29.4025, Confs: General Linguistics, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Czech Republic

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Subject: 29.4025, Confs: General Linguistics, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Czech Republic

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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 14:08:34
From: Jan Židek [jan.zidek at centrum.cz]
Subject: Combining Verbs in and Across Languages

 
Combining Verbs in and Across Languages 

Date: 26-Oct-2018 - 26-Oct-2018 
Location: Prague, Czech Republic 
Contact: Jan Židek 
Contact Email: jan.zidek at centrum.cz 
Meeting URL: https://ujca.ff.cuni.cz/en/2018/10/12/26-10-combining-verbs-in-and-across-languages-2/ 

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

Subject Language(s): Abui (abz)
                     Arabic, Standard (arb)
                     Japanese (jpn)
                     Kazakh (kaz)
                     Manchu (mnc)
                     Mongolian, Halh (khk)
                     Nanai (gld)
                     Sawila (swt)
                     Thai (tha)
                     Yakut (sah)

Meeting Description: 

Workshop of Prague Descriptive Linguistics Group, Charles University, Prague,
26 October 2018

This workshop is bringing together researchers who deal with multiverb
constructions in different languages of the world. The common goal is to shed
light on certain entrenched concepts such as serial verb constructions,
auxiliaries or light verbs, and discuss to what extent they are useful as
adequate descriptive categories for the grammars of individual languages on
the one hand, and as meaningful typological comparative concepts on the other.
Do they exhaustively and appropriately account for the cross-linguistic
variability? Or should a more efficient set of categories be proposed?

Among the crucial issues to be raised is the nature of the proposed
categories: are they not better perceived as scalar than discrete? What is the
synchronic relationship between the categories, i.e. how to deal with verbs
which can appear in different roles? What is the diachronic relationship
between them?

We will discuss in detail the following issues:

- An exercise in matching form and function: what ''periphrastic verbs'' can
do that auxiliaries, light verb constructions, constructional auxiliaries and
serial verb constructions cannot (or vice versa)? (cross-linguistic
comparison)
- The morphosyntactic status of multiverb constructions - is there a head? Are
the verbs overtly linked? (Arabic)
- Where is the border between mono- and multi-clausality in multiverb
combinations in a language where overt morphosyntactic marking is either
facultative or outright impossible? (Thai)
- Does the distinction between auxiliaries and light verbs make sense?
(Japanese and other Central and East Asian languages)
- How much does the original semantics of auxiliary verbs define their
grammaticalized use in Sakha? Are they semantically bleached (light verbs) or
is the grammatical function only an extension of their meanings? (Sakha)
- Is it possible to pose discrete boundaries between auxiliaries, light verbs,
and lexical verbs? (Manchu and Mongolian)
 

Program:

10:20:
Introduction

10:30-11:00:
Multiverb combinations in Thai revisited
Jan Židek

11:00-12:00:
Complex predicates in Abui and Sawila (Papuan)
František Kratochvíl

Lunch

13:00-13:30:
Semantics of auxiliary verbs in Sakha
Jonáš Vlasák

13:30-14:30:
When a verb meets another verb - on verb chains from a cross-linguistic
perspective
Florian Siegl

Coffee break

15:00-15:30:
Multiverb constructions in Arabic: Is there a head? Are the verbs linked?
Adam Pospíšil

15:30-16:00:
On light verbs with a heavy heart: Multiverb construction categorization
issues in Japanese
Vít Ulman

16:00-16:30
The verbal expression of aspectual and phasal semantics in Nanai
Sonya Oskolskaya

Coffee break

17:00-17:30:
Kazakh complex predicates: Functional projections above VP
Eszter Ótott Kovács

17:30-18:30:
Categorization problems of multiverb constructions in Manchu and Mongolian
Veronika Zikmundová, Veronika Kapišovská & Jan Křivan





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