From roland.meyer at sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de Thu May 20 11:00:18 2010 From: roland.meyer at sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de (Roland Meyer) Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 13:00:18 +0200 Subject: CfP: Subjects in Diachrony Message-ID: ======================================================== Call for papers: Grammatical Change and the Expression of Subjects 2-4 December 2010, Regensburg, Germany Submission Deadline for Abstracts: 15 July 2010 http://www-slavistik.uni-regensburg.de/gces ======================================================== Invited speakers: ----------------------- Elly van Gelderen (University of Arizona) Anthony Kroch (University of Pennsylvania) Ian Roberts (Cambridge University) David Willis (Cambridge University) Call for papers: --------------------- 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. 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. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Diachronic development of null subjects * Changes in subject expletives * Diachrony of oblique and quirky subjects * History of impersonal constructions * Development of diatheses affecting the external argument * Change in unaccusatives * History of subjects in root infinitives and modal constructions * Empirical methodology in diachronic syntax * Historical and diachronic corpora annotated for syntactic structure and syntactic relations 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. Abstract specifications: ------------------------------- Anonymous abstracts for 25 min. presentations (+10 min. discussion) should be submitted as an email attachment to gces at sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de until 15 July 2010. 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. Programme Committee: --------------------------------- Katrin Axel Karin Donhauser Hanne Martine Eckhoff Rafał Górski Dag Haug Roland Hinterhölzl Uwe Junghanns Anna Kibort Petr Karlík Karel Kučera Anke Lüdeling Krzysztof Migdalski Florian Schleburg Maria Selig Ioanna Sitaridou Augustin Speyer Achim Stein Luka Szucsich Carola Trips Daniel Weiss Organizers: ---------------- Roland Meyer Björn Hansen --- Dr. Roland Meyer Institut für Slavistik, Universität Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg tel. +49(0)941-943 5303 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From kariri at gmail.com Sun May 23 06:10:31 2010 From: kariri at gmail.com (Eduardo R. Ribeiro) Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 02:10:31 -0400 Subject: Catalogue of South American indigenous languages Message-ID: FYI ---------- Building a catalogue of South American languages Etnolinguistica.Org, an information hub on indigenous South American languages (http://www.etnolinguistica.org), has recently launched an initiative to create a peer-maintained, up-to-date catalogue of South American languages, relying on a network of linguists directly involved in the documentation and analysis of the continent's languages. Each entry in the catalogue is an individual page providing basic information such as number of speakers, location, genetic affiliation, etc. Additional information on the catalogue (currently, only in Portuguese) can be found at the following address: http://www.etnolinguistica.org/linguas The catalogue is cross-referenced with a directory of South Americanists (http://www.etnolinguistica.org/cadastro) and an ever-growing list of online resources (theses, news articles, academic papers, hard-to-find books, etc.), in such a way that, by clicking on a given language tag, one can find not only a list of online materials, but ways of getting directly in touch with linguists working on that language as well. It is hoped that such integration between authors and resources will ensure a certain measure of control, by the scientific community, over the quality of the information being provided. The catalogue's editors strongly urge all interested colleagues to contribute with this initiative, by reviewing the available entries (http://www.etnolinguistica.org/catalogo:preenchidas) and filling up the form available at the following address: http://www.etnolinguistica.org/form:lingua -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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. 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. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Diachronic development of null subjects * Changes in subject expletives * Diachrony of oblique and quirky subjects * History of impersonal constructions * Development of diatheses affecting the external argument * Change in unaccusatives * History of subjects in root infinitives and modal constructions * Empirical methodology in diachronic syntax * Historical and diachronic corpora annotated for syntactic structure and syntactic relations 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. Abstract specifications: ------------------------------- Anonymous abstracts for 25 min. presentations (+10 min. discussion) should be submitted as an email attachment to gces at sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de until 15 July 2010. 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. Programme Committee: --------------------------------- Katrin Axel Karin Donhauser Hanne Martine Eckhoff Rafa? G?rski Dag Haug Roland Hinterh?lzl Uwe Junghanns Anna Kibort Petr Karl?k Karel Ku?era Anke L?deling Krzysztof Migdalski Florian Schleburg Maria Selig Ioanna Sitaridou Augustin Speyer Achim Stein Luka Szucsich Carola Trips Daniel Weiss Organizers: ---------------- Roland Meyer Bj?rn Hansen --- Dr. Roland Meyer Institut f?r Slavistik, Universit?t Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg tel. +49(0)941-943 5303 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From kariri at gmail.com Sun May 23 06:10:31 2010 From: kariri at gmail.com (Eduardo R. Ribeiro) Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 02:10:31 -0400 Subject: Catalogue of South American indigenous languages Message-ID: FYI ---------- Building a catalogue of South American languages Etnolinguistica.Org, an information hub on indigenous South American languages (http://www.etnolinguistica.org), has recently launched an initiative to create a peer-maintained, up-to-date catalogue of South American languages, relying on a network of linguists directly involved in the documentation and analysis of the continent's languages. Each entry in the catalogue is an individual page providing basic information such as number of speakers, location, genetic affiliation, etc. Additional information on the catalogue (currently, only in Portuguese) can be found at the following address: http://www.etnolinguistica.org/linguas The catalogue is cross-referenced with a directory of South Americanists (http://www.etnolinguistica.org/cadastro) and an ever-growing list of online resources (theses, news articles, academic papers, hard-to-find books, etc.), in such a way that, by clicking on a given language tag, one can find not only a list of online materials, but ways of getting directly in touch with linguists working on that language as well. It is hoped that such integration between authors and resources will ensure a certain measure of control, by the scientific community, over the quality of the information being provided. The catalogue's editors strongly urge all interested colleagues to contribute with this initiative, by reviewing the available entries (http://www.etnolinguistica.org/catalogo:preenchidas) and filling up the form available at the following address: http://www.etnolinguistica.org/form:lingua -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l