28.2488, Confs: Gen Ling, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax, Typology/United Kingdom

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Subject: 28.2488, Confs: Gen Ling, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax, Typology/United Kingdom

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Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 13:49:15
From: Julio Song [cs791 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: vP Postgraduate Workshop

 
vP Postgraduate Workshop 

Date: 19-Jun-2017 - 19-Jun-2017 
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom 
Contact: Julio Song 
Contact Email: cs791 at cam.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: https://vpcambridge.wordpress.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Morphology; Phonology; Syntax; Typology 

Meeting Description: 

This is a postgraduate workshop on the linguistics of vP held at the
University of Cambridge.

It is now a consensus in the generative literature that there exists a “vP” at
the lower part of the clausal spine. vP forms a domain with various functions:
it is the “thematic” domain where theta roles are encoded and arguments
introduced, the “lexical” domain where verb stems are constructed, the “inner”
domain where interpretation can be non-compositional, the “event” domain where
event situations are structured and classified, and so forth. Syntax,
semantics, morphology and phonology closely interact with one another within
vP, and the multiple functions attributed to it inevitably lead to questions
on its nature. This workshop aims to bring together different perspectives on
the vP domain and foster new ideas on old issues.

This postgraduate workshop will take place on 19 June 2017 in the Department
of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. The
keynote speaker will be Dr. Linnaea Stockall (Queen Mary University of
London).
 

Registration is now open at https://vpcambridge.wordpress.com/registration/
(deadline 12th June 2017).

9:30 Registration opens

10:00-10:05 
Welcome

Plenary
10:05-11:00 Dr Linnaea Stockall (QMUL): title tbc

Break

Session 1
11:10-11:50 
Nils Hirsch (Humboldt University): Stative causative psych verbs as a test  
case for the decomposition of the vP

11:50-12:30 
Sherry Yong Chen (University of Oxford): A new solution to an old puzzle: a
syntactic approach to manner/result complementarity explains the structural
effects in novel verb learning

Lunch

Session 2
14:00-14:40 Isabel Crespí (The Autonomous University of Barcelona): Unexpected
passive structures from prepositional verbs in Romance

14:40-15:20 
Sebastià Salvà i Puig (The Autonomous University of Barcelona): Unaccusatives
beyond unaccusatives: split auxiliary selection with affected subjects in Old
Majorcan Catalan

15:20-16:00 
Rochelle Wild (QMUL): The interaction of clitic climbing and Focus Sensitive
Operators (FOPs) in Spanish

Coffee break

Session 3
16:20-17:00 
Yining Nie (NYU): Ergative voice and the features of transitivity

17:00-17:40 
Vikalp Kumar (UCL): Focusing and topicalizing the vP in Hindi-Urdu

18:00 Dinner at Rice Boat





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