Recent Approaches to (Non-)Agentivity in Natural Language
The Workshop on Recent Approaches to (Non-)Agentivity in Natural Language was successfully concluded with the kind support and enthusiastic participation of our speakers, attendees, student volunteers and friends. Warm thanks to our sponsors for their generosity, and to the Department of Chinese Studies for such strong administrative assistance. We hope you enjoyed the workshop as much as we did! (Scroll down for talk handouts and slides.)
Invited Speakers (in alphabetical order):
Juergen Bohnemeyer (University at Buffalo)
Beth Levin (Stanford University)
Fabienne Martin (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin)
Elisabeth Verhoeven (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin)
Phillip Wolff (Emory University)
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Day 1
| 0930 | Juergen Bohnemeyer | Agentivity: The view from semantic typology (Part 1) (Part 2) |
| 1110 | Elisabeth Verhoeven | Agentivity and the typology of psych-alternation |
| 1400 | Li Wanyu | A Semantic Analysis of an Emerging BEI Construction in Chinese Mandarin |
| 1440 | Yosuke Sato | How Can One Kill Someone Twice in Indonesian? Causal Pluralism and the Tripartite VP Structure |
| 1540 | Fabienne Martin | Aspectual differences between agentive and non-agentive uses of causative predicates |
Day 2
| 1000 | Beth Levin | The Tightness of Resultatives: Implications for Causation |
| 1120 | Tham Shiao Wei | Agents, causers, results, and contentfulness in Mandarin expressions of caused change |
| 1330 | Chung Siaw-Fong & Hsiao Min-Chun |
The Use of Da4/Xiao3/Bu4Dong4Zuo4 in PTT: A corpus-based account |
| 1410 | Hsiao Min-Chun & Chung Siaw-Fong |
Affectedness in the agent of SUBSTITUTE |
| 1510 | Phillip Wolff | Discovering Components of Meaning in English and Chinese using Predictive Language Models (Machine Learning) |
Date
Friday, 03 May 2019 - Saturday, 04 May 2019
Venue
AS8-04-01