{"id":2,"date":"2017-11-22T08:57:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T08:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lingconf.com\/agentivitytax\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2019-04-29T03:52:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T03:52:54","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lingconf.com\/agentivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Approaches to (Non-)Agentivity in Natural Language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p>The Department of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore will host a Workshop on Recent <strong>Approaches to (Non-)Agentivity in Natural Language<\/strong>, <strong>May 3-4, 2019<\/strong>. All are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n<p>The notion of agentivity in linguistic research straddles the intersection between syntax, semantics, and conceptual structure.\u00a0 This workshop hopes to open a new window to the topic, bringing together scholars who have recently investigated (non-)agentivity phenomena in different languages from a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives.\u00a0 \u00a0Apart from new takes on traditional semantic considerations relating to agentivity such as causation, force initiation, instrument status, etc., finer-grained analysis of events and their participants, as well as the effects of cultural and cognitive factors, are also among the areas that will be explored.<\/p>\n<h3>Invited speakers:<\/h3>\n<p>(in alphabetical order)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Juergen Bohnemeyer (University at Buffalo)<\/li>\n<li>Beth Levin (Stanford University)<\/li>\n<li>Fabienne Martin (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin)<\/li>\n<li>Elisabeth Verhoeven\u00a0(Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin)<\/li>\n<li>Phillip Wolff (Emory University)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Organizers:<\/h3>\n<p>Tham Shiao Wei<\/p>\n<h3>Sponsors:<\/h3>\n<p>Support by the National University of Singapore, the Wan Boo Sow Centre for Research on Chinese Culture, and the NUS Department of Chinese Studies is gratefully acknowledged.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore will host a Workshop on Recent Approaches to (Non-)Agentivity in Natural Language, May 3-4, 2019. All are welcome to attend. The notion of agentivity in linguistic research straddles the intersection between syntax, semantics, and conceptual structure.\u00a0 This workshop hopes to open a new window &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lingconf.com\/agentivity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recent Approaches to (Non-)Agentivity in Natural Language<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9qjuD-2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingconf.com\/agentivity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingconf.com\/agentivity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingconf.com\/agentivity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingconf.com\/agentivity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingconf.com\/agentivity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/lingconf.com\/agentivity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/lingconf.com\/agentivity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingconf.com\/agentivity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}