37.910, Confs: Workshop at SinFonIJA 19: Deverbal Nominalizations and Participles (Austria)

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Date: 03-Mar-2026
From: Marko Simonovic [marko.simonovic at uni-graz.at]
Subject: Workshop at SinFonIJA 19: Deverbal Nominalizations and Participles

Workshop at SinFonIJA 19: Deverbal Nominalizations and Participles
Short Title: DeNAP

Date: 30-Sep-2026 - 02-Oct-2026
Location: Graz, Austria
Contact: Marko Simonovic
Contact Email: marko.simonovic at uni-graz.at
Meeting URL:
https://sites.google.com/view/sinfonija19/workshops/w2-denap

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Syntax

Submission Deadline: 15-Apr-2026

Deverbal nominalisations and participles are among the most
intensively studied representatives of so-called mixed categories. At
least since Chomsky (1970), they have played a central role in debates
on how syntax, morphology, and semantics interact in word formation.
They occupy a theoretical middle ground between verbs and
nouns/adjectives: they may preserve argument structure, aspectual
interpretation, and event semantics, while simultaneously exhibiting
nominal or adjectival morphology and distribution (Grimshaw 1990;
Alexiadou 2001; Kratzer 2000; Embick 2004; Gehrke 2011, 2013;
Iordăchioaia 2020, a.m.o.).
A particularly persistent challenge concerns syncretism: participial
morphology often recurs across distinct domains (eventive/verbal vs
stative/adjectival; passive vs perfect), and related exponents may
overlap with nominalisations across language families (e.g. Germanic,
Romance, Slavic). This has generated a broad spectrum of theories,
ranging from morphomic or autonomous-morphology approaches (Aronoff
1994; Maiden 2011), to accounts that locate the source of uniformity
in shared syntactic cores, merger height, or embedding configurations
(Embick 2000; Embick & Halle 2005; Gehrke 2013, 2015), to
truncation/“bleaching” and analogy- or pattern-based approaches
(Ramchand 2018; Steriade 2016; Kodner 2023, a.o.).
This workshop aims to explore nominalisations and participles from
theoretical, descriptive, comparative, and methodological
perspectives. Both synchronic and diachronic studies are welcome, and
contributions drawing on experimental, corpus-based, or quantitative
methods — as well as work on under-described varieties — are
especially encouraged.
We invite contributions on any aspect of nominalisations and
participles, including but not limited to the following research
questions and related issues:
a) What verbal layers are preserved in nominalisations and
participles, and how can structural size be diagnosed (e.g. argument
realisation, aspect, event-related modifiers, agreement,
reflexivisation)?
b) Do nominalisations and participles share a common syntactic core,
or can similar exponents correspond to structurally distinct
configurations? Do nominalisations embed participial structure, or
does shared morphology mask heterogeneous derivations?
c) How should participial syncretism (eventive vs stative; passive vs
perfect) be modelled: morphomic structure, shared functional heads,
merger height, paradigm-internal analogy?
d) How do aspect, argument structure, and event semantics interact in
deverbal nominalisations, and to what extent do these factors
constrain productivity and interpretation cross-linguistically?
e) How do reflexivisation, binding, and argument realisation operate
in nominalisations and participles across languages, and what do they
reveal about cross-categorial differences?
f) How can agreement and other nominal/verbal diagnostics (case,
determiners, clitic-related phenomena, auxiliary environments) —
alongside new methods — inform our understanding of mixed-category
architecture?
Invited Speakers:
Olga Borik (National University of Distance Education, Madrid)
Stefan Milosavljević (University of Graz)
Abstracts:
We invite submissions for 20-minute talks (+10 minutes discussion).
Formatting: Times New Roman 12 pt, single-spaced, standard margins.
Abstracts must be anonymous and must be submitted in PDF form via
Oxford Abstracts at
https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/81699/submitter.

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