Complex Predicates
         in Iranian Languages

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III
July 5-6, 2008

 

Conference Presentations

 
Opening Session
Welcome Address by Philip Huyse, CNRS
[handout] Opening remarks by Simin Karimi
 
Session 1: Separable Light Verb Constructions
[handout] Separability of Persian complex predicates
Gh. Karimi-Doostan
[handout] Studying the Persian separable compound verbs in corpus linguistics
Mahmood Bijankhan and Elham Alayi Aboozar
 
Session 2: Preverbal nominals and incorporation 1
[handout] Quasi-incorporation in Persian
Fereshteh Modarresi and Alexandra Simonenko
[handout] The nominal element in complex predicates
Marina Pantcheva
[handout] Ergativity and the structure of complex predicates in Dari
Annahita Farudi and Maziar Toosarvandani
 
Session 3: Preverbal nominals and incorporation 2
Does Incorporation offer a minimalist account for complex predication in Modern Persian?
Keivan Zahedi
[handout] Preverbal nominals and telicity in Persian complex predicates
Karine Megerdoomian
 
Session 4: Historical perpective
[handout] Persian complex verb constructions in a historical perspective
Ludwig Paul
[slides & handout] A diachronic and synchronic analysis of two complex spatial predicates in Persian
Soha Safai
[handout] Voice and transitivity in complex predicates
Agnes Korn
[slides ] Explorations of Semantic Space: The Case of Light Verb Constructions in Persian
Neiloufar Family
 
Session 5: Formation of complex predicates
[slides] A lexical analysis of Persian complex predicates
Stefan Müller
Causative-inchoative alternation: Evidence from complex predicates in Ossetian
Ekaterina Lyutikova and Sergei Tatevosov
Automatic extraction and partial annotation of Persian complex predicates
Kim Gerdes and Pollet Samvelian