[PLing] TLC Talk by Laura Grestenberger, 31 October, 16:00

[Iva Kovač]

Dear Pling-members,

we are happy to announce that Laura Grestenberger (Austrian Academy of 
Sciences/ÖAW) will give a talk at the Theoretical Linguistics Colloquium 
on Thursday, 31 October, 16:00, Sensengasse 3A, Seminarraum 8. Title & 
Abstract can be found below.

Further information as well as upcoming events can be found on our 
website: https://sites.google.com/view/totlvienna/.

We're looking forward to seeing many of you there!

Best,
The TLC organisers
Valerie Wurm, Magdalena Lohninger, and Iva Kovač

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TITLE: States, activities, iteratives: on the complex diachronies of 
_v_-related morphology

ABSTRACT:
Root-adjacent and argument structure-modifying morphology has been at 
the center of a recent debate in morphological theory on the status of 
verb conjugation classes, "templates", theme vowels and verbalizing 
morphology in general (Fábregas 2017; Panagiotidis, Spyropoulos & 
Revithiadou 2017; Kastner 2020; Kastner & Marin 2020; Simonović & Mišmaš 
2023; Kovačević, Milosavljević & Simonović 2024 a.m.o). A crucial 
question is if and how this morphology interacts with root meaning and 
to what extent it introduces abstract meaning itself (e.g., BECOME, 
CAUSE, DO). However, these problems are rarely treated from a diachronic 
point of view (with some exceptions, e.g., Grestenberger 2022, 2023; 
Calabrese & Petrosino 2023) because 1) there is an insufficient 
empirical basis for generalizations concerning the diachrony of 
argument-changing morphology and 2) it is unclear whether changes 
affecting this morphology should be expected to follow specific 
patterns, parallel to "cycles" in syntactic change. Based on case 
studies from Greek (Grestenberger 2022; Marescotti & Grestenberger 
2024), NW Germanic (Grestenberger, Werner, Anderson & Sichrovsky 2024) 
and Latin, I will address this empirical gap and argue that the 
diachrony of denominal and deadjectival verbs in these languages 
provides evidence for unidirectional reanalysis paths that give rise to 
specific types of Aktionsart/_v_-related morphology. I focus in 
particular on verb classes that have been described as ambiguous between 
expressing states and activities and as iteratives/pluractionals in the 
literature and show how their argument and event structure properties 
developed diachronically.
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