International Argument Alternation Workshop (IAAW)
International Argument Alternation Workshop (IAAW)
Program
Program
Day 1: July 16, 2025 (Wed.)
8:30 – 9:00
Registration
9:00 – 9:10
Welcome
9:10 – 10:10
Keynote Lecture - The causative alternation under a microvariational lens: inchoative-anticausative mismatches in Romance and their theoretical consequences
Delia Bentley (The University of Manchester)
10:10 – 10:30
Break
10:30 – 11:00
Dative reflexives (anticausatives) in Slavic
Tatjana Ilic (National Defense Academy Japan; Keio University)
11:00 – 11:30
Beyond dative alternation: Four types of Korean ditransitives
Youngho Lee (Seoul National University)
11:30– 13:15
Lunch break
13:15 – 13:45
Structural effects of nominative-genitive conversion in Japanese
Hideki Kishimoto (Kobe University)
13:45 – 14:15
Case domains in double causatives
Jens Hopperdietzel and Haydar Batuhan Yıldız (University of Cologne)
14:15 – 14:45
Argument realisation in Italian tough-movement
Leonardo Russo Cardona (University of Cambridge)
14:45 – 15:05
Break
15:05 – 15:35
Root sensitivity in argument realization in Turkish recursive causatives
Haydar Batuhan Yıldız (University of Cologne)
15:35 – 16:05
A quantitative account of the understood object alternation in English(es)
Vladimir Buskin (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
16:05 – 16:35
Valency change in Hawaiian reduplication
David J. Medeiros (California State University, Northridge)
17:30– 19:30
Conference/Workshop Dinner (Restaurant Sakura, 3rd floor of Academia Building, Rokkodai 1st Campus, Kobe University)
Day 2: July 17, 2025 (Thurs.)
9:00 – 9:10
Registration
9:10 – 9:40
‘At-dative’ alternation with event nominal look: Interplays between verbal and nominal semantics
Tetsuya Kogusuri (The University of Osaka)
9:40 – 10:10
On the argument Structure of Japanese light verb naru and suru
Yile Yu (Shiga University)
10:10 – 10:30
Break
10:30 – 11:00
Internally caused change-of-state verbs in transitivity alternations
Enrique Merino Hernández (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
11:00 – 11:30
Differential object marking in Spanish: Does affectedness really matter?
Ekaterina Levina (University of Vienna)
11:30– 13:15
Lunch break
13:15 – 13:45
Adjective-verb alternation in Japanese psychological and physiological predicates: Distributed-Morphological account of argument alternation
Saeko Urushibara (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University)
13:45 – 14:15
Lexicon-pragmatics interaction in argument structure alternation: Japanese lexical V-V compounds and argument synthesis
Kazuhiko Fukushima (Kansai Gaidai University)
14:15 – 14:35
Break
14:35 – 15:05
On building symmetric predicates
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (KU Leuven/Meertens Institute) and Kyle Johnson (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
15:05 – 16:05
Keynote Lecture - Argument alternation in (copular) predication
Caroline Heycock (The University of Edinburgh)
16:05 –16:10
Closing
Last updated: July 8, 2025