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<p>The University of Palermo organises a workshop on “The Syntax
of Causative, Perception, and Restructuring Verbs in Romance
and Latin” which is to be held on May 26-27, 2022. It is part
of the annual SCUPs (Syntactic Conferences at the University
of Palermo).</p>
<p>The aim of this workshop is to deepen our empirical and
theoretical knowledge on the syntax of infinitives, gerunds
and pseudo-relative clauses with causative, perception and
restructuring verbs in Romance languages and varieties, as
well as on older stages, starting from Latin, and on the
diachronic path that led to an evolution within these
constructions.</p>
<p>Invited Speakers:<br>
- Pilar P. Barbosa (U do Minho)<br>
- Adriana Belletti (Siena)<br>
- Pierluigi Cuzzolin (Bergamo)<br>
- Maria-Teresa Guasti (U Bicocca, Milan)<br>
- Adam Ledgeway (Cambridge)<br>
- Alexandru Nicolae (Bucharest)<br>
- Francisco Ordóñez (Stony Brook)<br>
- Esther Rinke (Frankfurt)</p>
<p>For more information, please visit our webpage (<a
target="_blank"
href="https://sites.google.com/unipa.it/scup22"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://sites.google.com/unipa.it/scup22</a>).</p>
<p><strong>Call for Papers:</strong></p>
<p>We invite abstracts for presentations on all topics related
to our general aim, both from a synchronic or diachronic
perspective. We particularly welcome presentations that
compare different constructions, languages, or both; as well
as presentations that deal with Latin or with the diachronic
evolution that led to the actual situation. The abstracts may
– but do not have to – address the following topics:<br>
- Causative, perception and restructuring constructions in
Latin, and the presence/absence of transparency effects;<br>
- Diachronic perspectives (evolution of the relevant
configurations and their properties, grammaticalization,
etc.);<br>
- The syntactic analysis of infinitives with causative,
perception and restructuring verbs (<span class="caps">ECM</span>,
raising-to-object, control, monoclausal vs. biclausal
analysis, etc.);<br>
- Structural integration of the finite or non-finite clause
(subordination, adjunction, small clause analysis, etc.);<br>
- The status of the causee/‘perceivee’ (‘accusative subject’
of the infinitival clause or internal argument of the matrix
verb?);<br>
- Inter-speaker and cross-linguistic (intra-Romance)
variation;<br>
- Insights from lesser studied varieties of Romance;<br>
- Corpus-based and experimental approaches on structures with
causative, perception and restructuring verbs;<br>
- Acquisition of causative, perception and restructuring
constructions by L1 and L2-speakers.</p>
<p><strong>Submission Guidelines:</strong><br>
Abstracts should be anonymous and no longer than two pages
(12-point type, single line spacing, 2.5cm margins), including
examples, tables and references. The file should be anonymous
both in the body of the text and in the filename. Submissions
are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint
abstract, or two joint abstracts, per author.</p>
<p>The language of the conference is English.</p>
<p>The abstracts should be submitted on easyabstracts in
pdf-format no later than January 31, 2022.<br>
Submission Link: <a target="_blank"
href="http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/scup22"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/scup22</a></p>
<p>Contact: <a target="_blank"
href="mailto:scup22palermo@gmail.com"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">scup22palermo@gmail.com</a></p>
<p>Organizing Committee:<br>
Jan Casalicchio (Palermo), Peter Herbeck (Wuppertal &
Wien), Annamaria Bartolotta (Palermo), Laura Conte (Palermo),
Gabriele Ganau (Palermo), Castrenze Nigrelli (Palermo)</p>
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