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<font face="Times, Times" size=3><b>International conference on deverbal
nouns<br>
Université Lille 3, France<br>
23-25 septembre 2004<br>
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Call for papers<br>
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Invited Speakers</b>: Artemis Alexiadou (Universität Stuttgart), David
Dowty (Ohio State University), Jane Grimshaw (Rutger's University),
Françoise Kerleroux (Université Paris 10)<br>
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<b>Calendar</b>:</font>
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deadline: February 15th 2004</font>
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of acceptance: May 1st 2004<br>
</font><font face="Symbol">·<x-tab> </x-tab></font><font face="Times, Times" size=3>Preliminary
programm: June 15th 2004<br>
</font><font face="Symbol">·<x-tab> </x-tab></font><font face="Times, Times" size=3>Meeting:
September 23rd-25th 2004<br>
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Deverbal nouns are a crucial topic of linguistic inquiry because their
analysis involves problems of morphology, syntax and semantics and can
shed light on the interfaces between these components. Abstracts are
invited on all questions pertaining to deverbal nouns, including <br>
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-The different morphological processes constructing nouns from
verbs<br>
-How these morphological processes influence the syntactic and semantic
properties of the resulting noun<br>
-The relationship between the argument structure of the source verb and
that of the resulting noun<br>
-The relationship between the syntactic subcategorization properties of
the source verb and those of the resulting deverbal noun<br>
-The semantic interpretation of deverbal nouns and its links to argument
structure, subcategorization, and morphology<br>
-The status of nouns which are semantically linked to a verbal predicate
without there being any morphological relationship between the two.<br>
-The status of gerunds and other intermediate forms between nouns and
verbs<br>
-Comparative and typological studies of deverbal nouns<br>
-Studies of the choice in discourse between an NP headed by a deverbal
noun and a finite clause headed by the source verb<br>
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Submissions on other languages than English and French will also be
welcome.<br>
Talks will be delivered in English or French<br>
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<b>Submission guidelines<br>
</b>1) An anonymous abstract (in English or French) of less than 1000
words (excluding bibliographical references). The abstract (including
references) must fit on 2 pages in A4 format using a Times 12 font (or US
letter format if A4 is unavailable). The abstract must clearly specify
the subject that you will be addressing as well as your main conclusions.
References must be made to previous work on the subject and the crucial
data on which your conclusions are based must be mentioned.<br>
2) On a separate page, you should mention your name, first name,
affiliation, mailing address, academic status and the title of your
paper.<br>
Submissions should be sent by electronic mail to
deverbalnouns@univ-lille3.fr, preferably in .pdf format (or .rtf or .doc
if .pdf is unavailable). Please be sure to send the page with the
personal data as a separate attached document from the abstract. Please
call the file with the personal data name.perso.pdf and the one with the
abstract name.abstract.doc (where "name" is the name of the
author or of the contact person in the case of multiple authors).
Abstracts must be received before February 15 2004.<br>
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If you cannot submit your abstract electronically, you can send 2 paper
copies of the abstract and the page with personal information to the
following address, making sure that it arrives on 15 February at the
latest.<br>
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Colloque déverbaux<br>
UMR 8528 « SILEX »<br>
Université de Lille 3<br>
BP 149<br>
F-59653 VILLENEUVE D’ASCQ CEDEX <br>
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Information about the conference (fees, registration form, accommodation,
transportation, ...) will be kept up to date on:<br>
<a href="http://www.univ-lille3.fr/silex/Deverbalnouns.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.univ-lille3.fr/silex/Deverbalnouns.htm</a><br>
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