Unergative predicates
Architecture and variation
Thursday, January 18th
9:00 – 9:30
Registration
9:30 – 9:45
Opening
9:45 – 10:45
Invited speaker: Gillian Ramchand (University of Tromsø)
“Deconstructing the Internal/External Dichotomy”
10:45 – 11:15
Antonio Fábregas & Rafael Marín (University of Tromsø & CNRS - Universite Lille 3)
“The puzzle of inherently reflexive predicates: passives and auxilaries”
11:15 – 11:45
Coffee break
11:45 – 12:15
Svitlana Antonyuk (University of Vienna)
“Unergativity: New Insights from Ditransitives”
12:15 – 13:15
Poster session
13:15 – 15:00
Lunch
15:00 – 15:30
Rebecca Tollan (University of Toronto)
“Unergative vP, transitive VoiceP: two types of external argument”
15:30 – 16:00
Grant Armstrong (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“An unergative Voice morpheme: Yucatec Maya -n”
16:00 – 16:30
Francesco Pinzin ("Ca' Foscari" University of Venice)
16:30 – 17:00
Coffee break
17:00 – 17:30
Patricia Irwin (Swarthmore College)
“Bodies, motion, and the semantic content of unergative Roots”
17:30 – 18:00
Beth Levin & Bonnie Krejci (Stanford University)
“Talking about the weather: Two construals of precipitation events in English”
Friday, January 19th
9:45 – 10:45
Invited speaker: Fabienne Martin (University of Stuttgart)
“Behavior-related unergative verbs from adjectives”
10:45 – 11:15
Faruk Akkus & Balkiz Ozturk (University of Pennsylvania & Bogazici University)
“Cognate Objects as a diagnostics for unergatives: A Case Study of Sason Arabic”
11:15 – 11:45
Coffee break
11:45 – 12:15
Balkiz Ozturk Basaran (Bogazici University)
“Transitive Unergatives in Pazar Laz”
12:15 – 12:45
Niina Ning Zhang (National Chung-Cheng University)
“Selection and the Unergative-Unaccusative Contrast”
12:45 – 13:15
Gillen Martinez de La Hidalga, Itziar Laka & Adam Zawiszewski (University of the Basque Country)
“The electrophysiology of unergative and unaccusative sentence processing in Basque”
13:15 – 15:00
Lunch
15:00 – 15:30
Sebastià Salvà I Puig (UAB)
15:30 – 16:00
Alison Biggs (University of Pennsylvania)
“Objects in unergative structures”
16:00 – 16:30
Boris Haselbach (University of Stuttgart)
“How to dance: On the unergative and unaccusative nature of German manner of motion verbs”
16:30 – 17:00
Coffee break
17:00 – 18:00
Invited speaker: Alec Marantz (NYU)
“Unergativity and the Autonomy of Syntax”
(by video-conference)
18:00 – 18:15
Closing
Poster session:
Patty Garet (alternate speaker) (U. Paris Diderot/LLF)
“Structure of French a- prefixed deadjectival verbs”.
Thomas Lee, Yaqiao Lu & Waltraud Paul
(The Chinese University of Hong Kong & CRLAO, CNRS-EHESS-INALCO)
“Unergative verbs in Mandarin Chinese”.
Luana Amaral & Márcia Cançado (UFMG)
“The lexical semantics of unergative verbs: primitive predicates, roots and ontological types”.
David Basilico (UAB)
“Reversing the projection: Externally and internally caused change of state verbs in Salish”.
Social dinner on Thursday, at 21:00.
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