34.201, Confs: Historical Linguistics, Syntax, Typology/Italy

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-201. Sat Jan 21 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.201, Confs: Historical Linguistics, Syntax, Typology/Italy

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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 02:50:40
From: Erica Biagetti [sala.conference.37 at gmail.com]
Subject: Workshop: Complex verb constructions in Indo-Aryan and beyond

Workshop: Complex verb constructions in Indo-Aryan and beyond 

Date: 04-Oct-2023 - 07-Oct-2023 
Location: Venice, Italy 
Contact: Andrea Drocco 
Contact Email: sala.conference.37 at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://sala37.wixsite.com/sala-37-venice 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Syntax; Typology 

Meeting Description: 

Recent decades have witnessed a growing interest in different types of complex
verb constructions in Indo-Aryan and in a broader cross-linguistic context
(e.g., Butt 1995, 2010; Butt and Geuder 2003; Dahl 2016; Slade 2014, 2020). In
this context, the notion of complex verb construction is intended to include
all types of syntagmatic combinations of two (or more) predicates, including
periphrastic constructions, serial verbs, light verbs, verb concatenations,
etc. This workshop aims to bring together scholars working on various types of
complex verb constructions in Indo-Aryan from different perspective, including
synchronic, diachronic, comparative-historical, and typological contributions.
While it is well-known that complex verb constructions are a characteristic
feature of New Indo-Aryan languages, their attestations in the most ancient
stages of the language represent a yet understudied field. Apart from
well-studied constructions such as the periphrastic resultative in -tá- (e.g.,
Dahl 2016; Jamison 1990) or the periphrastic future (e.g., Gonda 1956; Lowe
2017; Tichy 1992), recent research has established that Old Indo-Aryan has
several other types of complex verb constructions, including serial verb and
light verb constructions (cf. e.g., Ittzes 2022; Yates 2014). As regards the
origin and development of complex verb constructions in Indo-Aryan, many
questions remain open, in particular regarding the relation between
constructions found in Old Indo-Aryan and corresponding constructions in
Modern Indo-Aryan and the diachronic processes leading to the emergence of
complex verb constructions. 

The main goals of this workshop are:

- to determine the functional range of complex verb constructions in
Indo-Aryan;
- to examine new and unexplored data concerning complex verb constructions
from Old to Modern Indo-Aryan languages in order to arrive at a deeper
understanding of the origin and historical development of such constructions;
- to identify what role, if any, loss of old inflexional categories or gaps in
inflectional paradigms play in the formation of complex verb constructions;
- to establish whether and to what extent the emergence of new complex verb
constructions represents a formal innovation continuing an already existing
category or results in a previously unattested category;
- to explore the conditions facilitating the rise of complex verb
constructions and establish whether any areas of grammar tend to attract such
constructions;
- to explore the development from a predominantly synthetic system of verbal
categories to a predominantly analytic system in the history of Indo-Aryan.

Convenors:
Eystein Dahl (UiT – The Arctic University of Norway) is a historical linguist
with a background in Indian Philology, Classics, and Comparative Linguistics.
His work has dealt with questions relating to tense/aspect/modality in Vedic
Sanskrit and on alignment
and alignment change in Indo-European languages. 

Beatrice Grieco (Università per stranieri di Siena) is a Ph.D student in
Historical Linguistics. Her main research interests are grammaticalization
processes in Vedic and Late Vedic, with a particular interest in the verbal
system and in the periphrastic verbal constructions.

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