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

作为语法对象的事件研讨会，纽约州伊萨卡，1997 年夏季

• 批准号: 9616591
• 负责人: Carol Tenny
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-03-01 至 1998-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9616591&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Events; Grammatical; Objects; Ithaca

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.

词汇语义学、逻辑语义学和句法的研究已经逐渐认识到自然语言的语法以特定的方式构建和指代事件。研究动词含义如何跨语言组织的词汇语义学家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重复模式。研究了句子意义的真值条件属性的逻辑语义学家也发现有必要提及与事件语义相关的意义元素，例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，其中可以看到事件的语义与句法结构相互作用。这三个学科涉及不同的工具、方法和问题，但现在在语法和语义上，事件作为语法对象的想法已经足够趋同，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、词汇语义和逻辑语义的综合角度进行。本次研讨会汇集了来自这三个领域的杰出研究人员，专门解决这个问题。 研讨会是激发这种互动的绝佳方式，否则这种互动只会偶尔发生。这种会议以前从未尝试过。由于多种原因，本次研讨会非常具有成本效益。该讲习班将在美国语言学会康奈尔大学1997年夏季学院举行，部分参加讲习班的人员将在那里教授课程，以减少差旅费用。 1997年研究所计划开设一些与事件句法或语义主题相关的课程，其他从事事件研究的学者将能够作为观众的一部分参与其中，从而增加就这些主题进行富有成效的对话的机会。 最后，交叉融合和联合研究将增强这些研究人员解决问题的有效能力，从而形成自然语言事件的综合理论。