Call for papers

The goal of the workshop is to offer a venue for scholars interested in typology and historical linguistics to develop a new diachronically oriented approach to the study of anticausative markers (AMs). The workshop will be held at the University of Turin on the 9th November 2023.

We welcome contribution addressing (among others) the following topics:

• description of anticausativization (including equipollent) patterns in previously undescribed languages;

• sources and grammaticalization of AMs in individual languages/language families;

• the role of contact and areal convergence in the emergence of AMs;

• detailed historical corpus studies on the distribution of AMs;

• lexical restrictions in the distribution of AMs with specific verb classes and their historical motivation;

• cross-linguistic corpus-based analyses of the distribution of AMs, their frequency and productivity;

• diachronic stability of AMs within individual languages and families;

• loss of AMs.