35.1890, Calls: Verbal complex predicates in a theoretical and cross-linguistic perspective (Workshop at DGfS 2025)

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Subject: 35.1890, Calls: Verbal complex predicates in a theoretical and cross-linguistic perspective (Workshop at DGfS 2025)

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Date: 29-Jun-2024
From: Patryk Czerwinski [czerwinski at uni-mainz.de]
Subject: Verbal complex predicates in a theoretical and cross-linguistic perspective (Workshop at DGfS 2025)


Full Title: Verbal complex predicates in a theoretical and
cross-linguistic perspective (Workshop at DGfS 2025)
Short Title: VCPiaTaCLP

Date: 04-Mar-2025 - 07-Mar-2025
Location: Mainz, Germany
Contact Person: Patryk Czerwinski
Meeting Email: czerwinski at uni-mainz.de
Web Site:
https://converia.uni-mainz.de/frontend/index.php?folder_id=1020

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Syntax; Typology

Call Deadline: 08-Sep-2024

Meeting Description:

Organisers: Patryk Czerwinski, Andrej Malchukov (University of Mainz)

The domain of verbal complex predicates poses a number of theoretical
challenges that continue to attract attention of linguists within a
variety of different approaches (see e.g. Alsina et al. 1997; Amberber
et al. 2010). Within the broader goals of the ComPLETE project
(Vanhove et al. 2021), the workshop aims to address relevant
theoretical issues (including but not limited to
multi-/mono-clausality; light verb vs auxiliary distinction), and
investigate the degree to which modelling the domain within different
theoretical approaches for a variety of structurally diverse languages
can help resolve those issues. Specifically, we aim to combine the
general linguistic and typological approaches by investigating how the
generalisations and empirical predictions by modern theoretical
proposals with regards to the relevant grammatical factors (syntactic
dependency; argument sharing; operator sharing) are borne out by
testing them on a wide range of cross-linguistic data, including new
data from less described languages. Particular research questions to
be addressed would be a) theory-specific arguments for
multi-/mono-clausality and their motivations; b) different levels of
complex predication in traditional classifications as well as various
theoretical approaches (levels of projection in Minimalist
syntax/levels of “juncture” in the Role and Reference Grammar); and c)
the mechanisms of argument sharing (argument unification) available at
different levels. The workshop aims to contribute to our understanding
of whether theory-specific assumptions and analyses can appropriately
account for the observed facts of a broad and diverse range of
languages.

The workshop will take place over the course of three days, with
30-min. slots including Q&A.

Methodologically, the workshop's main goal is to promote interaction
between linguistic typology and general (theoretical) linguistics. We
therefore welcome papers from a wide spectrum within these approaches,
particularly those that spell out empirical predictions and
generalisations, and those that involve data from less studied
languages. Specific theoretical issues we would be particularly
interested in include, but are not limited to:
a) what are the mechanisms of argument sharing within different
theoretical frameworks and what they predict;
b) what are the arguments for mono- vs multi-clausality within
different frameworks and how they are motivated;
c) how different theories view the mechanisms of grammaticalisation
and lexicalisation in the domain (cf. the distinction between
auxiliaries and Light Verbs in LFG);
d) how the syntactic units within the domain are regimented (e.g.,
3-way distinction in RRG; other theories predict fewer or more).
Additionally, we welcome papers dealing with the diachrony of the
domain of complex predicates, including but not limited to:
a) the role of grammaticalization and lexicalization in rise of
complex predicates;
b) the universal and areal factors in the diachronic evolution of the
domain.

Please submit an abstract of max. 500 words (including examples but
excluding references) per e-mail to czerwinski at uni-mainz.de by
September 8. Making the references in the format required by the
'Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft' will save you effort later.

https://www.degruyter.com/publication/journal_key/ZFSW/downloadAsset/Z
FSW_Mouton_journal_stylesheet.pdf

Notification of abstract acceptance: 15 September 2024



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