National
Ph.D. Course: Expanding Construction Grammar and
Frame Semantics
Location:
University of Bergen, Dragefjellet,
Aud 4, Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1, 5007 BERGEN. Here
is a map
of campus. Dragefjellet is marked 1 on the map. And here
is a map of Central
Bergen.
Dates:
June 2–5, 2008
Organizers:
Jóhanna Barðdal (Dept. of Linguistic, Literary
and Aesthetic Studies) under the auspices of the Ph.D. Research
School in Linguistics and Philology, Faculty of Humanities,
University of Bergen
Course
description: The
course gives a general introduction to Construction Grammar
and Frame Semantics, in particular the FrameNet project and
how that can be implemented on other languages than English.
The course will then focus on how Construction Grammar can
be further expanded to, for instance, contrastive and comparative
linguistics, historical linguistics, and syntactic productivity.
The course will also zoom in on particular constructions that
have been central within Construction Grammar, like the Resultative
construction and its representation in English and German,
and the Ditransitive construction and its representation in
Norwegian and other West-Scandinavian languages.
Lecturers:
Charles
J. Fillmore, Unversity of California, Berkeley
Hans
C. Boas, University of Texas, Austin
Jóhanna
Barðdal, University of Bergen, Norway
Kristian
E. Kristoffersen, University of Oslo, Norway
Andreas
Sveen, University of Oslo, Norway
Program:
Monday, June
2:
09.00–09.15:
Opening
09.15–12.00:
Boas: Introduction: Construction
Grammar in the 21st Century
12.00–13.00:
lunch
13.00–16.00:
Fillmore: FrameNet moves from
Lexicon-Building
to Constructicon-Building
Tuesday, June
3:
09.00–12.00:
Fillmore: FrameNet style
Annotations
of
Construction Types: Easy and Hard Cases
12.00–13.00:
lunch
13.00–16.00:
Boas: The English Resultative
Construction:
A Contrastive Perspective
Wednesday,
June 4:
09.00–12.00:
Fillmore: Integrating Lexical
Meanings and Construction Meanings
12.00–13.00:
lunch
13.00–16.00:
Barðdal,
Kristoffersen and Sveen:
The
Ditransitive Construction in West-
Scandinavian: A Family of Constructions I II III
Thursday, June
5:
09.00–12.00:
Boas: Identifying Syntactically Relevant
Units of Meaning in Constructions
12.00–13.00:
lunch
13.00–16.00:
Barðdal:
Syntactic Productivity:
Extending
Argument Structure Constructions
to New Verbs
Registration:
by e-mail
to coordinator Eva Thue
Vold, by May 15.
The
course is open to Ph.D. candidates from all countries as well
as other participants, although Ph.D. candidates from Norwegian
institutions will be given precedence in case the number of
registrations exceeds all expectations.
Assessment:
Course credit based on attendance and active participation.
Course
credits: 2
Required
pre-reading:
Barðdal,
Jóhanna. 2006. Predicting
the Productivity of Argument Structure Constructions.
To appear in Berkeley Linguistics Society 32.
Barðdal,
Jóhanna. 2007. The
Semantic and Lexical Range of the Ditransitive Construction
in the History of (North) Germanic. Functions of Language
14–1:9–30.
Boas,
Hans C. 2003. A Constructional Approach to Resultatives,
119–158 and 159–213.
Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Boas,
Hans C. 2006. A
Frame-Semantic Approach to Identifying Syntactically Relevant
Elements of Meaning. In Contrastive Studies and Valency:
Studies in Honor of Hans Ulrich Boas, ed. by P. Steiner,
H.C. Boas and S. Schierholz, 119–149. Frankfurt: Lang.
Gawron,
Jean Mark. 2008. Frame Semantics.
Manuscript, San Diego State University.
Goldberg,
Adele. 2006. Constructions at Work: The Nature of Generalization
in Language, 1–65. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fillmore,
Charles F. 2008. Border Conflicts:
FrameNet Meets Construction Grammar [To be presented as
a plenary talk at Euralex
2008]. Manuscript, University of California, Berkeley.
Fee,
travel and subsistence costs: Participation is free.
Participants are required to carry travel and subsistence
costs and make the necessary arrangements themselves.
Accommodation:
Participants should book hotel rooms or other accommodation
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, since finding a room can oftentimes be
difficult in June.
