AG 2: Verbal complex predicates in a theoretical and cross-linguistic perspective

Mittwoch | Wednesday, 05.03.2025

13:45-14:45

Eva Schultze-Berndt (Manchester)

Argument sharing and semantic unification in verbal complex predicates

14:45-15:15

Dávid Győrfi & Oliver Bond (Surrey)

A typology of extensive co-headed verb systems

15:15-15:45

Alexandre François (Paris)

Serialising constructions in Vanuatu: the semantics of syntax

15:45-16:30

PAUSE | BREAK

16:30-17:00

Zaira Khalilova (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)

Bezhta complex predicates

17:00-17:30

Peter Arkadiev (Potsdam)

Are there complex predicates formed by reduplication? Evidence from Circassian languages

17:30-18:00

Andrey Shluinsky (HU Berlin)

Approaching linking serial verb constructions in Ghana-Togo Mountain languages

Donnerstag | Thursday, 06.03.2025

09:00-09:30

Dennis Wegner (Wuppertal)

Verbal complexes and verb clusters in Germanic: (micro-)variation and the role of the restructuring verb

09:30-10:00

Mia Batinić Angster (Zadar)

Complex predicates: the case of Croatian V finite + V non-finite constructions

10:00-10:30

Shannon Bryant (Rutgers University), Iva Kovač (Wien) & Susanne Wurmbrand (Salzburg)

Argument sharing as a syntactic dependency

10:30-11:15

PAUSE | BREAK

11:15-12:15

Lars Hellan (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Some formal perspectives on the analysis of Serial Verbs

12:15-12:45

Sebastian Fedden (Paris/München/Univ. of Surrey)

Core serial verb constructions in Mian and the problem of mono-clausality

12:45-13:45

MITTAGSPAUSE | LUNCH BREAK

13:45-14:15

(Room change: P2)

Jens Fleischhauer (Düsseldorf) & Patrick Kihara (Chuka University)

A comparison of light verb constructions and auxiliary verb constructions in the Bantu language Gĩkũyũ

14:15-14:45

(Room change: P2)

Michela Cennamo (Napoli Università Federico II) & Bridget Drinka (University of Texas)

The light verb-auxiliary space in the transition from Latin to early (Italo-)Romance – theoretical and empirical issues

Freitag | Friday, 07.03.2025

11:45-12:15

Alexander Zahrer (Münster)

Serial verbs and minimal markers

12:15-12:45

Jens Hopperdietzel (Köln) & Nicola Klingler (Wien)

Two types of multiple-marking SVCs

12:45-13:15

Lee Pratchett (Kiel) & Tom Güldemann (HU Berlin)

When auxiliaries are used in multiple constructions: language-related and methodological challenges of VCPs in Ju

13:15-13:45

Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

Switch-reference constructions and converb constructions

13:45-14:15

Diskussion