37.2025, Confs: Workshop on Complex Predicate Constructions Across Modalities (France)

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Subject: 37.2025, Confs: Workshop on Complex Predicate Constructions Across Modalities (France)

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Date: 08-Jun-2026
From: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr [patricia.cabredo-hofherr at cnrs.fr]
Subject: Workshop on Complex Predicate Constructions Across Modalities

Workshop on Complex Predicate Constructions Across Modalities
Theme: Complex predicates in signed and spoken languages

Date: 12-Oct-2026 - 12-Oct-2026
Location: Paris, France
Meeting URL:
https://www.sfl.cnrs.fr/fr/workshop-complex-predicate-constructions-across-modalities

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition;
Morphology; Semantics; Syntax
Language Family(ies): Sign Language

Submission Deadline: 20-Jul-2026

The Workshop on Complex predicate constructions across modalities will
be held on Mon 12 Oct 2026 at UPS Pouchet, 59 rue Pouchet, 75017 Paris
and on visioconference.
Deadline for submission: 20 July 2026
Invited Speaker:
Miriam Butt (U. Konstanz)
https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/butt/
Workshop Topics:
Abstracts:
We invite submissions for 20 minute talks (+10min discussion) and
posters in English.
Abstracts should not be longer than two pages (Times New Roman 12 pt,
single space, 2,4 cm margins).
Abstracts have to be anonymous (please make sure the text and the name
of the pdf do not contain the name(s) of the author(s)).
Please submit your abstract in pdf format by email to
typologyacrossmodalities at gmx.net with the email subject: Abstract
Complex predicate constructions across modalities and title, authors'
names and affiliations in the body of the email.
We welcome contributions on any aspect of the grammar of complex
predicate constructions in sign and spoken languages, including but
not limited to the following questions:
(i) What are the syntactic and semantic properties of serial verb
constructions in sign languages and spoken languages? (Bos 1996, Lau
2012)
(ii) What are the syntactic and semantic properties of causative
constructions in sign languages? (Loos 2017 on resultative
constructions in ASL and DGS, Joosten & Pfau 2026 on GIVE in NGT)
(iii) Are there equivalents of light verb constructions in sign
languages? (Butt 2010, 2013, 2025)
(iv) Are there morphological differences between grammatical and
lexical uses of predicates? (Cabredo & Dadone to appear on causative
GIVE in LSF)
(v) What are the selectional restrictions on complements of
grammatical signs?
(vi) What are the effects of language contact across modalities on
complex predicate constructions (e.g. in the spoken language of
CODAs)?
(vii) What are the milestones of the acquisition of complex predicate
constructions in sign languages (L1/ L2)?  (Karadöller, Sümer &
Özyürek 2025, Sümer 2015)
(viii) To what extent are simultaneous constructions in sign languages
comparable to complex predicate constructions? (Vermeerbergen, Leeson
& Crasborn 2007, Slonimska 2022)
Bos 1996 [2016]. Serial Verb Constructions in Sign Language of the
Netherlands. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on
Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR), Montreal.
[Published 2016, Sign Language & Linguistics 19 (2): 238–51].
Butt 2025. (joint work with A. Lahiri) Pertinacity in Light Verbs
Revisited. Henry Sweet Lecture given at the LAGB 2025, September.
Butt 2013. Control vs. complex predication. Natural Language and
Linguistic Theory 32, 165–190.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-013-9217-5
Butt 2010. The Light Verb Jungle: Still Hacking Away. In M. Amberber,
M. Harvey and B. Baker (eds.) Complex Predicates in Cross-Linguistic
Perspective, 48-78. Cambridge University Press.
Cabredo Hofherr & Dadone, to appear. Causatives with cognates of GIVE
in LSF and Haitian. In Pfau, Roland, Sümer, Beyza, and Loos, Cornelia
(eds.), Serial predicates across modalities. Berlin: Language Science
Press.
Joosten & Pfau 2024. Give signs – make happy: Metaphorical extension
and grammaticalization of ‘give’ in Sign Language of the Netherlands.
Sign Language Studies, 25:53–101.
Karadöller, Sümer & Özyürek 2025. First-language acquisition in a
multimodal language framework: Insights from speech, gesture, and
sign. First Language, 45(6), 673-710.
Lau 2012. Serial Verb Constructions in Hong Kong Sign Language. PhD
diss., The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Loos 2017. The Syntax and Semantics of Resultative Constructions in
Deutsche Gebärdensprache (DGS) and American Sign Language (ASL). Ph.D.
thesis, University of Texas at Austin.
Slonimska 2022. The role of iconicity and simultaneity in efficient
communication in the visual modality: Evidence from LIS (Italian Sign
Language). PhD Thesis, Radboud University, Nijmegen.
Sümer 2015. Acquisition of spatial language by signing and speaking
children: A comparison of Turkish Sign Language (TİD) and Turkish
(Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation). Radboud University, Nijmegen /
The Netherlands.
Vermeerbergen, Leeson & Crasborn (eds) 2007. Simultaneity in Signed
Languages. Form and function. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Deadline for submissions: 20 July 2026
Notification of authors:  31 Aug 2026
Workshop: 12 Oct 2026
Website
https://www.sfl.cnrs.fr/fr/workshop-complex-predicate-constructions-across-modalities
Contact-email marie-anne.sallandre at univ-paris8.fr
We gratefully acknowledge the sponsors of the workshop
- Research group Structures formelles du langage (UMR 7023 - SFL CNRS
& U. Paris 8)
- IRN Typology across modalities (CNRS)

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