From johanna.barddal at uib.no Fri Nov 11 17:05:42 2011 From: johanna.barddal at uib.no (johanna.barddal at uib.no) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:05:42 +0100 Subject: Last CfP: Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects within and across Languages and Language Families: Stability, Variation and Change Message-ID: In collaboration with the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Iceland, the IECASTP/NonCanCase project at the University of Bergen is organizing a conference on "Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects within and across Languages and Language Families: Stability, Variation and Change" Invited Speakers: - Miriam Butt (University of Constance) - Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland) - Julie Ann Legate (University of Pennsylvania) - Andrej Malchukov (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig) Date: 4.-8. June 2012 Location: Reykjavík and Hótel Hekla (near Eyjafjallajökull) Website 1: http://vefir.hi.is/SubjectCase (under construction) website 2: http://org.uib.no/iecastp/IECASTP/SubjectCase.htm Contact Person: Tonya Kim Dewey (University of Bergen) Official Email: SubjectCase @ gmail.com Last call for papers: Oblique, "quirky", or non-canonically case-marked subjects have been the focus of enormous interest and massive research ever since Andrews (1976) and Masica (1976). Early on, research in this area was mainly carried out within the generative tradition, but by now interest in oblique subjects has spread to all other frameworks (cf. papers in Aikhenvald, Dixon & Onishi 2001, Bhaskararao & Subbarao 2004, and Malchukov & Spencer 2009). The attention has generally been on the syntactic behavior of oblique subjects, such as their ability to be left unexpressed in conjoined clauses and control infinitives, their ability to figure in object and subject raising, and to control reflexives, as well as on their word order properties (e.g. Sigurðsson 1991). Nevertheless, the validity of certain tests for subjecthood remains controversial, especially in diachronic studies (e.g. Eythórsson & Barðdal 2005). Recent research has increasingly turned to the semantics of oblique subjects, both within individual languages and within language families. Barðdal et. al (2011), for instance, show that there is a host of lexical-semantic verb classes associated with oblique subjects in several of the ancient/archaic Indo-European languages, ranging from experiencer, cognition, perception, and attitudinal predicates, to all kinds of happenstance predicates and predicates denoting purely relational and ontological states. Oblique subjects may also denote possession, modality and evidentiality, as well as featuring in the intransitive variant of causative pairs (anticausatives) in some Indo-European languages (e.g. Cennamo, Eythórsson & Barðdal 2011). In a wider typological perspective, it remains to be established which semantic features are language-family-specific and which are generally found cross-linguistically. Given the central role that Icelandic has played in research on oblique subjects (witness the classic paper by Zaenen, Maling & Thráinsson 1985), Iceland is the obvious location for this conference. The conference will start in Reykjavík, followed by a one-day tour in Southern Iceland, visiting Thingvellir, Geysir, Gullfoss and other places of great natural beauty and historical interest. The concluding part of the conference will take place at Hótel Hekla, a charming country hotel about 70 km east of the capital, Reykjavík, with a marvelous view of (in)famous volcanoes such as Hekla and Eyjafjallajökull. We welcome contributions focusing on a specific language, language family or cross-linguistic comparison, from different theoretical frameworks, on all aspects of oblique subjects, synchronic, diachronic and typological, including the following: - The semantics of the oblique subject construction, for instance in terms of lexical semantics, within a single language, or in a comparative or a typological perspective - The syntactic behavior of oblique subjects within a language, a language family, or across languages - The validity of particular tests for subjecthood, both in modern languages as well as corpus languages (e.g. the older Indo-European languages). - The dichotomy between oblique subjects and subject-like obliques which pass some, but perhaps not all, of the subject tests, and its practical and theoretical implications - The origin and emergence of non-canonical subject case marking The potential role of oblique anticausatives in the emergence of oblique subjects - The syntax and semantics of oblique subjects in non-Indo-European languages Please submit your abstracts of 500 words or less through http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=subjectcase2012, no later than November 15th, 2011. A response on abstracts will be sent out on December 15th, 2011. References: Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y., R.M.W. Dixon & M. Onishi (eds.). 2001. Non-Canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Andrews, Avery D. 1976. The VP complement analysis in Modern Icelandic. North Eastern Linguistic Society 6: 1-21. Barðdal, Jóhanna, Valgerður Bjarnadóttir, Eystein Dahl, Gard B. Jenset & Thomas Smitherman. 2011. Reconstructing Constructional Semantics: The Dative Subject Construction in Old Norse-Icelandic, Latin, Ancient Greek, Old Russian and Lithuanian. Submitted to a thematic volume in Studies in Language, entitled "Theory and Data in Cognitive Linguistics", Nikolas Gisborne & Willem Hollmann (eds). Bhaskararao, Peri & K. V. Subbarao (eds.) 2004. Non-Nominative Subjects. (2 vols.) (Typological studies in language 60-61.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Cennamo, Michela, Thórhallur Eythórsson & Jóhanna Barðdal. 2011. The Rise and Fall of Anticausative Constructions in Indo-European: The Context of Latin and Germanic. Submitted to a thematic volume in Linguistics, entitled "Typology of Labile Verbs: Focus on Diachrony", Leonid Kulikov & Nikolaos Lavidas (eds). Eythórsson, Thórhallur & Jóhanna Barðdal. 2005. Oblique Subjects: A Common Germanic Inheritance. Language 81(4): 824-881. Malchukov, Andrej & Andrew Spencer (eds.). 2009. In The Oxford Handbook of Case. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Masica, Colin P. 1976. Defining a Linguistic Area: South Asia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Sigurðsson, Halldór Ármann. 1991. Icelandic Case-Marked PRO and the Licensing of Lexical Arguments. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 9: 327-362. Zaenen, Annie, Joan Maling & Höskuldur Thráinsson. 1985. Case and Grammatical Functions: The Icelandic Passive. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 3: 441-483. -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Jóhanna Barðdal Research Associate Professor Coeditor of the Journal of Historical Linguistics Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen P.O. box 7805 NO-5020 Bergen Norway johanna.barddal at uib.no Phone +47-55582438 (work) Phone +47-55201117 (home) Fax +47-55589660 (work) http://org.uib.no/iecastp/barddal _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From werner_abraham at t-online.de Sat Nov 12 09:28:04 2011 From: werner_abraham at t-online.de (Werner Abraham) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:28:04 +0100 Subject: Please post this to all of your subscribers! Thank you! Message-ID: Dear colleague: Please post this to all of your subscribers! Thank you! Werner Abraham -- **************************** Prof.Dr. Werner Abraham Universität Wien, Allg. Sprachwissenschaft Studies in Language/LA/SLCS/SDG http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_series_list.cgi?t=b www.stauffenburg.de http://www.let.rug.nl/abraham/ home: Lindwurmstrasse 120c   D-80337 München - +49-(0)89-76996923 werner.abraham at lmu.de Modes of Modality - two conferences Munich, 10-12th May 2012, German Linguistics Department, LMU Munich The aim of both conferences ("Function(s) of modality" and "Modality, Typology, and Uni-versal Grammar") is to uncover the range of functions and patterns of modality as they are currently known and discussed. The main questions are: What is modality? What are the sub-types of modality? And what are the main characteristics of these subtypes concerning their degree of complexity and their hierarchical order? Conveners: Elisabeth Leiss (Munich) and Werner Abraham (Vienna & Munich) ________________________________________ Conference 1 (May 11-12, 2012): Modality, Typology, and Universal Grammar The conference aims at a universal definition of modality or "illocutionary force" that is strong enough to capture the whole range of the different subtypes and varieties of modality in different languages of the world. The conference is part of a research project on "Un-Carte¬sian Linguistics". The aim of this project is to design an alternative approach to Cartesian/ Rationalist models of Universal Grammar. It is a functional approach being rooted in the UG of Modist Universal Grammar of the late 13th century and revived much later by Charles S. Peirce and Roman Jakobson. The aim of the conference is thus to treat modality as part of Universal Grammar, however by avoiding the dead ends of naïve formalism as well as of simplistic anti-functionalism or miss-understood functionalisms. Conference language: Eng-lish. Invited speakers: Foong Ha Yap (Hong Kong), Patrick Grosz (Tübingen), Malte Zimmermann (Humboldt-University, Berlin) Conference 2 (May 10-11, 2012): Function(s) of Modality (Meeting of the working group "Modalität im Deut-schen") The meetings of the international working group on "Modality in German" (Arbeitskreis für "Modalität im Deutschen") focus on different subareas of modality. This time, the aim is to obtain an overall view and provide a definition for the function(s) of modality and its subtypes in German which is able to stand the test in cross-linguistic comparison and to provide a solid basis for the understanding of modality within the architectural structure of grammatical categories. Conference language (by preference): German, English. Invited speakers: Gabriele Diewald (Hannover), Michail Kotin (Zielona Gora) For more details on both conferences, see the announcement and call for papers URL www.lmu.de/modality2012 _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From werner_abraham at t-online.de Sun Nov 13 08:46:13 2011 From: werner_abraham at t-online.de (Werner Abraham) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:46:13 +0100 Subject: announcement and call for papers conference 2012 Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Aarhus University is easily accessible from nearby airports. Ryanair offers exceptionally inexpensive flights between various European cities and nearby Billund, as well as inexpensive flights between London and Aarhus airport. Aarhus is also easily accessible by train and bus from Copenhagen and from northern Germany. Nightlife in Aarhus features a steady stream of musical performances from cultures around the world, and music will be a feature of the conference activities. The conference organizers are Peter Bakker, Aymeric Daval-Markussen and Peter Slomanson. Call for Papers: We encourage abstract submissions on any topic pertaining to pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, converted languages, multi-ethnolects, or other contact language types. We are particularly interested in work involving cross-linguistic comparisons and findings that generalize to classes of languages. Presentations dealing with syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, and pragmatics are all welcome. As in the past, it is expected that these will be based on empirical data (which may include native speaker judgments). Diachronic work involving the reconstruction of earlier stages, based on cross-linguistic comparison of synchronic data and on socio-historical factors, will be quite welcome, as will sociolinguistic work focusing on synchronic variation. We welcome all perspectives with respect to the question of the status of creoles and other contact languages as a typological class, and with respect to structural complexity. Similarly, we are interested in a range of approaches to grammatical analysis, and will not favor a specific formalism or theoretical position. We will also be holding the Second Aarhus University Symposium on Connections between Second Language Acquisition and Contact Language Development, as an associated event, and encourage submissions specifically intended for that forum. The working language of the conference is English. Papers on the restructuring of a Nordic language or on language contact in the Nordic countries, the Baltic countries and/or Greenland are particularly encouraged. Paper presentations will last half an hour, with ten minutes for questions and discussion. We plan to conclude the conference with a meeting from the conference and symposium. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 December 2011. Your abstract, to be e-mailed as a Word attachment to [ mailto:creolistics9 at gmail.com ]creolistics9 at gmail.com, should contain a maximum of 350 words (including the title and any references). The subject line should read "abstract submission to general conference" or "abstract submission to symposium" in the subject line of your e-mail message. Please include your name and current academic affiliation in the body of the e-mail message, but not in your abstract. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 27 January 2012. 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June 2012 Location: Reykjav?k and H?tel Hekla (near Eyjafjallaj?kull) Website 1: http://vefir.hi.is/SubjectCase (under construction) website 2: http://org.uib.no/iecastp/IECASTP/SubjectCase.htm Contact Person: Tonya Kim Dewey (University of Bergen) Official Email: SubjectCase @ gmail.com Last call for papers: Oblique, "quirky", or non-canonically case-marked subjects have been the focus of enormous interest and massive research ever since Andrews (1976) and Masica (1976). Early on, research in this area was mainly carried out within the generative tradition, but by now interest in oblique subjects has spread to all other frameworks (cf. papers in Aikhenvald, Dixon & Onishi 2001, Bhaskararao & Subbarao 2004, and Malchukov & Spencer 2009). The attention has generally been on the syntactic behavior of oblique subjects, such as their ability to be left unexpressed in conjoined clauses and control infinitives, their ability to figure in object and subject raising, and to control reflexives, as well as on their word order properties (e.g. Sigur?sson 1991). Nevertheless, the validity of certain tests for subjecthood remains controversial, especially in diachronic studies (e.g. Eyth?rsson & Bar?dal 2005). Recent research has increasingly turned to the semantics of oblique subjects, both within individual languages and within language families. Bar?dal et. al (2011), for instance, show that there is a host of lexical-semantic verb classes associated with oblique subjects in several of the ancient/archaic Indo-European languages, ranging from experiencer, cognition, perception, and attitudinal predicates, to all kinds of happenstance predicates and predicates denoting purely relational and ontological states. Oblique subjects may also denote possession, modality and evidentiality, as well as featuring in the intransitive variant of causative pairs (anticausatives) in some Indo-European languages (e.g. Cennamo, Eyth?rsson & Bar?dal 2011). In a wider typological perspective, it remains to be established which semantic features are language-family-specific and which are generally found cross-linguistically. Given the central role that Icelandic has played in research on oblique subjects (witness the classic paper by Zaenen, Maling & Thr?insson 1985), Iceland is the obvious location for this conference. The conference will start in Reykjav?k, followed by a one-day tour in Southern Iceland, visiting Thingvellir, Geysir, Gullfoss and other places of great natural beauty and historical interest. The concluding part of the conference will take place at H?tel Hekla, a charming country hotel about 70 km east of the capital, Reykjav?k, with a marvelous view of (in)famous volcanoes such as Hekla and Eyjafjallaj?kull. We welcome contributions focusing on a specific language, language family or cross-linguistic comparison, from different theoretical frameworks, on all aspects of oblique subjects, synchronic, diachronic and typological, including the following: - The semantics of the oblique subject construction, for instance in terms of lexical semantics, within a single language, or in a comparative or a typological perspective - The syntactic behavior of oblique subjects within a language, a language family, or across languages - The validity of particular tests for subjecthood, both in modern languages as well as corpus languages (e.g. the older Indo-European languages). - The dichotomy between oblique subjects and subject-like obliques which pass some, but perhaps not all, of the subject tests, and its practical and theoretical implications - The origin and emergence of non-canonical subject case marking The potential role of oblique anticausatives in the emergence of oblique subjects - The syntax and semantics of oblique subjects in non-Indo-European languages Please submit your abstracts of 500 words or less through http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=subjectcase2012, no later than November 15th, 2011. A response on abstracts will be sent out on December 15th, 2011. References: Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y., R.M.W. Dixon & M. Onishi (eds.). 2001. Non-Canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Andrews, Avery D. 1976. The VP complement analysis in Modern Icelandic. North Eastern Linguistic Society 6: 1-21. Bar?dal, J?hanna, Valger?ur Bjarnad?ttir, Eystein Dahl, Gard B. Jenset & Thomas Smitherman. 2011. Reconstructing Constructional Semantics: The Dative Subject Construction in Old Norse-Icelandic, Latin, Ancient Greek, Old Russian and Lithuanian. Submitted to a thematic volume in Studies in Language, entitled "Theory and Data in Cognitive Linguistics", Nikolas Gisborne & Willem Hollmann (eds). Bhaskararao, Peri & K. V. Subbarao (eds.) 2004. Non-Nominative Subjects. (2 vols.) (Typological studies in language 60-61.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Cennamo, Michela, Th?rhallur Eyth?rsson & J?hanna Bar?dal. 2011. The Rise and Fall of Anticausative Constructions in Indo-European: The Context of Latin and Germanic. Submitted to a thematic volume in Linguistics, entitled "Typology of Labile Verbs: Focus on Diachrony", Leonid Kulikov & Nikolaos Lavidas (eds). Eyth?rsson, Th?rhallur & J?hanna Bar?dal. 2005. Oblique Subjects: A Common Germanic Inheritance. Language 81(4): 824-881. Malchukov, Andrej & Andrew Spencer (eds.). 2009. In The Oxford Handbook of Case. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Masica, Colin P. 1976. Defining a Linguistic Area: South Asia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Sigur?sson, Halld?r ?rmann. 1991. Icelandic Case-Marked PRO and the Licensing of Lexical Arguments. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 9: 327-362. Zaenen, Annie, Joan Maling & H?skuldur Thr?insson. 1985. Case and Grammatical Functions: The Icelandic Passive. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 3: 441-483. -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ J?hanna Bar?dal Research Associate Professor Coeditor of the Journal of Historical Linguistics Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen P.O. box 7805 NO-5020 Bergen Norway johanna.barddal at uib.no Phone +47-55582438 (work) Phone +47-55201117 (home) Fax +47-55589660 (work) http://org.uib.no/iecastp/barddal _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From werner_abraham at t-online.de Sat Nov 12 09:28:04 2011 From: werner_abraham at t-online.de (Werner Abraham) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:28:04 +0100 Subject: Please post this to all of your subscribers! Thank you! Message-ID: Dear colleague: Please post this to all of your subscribers! Thank you! Werner Abraham -- **************************** Prof.Dr. Werner Abraham Universit?t Wien, Allg. Sprachwissenschaft Studies in Language/LA/SLCS/SDG http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_series_list.cgi?t=b www.stauffenburg.de http://www.let.rug.nl/abraham/ home: Lindwurmstrasse 120c ? D-80337 M?nchen - +49-(0)89-76996923 werner.abraham at lmu.de Modes of Modality - two conferences Munich, 10-12th May 2012, German Linguistics Department, LMU Munich The aim of both conferences ("Function(s) of modality" and "Modality, Typology, and Uni-versal Grammar") is to uncover the range of functions and patterns of modality as they are currently known and discussed. The main questions are: What is modality? What are the sub-types of modality? And what are the main characteristics of these subtypes concerning their degree of complexity and their hierarchical order? Conveners: Elisabeth Leiss (Munich) and Werner Abraham (Vienna & Munich) ________________________________________ Conference 1 (May 11-12, 2012): Modality, Typology, and Universal Grammar The conference aims at a universal definition of modality or "illocutionary force" that is strong enough to capture the whole range of the different subtypes and varieties of modality in different languages of the world. The conference is part of a research project on "Un-Carte?sian Linguistics". The aim of this project is to design an alternative approach to Cartesian/ Rationalist models of Universal Grammar. It is a functional approach being rooted in the UG of Modist Universal Grammar of the late 13th century and revived much later by Charles S. Peirce and Roman Jakobson. The aim of the conference is thus to treat modality as part of Universal Grammar, however by avoiding the dead ends of na?ve formalism as well as of simplistic anti-functionalism or miss-understood functionalisms. Conference language: Eng-lish. Invited speakers: Foong Ha Yap (Hong Kong), Patrick Grosz (T?bingen), Malte Zimmermann (Humboldt-University, Berlin) Conference 2 (May 10-11, 2012): Function(s) of Modality (Meeting of the working group "Modalit?t im Deut-schen") The meetings of the international working group on "Modality in German" (Arbeitskreis f?r "Modalit?t im Deutschen") focus on different subareas of modality. This time, the aim is to obtain an overall view and provide a definition for the function(s) of modality and its subtypes in German which is able to stand the test in cross-linguistic comparison and to provide a solid basis for the understanding of modality within the architectural structure of grammatical categories. Conference language (by preference): German, English. Invited speakers: Gabriele Diewald (Hannover), Michail Kotin (Zielona Gora) For more details on both conferences, see the announcement and call for papers URL www.lmu.de/modality2012 _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From werner_abraham at t-online.de Sun Nov 13 08:46:13 2011 From: werner_abraham at t-online.de (Werner Abraham) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:46:13 +0100 Subject: announcement and call for papers conference 2012 Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Aarhus University is easily accessible from nearby airports. Ryanair offers exceptionally inexpensive flights between various European cities and nearby Billund, as well as inexpensive flights between London and Aarhus airport. Aarhus is also easily accessible by train and bus from Copenhagen and from northern Germany. Nightlife in Aarhus features a steady stream of musical performances from cultures around the world, and music will be a feature of the conference activities. The conference organizers are Peter Bakker, Aymeric Daval-Markussen and Peter Slomanson. Call for Papers: We encourage abstract submissions on any topic pertaining to pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, converted languages, multi-ethnolects, or other contact language types. We are particularly interested in work involving cross-linguistic comparisons and findings that generalize to classes of languages. Presentations dealing with syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, and pragmatics are all welcome. As in the past, it is expected that these will be based on empirical data (which may include native speaker judgments). Diachronic work involving the reconstruction of earlier stages, based on cross-linguistic comparison of synchronic data and on socio-historical factors, will be quite welcome, as will sociolinguistic work focusing on synchronic variation. We welcome all perspectives with respect to the question of the status of creoles and other contact languages as a typological class, and with respect to structural complexity. Similarly, we are interested in a range of approaches to grammatical analysis, and will not favor a specific formalism or theoretical position. We will also be holding the Second Aarhus University Symposium on Connections between Second Language Acquisition and Contact Language Development, as an associated event, and encourage submissions specifically intended for that forum. The working language of the conference is English. Papers on the restructuring of a Nordic language or on language contact in the Nordic countries, the Baltic countries and/or Greenland are particularly encouraged. Paper presentations will last half an hour, with ten minutes for questions and discussion. We plan to conclude the conference with a meeting from the conference and symposium. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 December 2011. Your abstract, to be e-mailed as a Word attachment to [ mailto:creolistics9 at gmail.com ]creolistics9 at gmail.com, should contain a maximum of 350 words (including the title and any references). The subject line should read "abstract submission to general conference" or "abstract submission to symposium" in the subject line of your e-mail message. Please include your name and current academic affiliation in the body of the e-mail message, but not in your abstract. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 27 January 2012. 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