Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus) Title: Beyond categorisers? DATE: 28 March Time: 4-5 pm Abstract Marantz (1996; 1997; et seq.) introduced a view of lexical categories according to which so-called lexical nouns, verbs, and adjectives result  from acategorial roots being categorised in grammar by categorising heads n, v, and a. Since then, research has only turned up modest…

Speaker: Artemis Alexiadou (ZAS Berlin) Title: Nominalization: the view from syntactic approaches to word formation Date/Time: 20th of February, 15:15-17:00 Location: Herta Mohr, Witte Singel 27A, room 0.20 Leiden Abstract In this talk, I will discuss two issues within syntactic approaches to nominalization, focusing on Grimshaw’s (1990) complex event nominals (CENs), that are currently controversially…

CRISSP is happy to announce a new installment in the  CRISSP TCC Seminar Series: Lecturer: Ora Matushansky (UMR 7023 (CNRS/Université Paris VIII)) Title: Down with the themes! For a classless declension in Russian morphology Date & time: Thursday 30 January 2025, 15.30-17.00 CET Location: Zoom

Speaker:Diti Bhadra (University of Minnesota) Title: What information do verb roots encode?: the view from morpho-semantics Date and time: 23 September, 4pm (CET) Abstract: Through the lens of the reversative affix un- and the restitutive affix re-, I explore verb roots and make a new proposal about the lexical semantics of verbs. I argue that these affixes tell a…

Speaker: Andrea Sims (Ohio State) Title: Modeling trees, theorizing forests: From local to system-level morphological organization Date and time: 18 November, 4pm (CET) Place: Zoom Abstract Morphological typologists theorize about the nature of language by comparing properties of languages and building explanatory models of identified patterns. Broadly speaking, explanation comes from the interaction of two types…

Speaker: Adam Singerman (Syracuse University) Title: Verbal suppletion in Tuparí, an Indigenous Brazilian language: a typological counterexample Date and time: 21 October, 4pm (CET) Place: Zoom Abstract Recent work in the framework of Distributed Morphology (especially by Heidi Harley and colleagues) has put forward a series of crosslinguistic generalizations regarding the phenomenon of verbal suppletion. In…

Speaker: Lefteris Paprounas (UQAM) Title: Stative passives as complex heads: Event and argument structure in Greek Date and time: 14 October, 4pm (CET) Place: Zoom Abstract This talk identifies a set of novel generalizations in the morphosyntax of stative passives (e.g. ’The wall is already painted’) in Greek. In particular, it shows that stative passives crucially…