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Call for papers | 2nd Workshop on the languages of Wallacea</h2>
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<span style="color: rgb(82, 82, 82); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 300;">Following the success of the 1st Workshop of the Languages of Wallacea (KITLV Leiden, 1-2 December 2016), we are holding a 2nd workshop in Leiden on 17
June 2019 after the</span><span style="color: rgb(82, 82, 82); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 300;"> </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/apllconference/home" style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(27, 50, 95); background: 0px 0px; outline: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 400;">APLL
conference at Leiden University</a><span style="color: rgb(82, 82, 82); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 300;">. The special topic of the 2nd Workshop on the Languages of Wallacea will be ‘possession’.</span><br>
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<span style="background: 0px 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><strong style="background: 0px 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px">Abstract</strong></span><br>
The most famous and perhaps first recognised feature to define the Melanesian Linguistic Area is the so-called “reversed genitive”. As early as Brandes (1884), it was observed that the order of the noun and the possessor was typically “reversed” in the Austronesian
languages of Wallacea with the possessor preceding the noun it possessed, while in languages of western Indonesia and the Philippines the possessor typically followed the possessed noun. Possessive classification in Austronesian languages, where nouns are
divided into possessive classes that each use distinct constructions for marking the possessive relationship, similarly appears in Wallacea but not to its west. This appearance of these patterns in Austronesian languages coincides with the historically inferred
extent of Papuan languages, and they are typically assumed to be the result of contact with or shift from Papuan languages.</p>
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<strong style="background: 0px 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px"><span style="background: 0px 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Aim workshop</span></strong><br>
Whilst these observations are certainly important, focus on them has resulted in glossing over of the significant variation that exists in possessive constructions across Wallacean languages. The aim of the workshop is to develop a better picture of the diversity,
distribution and origins of possessive constructions in Wallacea. Possible topics for papers are (but not limited to):<br>
• case studies of possession in individual (groups of) languages<br>
• morphosyntatic reconstructions of possession in families/subgroups<br>
• semantics of alienable/inalienable distinctions</p>
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<span style="background: 0px 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><strong style="background: 0px 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px">Dates and venue</strong></span><br>
The workshop will be held on<span> </span><strong style="background: 0px 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px">17 June 2019</strong><span> </span>at the KITLV in Leiden.</p>
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<strong style="background: 0px 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px"><span style="background: 0px 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Deadline submission abstracts </span></strong><br>
Talks are to be 30 minutes (20 minutes presentation plus 10 minutes questions/discussion). We anticipate a maximum of 15 talks. Please submit abstracts of no more than 500 words by<span> </span><strong style="background: 0px 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px">15
March 2019</strong><span> </span>to Antoinette Schapper (<a style="color: rgb(27, 50, 95); background: 0px 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 400"><span style="background: 0px 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px">schapper@kitlv.nl</span></a>)
and David Gil (<a style="color: rgb(27, 50, 95); background: 0px 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 400"><span style="background: 0px 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px">gil@shh.mpg.de</span></a>).</p>
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