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Book of abstracts

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Thursday, January 18th

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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

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10:45 – 11:15

Antonio Fábregas & Rafael Marín (University of Tromsø & CNRS - Universite Lille 3)

“The puzzle of inherently reflexive predicates: passives and auxilaries”

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11:15 – 11:45

Coffee break

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11:45 – 12:15

Svitlana Antonyuk (University of Vienna)

Unergativity: New Insights from Ditransitives

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12:15 – 13:15

Poster session

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13:15 – 15:00

Lunch

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15:00 – 15:30

Rebecca Tollan (University of Toronto)

Unergative vP, transitive VoiceP: two types of external argument” 

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15:30 – 16:00

Grant Armstrong (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

An unergative Voice morpheme: Yucatec Maya -n

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16:00 – 16:30

Francesco Pinzin ("Ca' Foscari" University of Venice)

Impossible Accusatives. The loss of the Middle morphology in Late Latin and its consequences on case marking

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16:30 – 17:00

Coffee break

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17:00 – 17:30

Patricia Irwin (Swarthmore College)

Bodies, motion, and the semantic content of unergative Roots

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17:30 – 18:00

Beth Levin & Bonnie Krejci (Stanford University)

Talking about the weather: Two construals of precipitation events in English

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Friday, January 19th

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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

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11:15 – 11:45

Coffee break

 

11:45 – 12:15

Balkiz Ozturk Basaran (Bogazici University)

Transitive Unergatives in Pazar Laz

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12:15 – 12:45

Niina Ning Zhang (National Chung-Cheng University)

Selection and the Unergative-Unaccusative Contrast

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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

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13:15 – 15:00

Lunch

 

15:00 – 15:30

Sebastià Salvà I Puig (UAB)

 “Unaccusatives beyond unaccusatives: Split auxiliary selection with affected subjects in Old Majorcan Catalan

 

15:30 – 16:00

Alison Biggs (University of Pennsylvania)

Objects in unergative structures

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16:00 – 16:30

Boris Haselbach (University of Stuttgart)

How to dance: On the unergative and unaccusative nature of German manner of motion verbs

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16:30 – 17:00

Coffee break

 

17:00 – 18:00

Invited speaker: Alec Marantz  (NYU)

Unergativity and the Autonomy of Syntax

(by video-conference)

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18:00 – 18:15

Closing

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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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