Workshop on Affectedness 2014: Manifestation of Affectedness in Natural Languages

Organized by František Kratochvíl and the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University.
1st Affectedness Workshop Program
Day 1: Tuesday 17 June

SEMANTICS
10:00 - 11:00 Event structure and affectedness - an overview - Boban Arsenijevic (University of Nis), Joanna Sio, and Frantisek Kratochvil (NTU)

coffee break
11:30 - 12:30 Undergoers and goals: On measuring out and being affected [pdf] - Boban Arsenijevic (University of Nis)

Lunch

EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES I
2:00 - 2:45 Investigating grammatical coding patterns using video elicitation - Sebastian Fedden (University of Surrey)
2:45 - 3:30 Affectedness in Child Language, with a focus on experimental design [pdf] - Bart Hollebrandse (Groningen University)
Video files: Blow_out.wmv | Build.wmv | Close.wmv
Music file: Muziekje.wma

coffee break
4:00 - 4:45 Methods in experimental fieldwork - Luca Onnis

AFFECTEDNESS IN SINITIC LANGUAGES
4:45 - 5:30 Morphosyntactic manifestations of affectedness in Rawang and Chinese - Randy LaPolla (NTU)
Day 2: Wednesday 18 June
10:00 - 11:00 The encoding of affectedness in Cantonese post-verbal particles: the case of can - Joanna Sio (NTU)

coffee break
11:30 - 12:30 VV compounds in Chinese - Helena Gao (NTU)

Lunch

AFFECTEDNESS AND LEXICON
2:00 - 2:45 Verbs in the Open Multilingual Wordnet - Francis Bond (NTU): Open Multilingual Wordnet

AFFECTEDNESS IN PAPUAN LANGUAGES (ALOR-PANTAR)
2:45 - 3:30 The role of Affectedness in the emergence of Differential Object Marking in Alor Pantar languages - Marian Klamer (Leiden University)

coffee break
4:00 - 4:45 Variation in pronominal indexing in Abui - Matthew Lou-Magnuson, Benidiktus Delpada and Frantisek Kratochvil (NTU)
4:45 - 5:30 Variation in pronominal indexing in the Alor-Pantar languages - Sebastian Fedden (University of Surrey)

Thursday 19 June - day off
Day 3: Friday 20 June

EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES II
10:00 - 11:00 What may affect affectedness? - Luca Onnis (NTU)

coffee break
11:30 - 12:30 Investigating event structure using visual stimuli - brainstorming and scripting - with Marijke van Kets (discussant, NTU)

Lunch: Bollywood veggies
7:00 PM Workshop Dinner - Fusion Spoon - followed by karaoke

This workshop was supported by the Singapore MOE Tier2 Grant Grammar Matrix Reloaded: Syntax and Semantics of Affectedness (MOE2013-T2-2-016; PI Frantisek) and HSS


Francis Bond <bond@ieee.org>
Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
Nanyang Technological University