MIMA! workshop on The Grammar of Manner Adverbials

The final workshop of the MIMA! project on Manner Adverbials is going to take place on 6-7 March in Utrecht.

The aim of this workshop is two-fold: (i) to celebrate the culmination of the Mind your Manner Adverbials! project at Utrecht University and share its results, and (ii) to bring together (junior and senior) researchers to discuss their work (in progress) on manner adverbials.  To register, you can click on the following link: https://forms.office.com/e/tfeEnKMxnm

We ask you to please fill in the registration form by February, 21 (2025).

PROGRAM

Thursday, 6 March

9.30-9.40         Opening

9.40-10.20       Norbert Corver (Utrecht University)

Understanding Manner modification from a cross-dependency perspective

 10.25-10.45     Coffee break

10.45-11.25     Lex Cloin-Tavenier (Utrecht University)

Doing it (in) my way: A cross-linguistic perspective on (non-)optional adpositions in Manner Adverbials

11.25-12.05     Marta Massaia (Utrecht University)

How similar are similatives and simulatives?

12.05-13.20     Lunch

13.20-14.00     Olga Nadvornikova (Charles University)

Manner(s) of speaking: A corpus-based analysis of verb modification in introductory clauses to direct speech in English, French and Czech fiction

14.05-14.45     Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Adger)

On the syntax of instrumental clauses. The case of indem in German

14.45-15.10     Coffee break

15.10-15.50     Sascha Alexeyenko (University of Göttingen)

TBA

15.50-16.30     Mees van Stiphout & Sheean Spoel (Utrecht University)

TBA

16.30-17.45     Borrel

Friday, 7 March

9.30-10.10       Victor Bogren Svensson (Lund University)

Manner affixes and Event decomposition

10.15-10.55     Romain Delhem (University Paris Nanterre)

The classification of manner expressions within English adverbials

10.55-11.15     Coffee break

11.15-11.55     Xinyu Zhu (Newcastle University)

Mandarin reduplicated Manner Adverbials

11.55-13.10     Lunch

13.10-13.50     Adam Pospišil (Charles University)

Form deverbatives to Manner Adverbials in Arabic

13.55-14.35     Khalid Ziad (University of Göttingen)

Nominal Manner Adverbs in Standard Arabic: A Minimalist approach to their syntactic integration and morphological inflection

14.35-14.55     Coffee break

14.55-15.35     Andreas Pankau (Freie Universität Berlin)

Relative clauses in Native Lower Sorbian, the relativizer how, and partial COMP-deletion

15.35-15.45     Concluding remarks