<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>========================================================</div><div><br></div><div>Call for papers: Grammatical Change and the Expression of Subjects</div><div><br></div><div>2-4 December 2010, Regensburg, Germany</div><div><br></div><div>Submission Deadline for Abstracts: 15 July 2010</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www-slavistik.uni-regensburg.de/gces">http://www-slavistik.uni-regensburg.de/gces</a></div><div><br></div><div><div>========================================================</div><div><div><div><br></div><div>Invited speakers:</div><div>-----------------------</div><div>Elly van Gelderen (University of Arizona) </div><div>Anthony Kroch (University of Pennsylvania) </div><div>Ian Roberts (Cambridge University) </div><div>David Willis (Cambridge University) </div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div>Call for papers:</div><div>---------------------</div><div>Diachronic grammatical change affects verbal
arguments through an interplay of various semantic and structural
factors, leading to new alternations and structural patterns. In the
realm of subject expressions, important documented changes include loss
of pro-drop, alternations in thematic alignment, and the rise of
various new passive and impersonal constructions. The notion of subject
itself is, of course, a notoriously multi-faceted one, involving
factors like referential relations, structural position, case,
agreement, and thematic roles, the specifications of which certainly do
not always harmonise. Precisely this state of affairs has often given
rise to important and fascinating research questions, as e.g. in the
case of null and expletive subjects, or of oblique/quirky subjects. </div><div><br></div><div>Research on grammatical change has made a considerable leap forward by
the exploitation of annotated corpora. Not only has its empirical base
become more accessible in general, but methodological progress has made
feasible new, exciting research questions, especially involving
quantitative distributions of linguistic features. Historical and
diachronic corpora of an increasing number of languages are being
constructed and annotated with syntactically relevant information in
order to address these and related issues.</div><div><br></div><div>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</div><div><br></div><div>* Diachronic development of null subjects</div><div>* Changes in subject expletives</div><div>* Diachrony of oblique and quirky subjects</div><div>* History of impersonal constructions</div><div>* Development of diatheses affecting the external argument</div><div>* Change in unaccusatives</div><div>* History of subjects in root infinitives and modal constructions</div><div>* Empirical methodology in diachronic syntax</div><div>* Historical and diachronic corpora annotated for syntactic structure and syntactic relations</div><div><br></div><div>The conference will seek a comparative and typological view. Papers will be given precedence which address grammatical change in a theoretically explicit way, aiming at an explanatory account, and/or demonstrate substantial methodological advancement.</div><div><br></div><div>Abstract specifications:</div><div>-------------------------------</div><div>Anonymous abstracts for 25 min. presentations (+10 min. discussion) should be submitted as an email attachment to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><a href="mailto:gces@sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de">gces@sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">until <b>15 July 2010</b>.</span></span></div><div>Abstracts may be up to 2 pages long, including examples and
references, in pdf format, with fonts embedded. If you have
difficulties at producing pdf, you may also submit a doc file. Please
include your contact information (name, affiliation, address, email
address for correspondence), as well as the title of your abstract, in
the body of the email. Every abstract will be reviewed anonymously by
two external referees. Accepted papers will be published in a
proceedings volume after the conference.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Programme Committee:</div></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div>Katrin Axel </div><div>Karin Donhauser </div><div>Hanne Martine Eckhoff </div><div>Rafał Górski </div><div>Dag Haug </div><div>Roland Hinterhölzl </div><div>Uwe Junghanns </div><div>Anna Kibort </div><div>Petr Karlík </div><div>Karel Kučera </div><div>Anke Lüdeling </div><div>Krzysztof Migdalski </div><div>Florian Schleburg </div><div>Maria Selig </div><div>Ioanna Sitaridou </div><div>Augustin Speyer </div><div>Achim Stein </div><div>Luka Szucsich </div><div>Carola Trips </div><div>Daniel Weiss </div><div><br></div><div>Organizers:</div><div>----------------</div><div>Roland Meyer</div><div>Björn Hansen</div><div>
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