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Date: 05 Mar 2012
From:"Bo Isaksson" <bo.isaksson at lingfil.uu.se>
Subject:2nd Call Clause Linking in Semitic Languages

International Symposium on Clause Linking in Semitic Languages, 5-7 August
2012 in Kivik, Sweden

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

International Symposium on Clause Linking in Semitic Languages

5-7 August 2012 in Kivik, Sweden

Key-note speakers:

Dr. Eran Cohen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Dr. Reinhard G. Lehmann, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Germany

Assoc. Prof. Tsvetomira Pashova, Sofia University, Bulgaria

The symposium welcomes papers dealing with clause linking in all varieties
of Semitic languages. A strong incentive

for the symposium is the renewed interest in recent years in the nature of
non-main clause linking, which has brought

into focus the concept of a main line and digressions from this main line in
various discourse types. Recent research has

also questioned the traditional view that non-main clauses must be
introduced by a conjunction (Dixon 2009, Givón

2001, 299, Isaksson et al. 2009). The conference committee invites scholars
to submit papers on all related topics with

emphasis on "ways of combining clauses other than through relative clause
and complement clause constructions"

(Dixon 2009, 1). Specific areas of interest are:

• the concept of a main line and digressions from a main line

• features of specific discourse types in the coding of a main line and its
digressions

• the use and non-use of conjunction in non-main clause linking

• the use and function of gram-switching in clause linking (Fleischman 1985,
1990)

• non-main clauses functioning as focal clauses (Dixon 2009, 4)

• the nature and coding of conditional clause linking

• the encoding of hierarchies in non-main clause linking (non-main clauses
having mutually "unequal status", Halliday

2004, 374)

Important dates and practical information:

Dead-line for abstracts: 2 May 2012.

Conference fee: 800 SEK (25% VAT included). To be paid according to
instructions on the conference website. Online

payment is enabled. Information on other alternatives will be posted closer
to the conference date.

Dead-line for payment: 25 May 2012.

Venue: Agda Lund Hotel, Kivik, Sweden.

Accommodation:The conference board has reserved accommodation for the
participants at Hanöbris Hotel. The whole

hotel, located at walking distance from the conference venue, is reserved
for the conference and this is also where all

conference dinners will be served.

Participants who wish to stay at the hotel need to make a reservation
through the conference website. The

accommodation cost is paid directly to the hotel upon arrival. More
information on costs and alternatives as well as

instructions on how to make a reservation at Hanöbris Hotel online will be
posted closer to the conference date.

Conference Home page: http://conference.sol.lu.se/en/scls-2012/

Conference board: Professor Bo Isaksson and PhD Maria Persson on behalf of
The International research project on

“Circumstantial Clause Combining in Semitic”, Swedish Research Council
project 2010-2012 (Dnr 2009-2197), Uppsala

University, Gothenburg University, Lund University, Hebrew University.

References

Dixon, R. M. W. 2009. “The semantics of clause linking in typological
perspective”. In The

semantics of clause linking: A cross-linguistic typology, edited by R. M. W.
Dixon and

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald. 1-55. Explorations in linguistic typology 5.
Oxford: Oxford

University Press. Reprint, paperback edition 2011.

Fleischman, Suzanne. 1985. “Discourse functions of tense-aspect oppositions
in narrative:

Toward a theory of grounding”. Linguistics 23 no. 6: 851-882.

Fleischman, Suzanne. 1990. Tense and narrativity: From medieval performance
to modern

fiction. Croom Helm romance linguistics series. London: Routledge. Reprint,
2002.

Givón, Talmy. 2001. Syntax: An introduction. Rev. ed. Vol. 1. Amsterdam,
Philadelphia: J.

Benjamins.

Halliday, Michael A. K. 2004. An introduction to functional grammar. Edited
by Christian M.

I. M. Matthiessen. 3rd rev. ed. London: Arnold.

Isaksson, Bo, Heléne Kammensjö, and Maria Persson. 2009. Circumstantial
qualifiers in

Semitic: The case of Arabic and Hebrew. Edited by Bo Isaksson. Abhandlungen
für die

Kunde des Morgenlandes 70. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.

Isaksson, Bo. 2011. “The textlinguistics of the Suffering Servant:
Subordinate structures in

Isaiah 52,13-53,12”. In En pase grammatike kai sophia. Saggi di linguistica
ebraica in onore

di Alviero Niccacci, ofm, edited by Gregor Geiger and Massimo Pazzini.
173-212. Collana

Analecta: Studium Biblicum Franciscanum 78. Jerusalem; Milano: Franciscan
Printing

Press; Editioni Terra Santa.

Matthiessen, Christian, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1988. “The structure of
discourse and

‘subordination’”. In Clause combining in grammar and discourse, edited by
John Haiman

and Sandra A. Thompson. 275-329. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Persson, Maria. “Circumstantial clause”. In Encyclopedia of Arabic Language
and

Linguistics Online, edited by Lutz Edzard and Rudolf de Jong. Leiden –
Boston: Brill.

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Bo Isaksson

Professor of Semitic Languages

Uppsala University

Dept. of Linguistics and Philology

POBox 635

SE-751 26 Uppsala

Sweden

Homepage: http://www.anst.uu.se/boisak/

Tel: +46-18-471 1002

Fax: +46-18-471 1094

Visiting address:

Thunbergsvägen 3 H

752 38 Uppsala

Invoice address:

Uppsala universitet

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FE 112

838 80  Hackås

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