28.3623, Calls: Lang Acquisition, Morphology, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Spain

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Subject: 28.3623, Calls: Lang Acquisition, Morphology, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Spain

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Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 12:25:32
From: Ane Berro [ane.berro at ehu.eus]
Subject: Unergative Predicates. Architecture and Variation

Full Title: Unergative Predicates. Architecture and Variation 
Short Title: UnergPred 

Date: 18-Jan-2018 - 19-Jan-2018
Location: Bilbao, Spain 
Contact Person: Ane Berro
Meeting Email: ane.berro at ehu.eus
Web Site: https://unergativepredicat.wixsite.com/unergativepredicates 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Morphology; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2017 

Meeting Description:

The research centers Structures Formelles du Langage (UMR 7023, CNRS/Paris 8)
and IKER (UMR 5478, CNRS), and the research groups Bas&Be (FFI2014-51878-P
UPV/EHU) and the Bilingual Mind (IT665-13 UPV/EHU) co-organize the workshop
'Unergative Predicates: Architecture and Variation', to be held in Bilbao,
Basque Country, on January 18-19, 2018.

The fact that intransitive verbs do not constitute a homogeneous class is a
well-studied matter in the linguistic literature (Perlmutter 1978 1989, Burzio
1981, 1986, Belletti 1988 1999, Sorace 1993, Levin & Rappaport Hovav 1995 and
subsequent works). According to the Unaccusative Hypothesis (Perlmutter 1978
1989), intransitive verbs can be classified in two groups, depending on the
nature of the only argument of the verb: in unergative verbs, the only
argument corresponds to the initial subject, whereas in unaccusatives, it
corresponds to the direct object. These two types of intransitive verbs are
differentiated on the grounds of several linguistic contexts across languages,
such as auxiliary selection, prenominal passive participles, ne-cliticization
in Italian, post-verbal subject position, resultative modification, floating
quantifiers, etc.

Semantically, unergative verbs have been related to internal causation (Levin
& Rappaport Hovav 1995), or to lack of telicity (Tenny 1987). In contrast, in
unaccusative verbs, the sole argument has been associated with the role of
undergoer of a directed change or of holder of a state whose existence is
asserted or denied (Levin & Rappaport Hovav 1995). Regarding the syntactic
nature of unergatives, the sole argument of unergative verbs is standardly
considered to be an external argument, introduced by Voice (Kratzer 1996) or
little v (Chomsky 1995), contrary to the subject of unaccusative verbs, which
is considered to be introduced internally in VP.

The goal of the workshop is to gather researchers working currently on
unergative verbs and to provide a forum of discussion on recent advances in
this field.

Invited Speakers:

Alec Marantz (New York University)
Fabienne Martin (University of Stuttgart)
Gillian Ramchand (University of Tromsø)

2nd Call for Papers:

The deadline for submissions has been extended to October 1, 2017.

This workshop aims at gathering researchers working on the (morpho)syntax and
semantics of unergative verbs, as well as on any topic related to the
consequences that the nature of unergative verbs may have for linguistic
typology, diachrony, processing or acquisition. We therefore invite original
contributions related to any of the following topics:

- The syntactic decomposition of unergative verbs and their semantic
interpretation.
- Different aspectual classes of unergatives: dynamic vs. static, durative vs.
semelfactive, eventive vs. stative etc. Are these differences syntactically
represented?
- Factors influencing the architecture of a verb as unergative or
unaccusative: internal causation, telicity, cumulativity etc.
- Formation of unergative predicates: the interaction between Roots and
functional projections, complex V-N predicates.
- The (semantic) contribution of Roots in the formation of unergative (and
unaccusative) verbs.
- Typological asymmetries in unergative and unaccusative divide. Which verbs
constitute core cases of unergative predicates typologically and which verbs
display hybrid unaccusative-unergative behavior and why.
- The morphosyntactic correlates of unergativity: case, auxiliary alternation,
presence of certain light verbs etc.
- Relation between unergatives/unaccusatives and lexical categories. Do
unergatives involve a silent N in complement position?
- The role of the unergative/unaccusative verb classes in the diachronic
evolution of different phenomena: auxiliary selection, resultative/perfect
constructions etc.
- Processing and acquisition contrasts between unergative and unaccusative
predicates.

We invite abstracts (in English) for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes for
discussion) and a poster session. Abstracts should be submitted online via
Easy Chair conference system, in the following link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=unergpred18
Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 1, 2017.
Notification of acceptance: November 6, 2017.

More info: https://unergativepredicat.wixsite.com/unergativepredicates

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