Universitat Rovira i Virgili

ROLLING Institute

The ROLLING Institute on Argument Structure consists of 7 courses that took place virtually over the course of 8 months between January and December, 2021.

The Institute is organized by the members of the Research Project "Argument Structure and Neurolinguistic Processing at the Lexicon-Syntax Interface: Unergative Verbs with Cognate Object or Obligatory Prepositional Object" of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FFI2016-80142-P)

1. "Verbal argument structure" by Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin - Leibniz ZAS).

2. "Argument structure across frameworks" by Antonio Fábregas (University of Tromsø –The Arctic University of Norway).

3. "Argument structure and lexical semantics" by John Beavers (The University of Texas at Austin).

4. "The argument structure of psych verbs" by Carles Royo (Universitat Rovira i Virgili). Course conducted in Spanish.

5. "Argument structure and information structure" by Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández (Universidad de Sevilla).

6. "Argument structure and neurolinguistics" by Linnaea Stockall (Queen Mary University London) and Laura Gwilliams (University of California San Francisco).

7. "Argument structure and word formation" by Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), with the participation of Víctor Acedo-Matellán (University of Oxford), Rafael Marín (CNRS - Université de Lille) and Isabel Pujol Payet (Universitat de Girona). Course conducted in Spanish.

8. "The syntax and semantics of lexical aspect" by Imola-Ágnes Farkas (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca).

9. "The argument structure of unergatives across theories" by Isabel Oltra-Massuet (Universitat Rovira i Virgili). Forthcoming.

  • When: TBA.
  • Course description: TBA.

10. "Argument structure and quantification" by Svitlana Antonyuk (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz). Forthcoming.

  • When: TBA.
  • Course description: TBA.