Valency in Verbs and Verb-Related Structures

Anna Malicka-Kleparska is head of the Department of English-Polish Contrastive Studies at The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Her main areas of research are English and Slavic morpho-syntax, in particular verbal valency, middle and impersonal structures. She works within the generative paradigm.Maria Bloch-Trojnar is head of the Department of Celtic Studies at The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Her major research interests include morphology and its interfaces with other grammatical components, in particular deverbal nominalisations and adjectivisations, lexicology, in Polish, Irish, and English.

• Valency in verbs and verb-related structures – Passives, unaccusativity, and nominalisation – A DM perspective on the structure of passive potential adjectives in Polish – The omission of internal arguments in verbal and nominal structures – When a verb has more than one valence frame – The interaction between event structure and argument structure in light of some Hungarian and English facts – Synthetic compound adjectives in Polish. A case of the morphology-syntax interface – The morpho-syntax of reflexive impersonals in Polish – The unbearable lightness of HAVE(ing) – Antipassive-like features in selected English and Polish object drop constructions – The internal structure of the synthetic compounds based on the passive participle in English – On the properties of arguments in Polish na-prefixed constructions