Workshop on Events as Grammatical Objects, Ithaca, N.Y., Summer 1997

词汇语义学、逻辑语义学和句法学的研究已经逐渐认识到，自然语言的语法以特定的方式构造和指代事件。词汇语义学家研究了动词的意义是如何在不同语言中组织的，他们观察到动词如何编码时间、因果关系、静态性和事件的其他特征的循环模式。逻辑语义学家研究了句子意义的真值条件属性，也发现有必要参考与事件语义相关的意义元素，如因果关系和时间属性。 句法学家研究人类语言句子的一般结构，发现了越来越多的现象，其中事件的语义可以被视为与句法结构相互作用。这三个学科关注不同的工具、方法和问题，但现在在句法和语义中事件作为语法对象的想法上已经有了足够的共识，跨这些学科的对话和合作研究是可能的。 这是一个关于事件作为语法对象的研讨会，从语法，词汇语义学和逻辑语义学的综合角度出发。这次研讨会汇集了这三个领域的杰出研究人员，专门讨论这一问题。 研讨会是激发这种互动的一个很好的方式，否则这种互动只会偶尔发生。这种会议以前从未尝试过。这个研讨会非常具有成本效益，原因有很多。讲习班将在康奈尔大学美国语言学会1997年暑期研究所举行，讲习班的一些参加者将在那里教授课程，减少旅费。1997年研究所计划举办一些与事件句法或语义学专题有关的课程，从事事件研究的其他学者将能够作为听众参加，从而增加就这些专题进行富有成效的对话的机会。 最后，交叉和联合研究将成倍增加这些研究人员的有效力量，以解决可能导致自然语言事件综合理论的问题。

Research in lexical semantics, logical semantics, and syntax has converged on a growing recognition that the grammars of natural languages structure and refer to events in particular ways. Lexical semanticists who have studied how verb meanings are organized across languages, have observed recurrent patterns in how verbs encode time, causation, stativity, and other characteristics of events. Logical semanticists who have studied the truth-conditional properties of sentence meaning, have also found it necessary to refer to elements of meaning related to the semantics of events, such as causation and temporal properties. Syntacticians, studying the general structure of sentences of human languages, have discovered a growing body of phenomena in which the semantics of events can be seen to interact with syntactic structures. These three disciplines are concerned with different tools, approaches, and questions, but there is now enough convergence on the idea of events as grammatical objects in both syntax and semantics, that dialogue and cooperative research across these disciplines is possible. This is a workshop on Events as Grammatical Objects, from the combined perspectives of syntax, lexical semantics, and logical semantics. This workshop brings together eminent researchers from these three areas specifically to address this issue. A workshop is an excellent way to spark this interaction, that otherwise would occur only sporadically if at all. This kind of meeting has not been attempted before. This workshop is exceedingly cost-effective for a number of reasons. The workshop will be held at the Linguistic Society of America's 1997 Summer Institute at Cornell University, where some of the participants in the workshop will be teaching courses, reducing travel expenditures. A number of courses relating to topics on the syntax or semantics of events are planned for the 1997 Institute, and other scholars working on events will be able to participate as part of the audience, i ncreasing the opportunities for productive dialogue on these topics. Finally, cross-fertilization and joint research will multiply the effective power of these researchers to attack the questions that could lead to an integrated theory of events in natural language.