Workshop Functional categories and meaning hierarchies

The workshop will take place at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona on September 21-22, 2023

Provisional program (download):

September 21st, 2023

Specific Goal 5: Definiteness and expressiveness

9:30-10 Business meeting. Status of the development of the project

10-11 Jon Ander Mendía & M.Teresa Espinal. Referential properties of demonstrative phrases

11-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12 Cristina Ruiz Alonso. On the definite article 'el' + CPs in Spanish: some semantic and syntactic properties

12-13 Paolo Morosi. On the non-definite interpretations of Italian definites

13-14:30 Lunch

Specific Goal 6: The expression of indefiniteness

14:30-15 Chiara Gianollo. Indefiniteness and otherness in languages with and without articles 🖥️online

15-16 Sonia Cyrino & M.Teresa Espinal. From indefinite expressions to nominal NPIs

16-16:15 Coffee break

16:15-17:45 Urtzi Etxeberria & Anastasia Giannakidou. Domain restriction, partitivity, and definite reduplication revisited

17:45-18:45 Dària Serés. Referential and non-referential uses of ‘one’ + N in Slavic languages

20:30 Workshop dinner

September 22nd, 2023

Specific Goal 7: The expression of interrogative and exclamative sentences

9:30-10 Srabasti Dey. Copular clauses in Bangla and Tense

10-11 Xavier Villalba. Exclamative markers in Catalan and beyond

11-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12 Susagna Tubau. Question tags: where unconventional Merge, multidominance and Commitment Space semantics meet

12-13 Olga Borik & Iván Teomiro García. The expressive force of high datives 🖥️online

13-14 Lunch

Specific Goal 3: High negation and other sorts of negation

14-15 Sonia Cyrino. Negation inside periphrastic tenses in Brazilian Portuguese 🖥️online

15-16 M.Teresa Espinal, Eloi Puig-Mayenco, Urtzi Etxeberria & Susagna Tubau. On the status of NCIs. An experimental investigation on so-called Strict NC languages

16-16:15 Coffee break

16:15-16:45 Evripidis Tsiakmakis. High negation in English, Italian and Greek. Preliminary explorations

16:45-17:45 Matteo Greco. High negation, surprise effect, and some (unexpected) interpretive properties

17:45 Closing