37.2895, Confs: Workshop on Complex Predicate Constructions Across Modalities (France)

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Subject: 37.2895, Confs: Workshop on Complex Predicate Constructions Across Modalities (France)

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Date: 10-Sep-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 (sign1238)

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.
Invited Speaker:
Miriam Butt (U. Konstanz)
https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/butt/
Programme:
Lundi 12 oct 2026 / Monday 12 Oct 2026
9h00-9h20 Bienvenue & Café / Welcome & coffee
9h20-9h30 Ouverture / opening
9h30-10h30 Conférence invitée : Miriam Butt (U. Konstanz)
https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/butt/    
Title TBC
10h30-11h00  Pause café / coffee
11h-11h30 Vanessa Wing Yan Tsang (U. Göttingen), Markus Steinbach (U.
Göttingen), Thomas Finkbeiner (U. Göttingen), Aaron Wong (Independent
researcher)
Sequential and simultaneous depiction in existential constructions in
DGS and HKSL
11h30-12h00 Adrien Dadone (Leiden U.), Carlo Cecchetto (CNRS & U. 
Paris 8)
Simultaneity as co-utterance
12h-12h30 Piroon Piyamahapong (U. Manchester) (visioconference)
Diagrammatic Iconicity of Transfer-Encoding Serial Verb Constructions
in Thai
12h30-14h15  Déjeuner / lunch
14h15-14h45 Cilene Rodrigues (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de
Janeiro;  IMPATech - Brazilian Institute of Pure and Applied
Mathematics and Technologies), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Josep Quer (U.
Pompeu Fabra (UPF); ICREA, Barcelona, Spain), Isaac Gomes (INES -
National Institute of Education for the Deaf, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Asymmetric Motion Serial Verb Constructions and Verb Copying in Libras
14h45-15h15 Aïcha Ben Rhouma, Louise Bony & Marie-Anne Sallandre (U.
Paris 8 & CNRS, SFL - UMR 7023)
15h15-15h45 Café / coffee
15h45-16h15 Adrien Dadone (Leiden U.), Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (CNRS
& U. Paris 8), Carlo Cecchetto  (CNRS & U. Paris 8)
The emergence of complex grammar: causation in LSF as a window into
grammaticalization and iconicity
16h15-16h45  Martina Riva (U. of Milan-Bicocca), Adrien Dadone (Leiden
U.), Louise Bony (U. Paris 8, CNRS), Béatrice Giustolisi (U. of
Milan-Bicocca), Carlo Cecchetto (CNRS & U. Paris 8)
The acquisition of strong recursion in LSF and Italian
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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