Workshop: Reciprocal expressions: Lexicon, Grammar, Semantics

Reciprocal expressions: Lexicon, Grammar, Semantics

Workshop in honor of Imke Kruitwagen and Giada Palmieri

Thursday, 6 June, 9.00-13.30

Janskerkhof 2-3, room 109, Utrecht

PROGRAM

09.00-09.15     opening

09.15-10.15     Jacopo Romoli (Düsseldorf): On the source of ignorance and distributive inferences

10.15-10.45     Break

10.45-11.45     John Beavers (Austin, Texas): TBA

11.45-12.00     Break

12.00-12.40     Martin Everaert (Utrecht): The grammar of reciprocals

12.40-13.20     Yoad Winter (Utrecht): Notes on Kruitwagen’s threshold semantics for reciprocal verbs

13.20-13.30     Closing

The workshop will be held in the occasion of the following PhD defenses of two ILS researchers:

Imke Kruitwagen:    Lexical reciprocal verbs: a typicality approach

Giada Palmieri:         Lexical and Grammatical Reciprocity, Perspectives from Romance, Bantu and beyond

These defenses will take place on Wednesday 5 June, at 10:15 and 12:15 respectively.