(In)transitivity and its Variation: A Workshop on Morphosyntactic and Semantic Interfaces

28-29 septembre 2026, Pologne

Date : 28-29 septembre 2026
Lieu : Poznań, Pologne
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Date limite de soumission : 30 mai 2026
Comité d’Organisation : Tania Ahmad (A. Mickiewicz University), Sander van Hes (A. Mickiewicz University), Henrik Hornecker (Humboldt University), Diego Luinetti (G. Marconi University), Leonardo Montesi (G. Marconi University), Mohammad Tavakoli (A. Mickiewicz University)

Argumentaire :

“(In)transitivity and its Variation” workshop, funded by SLE Joint initiatives research grant 2026, will be held in Poznań (Poland) on 28-29 September 2026. This workshop aims to explore the interplay of semantics, morphology, and syntax in encoding (in)transitivity, investigating the functional motivations underlying valency patterns across diverse language families.

We welcome contributions dealing with (but not restricted to) the following topics:
– Transitivity prominence especially of understudied languages;
– Mismatches between semantic and syntactic transitivity;
– Morphological and syntactic marking of valency alternations (causatives, anticausatives, reflexives, labile verbs);
– Formal syncretism of valency alternations or divergent encodings for the same valency alternations;
– Semantic restrictions on valency operations (agentivity, telicity, affectedness, etc.);
– Diachronic changes in the domain of (in)transitivity;
– Split Intransitivity encoding;
– (In)transitivity surfacing in nominalizations, and eventual mismatches.