Workshop "Scalarity in Verb-Based Constructions"

09:00 - 09:30

Registration

09:30 - 10:10

Welcome and introduction

10:10 - 10:50

Yael Greenberg (Bar Ilan University)
A measure function on eventualities: the case of verbal additive 'more'

10:50 - 11:10

Coffee break

11:10 - 11:50

Anna Howell (Universität Tübingen)
Exceed comparatives in English and cross-linguistically

11:50 - 12:30

Elizaveta Bylinina (Utrecht University) and Sergei Tatevosov (Moscow State University)
A degree analysis of incrementality revisited

12:30 - 13:45

Lunch break

13:45 - 14:45

Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Reflections on absolute standards, the notion of completeness, and telicity

14:45 - 15:00

Coffee break

15:00 - 15:40

Patricia Amaral (University of Liverpool)
A diagnostic for scalar verbs

15:40 - 16:20

Luciana Sanchez-Mendes (Universidade de São Paulo)
Scalar properties of degree modification on verbal domain: evidence from Karitiana

16:20 - 17:00

Carla Umbach (Universität Osnabrück)
Intensifiers and measure phrases combined with verbs

17:00 - 17:15

Coffee break

17:15 - 18:15

Sebastian Löbner (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
The gradation of verbs and sub-compositionality

19:30

Conference dinner

09:30 - 10:30

Malka Rappaport Hovav (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Lexicalized scales, scalar change and "lexical" aspect

10:30 - 10:50

Coffee break

10:50 - 11:30

Kristen Johannes (Johns Hopkins University)
The role of scales in PPs and motion events

11:30 - 12:10

Wilhelm Geuder (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
Manner-result complementarity and movement verbs

12:10 - 12:20

Coffee break

12:20 - 13:00

James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University) and Elisabetta Jezek (Università di Pavia)
Scale shifting and compositionality

13:00 - 14:15

Lunch break

14:15 - 15:15

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
Achievements, accomplishments and scalarity

15:15 - 15:30

Coffee break

15:30 - 16:10

Zsofia Gyarmathy (ELTE-MTA Theoretical Linguistics Programme, Hungary University)
The role of granularity in the semantics of achievements in the progressive

16:10 - 16:50

Barbara Sonnenhauser (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Bavarian 'der-' as subject-related scalar prefix

16:50 - 17:30

Olga Kagan (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
On the scalar nature of verbal prefixes in Slavic

17:30 - 17:45

Coffee break

17:45 - 18:45

Hana Filip (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
Sums and scales

18:45 - 19:00

Discussion and closing