Syntactic expletives and (non-)compositionality
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Workshop announcement
The Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (LLING) will host a 2-day workshop on "Syntactic expletives and (non-)compositionality" at Nantes Université on 23-24 May 2024.
Topic
The workshop is devoted to syntactic expletives in a broad sense, that is any morphosyntactically realized material that can be treated as semantically empty, or only weakly contentful. The talks will address the following questions, among others:
- What are some criteria for deciding if an element is semantically bleached/empty?
- How can varying degrees of semantic contentfulness be handled empirically and theoretically?
- How do models of the syntax/semantics interface that are canonically compositional accommodate syntactic elements that are not fully interpreted?
Invited speakers
- Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete)
- Ash Asudeh (University of Rochester)
- Uli Sauerland (ZAS Berlin)
- Hedde Zeijlstra (University of Göttingen)
Program
Click here for the workshop program.
Venue
Nantes Université Campus Tertre
Room C248, bâtiment Censive (building #12 on this map)
Contact
If you would like to attend the workshop in person, or participate via Zoom, or for any further information, please send an e-mail to Jesse.Tseng@univ-nantes.fr.
Mis à jour le 04 septembre 2024.