Expressivity 1: Program

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  – 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  – 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 –  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