slavIA 2025

Inner Aspect, VP Structure and the Functional Domain in Slavic Languages (slavIA 2025)
6-7 November 2025, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Conference

This conference aims to bring together scholars working on various aspects of verb phrase structure in Slavic languages, with particular attention to the nature of inner aspect and its relation to grammatical/viewpoint aspect, as well as the syntactic representation of elements contributing to aspectual composition and predicate interpretation.

While there have been many works on these issues in both traditional and formal frameworks, we believe there are a number of issues that still need to be addressed from theoretical, typological, and experimental perspectives. These include but are not limited to:

  • inner aspect and types of eventualities as VP-level categories
  • above VP: the functional contribution of little v and Asp to the representation of inner vs. outer aspectual properties
  • argument realization and event composition
  • the complex/simple event dichotomy and the syntactic representation of telicity
  • the syntax of scalar and non-scalar predicates

Call for papers

We invite abstracts for 20-minute presentations followed by a 10-minute discussion.

Abstracts should be anonymous, no longer than 500 words (excluding references), and submitted in PDF format via e-mail to slavia.2025@unive.it. Abstracts should be written in English and formatted in Times New Roman, 12 pt, single-spaced.

For submission, please send your abstract with the subject line: SlavIA 2025 Abstract Submission. Please include your name, affiliation and contact details in the body of the e-mail but not in the abstract itself.

Important dates

  • Abstract submission deadline:
    June 1st, 2025
  • Notification of acceptance:
    July 31st, 2025

Registration and programme

Registration

There is no registration fee for participants. 

More information on how to apply will be published soon.

Programme 6-7/11/2025

The full programme will be announced over the next months. Invited speakers:

  • Boban Arsenijević, University of Graz
  • Hana Filip, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf
  • Ora Matushansky, CNRS Paris
  • Gillian Ramchand, Oxford University
Venue

Ca’ Bernardo (Sala B), Dorsoduro 3199, Calle Bernardo, 30123 Venice (Italy).

The conference will take place in person.

Organizing Committee