Key objectives 

• to identify, define and characterize possible sub-categories of frustrativity;
• to investigate lexical and grammatical expressions of frustrativity sub-categories in a variety of languages;
• to draw generalizations about the typological distribution and diachronic development of such expressions;
• to present the results of our work at scientific meetings and organize an international workshop in Amsterdam;
• to publish a volume collecting the results of the project.

Events

We meet every two weeks, in online or hybrid mode.

Impact

Frustrativity is one of the most recently discovered grammatical categories. As such, it has not yet been the object of much cross-linguistic research. The core idea of the project is that, like other macro-categories (e.g. modality, aspect, evidentiality, verbal quantification), frustrativity spans over several layers of semantic organization. In taking such an approach, the project aligns with recent work in layered models of clause structure (Functional Discourse Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar, Syntactic Cartography) and aims at furthering our understanding of the hierarchical organization of linguistic categories.

Coordinators and group members

Coordinators:
Riccardo Giomi
Rene Genis

Group members:
Fang Hongmei
Rene Genis
Riccardo Giomi
Kees Hengeveld
Lois Kemp
Paula Kyselica
Ezra la Roi (Ghent University)
Edson Rosa de Souza (Universidade Estadual Paulista)