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Organizers

• Andra Kalnača
  University of Latvia
  kalnaca@latnet.lv
• Ilze Lokmane
  University of Latvia
  ilokmane@latnet.lv
• Daiki Horiguchi
  Iwate University (Japan)
  sirdspuksti@gmail.com

Description

The aim of the workshop is a general discussion about various interconnected semantic, morphological and syntactical verbal aspects, and their role in the structure of the sentence.

The workshop welcomes papers concerning the following fields linked with verbal morphosyntax:

• Verbal aspect, especially the construction verb + adverb;
• Verbs using their auxiliary meaning (helper verbs, linking verbs, etc.) and their functions;
• Participles and their functions.

Other papers connected with verbal morphosyntax and their functions are also welcomed, including topics such as verb forms, moods, personal forms, transitivity, reflexivity, negation, etc.

The verbal grammatical categories of Baltic languages and the various semantic groups tied to them, their semantics and paradigmatics were traditionally an object of great interest for linguists both from the synchronic aspect as well as from the diachronic aspect. For example, there is still ongoing discussion about the status of verbal aspect and moods, as well as the status of voice forms and compound verbs, and their description in the Baltic languages. In the analysis of verbal aspect, there is still less focus devoted to the constructions verb + adverb, their semantics and systematic relation with prefixal verbs, as well as the link with the expression of aspectual meanings. The various cases where verbs that are used with their auxiliary meanings, and their relation with the processes of grammaticalization are made relevant by the problem of the difference between analytical morphological forms and syntactic constructions. In contemporary linguistics, these questions are also giving rise to great interest in both the typological aspect as well as the contrastive aspect, as data from the Baltic languages also provide fascinating material in adapting contemporary linguistic methods and in comparing the languages typologically. In addition, one should admit that verbal forms and their functions should also be more widely analyzed in the context of the structure of entire sentences as well as in the context of semantics – especially when talking about the syntactic semantics of participles in the Baltic languages as well as functions in the sentence.

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