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“ |
| 17.30-18.00 | Madeleine Butschety (University of Nova Gorica) & Petra Mišmaš (University of Nova Gorica) | “For better or worse, we need to talk about –š“ |
| 18.00-18.30 | Emily Hanink (Indiana University) & Andrew Koontz-Garboden (University University of Manchester) | “The semantics of property concept root categorizers“ |
FWF P32415-G “Relational Adjectives in the History of German” (RAHiG)
FWF V850-G “Verbal categories and categorizers in diachrony”
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