34.848, Calls: Verbal Domains

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Subject: 34.848, Calls: Verbal Domains

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From: Michelle Sheehan [michelle.sheehan1 at newcastle.ac.uk]
Subject: Verbal Domains

Full Title: Verbal Domains

Date: 26-Jun-2023 - 27-Jun-2023
Location: Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Michelle Sheehan
Meeting Email: michelle.sheehan1 at newcastle.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Philosophy of
Language; Syntax; Typology

Call Deadline: 14-Apr-2023

Meeting Description:

Much recent work in minimalism has converged on the idea that there is
a phase boundary between vP and TP around the level of voice or
progressive aspect (Aelbrecht 2010, Aelbrecht and Harwood 2015,
Ramchand & Svenonius 2014, Harwood 2015). While this work initially
focused on well-studied phenomena in English such as VP ellipsis,
expletive associate constructions and VP fronting, subsequent
cross-linguistic work has suggested that the same boundary can be
detected in Romance languages (Sheehan & Cyrino 2022, Casalicchio &
Sheehan 2022) and unrelated languages such as Turkish and Japanese and
within ‘words’ as well as in periphrastic structures (Fenger 2020).
The ultimate explanation for this remains open, but Ramchand (2018)
proposes an account based on the semantics of event composition.

There is a tension between this claim and other work providing
evidence for a v-related phase from asymmetries relating to
subject/object extraction (see Cole and Hermon 1998; Bennett et al.
2012; Sato 2012, van Urk 2015; van Urk & Richard 2015). Such
asymmetries seem to indicate that the v-related phase is located lower
than voice/aspect, between the internal and external argument, at the
level of v.

Despite these robust and recurrent empirical patterns, the whole
notion of phases remains somewhat controversial within generative
grammar, and the idea that there is a v-related phase in addition to a
C-related phase even more so (see Keine 2019). The evidence for
successive cyclicity in this lower phase has been questioned
(Zeijlstra & Keine 2020) and there is a certain sense of unease
regarding the fragility of phasal diagnostics and their uneasy
relationship with extraction restrictions (Boeckx & Grohmann 2007).

Invited speakers

Paula Fenger (Leipzig University)
Stefan Keine (UCLA)
Sana Kidwai (University of Cambridge)
Helen Koulidobrova (Central Connecticut State University)
Gillian Ramchand (UiT, The Arctic University of Norway)
Coppe van Urk (QMUL)

Funding

We gratefully acknowledge funding from the Van Riemsdijk Foundation,
the Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Newcastle
University’s School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics.

Organising committee

Vean Al-Saka
Gabriel Martínez Vera
Farah Nazir
Emma Nguyen
Michelle Sheehan
Rebecca Woods

Call for Papers:

This workshop seeks to bring together those interested in verbal
domains both sympathetic to and critical of v-related phasehood to
encourage a discussion of these and related issues. In particular, we
are interested in encouraging the consideration of evidence from a
diverse range of languages (including, but not limited to, Niger
Congo, Indo-Aryan, Neo-Aramaic, Turkic and signed languages as well as
better studied languages) from morphosyntactic and morphophonological
phenomena, presented by a diverse range of researchers from early
career to established academics. In this way, our aim is to
re-evaluate this important theoretical issue, considering the
implications of data from understudied languages, from phenomena not
previously considered and from patterns seen in acquisition and
contact. A non-exhaustive list of indicative questions follows:

1. Is there a v-related phase? If not, then how can the empirical
patterns described above be explained?

2. If there is a v-related phase then what is its size and does this
vary across languages?

3. How, if at all, are v-related phases in evidence in code-switching
and language acquisition?

4. How, if at all, is the v-related phase relevant in signed
languages?

5. Is there robust morphological/syntactic evidence for successive
cyclicity at the v-phase?

6. What are the most robust diagnostics for v-related phasehood?

7. How can we distinguish subject/object asymmetries at the v-phase
level from that-trace effects at the C-phase level?

8. Are there anti-locality effects at the v-phase level?

9. How do richer verbal constructions containing light verbs fit into
phase-based approaches?

10. How do patterns of split ergativity and agreement reversals relate
to phase theory?

Abstract submission

Abstracts should be anonymous and a maximum of 2 A4 pages long
including references and examples. The deadline for submission is
midnight on 14th April 2023 GMT and notification of acceptances will
be sent out in late April or early May. Some presentation slots will
be reserved for postgraduate students and ECRs, so please indicate on
your abstract if you have either status and would like this to be
considered.

Abstract submission link:
https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/5848/submitter

Funding

We gratefully acknowledge funding from the Van Riemsdijk Foundation,
the Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Newcastle
University’s School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics.

Organising committee

Vean Al-Saka
Gabriel Martínez Vera
Farah Nazir
Emma Nguyen
Michelle Sheehan
Rebecca Woods

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