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FORTHCOMING TALKS AND PUBLICATIONS
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Isabel Roy. 2024. Adjectives in an adjective-deficient language: Wolof. Workshop "Adjectives, categorization and argument structure", 21st International Morphology Meeting (IMM21). Vienna, 28-30 August 2024.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor, Josep Ausensi, Josep M. Fontana & Cristina Real-Puigdollers. Forthcoming. Old Spanish resultatives as low depictives. In Proceedings of the 49th Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 49), University of Georgia,1–4 May 2019. Language Sciences Press.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Jaume Mateu. Forthcoming. El verb i el sintagma verbal [‘The verb and the verb phrase’]. In Josep Martines & Manuel Pérez-Saldanya (eds), Gramàtica del català antic.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Cristina Real-Puigdollers. Forthcoming. Boundedness in locative prepositions: Evidence from Catalan. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.
AUTHORED BOOKS
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2016. The Morphosyntax of Transitions. A Case Study in Latin and Other Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [This is a revised version of my 2010 PhD thesis.]
EDITED VOLUMES
- Víctor Acedo-Matellán & Isabel Oltra-Massuet. 2024-. On the nature of agents. Special collection of Glossa.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor, Theresa Biberauer, Jaume Mateu & Anna Pineda (eds). 2021. Into adpositions. New formal perspectives on the structure of the PP and its variation. Special issue of Linguistic Variation 21(1).
- Fábregas, Antonio, Víctor Acedo-Matellán, Grant Armstrong, María Cristina Cuervo & Isabel Pujol (eds.). 2021. The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology. Abingdon & New York: Routledge.
PUBLISHED PAPERS
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Arkadiusz Kapiszweski. 2024 [Advance publication]. Talmy’s typology revisited: a Spanning approach. Linguistic Inquiry.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2023. Synthetic versus analytic expressions. In Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology, ed. Peter Ackema, Sabrina Bendjaballah, Eulàlia Bonet & Antonio Fábregas. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. DOI: 10.1002/9781119693604.morphcom081
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo. 2022. Revisiting -ej(ar) verbs in Catalan: Argument and event structure. RLLT18, eds. Jonathan MacDonald, Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Ander Beristain & Robin Turner. Special Issue of Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 8(4)/12, 1-28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.166
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor, Jaume Mateu & Anna Pineda. 2022. Argument structure and argument realization. In The Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics, ed. Adam Ledgeway & Martin Maiden, 491–518. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2022. Approaching the puzzle of the adjective. In For Hagit: A celebration. Xagigat Xagit. Special issue of Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) Occasional Papers in Linguistics 47, ed. Linnaea Stockall, Luisa Martí, David Adger, Isabelle Roy & Sarah Ouwayda.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2021. Goal, source, and route preverbs in Latin: their interaction with spatial datives. The Linguistic Review 38(2). 233–266. https://doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2021-2064
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2021. Spanish morphology and the architecture of grammar. In The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology. Routledge, ed. Antonio Fábregas, Víctor Acedo-Matellán, Grant Armstrong, María Cristina Cuervo & Isabel Pujol, 335–346. The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology. Abingdon & New York: Routledge.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor, Theresa Biberauer, Jaume Mateu & Anna Pineda. 2021. Into adpositions: New formal perspectives on the structure of the PP and its variation. In Víctor Acedo-Matellán, Theresa Biberauer, Jaume Mateu & Anna Pineda (eds), Into adpositions. New formal perspectives on the structure of the PP and its variation. Special issue of Linguistic Variation 21(1). 1–11.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Anna Pineda. 2019. Light Verb Construction in Basque and Romance. In Ane Berro, Beatriz Fernández & Jon Ortiz de Urbina (eds.), Aligning grammars: Basque and Romance,176–220. Leiden/Boston: Brill.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Cristina Real-Puigdollers. 2019. Roots into functional nodes: exploring locality and semi-lexicality. The Linguistic Review 36(3). 411–436.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2018. Exoskeletal Versus Endoskeletal Approaches in Morphology. In Mark Aronoff (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2018. (M-)Words Matter: Constraining Allomorphy in Its Possible Contexts. In Wm. G. Bennett, Lindsay Hracs & Dennis R. Storoshenko (eds.), Proceedings of the 35th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 41-48. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2017. Latin datives with prefixed verbs and beyond: A view from the theory of applicatives. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 16. 19–49.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2016. Preverbs llatins: aspectes morfosintàctics i semàntics [‘Latin preverbs: morphosyntactic and semantic aspects’]. In Cristina Buenafuentes, Gloria Clavería & Isabel Pujol (eds), Cuestiones de morfología léxica, 63–99. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Jaume Mateu Fontanals. 2016. Argument structure and satellite-framedness in Latin: Evidence from Unselected Object Constructions. In Paolo Poccetti (ed.) Latinitatis rationes. Descriptive and Historical Accounts for the Latin Language, 149–169. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Jaume Mateu. 2015. Parameters and argument structure I: Motion predicates and resultatives. In Antonio Fábregas, Jaume Mateu & Michael Putnam (eds), Contemporary Linguistic Parameters, 99–122. London: Bloomsbury.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Jaume Mateu. 2015. Los verbos psicológicos: raíces especiales en estructuras corrientes [‘Psych verbs: special roots in normal structures’]. In Rafael Marín (ed.), Los predicados psicológicos, 53–81. Madrid: Visor.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Cristina Real-Puigdollers. 2015. Location and locatum verbs revisited: Evidence from aspect and quantification. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 62(2). 111–140.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor, Ricardo Etxepare, Ángel J. Gallego, Francisco Ordóñez & Francesc Roca. 2015. Isogloss: A new journal for linguistic variation in Romance and Iberian languages. Isogloss 1. i–iv.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2014. Can we dance without doing a dance? Two opposite views on the integration of roots in the syntactic structure of the vP. In Asaf Bachrach, Isabelle Roy & Linnaea Stockall (eds), Structuring the Argument. Multidisciplinary research on verb argument structure, 23–43. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Jaume Mateu. 2014. From syntax to roots: A syntactic approach to root interpretation. In Artemis Alexiadou, Hagit Borer & Florian Schäfer (eds), The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax, 14–32. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Cristina Real-Puigdollers. 2014. Inserting roots into (functional) nodes: Categories and cross-linguistic variation. Linguistic analysis 39(1–2). 125–168.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2013. Merging roots in Bare Phrase Structure and the conflation/incorporation distinction. In Stefan Keine & Shayne Sloggett (eds), NELS 42: Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society: Volume 1, 1–14. Amherst: University of Massachusetts, GLSA.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Jaume Mateu. 2013. Satellite-framed Latin vs. verb-framed Romance: A syntactic approach. Probus: International Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics 25(2). 1–39.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2012. Adjectival resultatives cross-linguistically: A morphophonological account. In Camelia Constantinescu, Bert Le Bruyn & Kathrin Linke (eds), Proceedings of ConSOLE XVII, 1–25.
- Mateu, Jaume & Víctor Acedo-Matellán. 2012. The manner/result complementarity revisited: A syntactic approach. Syntax and Semantics 38 (María Cristina Cuervo & Yves Roberge (eds), The end of argument structure?). 209–228.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Jaume Mateu Fontanals. 2009. L’expressió dels esdeveniments de canvi: del llatí al català [‘The expression of change events: from Latin to Catalan’]. In Joan Rafel Cufí (ed.), Diachronic Linguistics, 473–496. Girona: Documenta Universitaria.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2006. Prefixes in Latin and Romance and the satellite-/verb-framed distinction. In Actes del VII Congrés de Lingüística General, del 18 al 21 d’abril de 2006, Universitat de Barcelona. In CD-ROM.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2006. Una aproximació sintàctica als verbs prefixats en català. Estudios Catalanes 4. 41–78.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Jordi Fortuny-Andreu. 2006. Exploring the Strongest Minimalist Thesis. In Joana Rosselló & Jesús Martín (eds), The Biolinguistic Turn. Issues on Language and Biology, 129–161. Barcelona: PPU, Promociones y Publicaciones Universitarias, S. A.
UNPUBLISHED/LINGBUZZ VERSIONS
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2016. A (meso)parameter for Talmy’s typology. Ms. Queens' College, University of Cambridge.
PRESENTATIONS IN CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2023. The format of result constructions: Deriving markedness and implicational universals. Keynote conference. Resultatives: New Approaches and Renewed Perspectives. National University of Singapore. 20–22 March 2023.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Arkadiusz Kwapiszewski. 2021. Talmian variation revisited: A Spanning account. Talk. 2021. 52th meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 52 @ Rutgers), Rutgers University. Online. 29–31 October.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Arkadiusz Kwapiszewski. 2021. Talmian variation revisited: A Spanning account. Talk. 2021 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB 2021). Online. 6–9 September.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo. 2021. On the argument and event structure of the Catalan suffix -ejar. Talk. Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 51 (LSRL 51), University of Illinois (online), 30 April.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2019. A new lexicalization constraint?. Talk. 2019 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB 2019), Queen Mary University of London, 9–12 September.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2019. On preverbs, their dative relata, and the typology of paths. Talk. “Contemporary theoretical approaches to word formation in Latin” Workshop, 20th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (ICLL 2019), Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), 17–21 June.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor, Josep Ausensi, Josep Maria Fontana & Cristina Real Puigdollers. 2019. Building (adjectival) resultatives in Old Romance. Talk. 29th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG 29), Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real (Spain), 22–24 May.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor, Josep Ausensi, Josep Maria Fontana & Cristina Real Puigdollers. 2019. Revisiting (adjectival) resultatives in Old Romance. Talk. 49th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 49), University of Georgia, Atlanta (USA), 1–4 May.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2017. Alternations in perception verbs: what they tell us about the ingredients of agency. Talk. 2017 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB 2017), University of Kent, Canterbury (UK). 4–7 September.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Cristina Real-Puigdollers. 2017. Categorizers = roots: exploring locality and semi-lexicality. Poster. Roots V. Queen Mary, University of London & University College London (UK). 16–18 June.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2017. Deconstructing agency: volitionality alternations in cognitive perception verbs. Talk. Cambridge Workshop on Voice (CamVoice). University of Cambridge (UK). 22–24 May.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Cristina Real-Puigdollers. 2017. Talmy, not Snyder: the comparative syntax of creation predicates. Talk. 6th Cambridge Comparative Syntax (CamCoS 6). University of Cambridge (UK). 4–6 May.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2017. Types of allomorphy and their locality conditions across “words”. Poster. 35th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 35). University of Calgary (Canada). 28–30 April. https://sites.google.com/site/wccfl35yyc/program
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2017. Spatial datives as affected datives. Talk. International workshop: Dative structures and beyond. Centre de Lingüística Teòrica – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). 26–27 January.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2016. Restrictions on allomorphy across words. Talk. The Word and the Morpheme. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Germany). 22–24 September.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2015. A mesoparameter for Talmy’s typology. Talk. Parameters in Diachronic Syntax Workshop, 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2015). Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) (The Netherlands). 2–5 September.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Jaume Mateu. 2015. The locative alternation in Latin: A typological perspective. Talk. 18th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (ICLL). Université de Toulouse 2-Le Mirail (France). 8–13 June.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2015. Latin directional datives as possessive datives. Talk. 25th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (25 CGG). IKER (Center for the Study of the Basque Language and its Texts (UMR 5478)). Bayonne (France). 21–23 May. https://sites.google.com/site/cgg2015bayonne/programme
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2014. Changes before and after Vocabulary Insertion. A case study in the diachrony of Catalan psych-predicates. Poster. 16th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (DIGS 16). Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Hungary). 3–5 July. http://www.nytud.hu/digs16/program.html
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2014. Atelicity with goal PPs, telicity without a quantity NP: Evidence from atransitive predicates. Talk. 2nd Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adverbs and Prepositions (WAASAP 2). Center for Advanced Studies in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL), Universitetet i Tromsø (Norway). 12–13 June. https://castl.uit.no/index.php/component/content/article/76-other-castl-events/conferencesaworkshops/323-waasap2-program
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Cristina Real-Puigdollers. 2014. Locative a and en in Catalan and the significance of AxPart. Talk. 2nd Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adverbs and Prepositions (WAASAP 2). Center for Advanced Studies in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL), Universitetet i Tromsø (Norway). 12–13 June. https://castl.uit.no/index.php/component/content/article/76-other-castl-events/conferencesaworkshops/323-waasap2-program
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Cristina Real-Puigdollers. 2014. Locative prepositions and quantifier scope: Evidence from Catalan. Talk. Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (Olinco), Palacký University, Olomouc (Czech Republic). 5–7 June. http://olinco.upol.cz/#program
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Cristina Real-Puigdollers. 2014. On the distinction between locative a and en in Catalan. Poster. 24th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG24). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) & Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain). 28–30 May. https://sites.google.com/site/cgg24th/program/posters
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2014. A syntax for atransitivity. Poster. 37th Generative Grammar in the Old World (GLOW 37). CRISSP (KU Leuven & HUBrussel), Brussels (Belgium). 2–4 April. http://www.glow37.org/colloquium/programme#thu
- Mateu, Jaume & Víctor Acedo-Matellán. 2013. Algunes consideracions tipològiques sobre l’expressió del canvi en llatí i en català [‘Some typological consideration on the expression of change in Latin and Catalan’]. Talk. XVII Simposi d’Estudis Clàssics. Omnia mutantur. Canvi, transformació i pervivència en la cultura clàssica, en les seves llengües i en el seu llegat (XVII Symposium of Classical Studies. Omnia mutantur. Change, transformation and permanence in Classical culture, in its languages and in its legacy’]. Universitat de Barcelona (Spain). 3–5 July. http://seec.cat/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/OMNIAMVTANTVR_programasessions1.pdf
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Jaume Mateu. 2013. Argument structure and satellite-framedness in Latin: a neo-constructionist approach. Talk. 17th Colloquium on Latin Linguistics. Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata (Italy). 20–25 May. http://latinlinguistics.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/copia-di-definitivo-di-latin-linguistics-2013-3.pdf
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Cristina Real-Puigdollers. 2012. Aspectual and quantificational properties of locative verbs. Talk. WAS (Workshop on Argument Structure). University of Debrecen (Hungary). 25–27 May.
- Mateu Fontanals, Jaume & Víctor Acedo-Matellán. 2012. Sobre la complementariedad entre los componentes de manera y resultado y la distinción entre conflación e incorporación [‘On the complementarity of the manner and result components and the distinction between conflation and incorporation’]. Talk. XLI Simposio Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística [‘XLI International Symposium of the Spanish Linguistic Society’]. Universitat de València (Spain). 31/Jan.–3/Feb.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Jaume Mateu Fontanals. 2012. Tipología lingüística y sintaxis de la estructura argumental: las construcciones de objeto no seleccionado en latín [‘Linguistic typology and syntax of argument structure: unselected object constructions in Latin’]. Talk. XLI Simposio Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística [‘XLI International Symposium of the Spanish Linguistic Society’]. Universitat de València (Spain). 31/Jan.–3/Feb.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2011. Conflation vs. incorporation in Bare Phrase Structure. Talk. 42nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 42). University of Toronto (Canada). 11–13 November.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2011. A layered-derivation approach to the conflation/incorporation distinction. Talk. Workshop on verbal elasticity. Framing the verb/satellite distinction from a biolinguistic perspective. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (Spain). 3–5 October.
- Mateu, Jaume & Víctor Acedo-Matellán. 2010. Conflation vs. Incorporation Processes and the Manner/Result Complementarity. Talk. The End of Argument Structure?. University of Toronto (Canada). 1–2 October.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Jaume Mateu. 2009. From syntax to roots: a syntactic approach to root ontologies. Talk. Roots: Word formation from the perspective of “core lexical elements”. Universität Stuttgart (Germany). 10–12 June.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2009. Adjectival and non-adjectival resultative constructions: the role of morphology in their crosslinguistic variation. Talk. 19th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG 19). Universidad del País Vasco-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain). 1–3 April. http://ehutb.ehu.es/es/video/692.html
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2009. Adjectival resultatives cross-linguistically: A morphophonological account. Talk. ConSOLE XVII. Univerza v Novi Gorici (Slovenia). 16–18 January.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Jaume Mateu. 2008. The path from satellite-framed Indo-European to verb-framed Romance: A lexical-syntactic account. Talk. Diachronic Generative Syntax (DIGS) X. Cornell University, Ithaka, NY (US). 7–9 August.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2006. Prefixes in Latin and Romance and the satellite- vs. verb-framed distinction. Talk. VII Congrés de Lingüística General [‘VII Conference on General Linguistics’]. Universitat de Barcelona (Spain). 18–21 April.
- Grup de Recerca de la Llengua Mandinka (Faty, Nfanli, Víctor Acedo, Elena Castroviejo, Alícia Fuentes, Jordi Magrinyà, Joana Rosselló & Carlos van Oosterzee). 2006. Elaboració d’un compendi gramatical de la llengua mandinka [‘Creation of a grammatical compendium of the Mandinka language’]. Poster. VII Congrés de Lingüística General [‘VII Conference on General Linguistics’]. Universitat de Barcelona (Spain). 18–21 abril
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Cristina Real-Puigdollers. 2005. Quantification and embedding of functional structure within lexical projections. Talk. III Workshop on Syntax and Semantics (WoSS III). Université de Nantes (France). 8–9 September.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2005. Prefixed verbs and causative alternation. Poster. 15th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG 15). Universitat de Barcelona (Spain). 4–6 April.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Daniele Portolan. 2004. Issues in inclusive reference. Talk. II Workshop on Syntax and Semantics (WoSS II). Universitat de Barcelona (Spain). 15–17 September.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2003. Movement along the PF-branch: Evidence from Latin prefixed verbs. Talk. I Workshop on Syntax and Semantics (WoSS I). Universidad del País Vasco-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain). 19–21 June.
INVITED TALKS
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo. 2021. Argument structure and word formation. Session 2: Estructura argumental y formación de palabras. ROLLING Institute on Argument Structure. Universitat Rovira i Virgili. 19 October 2021.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2020. Possible meanings in verbs: The Catalan suffix -ejar. Talk. 50 years of Spanish and Portuguese at Oxford. Sub-Faculty of Portuguese & Sub-Faculty of Spanish, University of Oxford. 28 February.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2019. On verbal elasticity: the stative-eventive alternation in perception verbs in Germanic. Talk. Comparative Syntax (ComSyn) Lecture Series. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), Leiden (Netherlands). 5 December.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2019. From dispositional adjectives to lexicalization constraints. A commentary on Arche & Stowell's work. Talk. Workshop “Individual/Stage Level Discussion Day”. University of Greenwich, London. 24 October.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2017. Goals vs all other paths, and the syntax-morphology interface. Talk. Workshop “Morfologia i sintaxi”. Universitat de Girona. 17–18 July.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Jaume Mateu. 2017. El verb i el sintagma verbal [‘The verb and the verb phrase’]. Talk. VIII Simposi Internacional “Vers una sintaxi històrica del català” [‘VIII international symposium Towards a historical syntax of Catalan’]. Universitat d’Alacant, La Nucia. 3–4 February.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2016. On language origin and evolution. Talk. Thomae Smithi Academia. Queens’ College, University of Cambridge (UK). 29 February.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2015. (Meso)parameterising Talmy’s typology. Talk. Workshop on the Diachrony of Verb-Framed vs. Satellite-Framed Languages. Ulster University, Belfast (UK). 16 October.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2014. Catalan: Past, present and future. Talk. Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group (CELCG). University of Cambridge (UK). 3 December.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2014. Syntactic and semantic nature of atransitivity. Talk. TransCEHUM: II Jornadas de Jovens Investigadores CEHUM [‘TransCEHUM: II Meeting of Young Researchers CEHUM’]. Centro de Estudos Humanísticos (CEHUM), Universidade do Minho, Braga (Portugal). 26–27 June. http://ceh.ilch.uminho.pt/pdf_show.php?a=f_eventos/1400756377.pdf
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2013. Diachronic variation in psych predicates from Latin to Catalan. Talk. L’estudi de la variació sintàctica: eines pràctiques i aspectes tèorics [‘The study of syntactic variation: practical tools and theoretical aspects’]. Universidad del País Vasco-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Centre de Lingüística Teòrica-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona / Institut Ramon Llull, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain). 12 December.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2013. Preverbs llatins: aspectes morfosintàctics i semàntics. Talk. Ciclo de conferencias sobre morfología léxica [‘Cycle of conferences on lexical morphology’]. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (Spain). 25 October http://dfe.uab.es/dades/programaCCML.pdf
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2011. A comment on Marantz’s “Syntactic approaches to argument structure without incorporation”. Talk. Structuring the Argument: A multidisciplinary workshop on the mental representation of verbal argument structure. Structures Formelles du Langage - UMR 7023 Paris 8/CNRS (France). 5–7 September.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2011. Argument structure and the syntax-morphology interface. Issues in Latin and other languages. Talk. Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid (Spain). 14 March.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Jaume Mateu. 2010. El verb i el sintagma verbal [‘The verb and the verb phrase’]. Talk. VII Simposi internacional “Vers una sintaxi històrica del català: metodologia i objectius” [‘VII international symposium Towards a historical syntax of Catalan: methodology and goals’]. Universitat d’Alacant, La Nucia (Spain). 18–19 November.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Jaume Mateu. 2008. El sintagma verbal: el verb i els (seus) arguments. Els verbs psicològics [‘The verb phrase: the verb and (its) arguments. The psychological verbs’]. Talk. VI Simposi “Vers una sintaxi històrica del català: metodologia i objectius” [‘VI international symposium Towards a historical syntax of Catalan: methodology and goals’]. Universitat d’Alacant, La Nucia (Spain). 11–13 December.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Jaume Mateu. 2008. La trajectòria de la Trajectòria del llatí al català [‘Path’s path from Latin to Catalan’]. Talk. Workshop de sintaxi diacrònica [‘Diachronic syntax workshop’]. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (Spain). 28 November.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Jaume Mateu. 2007. El sintagma verbal [‘The verb phrase’]. Talk. V Simposi internacional “Vers una sintaxi històrica del català: metodologia i objectius” [‘V international symposium Towards a historical syntax of Catalan: methodology and goals’]. Universitat d’Alacant, La Nucia (Spain). 22–24 November.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Jaume Mateu. 2006. El sintagma verbal: el verb i els (seus) arguments [‘The verb phrase: the verb and (its) arguments’]. Talk. IV Simposi internacional “Vers una sintaxi històrica del català: metodologia i objectius” [‘IV international symposium Towards a historical syntax of Catalan: methodology and goals’]. Universitat d’Alacant, La Nucia (Spain). 23–25 November.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2005. L’evolució dels verbs prefixats del llatí al català [‘The evolution of prefixed verbs from Latin to Catalan’]. Talk. III Simposi internacional “Vers una sintaxi històrica del català: metodologia i objectius” [‘III international symposium Towards a historical syntax of Catalan: methodology and goals’]. Universitat d’Alacant, La Nucia (Spain). 16–17 November.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Jordi Fortuny. 2004. Disquisicions sobre forma i sentit [‘Disquisitions on form and sense’]. Talk. Primer Cicle de Conferències sobre Biologia i Llenguatge [‘I Cycle of Conferences on Biology and Language’]. Universitat de Barcelona (Spain). 1–2 July. http://www.ub.edu/ling/biolinguistica/en/inaugu.htm#avaajf
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2003. La interfície entre la sintaxi i la morfologia [‘The syntax-morphology interface’]. Talk. II Jornades sobre Investigació en el Departament de Lingüística [‘II Meeting on Research in the Department of Linguistics’]. Universitat de Barcelona (Spain). 2–3 October
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Jordi Fortuny Andreu. 2003. Les projeccions sintàctiques i fonològiques [‘Syntactic and phonological projections’]. Talk. II Jornades sobre Investigació en el Departament de Lingüística [‘II Meeting on Research in the Department of Linguistics’]. Universitat de Barcelona (Spain). 2–3 October.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2002. El comportament dels verbs amb partícula des d’una perspectiva minimista [‘The behaviour of particle verbs from a minimalist perspective’]. Talk. I Jornades sobre Investigació en el Departament de Lingüística [‘I Meeting on Research in the Department of Linguistics’]. Universitat de Barcelona (Spain). 4 October.
SEMINARS
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Veronika Gvozdovaitė. 2023. The Lithuanian si puzzle: A case of syntax-morphology-prosody interaction. Syn/Sem Workshop. Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford. 9 November 2023.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Isabel Oltra-Massuet. 2023. Prepositional verbs in Catalan: From event to argument structure. Talk. Romance Linguistics Circle (RoLinC), University of Cambridge & University of Newcastle. 2 May 2023.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2023. From aspect to argument structure: Prepositional verbs in Catalan. Talk. Romance Linguistics Seminar, University of Oxford. 9 March 2023.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2023. The encoding of property predicates: categorial and semantic restrictions. A case of syntax-morphology-prosody interaction. Syn/Sem Workshop. Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford. 2 March 2023.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2022. Lexicalization of Individual/Stage Level properties: Exploring different languages. Talk. HUJI Linguistics Colloquium. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Linguistics. 17 May 2022.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2022. Constraints on the expression of property predicates. From Indo-European to Niger-Congo. Talk. Séminaire SYNSEM (Syntaxe et Sémantique), Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (LLING - UMR6310), Université de Nantes / CNRS. 25 February 2022.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Isabel Oltra-Massuet. 2021. Els verbs de règim preposicional i la distinció predicats d’estadi i d’individu. Talk. ROLLING seminar, Universitat Rovira i Virgili. 13 December 2021.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2021. Predicats d’estadi i predicats d’individu: restriccions categorials. Talk. ROLLING seminar, Universitat Rovira i Virgili. 29 November 2021.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor (in collaboration with Arkadiusz Kwapiszewski). 2021. Evidència i teoria en la tipologia de Talmy: reacció a Folli i Harley (2020). Talk. Seminari del CLT, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 30 April.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2021. Sobre el trencaclosques de l'adjectiu. Talk. ROLLING seminar, Universitat Rovira i Virgili. 15 March 2021.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2018. Roots, categorial heads, and locality in morphology. Talk. Linguistics and English Language Research Seminars. University of Manchester. 2 October 2018.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2018. Preverbs, directional datives and the goal/non-goal distinction in Latin. General Linguistics Seminar. University of Oxford. 23 April.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2018. Locative prepositions in Catalan. Romance Seminar. Romance Linguistics Seminar. University of Oxford. 3 May.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Cristina Real-Puigdollers. 2017. Creation Predicates and Talmy’s satellite/-verb-framed typology. Talk. Seminari de Lingüística Formal (GLiF). Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain). 6 April.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2016. Restrictions on allomorphy across the domain of the word. Talk. SyntaxLab Seminar. University of Cambridge (UK). 30 May.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2015. From Latin to Romance and from Romance to Rhaeto-Romance. The diachrony of Talmy’s typology. Talk. Romance Linguistics Seminar. University of Cambridge (UK). 8 October.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2015. Eloquent absences: atransitive predicates. Talk. SyntaxLab Seminar. University of Cambridge (UK). 26 May.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2015. Seeing into atransitive vPs. Talk. Linglunch session for the Department of Linguistics. Queen Mary University of London (UK). 25 March. http://linguistics.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/events/ling-lunch-dr-victor-acedo-matell%C3%A1n-seeing-atransitive-vps-march-25-2015
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Cristina Real-Puigdollers. 2015. Locative prepositions and the universal quantifier: Interaction in Catalan. Talk. Romance Linguistics Seminar. University of Cambridge (UK). 10 February.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2014. Borer’s exoskeletal framework (in a nutshell). Talk. Seminar of the Centro de Estudos Humanísticos. Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade do Minho, Braga (Portugal). 8 September.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Cristina Real-Puigdollers. 2014. The syntactic-semantic differences between prepositions a and en in Catalan: What they tell us about the PP. Talk. Seminar of the Centro de Estudos Humanísticos. Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade do Minho, Braga (Portugal). 21 March.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Cristina Real-Puigdollers. 2014. The distinction between locative a and en in Catalan: Evidence from quantifier scope. Talk. Seminari de Lingüística Formal (GLiF). Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain). 14 March. http://www.upf.edu/glif/activities/previous/
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Cristina Real-Puigdollers. 2014. On the semantic and syntactic differences between locative a and en in Catalan. Talk. Seminar of the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica (CLT). Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (Spain). 28 February.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2013. A syntax for atransitivity. Talk. Seminar of the Centro de Estudos Humanísticos. Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade do Minho, Braga (Portugal). 16 December.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Jaume Mateu. 2013. Aspectes de la sintaxi verbal del llatí: Algunes consideracions tipològiques [‘Aspects of the verbal syntax of Latin: Some typological considerations’]. Talk. Seminar of the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica (CLT). Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (Spain). 10 May.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2009. Adjectival resultative cross-linguistically: A morphophonological account. Talk. Seminari del Grup de Lingüística Formal (GLiF). Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain). 13 February.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2008. Latin as a satellite-framed language. Talk. Seminar of the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica (CLT). Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (Spain). 8 February.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor & Cristina Real-Puigdollers. 2005. Quantificació, telicitat i verbs de canvi d’estat [‘Quantification, telicity and change of state verbs’]. Talk. Seminar of the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica (CLT). Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (Spain). 25 November.
- Acedo-Matellán, Víctor. 2005. Prefixos en llatí i en romànic i la distinció entre llengües d’emmarcament al satèl·lit i llengües d’emmarcament al verb [‘Prefixes in Latin and Romance and the satellite- vs. verb-framed distinction’]. Talk. Seminari de Gramàtica Teòrica i Tipologia. Universitat de Barcelona (Spain). 30 September.
FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS
- "Being red vs blushing: The morphosyntax of permanent and transient properties". International Fellowship, Leverhulme Trust. Research to be conducted in partnership with Isabel Oltra-Massuet (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona), Isabelle Roy (Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Université de Nantes), and Malka Rappaport Hovav (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). 01/09/2021 – 30/06/2022.
- “Events and Event Structure at the Limits of Grammar (EESLiG)”. John Fell OUP Research Fund, University of Oxford. Principal Investigator. Co-applicant: E. Matthew Husband (University of Oxford). 01/04/2020 – 15/04/2021. Organization of a workshop with the same name, which took place online on 15–16 September 2020: https://sites.google.com/view/eeslig/home
- "The verbal expression of permanent and transient properties". John Fell OUP Research Fund, University of Oxford. Principal Investigator. Research assistants: Athanasia Asyllogistou (U. Ulster), Elisabeth Gibert Sotelo (U. Girona). Exploring whether copular predicates like "be tall" or "be Hawaiian" can be expressed with simple (synthetic) verbs, across languages. 24/06/2019 – 12/08/2019