Monday, July 23
14.15 Welcome address
14.30 Wilhelm Geuder et al.:
Introduction: Verbs, arguments, and polysemy
15.00 Charles Fillmore (Berkeley):
Why FrameNet has made me a splitter
16.00 Coffee break
16.30 Hans Kamp & Antje Roßdeutscher (Stuttgart):
Presupposition Triggers: What the Lexicon ought to say about them and how it should say that.Tuesday, July 24
9.15 Dietmar Zaefferer (München):
Lexical grammar or grammatical lexicon?
10.15 Jaume Mateu (Barcelona):
The elasticity of verb meaning and the locative alternation
11.15 Coffee break
11.45 Irene Rapp (Tübingen):
The locative alternation in German: Semantic differences, semantic restrictions, and argument linking properties [this talk had to be cancelled]
12.45 Lunch break
14.30 Christoph Schwarze (Konstanz):
Underspecification in the semantics of word formation: the case of denominal verbs of removal in Italian
15.30 Ingrid Kaufmann (Wuppertal):
The Middle: interaction of argument structure and the referential properties
of verbs
16.30 Coffee break
17.00 Richard Waltereit (Tübingen):
Arguments, reanalysis, and polysemy: Diachronic changes in valency patterns
Wednesday, July 25
9.15 Beth Levin (Stanford) and Malka Rappaport
Hovav (Jerusalem):
Polysemy, Monosemy, and the Dative Alternation
10.15 Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton):
Where are the benefits? A lexical-semantic examination of the Benefactive
11.15 Coffee break
11.45 David Dowty (Ohio):
Meaning-changing lexical rules as semantic filters in argument alternations
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