34.3105, Confs: SLE Workshop: Exploring the Limits of Complex Predicates

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Subject: 34.3105, Confs: SLE Workshop: Exploring the Limits of Complex Predicates

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Date: 18-Oct-2023
From: Katya Aplonova [aplooon at gmail.com]
Subject: SLE Workshop: Exploring the Limits of Complex Predicates 

SLE Workshop: Exploring the Limits of Complex Predicates

Date: 21-Aug-2024 - 24-Aug-2024
Location: University of Helsinki, Finland
Contact: Katya Aplonova
Contact Email: aplooon at gmail.com
Meeting URL:
https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2024/list-of-workshop-proposals/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Workshop to be proposed for the 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas
Linguistica Europaea, University of Helsinki, 21–24 August 2024
Organizers: Daniel Krausse (CNRS-LATTICE, Paris), Katya Aplonova
(CNRS-LLACAN, Paris) & Patryk Czerwinski (University of Mainz)
Contact: daniel.krausse at ens.psl.eu, ekaterina.aplonova at cnrs.fr,
czerwinski at uni-mainz.de

Call for abstracts: We invite abstracts for our workshop titled
Exploring the Limits of Complex Predicates, to be held as part of the
57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, hosted by
the University of Helsinki, 21–24 August 2024. Preliminary abstracts
of 300 words must be received by 10 November 2023 to be included in
the workshop proposal.

Workshop description: The term ‘complex predicates’ has received
increasing attention in recent years (Amberber et al. 2010, Bowern
2014, Nash & Samvelian 2015, Nolan & Diedrichsen 2017, Csató et al.
2020, Krauße 2021), yet it still poses a challenge for theoretical
linguistics, typology and language description. Complex predicates are
generally defined as sequences of phonologically independent words,
which together behave like a single predicate with one set of
arguments; yet this definition covers a broad range of constructions
whose boundaries are not always well defined. ‘Complex predicate’ is
thus used as a cover term to include various syntactic phenomena such
as serial verbs, converbs, light verbs, auxiliaries, verb compounds,
and even noun incorporation (Anderson 2011, Bisang 1995, Baranova
2013, Butt 2010, Foley 2010, Müller 2002, Bril & Ozanne-Rivierre 2004,
Evans 1997, Massam 2013, Van Valin 2005). We also wish to investigate
where there are natural and typologically supported boundaries of
verbal complex predicates within a still broader domain of multi-verb
expression since for both domains the boundaries are not always clear
(Ameka 2005, Aikhenvald 2011, Unterladstetter 2020).

Our workshop, proposed in relation to the international project
ComPLETE (Vanhove et al. 2021), aims to bring together a range of
topics that can be subsumed under the term ‘complex predicate’, from
different perspectives, such as synchrony, diachrony and geographical
distribution. We invite our participants to inspect their own data for
non-canonical, unexpected or otherwise interesting verb constructions
in terms of argument structure, TAM sharing, prosody as well as
grammaticalization and lexicalization patterns. Presentations from
different theoretical frameworks are also welcome as long as they
make clear cross-linguistic predictions.
Proposed topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Methodological approaches to complex predicates (e.g. databases,
annotation schemas, questionnaires and other elicitation tools)
- Empirical and theoretical challenges to categorizing complex
predicates into noun-based vs. verb-based complex predicates including
rarely discussed cases such as ideophone-based complex predicates
- Theoretical motivations to distinguish between subtypes of complex
predicates (e.g. auxiliaries vs. light verbs)
- Potential correlation between canonical or unexpected paths of
grammaticalization / lexicalization and subtypes of complex predicates
(e.g. serial verbs, converbs, light verbs, auxiliaries)
- Conceptual and terminological issues in the domain of complex
predicates (e.g. the notion of finiteness, mechanisms of
argument-sharing and argument-pooling in different types of complex
predicates, etc.)
- Complex predicates in sign languages
- Complex predicates and corpus linguistics
- Delimiting the domain of verbal complex predicates within the
broader domain of ‘multi-verb constructions’

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