The profile of event delimitation
International workshop
49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europea
Napoli, Università Federico II
August 31 2016
Program
11:00 - 11:25 Introduction: the profile of event delimitation
Marta Donazzan (Cologne) and Lucia Tovena (Paris Diderot)
11:30 - 11:55 Telicity and countability in French action nouns
Richard Huyges (Fribourg)
12:00 - 12:25 Between eventive and stative nominalizations in Italian:
A constructional and cognitively-based account
Gioia Insacco and Viviana Masia (Roma 3)
12:30 - 12:55 Perfectivity and event individuation
Hana Filip (Düsseldorf)
Lunch break
14:30 - 14:55 Delimiting events in Mandarin: the case of reduplication
Bianca Basciano (Venezia Ca' Foscari) and Chiara Melloni (Verona)
15:00 - 15:25 Singularity and pluractionality in Chinese verbal domain
Xiaoqian Zhang (Paris Diderot)
15:30 - 15:55 Event delimitation in sign languages
Gladys Tang, Jia He and Jia Li (Chinese University of Hong kong)
16:00 - 16:25 Motion/posture serial verbs in Iwaidja:
from event delimitation to discourse-structural functions
Patrick Caudal (Paris Diderot) and Robert Mailhammer (West. Sydney)
Coffee Break
17:00 - 17:25 Delimiting the cntribution of open and closed class verbs:
a case study from Nothern Australia
Eva Schultze- Berndt (Manchester)
17:30 - 17:55 Complex events in Sicilian
Giuseppina Todaro (Roma 3) and Fabio del Prete (Toulouse)
18:00 - 18:25 Aspect in Time
Anna Maria di Sciullo (Québec)
18:30 - 18:55 Discussion
Workshop organisers:
Marta Donazzan mdonazza*at*uni-koeln.de
Lucia Tovena tovena*at*linguist.univ-paros-diderot.fr
The workshop is part of the project Delimitevent funded by the Fédération Typologie et universaux du Langage (TUL) - FR 2559