“Ad hoc categories and their linguistic construction. Typology, diachrony and use”

Convenors: Caterina Mauri (Bologna), Andrea Sansò (Insubria – Como).
49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea.
31 August – 3 September 2016. University of Naples Federico II, Naples. http://www.sle2016.eu/

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Wednesday 31st of August

11:00-11:25
Daniel – Representative plurality: typologizing heterogeneous plurals

11:30-11:55
Mihatsch – Spanish tipo as an indicator of ad-hoc categorization: a European phenomenon?

12:00-12:25
Umbach – Ad-hoc kind formation by demonstratives of quality and manner

12:30-12:55
Van der Auwera – Such – categories and instances

13:00 – 14:30
LUNCH

14:30-14:55
Fiorentini / Goria – General extenders, minority languages, and stuff: list constructions in language contact situations

15:00-15:25
Miola – Refining Exemplar-Driven Category Building Strategies: synchronic and diachronic observations on Italian

15:30-15:55
Benigni – Ad hoc categorization in Russian and multifunctional general extenders

16:00-16:30
Lo Baido – Roads to Exemplification in Italian

16:00-17:00
COFFEE BREAK

17:00-17:25
Barotto – The role of exemplification in the on-line construction of categories: evidence from Japanese

17:30-17:55
Ariel – Evoking higher-level categories using or constructions

18:00-18:30
Kuperschmidt – Alternative relations and higher-level categories

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Thursday 1st of September

09:00-09:25
Geupel / Inglese – The encoding of ad hoc categories in Sanskrit: a synchronic and diachronic analysis of “compounds” with -ādi-

09:30-09:55
Norde – The Dutch diminutive as online nominalisation

10:00-10:25
Chauveau-Thoumelin – A case of ad hoc categorization: the [[X]NP genre [Y]CLAUSE] construction in French

10:30-11:00
FINAL DISCUSSION: round table with Caterina Mauri, Andrea Sansò, Edith Moravcsick and Ekkehard Koenig