Inner Aspect, VP Structure and the Functional Domain in Slavic Languages (slavIA 2025)
6-7 November 2025, 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:
    July 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

The conference will take place in person at two venues situated in the historic center of Venice:

Getting to Venice by plane

Arrival at "Marco Polo" airport in Venice (VCE)

From the airport you can reach Mestre or Venice (Piazzale Roma) by land (on a bus or taxi) or take the water route to Venice (Alilaguna boat or water taxi).

Arrival at "Antonio Canova" airport in Treviso (TSF)

From the airport you can reach Mestre or Venice (Piazzale Roma) by land (on a bus, train or taxi)

Getting to Venice by train

The Venice railway station is “Venezia Santa Lucia”. The main train companies in Italy are Trenitalia and Italo. You can purchase the tickets at the train station or online, directly from the relevant websites.

Getting to Venice by car

Piazzale Roma and Tronchetto are the two areas in Venice that can be reached by car and where you can find the following park terminals:

Getting around Venice

For more tourist information please visit Venezia Unica, the Official City of Venice Tourist and Travel Information website.


Organizing Committee