Workshop Functional categories and meaning hierarchies
Project grant The Interpretation of Functional Categories II: Expressive Meanings and Meaning Hierarchies (INTERCAT II)
September 21st-22nd, 2023
Sala d’Actes Frederic Udina (B7/1056)
Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres
UAB
Program [download]:
September 21st, 2023 | Specific Goal 5: Definiteness and expressiveness |
9:30-10 | Business meeting. Status of the development of the project |
10-11 | Jon Ander Mendía & M.Teresa Espinal. Non-agreeing degree constructions |
11-11:30 | Coffee break |
11:30-12 | Cristina Ruiz Alonso. On the definite article ‘el’ + CPs in Spanish: some semantic and syntactic properties |
12-13 | Paolo Morosi. On the non-definite interpretations of Italian definites |
13-14:30 | Lunch |
Specific Goal 6: The expression of indefiniteness | |
14:30-15 | Chiara Gianollo. Indefiniteness and otherness in languages with and without articles |
15-16 | Sonia Cyrino & M.Teresa Espinal. From indefinite expressions to nominal NPIs |
16-16:30 | Coffee break |
16:30-17:30 | Urtzi Etxeberria & Anastasia Giannakidou. Domain restriction, partitivity, and definite reduplication revisited |
17:30-18:30 | Dària Serés. Referential and non-referential uses of ‘one’ + N in Slavic languages |
20:30 | Workshop dinner |
September 22nd, 2023 | Specific Goal 7: The expression of interrogative and exclamative sentences |
9:30-10 | Srabasti Dey. Copular clauses in Bangla and Tense |
10-11 | Xavier Villalba. Exclamative markers in Catalan and beyond |
11-11:30 | Coffee break |
11:30-12 | Susagna Tubau. Question tags: where unconventional Merge, multidominance and Commitment Space semantics meet |
12-13 | Olga Borik & Iván Teomiro García. The expressive force of high datives |
13-14 | Lunch |
Specific Goal 3: High negation and other sorts of negation | |
14-15 | Sonia Cyrino. Negation inside periphrastic tenses in Brazilian Portuguese |
15-16 | M.Teresa Espinal, Eloi Puig-Mayenco, Urtzi Etxeberria & Susagna Tubau. On the status of NCIs. An experimental investigation on so-called Strict NC languages |
16-16:30 | Coffee break |
16:30-17 | Evripidis Tsiakmakis. High negation in English, Italian and Greek. Preliminary explorations |
17-18 | Matteo Greco. High negation, surprise effect, and some (unexpected) interpretive properties |
18 | Closing |