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1) Subject:Symposium on Clause Linking in Semitic Languages
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Date: </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; ">28 Dec 2011</span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">
From:</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">"Bo Isaksson" <</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><a href="mailto:bo.isaksson@lingfil.uu.se" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">bo.isaksson@lingfil.uu.se</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; ">></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">
Subject:Symposium on Clause Linking in Semitic Languages
Invitation and call for papers for
International Symposium on Clause Linking in Semitic Languages, 5-7 August 2012 in Kivik, Sweden
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: <a href="http://conference.sol.lu.se/en/scls-2012/">http://conference.sol.lu.se/en/scls-2012/</a>
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 pāsē grammatikē kai sophiā. 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
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