workshop semi lexical heads call papers workshop semilexical heads tilburg university thursday 20 may friday 21 may 1999 invited speakers joseph emonds university durham hubert haider university salzburg elisabeth loebel university cologne semilexical heads distinction lexical major categories one hand functional minor grammatical categories heart presentday grammatical theory plays equally central role theories language acquisition code switching aphasia etcetera course time various diagnostic criteria proposed distinguish one class e g productivity distribution lack versus presence semantic content although certain clearcut cases e g distinction noun determiner distinction quite straightforward many lexical items less easy decide whether side lexical categories functional ones category p wellknown case uncertainty although seems less functional sense determiner grammatical n v people argued distinction made within class prepositions lexical ones grammatical functional ones cf van riemsdijk 1990 zwarts 1992 gradualness lexicalfunctional scale characteristic categories well reminiscent ross 1972 1973 notion squish refers degrees nouniness verbiness syntactic categories emonds 1985 speaks bout grammatical nouns verbs adjectives prepositions also refers disguised lexical categories another appropriate term would semilexical heads e heads hybrid sense display lexical functional grammatical characteristics kinds lexical items might possibly considered semilexical nominal domain emonds 1985 refers items proform one good ones reflexive self cf selves thing occurs something good classifiers quantitydesignating nominals pseudopartitive constructions like three grains sand might considered semilexical well within verbal domain semilexical candidates might arguably auxiliary verbs see emonds 85 claim certain verbs featuring verb clusters germanic verb raising constructions verbs serialization constructions etcetera within adjectival domain one might take quantifiers many much instances semilexical adjectives brief sketch potential semilexical heads presumably many concrete questions might arise study semilexical heads v types semilexical nouns verbs adjectives prepositions distinguished distinguishes truly lexical categories sense different truly grammatical functors distinction expressed terms lexical featurecomposition features involved assembling property e combine syntactic structure project syntactically involved idiosyncratic displacement phenomenona feature semilexical head triggers licensing function semilexical heads makes interpretable interface levels also diachronic point view question arises lexical heads develop gradually semilexical ones crosslinguistic variation range semilexical heads variation reside besides question semilexical heads behave syntactic component questions arise behavior components morphological processes characteristic semilexical heads concerns lexicon question arises stored lexicon distinguishes lexical entry truly lexical categories abstracts abstracts invited 30 minutes talks additional ten minutes discussion abstracts anonymous longer two pages including references examples margins least 1 inch font size 11 12 submissions limited maximum one individual one joint abstract per author please provide 5 anonymous abstracts one cameraready original containing title author name affiliation submissions email fax accepted provided cameraready original received within one week deadline separate card contain title paper author name affiliation address telephone number email address intention publish selection papers expect able partially reimburse travel vhotel expenses precise figures available yet deadline receipt abstracts monday 1 february 1999 abstracts sent following address norbert corver grammar models group department linguistics tilburg university p box 90153 5000 le tilburg netherlands phone 31 13 4662773 e mail secretariaat gm fdl kub nl fax 3113 4663110 organizing committee norbert corver henk van riemsdijk information accommodation travel information made available grammar models web site accessible http cwis kub nl fdl research gm conf htm