36.3534, Calls: Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adverbs/Adjectives and Prepositions/Participles (France)

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Subject: 36.3534, Calls: Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adverbs/Adjectives and Prepositions/Participles (France)

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Date: 18-Nov-2025
From: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr [patricia.cabredo-hofherr at cnrs.fr]
Subject: Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adverbs/Adjectives and Prepositions/Participles

Full Title: Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of
Adverbs/Adjectives and Prepositions/Participles
Short Title: WAASAP 7

Date: 18-Jun-2026 - 19-Jun-2026
Location: Paris, France
Web Site:
https://www.sfl.cnrs.fr/fr/waasap-7-workshop-aspect-and-argument-structure-adverbsadjectives-and-prepositionsparticiples

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Semantics; Syntax

Call Deadline: 17-Feb-2026

Call for Papers:
The Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adverbs/Adjectives
and Prepositions/Participles WAASAP is an international Workshop
series that takes place biannually focussing on the aspect and
argument structure of adjectives and participles and adverbs and
prepositions. 

The 2026 edition is hosted in Paris by the research group Structures
formelles du langage (UMR 7023, CNRS & Université Paris 8) on 18-19
June 2026.

Keynote Speakers:

- Ane Berro (Universidad de Deusto)

- Norbert Corver (Utrecht U.)

- Peter Hallman (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial
Intelligence)
WAASAP welcomes research on the aspectual and argument structure of
nonverbal categories, with a focus on adjectives, participles,
prepositions and adverbs. The topics that we are interested in
include, but are not restricted to, the following:

(i) What are the parallelisms and contrasts between the argument and
aspectual structure of verbs and those of adjectives, adverbs and
prepositions?

(ii) What are the correlates of the aspectual primitives in verbs
–dynamicity, eventivity, duration, telicity– in the non-verbal domain?
How do path structure, scale structure and boundedness apply for the
different categories?

(iii) What is the syntax of prepositional arguments? How do
prepositional complements of adjectives in constructions like faithful
to the book compare to prepositional arguments of verbs? How do dative
complements of adjectives compare to dative arguments of verbs? (Berro
& Fernández 2019, Fernández, Zúñiga & Berro 2020).

(iv) How does the argument structure of verbs and adjectives or
adpositions combine in complex syntactic structures (eg., in secondary
predication contexts involving adjectives, adpositions or adverbs)

(v) How does modification by adjectives differ from modification by
prepositional modifiers (una taza grande “a big cup” vs. una taza de
porcelana “a porcelain cup / lit: a cup of porcelain”, Nikolaeva &
Spencer 2012)

(vi) What diachronic change is observed in the syntax and semantics of
participial forms and in the inventories of participial forms (cf.
restructuring of the inventory of participles from Latin to the
Romance languages). What diachronic changes underlie the change of
verbs to prepositions (e.g. serial verbs changing to prepositions)? 

(vii) What are the syntactic properties of different types of
participles cross-linguistically (e.g. adjectival participles, Hallman
2017; experiential participles, Berro 2019)?

(viii) What syntactic properties distinguish adjectives and
prepositions from stative verbs cross-linguistically? (e.g. predicate
clefting in Haitian Creole, Déprez 2000, Zribi-Hertz & Glaude 2014)
Abstracts
We invite submissions for 25 minute talks (+10min discussion) in
English. 
Abstracts should not be longer than two pages (Times New
Roman 12 pt, single space, 2,4 cm margins, in pdf format). 
Abstracts
have to be anonymous. 
Submissions are restricted to a maximum of one
single-authored submission and one joint submission per author, or two
joint submissions.
The abstracts should be submitted at
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/WAASAP7/

Deadline for submissions: 17 February 2026
Notification of authors: 30 March 2026
WAASAP 7: 18-19 June 2026
Berro, Ane 2019 Basque adjectival participles: Stative, resultative or
experiential. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 4(1), 66. DOI:
http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.730

Berro, Ane, Fernández, B. 2019. Applicatives without verbs. Nat Lang
Linguist Theory 37, 1273–1317.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-018-09437-4
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11049-018-09437-4

Corver, Norbert (2022). Adverbial '-s' as last resort: n and a get
their support. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 40, 1023–1073.
available
under
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/431400/s11049-021-09527-w.pdf?sequence=1

Deprez, Viviane. (2003). Haitian Creole Se: A Copula, a Pronoun, Both
or Neither? On the Double Life of a Functional Head.
10.1515/9783110948318.135. 

Fernández, Beatriz, Zúñiga, Fernando and Berro, Ane (2020). Datives
with psych nouns and adjectives in Basque. Folia Linguistica, vol. 54,
no. 3, 2020, pp. 647-696. https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2020-2050

Hallman, Peter (2017) "Participles in Syrian Arabic," In Ouali, Hamid
(ed.) "Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIX," pp. 153-179, John
Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam.

Nikolaeva, Irina, and Andrew Spencer, 2012. Possession and
modification—a perspective from Canonical Typology. In Dunstan Brown,
Marina Chumakina, and Greville G. Corbett (eds), Canonical Morphology
and Syntax (Oxford, 2012; online edn, Oxford Academic, 24 Jan. 2013)

Zribi-Hertz, Anne & Herby Glaude. 2014 Verb cognates in Haitian
creole. Linguistic Review, 2014, 31 (2), pp.241-294.

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