Program

Venue: NUS AS8 04-01 (Click on talk title for abstract)

9:00 – 9:30	Workshop Registration + Tea/Coffee
9:30 – 11:00	Welcome Session 1 Chair: Randy LaPolla Invited Speaker: Juergen Bohnemeyer (University at Buffalo) “Agentivity: The view from semantic typology”
11:00 – 11:10	Break
11:10 – 12:30	Session 2 Chair: BAO Zhiming Invited Speaker: Elisabeth Verhoeven (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Agentivity and the typology of psych-alternations”
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
Session 3 Chair: Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine
14:00 – 14:40	LI Wanyu (National University of Singapore) “A Semantic Analysis of an Emerging BEI Construction in Chinese Mandarin”
14:40 – 15:20	Yosuke Sato Seisen University “How Can One Kill Someone Twice in Indonesian? Causal Pluralism and the Tripartite VP Structure”
15:20 – 15:40	Refreshments
15:40 – 17:00	Session 4 Chair: LIN Jingxia Invited Speaker: Fabienne Martin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) “Aspectual differences between agentive and non-agentive uses of causative predicates”

9:30 – 10:00	Workshop Registration + Tea/Coffee
Session 1 Chair: Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine
10:00 – 11:20	Invited Speaker: Beth Levin (Stanford University) “The tightness of resultatives: implications for causation”
11:20 – 12:00	THAM Shiao Wei (National University of Singapore) “Agents, causers, results, and contentfulness in Mandarin expressions of caused change”
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch
Session 2 Chair: THAM Shiao Wei
13:30 – 14:10	CHUNG Siaw-Fong and HSIAO Min-Chun (National Chengchi University) “The Use of Da/Xiao/BuDongZuo in PTT: A corpus-based account”
14:10 – 14:50	HSIAO Min-Chun and CHUNG Siaw-Fong (National Chengchi University) “Affectedness in the agent of SUBSTITUTE”
14:50 – 15:10	Refreshments
15:10 – 16:30	Session 3 Chair: Juergen Bohnemeyer Invited Speaker: Phillip Wolff (Emory University) “Discovering Components of Meaning in English and Chinese with Machine Learning”
16:30 – 17:00	Roundtable Session: “(Non-)Agentivity in Natural Language” Chair: Beth Levin
17:00	Closing remarks