Workshop 5: Expressivity: Variation and Change

Daniel Gutzmann & Katharina Turgay (U Bochum)

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	Coffee break
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

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	Coffee break
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	Lunch break
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

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