28.3180, Confs: Ling Theories, Morphology, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Austria

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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:43:47
From: Kleanthes K. Grohmann [kleanthi at ucy.ac.cy]
Subject: Passives - A Cross-Linguistic Workshop

 
Passives - A Cross-Linguistic Workshop 
Short Title: Passives 

Date: 16-Sep-2017 - 17-Sep-2017 
Location: Vienna, Austria 
Contact: Kleanthes K. Grohmann 
Contact Email: kleanthi at ucy.ac.cy 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

On Sunday and Monday, 16–17 September 2017, Passive – A Cross-Linguistic
Workshop will take place at the University of Vienna, Austria. The workshop
description is as follows.

How passive sentences are produced has been debated intensely in formal
linguistics for more than half a century; see e.g. Hallmann & Kallulli (2013)
for a thorough introduction to the history of the linguistic interpretation of
passives and their relation to their active counterparts in grammatical
theory. In GB syntax (Chomsky 1981), the generation of passives is typically
attributed to A-chain formation motivated by Case absorption of a passive
morpheme (Baker, Johnson and Roberts 1989): An internal argument which
receives the patient theta role but not accusative Case must move to the
grammatical subject position, a Case-marked position without a theta role.
Other, earlier work has accounted for the production of passives, especially
in Japanese (Kuno 1973), with the non-NP movement approach (Kuroda 1965,
1979). In the framework of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995 et seq.),
Hoshi (1994) proposes that the subject NP of a Japanese passive, which is
base-generated at the Spec of the higher VP shell (SpecvP), raises to the Spec
of IP (SpecTP) for Case reasons, while Boeckx (1998) treats Japanese ni direct
passives, for example, on a par with tough-constructions as NP-movement
without Case-absorption. Another avenue of research holds that passives are
motivated by Case and theta role checking, following Hornstein (2001). More
recent works puts passives in perspective with other voices and explore a more
complex role carried by little v (e.g. Folli & Harley 2005).

Focusing on the economy of derivation, a question arises: Why is a passive
sentence preferred in derivation even though it is more costly and arguably
acquired later than its active counterpart? In addition, we could ask: Why can
a passive sentence be interpreted differently depending on the context such as
neutral and emotionally speaker-oriented in semantics and pragmatics? This
workshop aims to discuss and uncover answers and solutions to such questions
through the in-depth analyses of passives across different languages and
populations from the interface perspectives between syntax, semantics, and
pragmatics.

The invited speakers have all worked on passives for a long time. This ranges
from groundbreaking work on dethematized subjects (Roberts 1987), the role of
the lexicon (Ramchand 2008), the syntactic realization of v in passives and
anticausatives (Kallulli 2007), and strictly local derivational approaches
with cyclic LF and PF Spell-Out (Müller 2011) to passive morphosyntax in
Italian dialects including indirect object/dative passives (Ledgeway 2000),
passive-like constructions across Basque dialects (Etxepare (2008–11), and
issues for language acquisition in Greek (Terzi & Wexler 2002). Kleanthes K.
Grohmann and Maria Kambanaros are the workshop conveners and Eva-Maria
Remberger is the local workshop organizer. The workshop receives partial
financial support from the Department of Romance Studies and the Faculty of
Philological and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna.
 

Passives — A Cross-Linguistic Workshop
University of Vienna, 16–17 September 2017

Saturday, September 16:

09.00–09.30 
Registration & Poster Set-up

09.30–09.45 
Workshop Opening

09.45–10.30 
Eva-Maria Remberger (University of Vienna)
‘On Deontic Passives’

10.30–11.30
Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge)
‘Dative want-Passives in Southern Italy’

11.30–12.30 
Poster Session & Coffee Break

12.30–13.30 
Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge) & Michelle Sheehan (University of Essex)
‘Remarks on a Parameter Hierarchy for Passives

13.30–15.00 Lunch Break

15.00–15.45 
Faruk Akkus & Julie Anne Legate (University of Pennsylvania)
‘Turkish “Double Passives” and the Theory of the Passive’

15.45–16.15 Coffee Break

16.15–17.00
Dalina Kallulli (University of Vienna)
‘Passive Activities, Active Reanalysis: Once again on Meaning–Form
Correspondence’

17.00–18.00 
Gereon Müller (University of Leipzig)
‘Structure Removal in Long-Distance Passives’

18.00 Departure for Dinner at ‘Heuriger Werner Welser’

Sunday, September 17:

09.00–09.45 
Akemi Matsuya (Takachiho University)
‘Semantic and Pragmatic Implications of Passives’

09.45–10.45 
Gillian Ramchand (University of Tromsø)
‘Building Passive in English: The Participle in EN/ED’’

10.45–11.45 
Poster Session & Coffee Break

11.45–12.30
Arhonto Terzi (Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece)
‘Synthetic Passives in Early and Impaired Grammars’

12.30–13.15 
Kleanthes K. Grohmann (University of Cyprus), Maria Kambanaros (Cyprus
University of Technology), and Evelina Leivada (University of Tromsø)
‘Revisiting Impaired Passives under the Locus Preservation Hypothesis’

13.15–14.30
Roundtable & closing during catered light lunch

Poster Presentation:
Celina Agostinho (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
‘Verbal Passives in the Acquisition of European Portuguese’

Rima Bn Ayeche (affiliation)
‘A Minimalist Approach to Verbal Passives in English and Standard Arabic’

Benjamin Bruening (University of Delaware)
‘Implications of the Passive in Passamaquoddy-Maliseet’

Pritha Chandra (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi), Gurmeet Kaur (Indian
Institute of Technology Delhi), and Anindita Sahoo (Birla Institute of
Management Technology)
‘On Some Passive Strategies in Natural Language’

Isabel Crespí (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
‘Unexpected Passive Structures from Prepositional Verbs in Romance’

Laura Grestenberger (University of Vienna)
‘Two Types of Passive? Voice Morphology, “Low Passives”, and the
Inchoative-to-Passive Reanalysis in Classical Greek and Sanskrit’

Nenad Jovanovic (University of Potsdam & Macquarie University)
‘Priming the Comprehension of Passives in German-Acquiring Children:
Eye-Tracking and Pupillometry Outcomes’

Mohamed Naji (University of Moulay Smail)
‘A More Articulated Approach to Causativity and Agentivity’

Caterina L. Paolazzi (University College London), Nino Grillo (University of
York), and Andrea Santi (University College London)
‘Passives Are Not Always More Difficult Than Actives’

Ivana Šarić Šokčević (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Osijek)
‘About the Frequency and Function of the Passive Constructions in German and
Croatian’





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