2nd CALL FOR PAPERS. Workshop: The origin of non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European

Wed Nov 19 12:00:50 UTC 2008

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

  WORKSHOP: THE ORIGIN OF NON-CANONICAL SUBJECT MARKING IN INDO-EUROPEAN

  The research team of the project ?Indo-European Case and Argument  
Structure from a Typological Perspective? (IECASTP)  
(http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP[1]) is organizing a workshop at the XIXth  
International Conference on Historical Linguistics (10-15 August 2009,  
Nijmegen, http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/[2]), devoted on the origin of  
non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European.
The URL of the workshop is: http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop5.htm[3]

Invited speaker: Leonid Kulikov (University of Leiden)

  Please send a 300-word abstract in pdf format to Ilja Serzants  
(Ilja.Serzants at uib.no) no later than January 10th. Notification of  
acceptance will be sent out no later than January 25th. The abstract  
also has to be submitted through the main conference website at the  
same time.
  DESCRIPTION
  Several of the Modern Indo-European languages that have maintained  
morphological case exhibit structures where the subject(-like)  
argument is not canonically case marked. These are found amongst the  
Modern Germanic languages, Modern Russian, the Modern Baltic languages  
and the Modern Indo-Aryan languages, to mention some. It is  
traditionally assumed in the literature that these have developed from  
objects to subjects (see, for instance, Hewson and Bubenik 2006),  
hence the case marking. Recently, however, it has been argued for  
Germanic that oblique subjects in the modern languages were syntactic  
subjects already in Old Germanic (Eythórsson and Barðdal 2005). This  
raises the question whether these non-canonically case-marked  
subject(-like) arguments were objects in Proto-Germanic or  
Proto-Indo-European, or whether they may have been syntactic subjects  
all along, given an assumption of the alignment system in  
Proto-Indo-European being a Fluid-S system (cf. Barðdal and Eythórsson  
2008). It is, moreover, possible that the case marking patterns of  
different predicate types have different origins in Indo-European.
  The aim of this workshop is therefore to gather researchers who work  
on case marking in Indo-European, and case marking in general, to a  
forum where the more general topic of the origin of this non-canonical  
case marking can be discussed. By doing that, we hope to shed light on  
this important issue within case marking and alignment, historical  
linguistics, and Indo-European studies.
  LOCATION:
Radboud University Nijmegen,
Centre for Language Studies/Language in Time and Space

Please check the website of the host conference for issues like  
registration, conference fee, social program, etc.  
http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/[4])

-- 
Ilja Serzants

PhD Research Student

Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies

University of Bergen

P.O. box 7805

NO-5020 Bergen

Norway

Links:
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[1] http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP
[2] http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/
[3] http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop5.htm
[4] http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/

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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

  WORKSHOP: THE ORIGIN OF NON-CANONICAL SUBJECT MARKING IN INDO-EUROPEAN

  The research team of the project ?Indo-European Case and Argument  
Structure from a Typological Perspective? (IECASTP)  
(http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP) is organizing a workshop at the XIXth  
International Conference on Historical Linguistics (10-15 August 2009,  
Nijmegen, http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/), devoted on the origin of  
non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European.
The URL of the workshop is: http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop5.htm

Invited speaker: Leonid Kulikov (University of Leiden)

  Please send a 300-word abstract in pdf format to Ilja Serzants  
(Ilja.Serzants at uib.no) no later than January 10th. Notification of  
acceptance will be sent out no later than January 25th. The abstract  
also has to be submitted through the main conference website at the  
same time.
  DESCRIPTION
  Several of the Modern Indo-European languages that have maintained  
morphological case exhibit structures where the subject(-like)  
argument is not canonically case marked. These are found amongst the  
Modern Germanic languages, Modern Russian, the Modern Baltic languages  
and the Modern Indo-Aryan languages, to mention some. It is  
traditionally assumed in the literature that these have developed from  
objects to subjects (see, for instance, Hewson and Bubenik 2006),  
hence the case marking. Recently, however, it has been argued for  
Germanic that oblique subjects in the modern languages were syntactic  
subjects already in Old Germanic (Eythórsson and Barðdal 2005). This  
raises the question whether these non-canonically case-marked  
subject(-like) arguments were objects in Proto-Germanic or  
Proto-Indo-European, or whether they may have been syntactic subjects  
all along, given an assumption of the alignment system in  
Proto-Indo-European being a Fluid-S system (cf. Barðdal and Eythórsson  
2008). It is, moreover, possible that the case marking patterns of  
different predicate types have different origins in Indo-European.
  The aim of this workshop is therefore to gather researchers who work  
on case marking in Indo-European, and case marking in general, to a  
forum where the more general topic of the origin of this non-canonical  
case marking can be discussed. By doing that, we hope to shed light on  
this important issue within case marking and alignment, historical  
linguistics, and Indo-European studies.
  LOCATION:
Radboud University Nijmegen,
Centre for Language Studies/Language in Time and Space

Please check the website of the host conference for issues like  
registration, conference fee, social program, etc.  
http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/)

-- 
Ilja Serzants

PhD Research Student

Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies

University of Bergen

P.O. box 7805

NO-5020 Bergen

Norway
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