Program

Thursday 1 June 2023, room MSI 01.28
9.30 10.00 Registration & coffee
10.00 11.00 Norbert Corver (Utrecht University) Looking at adjectival constructions through an adpositional lens (slides)
11.00 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 12.30 Carla Umbach (Universität zu Köln)

Equatives in Turkish – scalar and non-scalar comparison across categories (slides)

12.30 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 15.00 Alexis Wellwood (USC) Packaging comparative thoughts (handout)
15.00 16.00 Anastasiia Vyshnevska (CRISSP–KU Leuven) Degrees in Ukrainian deadjectival verbs (slides)
16.00 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 17.30 Jianrong Yu (CRISSP–KU Leuven) & Ryan Walter Smith (University of Manchester) On the state of degree achievement verbs (handout)
19.00 Conference dinner @ Guzzi
Friday 2 June 2023, room MSI 01.28
9.30 10.00 Coffee
10.00 11.00 Chris Kennedy (University of Chicago) Points of comparison (handout)
11.00 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 12.30 Vera Hohaus (University of Manchester) & Eve Suharwardy (University of Manchester)

DegP Movement Revisited: The View from Malay and Samoan (handout)

12.30 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 15.00 Jon Ander Mendia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Perspectives on degrees (slides)
15.00 16.00 Laura Vela-Plo (University of the Basque Country) Comparatives: coordinate and dependent, with either clausal or directly phrasal standards (slides)
16.00 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 17.30 Pavel Caha (Masaryk University), Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (CRISSP–KU Leuven), and Karen De Clercq (LLF, CNRS–UMR 7110) Diminutive adjectives in Czech as evidence for a rich internal structure of gradable adjectives (slides)