CAMBRIDGE WORKSHOP
ON VOICE
(CAMVOICE)
22-24 MAY 2017
This conference is a dissemination activity for the Aromanian Syntax (AROSYN) project which is funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 657663 to the University of Cambridge
Day 1 – 22ND MAY 2017 (MAIN SESSION ON VOICE)
8.00-8.45 Registration
8.45-9.00 Opening remarks
9.00-9.50 Julie Anne Legate (University of Pennsylvania)
First session
9.50-10.20 Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University) & Sonia Cyrino (University
of Campinas)
On ECM, causation, perception and passivisation
10.20-10.50 Víctor Acedo-Matellán (Queen’s College, University of Cambridge)
Deconstructing agency: volitionality alternations in cognitive
10.50-11.20 Coffee break
Second session
11.20-11.50 Marta Donazzan (University of Köln)
Embedding anticausatives in Italian: evidence for Voice
11.50-12.20 Alfredo García-Pardo (USC)
12.20-12.50 Ane Berro (University of the Basque Country/CNRS-Paris 8) & Anna Pineda
(CNRS-IKER)
Apparent unaccusative unergatives in Basque (and Romance)
12.50-14.50 Lunch break
14.50-15.40 Florian Schäfer (HU Berlin)
Implicit arguments under control
15:40-16:10 Coffee break
Third session
16.10-16.40 Michela Cennamo (University of Naples)
Reflexives as (in)transitivity and voice modulators in Romance: aspectual
16.40-17.10 Howard Jones (University of Oxford) & Morgan Macleod
The status of passive constructions in Old English
17.10-17:40 Charlotte Hemmings (University of Oxford)
On symmetrical voice alternations: the case of Kelabit
Day 2 – 23RD MAY 2017 (MAIN SESSION ON VOICE)
9.00-9.50 Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University) & Ian Roberts (University
of Cambridge)
A parameter hierarchy for passives
First session
9.50-10.20 M. Rita Manzini (University of Florence), Anna Roussou (University of
Patras) & Leonardo M. Savoia (University of Florence)
Middle-passive (MP) voice and its externalizations
10.20-10.50 Yohei Oseki (NYU) & Itamar Kastner (HU Berlin)
10.50-11.20 Coffee break
Second session
11.20-11.50 Julie Anne Legate & Faruk Akkus (University of Pennsylvania)
11.50-12.20 Marwan Jarrah (Newcastle University)
Passive VPs as phases in Jordanian Arabic
12.20-12.50 Milena Sereikaite (University of Pennsylvania)
Flavors of Voice: Passives vs. Impersonals in Lithuanian
12.50-14.20 Lunch break
14.20-15.10 Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli (University of Cambridge)
Verb Classes or Voice morphology? Evidence from monolingual
and bilingual children's grammars
Third session
15.10-15.40 Giorgos Spathas (HU Berlin & University of Stuttgart)
No designated Voice for English reflexive anaphors
15.40-16.10 Ljudmila Geist & Daniel Hole (University of Stuttgart)
16.10-17.10 POSTER SESSION
Bashayer Alotaibi (Newcastle University) Voice and Aspectual Verbs
James Baker (University of Cambridge) Latin deponents and
Ana Bartra-Kaufmann (UAB) Bare Passive infinitives in Old Romance
Walter Breu (University of Konstanz) & Anastasia Makarova (University
of St. Petersburg) The passive in Molise Slavic and the role of language
Imme Kuchenbrandt (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) Syntactic and
morphological alternatives to the passive voice
Takuya Nakamura (Université Paris-Est, LIGM (UMR 8049 CNRS)) & Liana
Tronci (Università per Stranieri di Siena) Voice without semantic roles?
Remarks on some Romance media tantum constructions
Patrick Nuhn (Heinrich-Heine Universität) Towards a Better Understanding
of Peripheral Voice in Tagalog
Bert Remijsen & Otto Gwado Ayoker (University of Edinburgh) Voice and
valency in Shilluk, a head-marking language
Orsolya Tánczos (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of
Sciences) The morpho-syntax of Voice in Udmurt: the case of the
Anne Wolfsgruber (University of Salzburg) Reflexives and voice-related
phenomena: the role of text-type, language contact and null- subjects
in some Medieval Romance varieties
17.10-18.00 Delia Bentley (University of Manchester)
Result state adjectives: valence and voice
19.30-21.30 Dinner
Day 3 – 24TH MAY 2017 (SPECIAL SESSION ON EASTERN ROMANCE)
9.00-9.50 Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7)
Implicit Agents and the Person Constraint on SE-passives
First session
9.50-10.20 Eva-Maria Remberger (University of Vienna)
Deontic passives in Romance and the case of Romanian trebuie făcut
10.20-10.50 Andra Vasilescu (University of Bucharest & Romanian Academy)
The Romanian Passive Voice Revisited
10.50-11.20 Coffee break
Second session
11.20-11.50 Mihaela Gheorghe (Transylvania University of Brașov & Romanian
Academy) & Alice Bodoc (Transylvania University of Brașov)
Middle Passive SE Constructions in Romanian
11.50-12.20 Ionuț Geană (Romanian Academy & University of Bucharest )
Voice in Istro-Romanian. Evidence from corpus analysis
12.20-12.50 Marios Mavrogiorgos (University of Cambridge)
Aromanian Reflexives and Reciprocals
12.50-14.50 Lunch break
14.50-15.40 Alexandra Cornilescu (University of Bucharest)
Remarks on Romanian Clausal Passives
Third session
15.40-16.10 Ion Giurgea (Romanian Academy)
Romanian se verbs: how much we can unify and how much is to be
16.10-16:40 Coffee break
16.40-17.30 Martin Maiden (University of Oxford)
The Morphology of Daco-Romance Passives. Is There Anything to Say?
17:30-17:45 Closing remarks
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