Program

Keynote speaker: Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley & HSE): Central European anticausatives: A wider view of structure and history

Accepted abstracts

Marco Angster & Livio Gaeta (University of Zadar and Università di Torino): Intensifier or anti-causative? A contrastive analysis of German selbst and Italian auto- in synthetic compounds
Gilles Authier (EPHE Paris): Anticausative verbs in contact: a view from the Eastern Caucasus
Kate Bellamy & Martha Mendoza (Leiden University & Florida Atlantic University): Anticausatives in P’urhepecha: A preliminary study
Michela Cennamo (Università di Napoli Federico II): Lability and voice in the diachrony of anticausatives in Romance
Jesse P. Gates (Nankai University): Anticausativization in Gyalrongic languages
Axel Holvoet (Vilnius University): Internal reconstruction and the diachrony of the anticausative: A view from Balto-Slavic
Guglielmo Inglese & Jean-Christophe Verstraete (Università di Torino & University of Leuven): The causal-noncausal alternation and anticausativization in Australian languages
Guglielmo Inglese, Lorenzo Ferrarotti, Eugenio Goria, Giulia Mazzola & Bert Cornillie (Università di Torino, Università di Bergamo, Università di Torino, KU Leuven & KU Leuven): The rise of reflexive anticausatives: a contrastive historical study of Italian and Spanish
Augustino Kagwema (University of Gothenburg): (Anti)causative in Nyamwezi: towards a description of valency decrease
Iris Kamil (University of Edinburgh): Anticausativisation Strategies in Akkadian—Inherited and Innovated
Simone Mattiola & Andrea Sansò (Università di Bologna & Università dell’Insubria): Verbalizers as sources of anticausative markers
Tim Ongenae (Ghent University): Anticausativization from Early Latin to Early Romance: a typological perspective
John Peterson (Kiel University): Anticausatives in Irish from a crosslinguistic perspective
Elena Shvedova (HSE): The rise and fall of the Aramaic anticausative marker
Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir & Eythórsson Thórhallur (Yale University & University of Iceland): The diachrony of anticausativization strategies in Icelandic
Victor Bogren Svensson (Lund University): Anticausatives in Takituduh Bunun
Yang Xiao & Matthias Gerner (Shanghai Jiaotong University; University of Bonn): The anticausative in Chaoyang Min (Sinitic: China)