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<P><B><FONT SIZE=5 FACE="Times New Roman">Workshop on Proto-Indo-European Syntax and its Development</FONT></B>
<BR><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Keynote speakers: </FONT></B>
<BR><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Georgios Giannakis (University of Thessaloniki), Giuseppe Longobardi (University of Trieste) </FONT></B>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">December 15, 2010: deadline for submitting abstracts<BR>
January 15, 2011: notification of acceptance<BR>
April 1-3, 2011: PIE Syntax and its development </FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=5 FACE="Times New Roman">Call for papers</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The last decades are marked with an increasing interest towards the study of archaic syntax of Indo-European languages and, eventually, towards reconstruction of the main features of the Proto-Indo-European syntax. Suffice it to mention, among many others (in chronological order) Lehmann 1974, Kortlandt 1983, Hettrich 1990, Giannakis 1997, Bauer 2000, Boley 2004, Barðdal & Smitherman 2009, Barðdal & Eythórsson 2010, Barðdal 2011, adding much to our knowledge based on such seminal works on the ancient Indo-European syntax as Delbrück 1893-97 or Hirt 1934-37. Although for some scholars the very opportunity of a syntactic reconstruction remains questionable, numerous studies have appeared which reconstruct a variety of basic elements of the Proto-Indo-European syntax, on the basis of evidence available from, above all, ancient and/or archaic Indo-European languages. Such aspects of the proto-language as ergative/active type of alignment, basic word order, subject and object marking and some others have given rise to vivid discussions both between Indo-Europeanists and typologists. Furthermore, the possibility of an efficient lexically blind system of syntactic comparison, precisely the parametric comparison method was first suggested in Longobardi (2003), Guardiano & Longobardi (2005). </FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The idea of the conference is to bring together scholars interested in these and related problems and to open new perspectives in the research of the ancient Indo-European syntax. Special attention will be paid to the development of the hypothetical reconstructed features within the documented history of Indo-European languages. The issues to be addressed include: </FONT></P>
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<LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">modern approaches to the analysis of the archaic Indo-European syntax and syntactic reconstruction; </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Proto-Indo-European syntactic reconstruction and its contribution to linguistic theory; </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">is a syntactic reconstruction possible? which syntactic features can be reconstructed? </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">reconstruction of the alignment type (ergative/active etc.) and its morphological manifestations (cases, verbal morphology); </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">transitivity, voice, middle, stative and related categories in early/late Proto-Indo-European and ancient Indo-European languages; </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">can we reconstruct the labile syntactic type for Proto-Indo-European and what are the main types of the evolution of lability attested for Indo-European languages? </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">reconstruction of PIE moods and their evolution in PIE languages; </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">IE and PIE tense, aspect and aktionsart (actionalities); </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">word order and its evolution in PIE and IE; </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">canonical and non-canonical subject and object marking in PIE and its development in IE languages; </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">relative clauses and other types of subordinate clauses in PIE and their evolution; </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">syntax of non-finite forms (infinitives, converbs, etc.). </FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The workshop will be part of the 20th International Symposium on Theoretical & Applied Linguistics organized by the Department of Theoretical & Applied Linguistics of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, to be held April 1-3, 2011 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Please send us </FONT><A HREF="mailto:(nlavidas@enl.auth.gr"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">(nlavidas@enl.auth.gr</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">; </FONT><A HREF="mailto:L.Kulikov@hum.LeidenUniv.nl"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">L.Kulikov@hum.LeidenUniv.nl</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">) the one-page abstract of your paper no later than December 15, 2010. Please visit </FONT><A HREF="http://www.enl.auth.gr/ISTAL20"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">http://www.enl.auth.gr/ISTAL20</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">, where you will also find practical information.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Nikolaos Lavidas<BR>
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki<BR>
</FONT><A HREF="mailto:nlavidas@enl.auth.gr"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">nlavidas@enl.auth.gr</FONT></U></A> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Leonid Kulikov<BR>
Leiden University / Institute of Linguistics, Moscow<BR>
</FONT><A HREF="mailto:L.Kulikov@hum.LeidenUniv.nl"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">L.Kulikov@hum.LeidenUniv.nl</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> <BR>
</FONT><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">REFERENCES</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Barðdal, J. 2011. Construction-based historical-comparative reconstruction. To appear in G. Trousdale & T. Hoffmann (eds.),<I> Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar</I>. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Barðdal, J. & T. Eythórsson. 2010. Reconstructing Syntax: Construction Grammar and the comparative method. To appear in H.C. Boas & I.A. Sag (eds.),</FONT><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Sign-Based Construction Grammar</FONT></I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">. Stanford: CSLI Publications.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Barðdal, J. & T. Smitherman. 2009. Typological changes in the evolution of Indo-European syntax?</FONT><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Diachronica</FONT></I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> 26/2: 253-263.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Bauer, B.L.M. 2000.</FONT><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Archaic Syntax in Indo-European. The Spread of Transitivity in Latin and French</FONT></I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">. Berlin: Mouton.</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Boley, J. 2004.</FONT><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Tmesis and Proto-Indo-European Syntax</FONT></I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen.</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Delbrück, B. 1893-97.</FONT><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Vergleichende Syntax der indogermanischen Sprachen</FONT></I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">. Strassburg: Trübner.</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Giannakis, G.K. 1997.</FONT><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Studies in the Syntax and Semantics of the Reduplicated Presents of Homeric Greek and Indo-European</FONT></I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">. Innsbruck: Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Guardiano, C. & G. Longobardi. 2005. Parametric comparison and language taxonomy. In M. Batllori, M.L. Hernanz, C. Picallo & F. Roca (eds.),</FONT><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Grammaticalization and Parametric Variation</FONT></I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 149-174.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Hettrich, H. 1990 [1991].</FONT><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Der Agens in passivischen Sätzen altindogermanischer Sprachen</FONT></I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">. NAWG, Phil.-hist. Kl. 1990/2. Göttingen.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Hirt, H. 1934-37.</FONT><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Indogermanische Grammatik</FONT></I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">. Vols. VI-VII: Syntax. Heidelberg: Winter.</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Kortlandt, F.H.H. 1983. Proto-Indo-European verbal syntax.</FONT><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">JIES</FONT></I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> 11: 307-324.</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Lehmann, W.P. 1974.</FONT><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Proto-Indo-European Syntax</FONT></I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Longobardi, G. 2003. Methods in parametric linguistics and cognitive history.</FONT><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Linguistic Variation Yearbook</FONT></I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> 3, 101-138.</FONT>
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