AG 5: Expressivity: Variation and Change
Daniel Gutzmann & Katharina Turgay (U Bochum)
Raum | Room P13
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Mittwoch | Wednesday, 05.03.2025 |
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13:45-14:45 |
Daniel Gutzmann & Katharina Turgay (Bochum) Introduction to the workshop |
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14:45-15:15 |
Andrés Saab (CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires) The syntax of adnominal expressives from a cross-linguistic perspective |
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15:15-15:45 |
Xavier Villalba (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Expressive adjectives and variation at the syntax/semantics interface |
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15:45-16:30 |
PAUSE | BREAK |
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16:30-17:00 |
Cora Cavirani-Pots, Edoardo Caviranu & GuidoVanden Wyngaerd (KU Leuven) Two ways to be expressive: the case of the Italian cazzo and merda |
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17:00-17:30 |
Nicolás Rivera (UPF Barcelona) & Martina Wiltschko (ICREA, UPF Barcelona) Towards a typology of expressive interjections: a modular approach |
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17:30-18:00 |
Daniel Hole (Stuttgart) IP‐area adverbials with an attitude |
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Donnerstag | Thursday, 06.03.2025 |
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09:00-9:30 |
David Beaver & Ashwini Deo (University of Texas) The semantic and pragmatic evolution of “very” |
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9:30-10:00 |
Gerhard Schaden (Université de Lille, CNRS) Changes in expressive meaning: the Euphemism Treadmill |
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10:00-10:30 |
Lukas Müller (Köln) From expressive to descriptive: the loss of expressivity as a case of desubjectification |
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10:30-11:15 |
PAUSE | BREAK |
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11:15-12:15 |
Ashwini Deo (University of Texas, Austin) Semantic change and expressive meaning |
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12:15-12:45 |
Anqi Zhang & Weijia Chen (Nanjing University) Emergence of evaluative completive hǎo in Chinese |
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12:45-13:45 |
MITTAGSPAUSE | LUNCH BREAK |
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13:45-14:45 |
Antonia Rothmayr (Wien) No superlatives in German expressive vocatives |
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14:15-14:45 |
Louis Cotgrove (IDS Mannheim) 🔨 Geil, einfach geil! Mehr kann man nicht sagen! 😍 |
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Freitag | Friday, 07.03.2025 |
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11:45-12:15 |
Osamu Sawada (Kobe) The variation of expressive modifiers: a view from the Japanese modifier baka ‘stupid’ |
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12:15-12:45 |
Lingzi Zhuang (University of Toronto) How reportative-like elements become emotive expressives Lingzi Zhuang & Eszter Ótott-Kovács (University of Toronto): Emotive expressives in Turkish and beyond |
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12:45-13:15 |
Stefan Hinterwimmer (Hamburg) The interaction of expressivity and register: the case of German demonstrative pronouns |
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13:15-13:45 |
Jordan Chark (HU Berlin) Expressivity and situational variation: towards a linking hypothesis |
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13:45-14:15 |
Henrik Discher (FU Berlin) & Tanja Ackermann (Bielefeld) You’re a true Vulgarian, aren’t you? Inter-speaker variation in the use of expressivity in German complaints |