Catalonia-Israel Symposium
Lexical Semantics and Grammatical Structure
in Event Conceptualization
February 16-18, 2015
Center for Language, Logic and Cognition (LLCC)
Mount Scopus
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Monday February 16
9:30 – 10:30
Beth Levin
Stanford University
Resultatives revisited
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00
Louise McNally
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Event description, individuation, and reference: The view from -ing nominals
12:00 – 13:00
Galit Sassoon
Bar Ilan University
Classification and gradability in the verbal domain
Lunch 13:00 – 14:30
14:30 – 15:30
Tova Rapoport
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
States as locations
15:30 – 16:30
Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal and Nora Boneh
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
On ethical datives in Modern Hebrew
Tuesday February 17
9:30 – 10:30
Elizabeth Ritter
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Classifying Blackfoot verbs
10:30 -11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00
Edit Doron
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The locative alternation in a verb-framed language
12:00 – 13:00
Jaume Mateu
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Conflation processes and unselected object constructions
13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH
14:30-15:30
Isidora Stojanovic
CNRS-Institut Jean Nicod
On the lexical and grammatical underpinnings of logic
15:30-16:30
Josep M. Fontana
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Looking into the past for solutions to present perfect puzzles
Wednesday February 18
9:30 – 10:30
Gemma Boleda
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Distributional semantics for lexical semantic information
10:30 -11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00
Roy Schwartz and Ari Rappoport
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Semantic knowledge acquisition using frequency-based patterns
12:00 – 13:00
Alexandra Spalek
University of Oslo
Verb meaning in composition: accounting for the rich combinatorial paradigm of change of
state verbs
13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH
14:30-15:30
Malka Rappaport Hovav
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Towards an understanding of manner/result complementarity
OPEN DISCUSSION