Incrementality ('adding up to a larger whole', König 1991) can be expressed by English more, German noch/mehr, Hebrew od, Mandarin hai etc. While studies of individual incremental constructions exist, there are still many gaps in their understanding. This workshop aims to fill such gaps (A) by studying how incremental constructions vary syntactically and semantically, both across and within languages, and (B) by trying to integrate insights from two approaches to incrementality, which thus far have not interacted:
- Degree-based approaches (e.g. Greenberg 2010, Thomas 2011), taking incremental constructions to express additive measurements of eventualities and
- Discourse-oriented approaches (e.g. Eckardt 2007, Umbach 2012, Grubic 2018) taking them to be QUD-sensitive, managing the growth of information along discourse-salient dimensions (e.g. event/discourse time).
The workshop is included in the ESSLLI 2024 summer school in Leuven (Belgium). It will be in the first week (29.July - 2. Aug 2024).
The topic of the workshop is closely related to that of the course on Scalarity and additivity in natural language, which is also in the first week. Course participants are welcome.
Here you find the call for papers .
The workshop is organized by Yael Greenberg and Carla Umbach. If you have questions, please contact us.