The Pavia Verbs Database

This volume presents the current state of the Pavia Verbs Database (PaVeDa), an open-source typological resource for the investigation of verb valency patterns and alternations from a cross-linguistic and diachronic perspective. The volume collects papers written by Italian and international early-career researchers who contribute to PaVeDa by developing datasets for new languages. Some papers in the volume discuss theoretical issues, focusing on argument structures and alternations in specific languages, while others address methodological challenges encountered during the annotation process and propose ways to overcome them. The selection of papers highlights the wide array of languages represented in PaVeDa, covering several linguistic families, including Uralic (Hungarian), Turkic (Turkish), and Indo-European languages – both modern (Hindi and Modern Standard Russian) and ancient (Vedic
Sanskrit, Latin, Early Italo-Romance and the varieties of the British Isles). The volume seeks to offer an overview of the current results of the PaVeDa project and to inspire further typological and diachronic research on verb valency.

Lucrezia Carnesale is a postdoctoral researcher inLinguistics at the University of Pavia, where she works on the creation of the Pavia-Verbs-Database. She mainly works on New Indo-Aryan languages, focusing on Hindi argument structure constructions from a cognitive linguistics perspective.

Martina Giuliani is a postdoctoral researcher in linguistics at the University of Pavia, where she is contributing to the construction of the Pavia-Verbs- Database annotating data from Latin. Her researchinterests include Indo-European linguistics with a focus on Latin morphosyntax, cognitive linguistics, and language typology.