Organisers: M.
Teresa Espinal (UAB) & Jaume Mateu (UAB-UOC)
Invited
speaker: Juan Uriagereka
(University of Maryland)
PROGRAMME
The status of the
argument-adjunct distinction is not as clear as one would expect given
the latest developments in the theory of grammar, not only within the
minimalist program, but also from other theoretical perspectives. In
addition, the correspondence between syntactic adjuncts and semantic
modifiers has not been provided yet with a clear-cut analysis.
Addressed to both
syntacticians and semanticists, this workshop aims to provoke discussion
on how adjuncts are licensed at the syntax-semantics interface and how
they are interpreted.
This
topic covers various subtopics: what sort of linguistic object an
adjunct is, the argument-adjunct distinction, the derivation of adjuncts
and the conditions of adjunct placement, the adjunct-disjunct
(parenthetical) distinction, the status of adjuncts with regard to
argument structure, the syntactic and semantic features that determine
the distribution of adverbs and their licensing as different types of
adverbial modifiers, adverbial modifiers as event quantifiers and as
event predicates, the existence of obligatory adjuncts, etc.
Any question concerning the
workshop must be sent to
cg.adjuncts@uab.es
