[PLing] 28. & 29.04., Lieven Danckaert, "Voice morphology and clause structure in Latin" & "Understanding Latin word order"

[Laura Grestenberger]

Dear PLing list,

You are cordially invited to two talks on Latin syntax by Lieven 
Danckaert (CNRS UMR 7023 SFL & Université de Lille) this week, hosted by 
the colloquium series of the Wiener Sprachgesellschaft/Vienna 
Linguistics Society (https://wsg.univie.ac.at/veranstaltungen/) and the 
Department of Linguistics:

"Voice morphology and clause structure in Latin" (short abstract 
attached and copied below)
Date & time: Tuesday, 28.04., 18h
Location: Hörsaal 1, Sensengasse 3A, 1st floor

"Understanding Latin word order"
Date & time: Wednesday, 29.04., 15h
Location: Seminarraum 2, Sensengasse 3A, 1st floor

We look forward to seeing many of you there!

Best wishes,

Laura Grestenberger

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Voice morphology and clause structure in Latin

Abstract: Latin non-active verb forms like the passive amābatur 
‘love.IPFV.NACT.3SG’ and the deponent sequentur ‘follow.FUT.NACT.3PL’ 
have attracted scholarly attention because of an apparent violation of 
the universal functional sequence (Calabrese 1985; Zyman & Kalivoda 
2021). Specifically, assuming that the so-called ‘-r morphology’ 
characteristic of non-active imperfective verbs expresses the category 
Voice, at first sight it appears to be the case that in fact of sitting 
in their expected position between the lexical root of the verb and 
Tense, the non-active suffixes appear to the right of those expressing 
tense. From a comparative point of view, this state of affairs would 
indeed be surprising (Bybee 1985; Cinque 1999).
In this talk, I defend a variant of an alternative approach, which 
treats both the active and non-active endings as contextual allomorphs 
expressing person and number differentially, depending on the voice 
properties of the host clause. Specifically, I argue that the 
alternation between the active and the non-active inflection series (i) 
is governed by a phonologically empty Voice head which occupies its 
canonical place above vP and (ii) that the distance between the 
conditioned allomorphs and the conditioning category poses no locality 
problems (in the sense of Embick 2010). In addition, assuming a 
correlation between morphology and syntax along lines of Chomsky (2013, 
2015), I propose that the fact that Latin voice morphology has no true 
in situ exponence has consequences for the structure of the Latin clause 
which go far beyond what first impressions would suggest, both 
synchronically and diachronically. Topics touched upon include subject 
placement, the morphological realization of anticausatives, split 
intransitivity and the structure of past participles occurring in 
perfective periphrases with the auxiliary esse ‘be’.

https://wsg.univie.ac.at/veranstaltungen/lieven-danckaert-voice-morphology-and-clause-structure-in-latin/


-- 
Ass.-Prof. Dr. Laura Grestenberger
Universität Wien, Inst. für Sprachwissenschaft / University of Vienna, 
Dept. of Linguistics
PI, EVOCAT (ERC-CoG, evocat.univie.ac.at)

lauragrestenberger.com
Wiener Sprachgesellschaft, wsg.univie.ac.at
The PIE Women's Collective, pie-collective.com
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