Participants

Invited Speakers

Valency Increasing Derivations in the Caucasian languages: Theoretical Approaches.

Yakov Testelets
Institute of Linguistics, RAS

The causative alternation and base valence type: where Nakh- Daghestanian fits in Eurasia

Johanna Nichols
University of California, Berkeley

Information structure without cartography: evidence from Georgian

Maria Polinsky
University of Maryland

Introductory Talks

Valency Issues in Northeast-Caucasian

Dmitry Ganenkov
Institute of Linguistics, RAS

Timur Maisak
Institute of Linguistics, RAS

Valency Issues in Northwest-Caucasian

Peter Arkadiev
Institute of Slavic Studies, RAS / RSUH (РГГУ)

Valency Issues in South-Caucasian

20-Minute Talks

Speaker	Topic
Peter Arkadiev	From resultative to incipient passive in Circassian?
Gilles Authier and Adigoezel Haciyev	Form, functions and history of a recent periphrastic passive in Budugh
Ayten Babaliyeva	Split intransitivity in literary Tabassaran
Ilya Chechuro	Locative morphemes and verb valency in the Northern dialects of Dargwa
Marina Chumakina	Obligatory biabsolutives and ‘inertial’ in Archi
Diana Forker	Affective predicates and their status within the valency classes of Nakh-Daghestanian
Hélène Gérardin	Morphological transitivity alternations in Georgian
Steve Hewitt	The Georgian perfect tense series and the Western European BE/HAVE auxiliary split
Alexander Letuchiy	Agreement with sentential arguments in Adyghe
Ekaterina Lyutikova	Case, grammatical relations and syntactic categories: evidence from Tsakhur
Svetlana Mahmudova	Voice in Rutul
Zarina Molochieva	Passive-like constructions in Chechen
Rasul Mutalov	Causatives in Dargwa
Léa Nash	Unergative verbs and ergativity in Georgian
Neige Rochant	The semantics of the causative marker ʁe- in the Kuban dialect of Kabardian
Alexander Rostovtsev-Popiel	Georgian applicatives and the rewording constraint
Arefi Seyedmohamedreza	Argument structure in Middle Persian
Nina Sumbatova	Predicates and their absolutive arguments: evidence from Tanti Dargwa