We kindly invite you to send abstracts for workshop "(In)transitivity and its Variation" funded by SLE Joint initiatives research grant 2026, which is to be held at Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures, AMU in Poznań (Poland) on 28-29 September 2026. This workshop aims to explore the interplay of semantics, morphology, and syntax in encoding (in)transitivity, investigating the functional motivations underlying valency patterns across diverse language families.
We welcome contributions dealing with (but not restricted to) the following topics:
- Transitivity prominence especially of understudied languages;
- Mismatches between semantic and syntactic transitivity;
- Morphological and syntactic marking of valency alternations (causatives, anticausatives, reflexives, labile verbs);
- Formal syncretism of valency alternations or divergent encodings for the same valency alternations;
- Semantic restrictions on valency operations (agentivity, telicity, affectedness, etc.);
- Diachronic changes in the domain of (in)transitivity;
- Split Intransitivity encoding;
- (In)transitivity surfacing in nominalizations, and eventual mismatches.
Kindly submit your abstracts and queries to:
intr.workshop2026@gmail.com
Visit our website for detailed information:
https://sites.google.com/view/intransitivity-workshop/home
Organizers: Tania Ahmad, Sander van Hes, Henrik Hornecker, Diego Luinetti, Leonardo Montesi, Mohammad Tavakoli
