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CALL FOR PAPERS for a WORKSHOP at the POZNAŃ LINGUISTIC MEETING (May
1-3, 2011)<br>
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<![endif]--><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times
New Roman"; text-transform: uppercase;" lang="EN-US">Resultatives.
Typology, History, Areality and Cognition</span></b><br>
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Host conference: 42nd Poznań Linguistic Meeting
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2011/">http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2011/</a> <br>
Venue: Poznań, Poland<br>
Date: May 1-3, 2011<br>
Convenors: Nicole Nau (Poznań) & Krzysztof Stroński (Poznań)
& Bernhard Wälchli (Bern)<br>
Deadline for abstracts: January 21, 2011<br>
Abstract submission: See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2011/Abstract_submission">http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2011/Abstract_submission</a> (slots: 30
minutes)<br>
Notification of acceptance: February 25, 2011<br>
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Workshop description<br>
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Languages of the world employ different means to express states
which result from a previous action. The TYPOLOGY of resultatives
has been investigated especially in the seminal work edited by V.
Nedjalkov (1988 [1983]) with a major focus on languages of Eurasia.
Especially important is the vast literature on Slavic languages
(e.g., Giger 2003, Łaziński 2001, Wiemer & Giger 2005). However,
in many non-Eurasian languages, resultatives have not yet been
described. Hence it is not astonishing that the core model of
resultatives in the typological literature corresponds to the
Indo-European prototype of a "stative auxiliary... and the past
and/or passive participle" (Bybee et al. 1994: 67-68). A major aim
of this workshop is to explore the cross-linguistic diversity of
resultative constructions.<br>
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Resultatives play a crucial role in GRAMMATICALIZATION where they
have been found to be closely related to grammatical categories as
perfect, passive, durative and progressive (e.g., Bybee et al 1994,
Ebert 1995, Načeva-Marvanova 2010). Their interaction with these
categories is instantiated by various morphosyntactic alignments.
There are still many unanswered questions regarding the evolution of
resultative constructions even though some of the solutions have
gained wide acceptance (e.g. the passive/resulative to ergative
shift in Indo-Iranian; see, e.g., Pirejko 1968). However,
resultatives are not simply a grammatical category, they are
strongly constrained lexically. Of crucial interest are also
lexicalization paths of resultatives, for instance in the domains of
predicative possession and positional verbs.<br>
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Further it has been observed that resultative constructions often
exhibit AREAL PATTERNS. According to Haase (1992: 250) – shown on
evidence from Basque – resultatives are categories "prone to diffuse
through contact". A further important issue is language-internal
variation. Miller (2004) argues that there is a wide variety of
resultative constructions restricted to spoken varieties of English,
such as _that is me seen it_ or _we were stood outside the pub_.<br>
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Last but not least, resultatives are of great interest from a
COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC perspective in the context of Talmy’s (2000:
101) claim that fictive motion "occurs preponderantly more than does
fictive stationariness coupled with factive motion".<br>
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The aim of this workshop is to bring together scholars working on
different aspects of resultative constructions from typological,
historical, areal and cognitive perspectives. We welcome papers
dealing with all aspects of resultatives, especially the following:<br>
• the interaction between resultatives and with related
grammatical tense, aspect and voice categories as well as their
lexicalization paths;<br>
• the interface between resultative constructions and their
argument structure; <br>
• lexical constraints pertaining to the formation of
resultatives; <br>
• the evolution of resultatives<br>
• descriptions of resultative constructions in languages
outside Eurasia, field linguists’ approaches to resultatives;<br>
• areal implications of resultative constructions;<br>
• cognitive linguistic implications of resultative
constructions<br>
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Selected references<br>
Bybee, Joan & Revere Perkins & William Pagliuca (1994). The
Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect and Modality in the Languages of
the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<br>
Ebert, Karen (1995). Ambiguous perfect-progressive forms across
languages. In Bertinetto, Pier Marco et al. (eds.), Temporal
Reference, Aspect and Actionality. Vol. 2: Typological Perspectives.
Torino: Rosenberg.<br>
Giger Markus 2003. Resultativa im modernen Tschechischen. Bern –
Berlin: Peter Lang.<br>
Łaziński Marek. 2001. ‘Was für ein Perfekt gibt es im modernen
Polnisch?’ Linguistic Online. 8, 1/01. 37-47.<br>
Miller, Jim (2004). Problems for typology. Perfects and resultatives
in spoken and non-standard English and Russian. In Kortmann, Bernd
(ed.) Dialectology meets Typology. Dialect Grammar from a
Cross-Linguistic Perspective, 305-334. Berlin: Mouton de Grutyer.<br>
Načeva-Marvanova Mira 2010. ‘Grammaticalization and Verbal
Structures (The Case of Analytic Perfect)’. Linguistica Pragensia
20. 2010/1.<br>
Nedjalkov Vladimir P. 1988. Typology of Resultative Construction.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Translation of Nedjalkov, Vladimir P. (ed.) (1983). Tipologija
rezul’tativnyx konstrukcij. Leningrad: Nauka. <br>
Pirejko Lija A., 1968. Osnovnyje voprosy ergativnosti na materiale
indoiranskich jazykov. Moskva: Izdatel’stvo ‘Nauka’.<br>
Talmy, Leonard (2000). Toward a Cognitive Semantics. Vol. II:
Typology and process in concept structuring. Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press.<br>
Wiemer Björn & Giger Markus 2005. Resultativa in den
nordslavischen und baltischen Sprachen. Munchen: LINCOM.<br>
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Bernhard Waelchli
Dept. of Linguistics
University of Bern
Laenggasstrasse 49
CH-3000 Bern 9</pre>
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