SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS<br />
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Workshop: The origin of non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European</b><br />
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The research team of the project ?Indo-European Case and Argument Structure from
a Typological Perspective? (IECASTP) (<a href="http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP"
target="_blank">http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP</a>) is organizing
a workshop at the XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics
(10-15 August 2009, Nijmegen, <a href="http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/"
target="_blank">http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/</a>), devoted
on the origin of non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European.</div>
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The URL of the workshop is: <a href="http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop5.htm"
target="_blank">http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop5.htm</a><br />
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Invited speaker: Leonid Kulikov (University of Leiden)<br />
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Please send a 300-word abstract in pdf format to Ilja Serzants
(Ilja.Serzants@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.</div>
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Description</b><br /><div align="justify">
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. </div>
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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.</div>
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Location:</b><br />
Radboud University Nijmegen,<br />
Centre for Language Studies/Language in Time and Space<br />
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Please check the website of the host conference for issues like registration,
conference fee, social program, etc. <a href="http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/"
target="_blank">http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/</a>)<br />
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-- <br />
Ilja Serzants<br />
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PhD Research Student<br />
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Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies<br />
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University of Bergen<br />
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P.O. box 7805<br />
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NO-5020 Bergen<br />
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Norway