08 May 2016

Call for papers: Workshop on Complex Predicates

Workshop on Complex Predicates in Iranian Languages

University of Tehran,

Tehran, IRAN,

10-11 September 2016

https://sites.google.com/site/cprut2016/

 Deadline for abstract submission: May 20, 2016   

Guidelines are available on https://sites.google.com/site/cprut2016/call

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- emergence of complex predicates

-complex predicates as light verb constructions

-idioms as complex predicates   

-argument structure of complex predicates  

-event structure of complex predicates  

-active/non-active distinction and argument alternation   

-phonological properties of complex predicates

Keynote speakers:

Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam (Professor, Allameh Tabataba'i University)

Simin Karimi (Professor, University of Arizona)

Pollet Samvelian (Professor, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle & CNRS)