AG 5: Expressivity: Variation and Change

Daniel Gutzmann & Katharina Turgay (U Bochum)

Mittwoch, 05.03.2025

13:45 – 14:15

Daniel Gutzmann & Katharina Turgay (Ruhr-University Bochum)

Introduction to the workshop

14:15 – 15:15

Andrés Saab (CONICET & University of Buenos Aires)

The syntax of adnominal expressives from a cross-linguistic perspective

15:15 – 15:45

Xavier Villalba (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Expressive adjectives and variation at the syntax/semantics interface

15:45 – 16:30

Kaffeepause

16:30 – 17:00

Cora Cavirani-Pots (University  of Cambridge) & Edoardo Cavirani & Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (University of Leuven)

Two ways to be expressive: The case of the Italian cazzo and merda

17:00 – 17:30

Nicolás Rivera (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona) & Martina Wiltschko (ICREA & Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona)

Towards a typology of expressive interjections: a modular approach

17:30 – 18:00

Daniel Hole (University of Stuttgart)

IP‐area adverbials with an attitude

Donnerstag, 06.03.2025

09:00 – 09:30

David Beaver & Ashwini Deo (University of Texas)

The semantic and pragmatic evolution of “very”

09:30 – 10:00

Gerhard Schaden (University of Lille/CRNS)

Changes in Expressive Meaning: The Euphemism Treadmill

10:00 – 10:30

Lukas Müller (University of Cologne)

From expressive to descriptive: The loss of expressivity as a case of desubjectification

10:30 – 11:15

Kaffeepause

11:15 – 12:15

Ashwini Deo (University of Texas)

Semantic change and expressive meaning

12:15 – 12:45

Anqi Zhang & Weijia Chen (Nanjing University)

Emergence of Evaluative Completive Hao in Chinese

12:45 – 13:45

Mittagspause

13:45 – 14:15

Antonia Rothmayr (Vienna)

No superlatives in German expressive vocatives

14:15 – 14:45

Dan Zeman (University of Porto)

Expressives as Assessment-Sensitive

Freitag, 07.03.2025

11:45 – 12:15

Osamu Sawada (Kobe University)

The variation of expressive modifiers: A view from the Japanese modifier baka ‘stupid’

12:15 – 12:45

Lingzi Zhuang & Eszter Ótott-Kovács (University of Toronto)

Emotive expressive content: Turkish derisive -mIş and beyond

12:45 – 13:15

Stefan Hinterwimmer (University of Hamburg)

The interaction of expressivity and register: The case of German demonstraive pronouns

13:15 – 13:45

Jordan Chark (HU Berlin)

Expressivity and situational variation: towards a linking hypothesis

13:45 – 14:15

Henrik Discher & Tanja Ackermann (FU Berlin & University of Bielefeld)

You’re a true Vulgarian, aren't you? Inter-speaker variation in the use of expressivity in German complaints