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Mittwoch / Wednesday, 05.03.2025
13:45-14:15
– Daniel Gutzmann & Katharina Turgay (Ruhr-University Bochum)
Introduction
14:15-15:15
– Invited talk: 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
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15:45-16:30
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PAUSE / BREAK
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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
Donnerstag / Thursday, 06.03.2025
09:00-10:00
– David Beaver & Ashwini Deo (University of Texas, Austin)
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
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10:30-11:15
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PAUSE / BREAK
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11:15-12:45
– Invited talk: Ashwini Deo (University of Texas, Austin)
Semantic change and expressive meaning
12:15-12:45
– Anqi Zhang & Weijia Chen (Nanjing University)
Emergence of evaluative completive
hao
in Chinese
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12:45-13:45 –
MITTAGSPAUSE / LUNCH BREAK
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13:45-14:15
– Kalle Glauch (Ruhr University Bochum)
From Insult to Slur? Contextual Variability in Intelligence-Based Pejoratives
14:15-14:45
– Louis Cotgrove (IDS Mannheim)
🔨Geil, einfach geil! Mehr kann man nicht sagen! 😍
Towards a typology of intensification in German digital youth language
Freitag / Friday, 07.03.2025
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
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Lingzi Zhuang (University of Toronto)
How reportative-like elements become emotive expressives
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