18-20 January 2007    Paris 8-CNRS-ENS

Program

invited talks are in boldface
concatenated pdf of all the abstracts (21.8MB) is here

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Drinks: 18h30 at The Bombardier, 2 place de la Panthéon
Dinner: 20h00, at La Soummam, 43 rue Mazarine (near métro Odéon) 15-25€

Thursday, January 18, 2007

CNRS Pouchet
59/61 rue Pouchet Paris 17th arrondissement
métro Guy Môquet
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13h00-13h45 registration
13h45-14h00 welcome
14h00-15h00 Raffaella Folli (University of Ulster) and Heidi Harley (University of Arizona)   
Teleology and animacy in external arguments
15h00-15h30 Ekaterina Lyutikova and Sergei Tatevosov (Moscow State University)
Causativization and Event Structure
15h30-16h00 

Jaume Mateu (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
Vandals splashed red paint on the walls and ran the rats into the White House: Manner Conflation as 'Welcome Invasion'

Handout

16h00-16h30 break
16h30-17h00 Anja Latrouite (Heinrich Heine Universitaet Duesseldorf)
Event-structural prominence and forces in verb meaning change
17h00-18h00 Max Kistler (Université Paris X - Nanterre/Institute Jean Nicod)
Two types of causal statements
18h00-19h30 reception

Friday, January 19, 2007

Ecole Normale Supérieure
29, rue d'Ulm, Paris 5th arrondissement
salle Jules Ferry (in the basement)
métro Place Monge, Censier-Daubenton, or Cardinal Lemoine; RER Luxembourg
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  9h30-10h30 Phillip Wolff (Emory University)
Force dynamics in causal meaning and reasoning

10h30-11h00  Wilhelm Geuder and Matthias Weisgerber (Universität Konstanz)
Force antagonism in the semantics of movement verbs
Slides
11h00-11h30 break
11h30-12h00 Sergey Say (Institute for Linguistic Research, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Saint-Petersburg)
Between causation and intention: semantic bleaching of causatives in Kalmyck
dependent clauses
12h00-13h00 Gillian Ramchand (University of Tromsø)
Direct and Indirect Causation in Hindi
13h00-15h00 lunch 
15h00-15h30 Monika Schulz (Freiburg University)
Causer, recipient and possessor:  the grammatical subject of GET and the context-sensitivity of empty preposition PHAVE
15h30-16h00 Patrick Caudal (LLF, UMR 7110, CNRS & Université Paris 7)
Narration, causality, and epistemic modality
16h00-16h30
Kerstin Schwabe (ZAS Berlin)
Force and German solitaires
16h30-18h00 poster session
20h00-? conference dinner : 20€ payable at time of registration
Restaurant Sud-ouest/L'Escarmouche
40, rue de la Montagne Sainte Geneviève Paris 5e arrondissement
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Saturday, January 20, 2007

Ecole Normale Supérieure
29, rue d'Ulm, Paris 5th arrondissement
salle Jules Ferry (in the basement)
métro Place Monge, Censier-Daubenton, or Cardinal Lemoine; RER Luxembourg
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  9h30-10h30 Paul Egré (Institut Jean Nicod)
"Kill", "Intend to Kill", "Kill Intentionally" – On the Knobe Effect and the semantics of intentional action
10h30-11h00

Fabienne Martin (Universität  Stuttgart)
On "Non Agentive Verbs" Presupposing an Action, Agent-Oriented Adverbs and Psych-verbs

Handout

11h00-11h30 break
11h30-12h30

Ayumi Matsuo (University of Sheffield)
Young Children's Understanding of Ongoing vs. Completion in Imperfective and Perfective Participles

Slides

12h30-13h00

Nigel Duffield (University of Sheffield)
Interesting Facts? Events, Inadvertent Cause and Unaccusativity in English present participles

Handout

13h00-15h00 lunch
15h00-15h30 Tatjana Ilic (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Involuntary state construction in Serbo-Croatian
15h30-16h30

Richmond Thomason (University of Michigan)
Logical Semantics for Causal Constructions

Handout

16h30-17h00 break
17h00-18h00

discussion

         

Poster session

Alternate: Shin Fukuda (University of California, San Diego)
Interdependency between Object Case and Event Type: Accusative-Dative Alternation in Japanese

Poster

John Beavers (Georgetown University)
The Interaction of Causation and Affectedness in Transitivity

Poster

Casilda Garcia de la Maza (University of the Basque Country)
The Semantic Role of the Middle Subject

Yahiro Hirakawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
On a non-volitional transitive construction

Poster

Kyoko Kuroda (Shimane Prefectural Women's College)
Evénement causatif et ses structures prédicatives

Sumayya Racy (University of Arizona)
The Raising/Control Distinction and the Pragmatic Nature of Modals

Gudrun Rawoens (Ghent University)
Causative constructions in Swedish and Dutch: A corpus-based syntactic-semantic study

Eva-Maria Remberger (Universität Konstanz)
Volitional force in WANT constructions

Poster