SUSPENDED FOR JUNE.

Due to Covid-19 and in the midst of the situation that the world is in, WAASAP5 is postponed to DECEMBER 10-11, 2020. We hope that by then, there will be no problems in holding the workshop.

NEW CALL DEADLINE: 30-Sept-2020

The new deadline for abstract submission is the 30th of September 2020.

We will keep you timely informed.

We apologize for all the inconveniences and we thank you for your understanding

IKER (Center for the Study of the Basque Language and its Texts - UMR 5478) is pleased to announce that the 5th edition of the Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adverbs/Adjectives and Prepositions/Participles will be held at the research lab IKER UMR 5478, on June 25-26, 2020.

Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adverbs/Adjectives and Prepositions/Participles WAASAP is an international Workshop series celebrated biannually that focuses on the aspect and argument structure of adjectives and participles and adverbs and prepositions. In the time of its existence, it has developed into a referential forum of discussion of the theory of predicative non-verbal categories. Past editions have taken place at the University of Greenwich (2012), The Artic University of Norway at Tromsoe (2014), The University of Lille 3 (2016), and the University Pompeu Fabra (2018). This year’s edition is hosted by the research lab IKER UMR 5478 (CNRS, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour), and it will take place in Bayonne, at the Campus de La Nive (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour) in the Basque Coast.

This year’s edition welcomes, together with other topics that have been showcased in previous editions of the workshop (see e.g. WAASAP4), research on the relation between perspective and argument structure. The role of perspective, instantiated along the mental, spatial, and/or temporal dimensions, can be observed in linguistic phenomena ranging from certain types of anaphora (Clements, 1975; Sells, 1987; Speas, 2004; Sundaresan, 2012; Pearson, 2013), to psych predications (Adger and Ramchand, 2005; Landau, 2009) and so-called “taste”-predicates (Stephenson, 2010), and more generally, in linguistic phenomena regulating clausal finiteness and selection (Sigurdsson, 2004; Speas and Tenny, 2003; Bianchi, 2003; Wiltschko, 2014, among others). We seek works that approach the internal structure of verbs and participles, adverbs and prepositions, and explore the way in which perspective shifts relate to the internal structure of those predicates, as well as to the syntactic and semantic context in which they are embedded. Among the basic questions that the role of perspective raises in such contexts are:

• How linguistic perspective is formally represented

• How differences and similarities between the different types of perspective (mental, temporal, spatial, modal) are grammatically encoded

• How the instantiation of perspective may differ relative to grammatical phenomena (why for instance, perspectival anaphora is possible in the scope of spatial, temporal and mental predicates in Tamil, but only along a spatial dimension in Norwegian –Sundaresan and Pearson, 2014)

Keynote Speakers:

Fabienne Martin (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)

Sandhya Sundaresan (University of Gottingen)

Important dates

Deadline for abstract submission: March 30, 2020.

Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2020.

Date of the workshop: June 25-26, 2020.

Local Organization Committee:

Urtzi Etxeberria (CNRS-IKER)

Ricardo Etxepare (CNRS-IKER)

Scientific Committee:

Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

María J. Arche (University of Greenwich)

Boban Arsenijević (University of Graz)

Hagit Borer (Queen Mary, University of London)

Patricia Cabredo (CNRS – Université Paris 8)

Elena Castroviejo (University of the Basque Country)

Maia Duguine (CNRS-IKER)

Urtzi Etxeberria (CNRS – IKER, UMR5478)

Ricardo Etxepare (CNRS – IKER, UMR5478)

Antonio Fábregas (University of Tromsø)

Angel Gallego (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Berit Gehrke (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Gianina Iordachioaia (Universität Stuttgart)

Aritz Irurtzun (CNRS-IKER)

Rafael Marín (CNRS – Université de Lille)

Fabienne Martin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Christopher Piñón (Université de Lille)

Isabel Oltra-Massuet (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)

Isabelle Roy (Université de Nantes)

Florian Schäfer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Elena Soare (Université Paris 8)

Andrew Spencer (University of Essex)

Contact:

wassap5.baiona2020@gmail.com