The Nerthus Project Research Group (Department of Modern Languages, University of La Rioja) invites the submission of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research to the 2014 International Symposium on Verbs, Clauses and Constructions, which will be held on October 22-24th, 2014 at the University of La Rioja. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
- Layered models of clause structure
- The interaction of verbal projections and verbal constructions
- Verbal constructions
- The syntax of clauses and sentences
- Alternations vs. constructions
- Linking and interfaces
- Inflection and derivation
- Events vs. states of affairs and predications
- Verbs at the representational and interpersonal level
- Verbal typologies
- Verbs and nouns
- Nominalizations
- Cross-linguistic variation of verbal constructions
- Head marking and dependent marking
- Diatopic, diachronic and textual variation
- Morpho-syntactic and semantic change
- Usage-based approaches to the development of structure
- The role of constructions in grammaticalization
- The functional motivation of structural development