(Non-) canonical passives

Full programme (pdf)

Coordinators: Artemis Alexiadou, Florian Schäfer

Markus Bader (Konstanz) & Jana Häussler (Potsdam)

Constraints on the Formation of the Bekommen-Passive in German

Martin Businger (Zürich)

German haben + participle in stative sentences

Masanori Deguchi (Western Washington)

The Japanese morau-construction: “receiving favors” in Japanese

Helga Gese (Tübingen)

Another Passive which isn’t one: the haben-passive in German

C.-T. James Huang (Harvard)

Variations in direct and indirect passivization

Dalina Kallulli (Wien)

(Non-)canonical passives and reflexives: Deponents and their like

Eva Klingvall (Lund)

Non-canonical passives in Swedish

Eva Klingvall (Lund), Fredrik Heinat (Stockholm) & Satu Manninen (Lund)

How do things get done? On non-canonical passives in Finnish

Marie Labelle (U de Québec á Montréal)

Non-canonical passives in French

James E. Lavine (Bucknell)

Passives and Near-Passives in Balto-Slavic

Alexandra N. Lenz (Wien)

Three competing auxiliaries of a get-passive

Andrew McIntyre (Neuchâtel)

English get-passives, Middle Voice and Causative-Passive Ambiguities

Fatemeh Nemati (Persian Gulf University)

Non-canonical Passives Are Gaining Ground: The effect of complex predicates on passivization in Persian

Bjarne Ørsnes (FU Berlin)

The Danish reportive passive as a non-canonical passive

Robyn Orfitelli (UCLA)

Parsimony in Passivization: Lexically Defining the Core Characteristics of the Get-Passive

Anna Siewierska (Lancaster)

Intra-language variation among passive constructions

Anja Wanner (Wisconsin – Madison)

The English get-passive at the intersection of get and the passive

Alternates

Valia Kordoni (Saarbrücken) & Gertjan van Noord (Groningen)

Non-canonical Passives in Germanic Languages

Marcel Pitteroff (Stuttgart)

German sich-lassen middles

Ghulam Raza (Konstanz)

Passive Realizations in Saraiki and Urdu