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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Urgent Call for papers for an accepted IPrA panel (New Delhi, Sept. 8-13, 2013)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE13">http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE13</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><b>Natural-language connectives: Evidence from discourse, typology and grammaticization</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><i>Mira Ariel –</i>Tel Aviv University<i><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><i>Caterina Mauri – </i>University of Pavia<i><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'>Connectives play a crucial role in human reasoning and discourse, and have therefore received attention in a number of different research fields, i.e. logic, formal semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, typology, historical linguistics, psycholinguistics. The new challenge now is to integrate theoretical and empirical tools elaborated in neighboring – but only recently communicating - fields, looking for converging evidence, in order to understand their behavior in natural languages.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.45pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'>We aim to resolve potentially contradicting analyses, and let converging evidence emerge as a basis for an integrated approach to connectives. Crucial questions we would like to address at this panel are:<o:p></o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'>What are the structural and functional properties of connectives in natural languages?<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'>To what extent does cross-linguistic variation mirror the great intra-linguistic variation that may be observed in discourse use?<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'>To what extent can we integrate data coming from the examination of corpora with data coming from typological and diachronic surveys in the elaboration of a 'theory' of connectives?<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'>Are there recurrent diachronic paths that may be argued to characterize the rise of connectives, which may possibly explain the attested cross-linguistic and intra-linguistic variation? <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'>How are connectives used and processed in discourse, and to what extent does this influence their structural properties?<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:18.0pt;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'>We welcome empirical papers addressing the questions above by providing typological analyses, diachronic data and/or discourse studies on connectives, with a preference for papers showing some converging evidence.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><b>Confirmed Speakers</b>:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'>Mira Ariel, Gabriele Diewald, Volker Gast, Caterina Mauri, Sandrine Zufferey and Liesbeth Degand, Yael Ziv<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'>We’re on a very tight schedule, for which we apologize. We need to receive your 500 word abstract by Oct. 20, so it can be submitted by Nov. 1. Participants must be IPrA members by Nov. 1 2012 in order to submit an abstract!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'>Please send your abstract to Mira Ariel (mariel@post.tau.ac.il) and to Caterina Mauri (caterina.mauri.@unipv.it).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'>Best,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'>Mira Ariel and Caterina Mauri<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>