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<strong>Workshop: Contrastive studies of verbal valency in European languages</strong>
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<p>Proposal to be submitted to the:</p>
<p>45th Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE2012)</p>
<p>Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University</p>
<p>Stockholm (Sweden), 29 August-1 September 2012</p>
<p>http://www.societaslinguistica.eu</p>
<p>http://sle2012.eu</p>
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<strong>Convenors/selection committee:</strong>
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<p>Johanna Barðdal (University of Bergen)</p>
<p>Lars Hellan (University of Trondheim)</p>
<p>Anna Kibort (University of Cambridge)</p>
<p>Andrej Malchukov (University of Mainz/Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, St-Petersburg/Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)</p>
<p>Michela Cennamo (University of Naples)</p>
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<strong>Description</strong>
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<p>In recent years, issues of verbal valency, valency alternations, and verb classes has seen a new upsurge of interest from a variety of perspectives (cf. Abraham 2006, Barðdal 2007, 2008, 2011, Barðdal, Kristoffersen & Sveen 2011, Bayer 2004, Bickel & Nichols 2009, Cennamo 2003, 2010, 2011, Cennamo & Sorace 2007, Cennamo & Jezek 2011, Donohue & Wichmann 2008, Fried 2005, Haspelmath 2007, Kibort 2008, 2009, Kittila & Zúñiga 2010, Kulikov & Lavidas 2012; Levin & Rappaport Hovav 2005, Levin 2008, Malchukov, Haspelmath & Comrie 2010, Malchukov & Siewierska 2011): in lexicographic studies, corpus studies, as well as current projects taking cross-theoretical (Syntactic Government and Subcategorisation project), historical-comparative (IECASTP/NonCanCase project), contrastive (CONTRAGRAM, e.g., Colleman 2002), and typological perspectives (Leipzig Valency Classes project and Construction Labeling project – cf. Hellan and Dakubu 2010, Hellan 2008). Yet, systematic comparative studies even for the better studied European languages are still missing, so one still lacks work which could be sensibly compared to Levin’s well known study of English verb classes and alternations. Thus, in spite of a long tradition in valency studies in European (especially, German) scholarship and recent progress in corpus studies and computational approaches to lexicography (cf., e.g., Herbst et al. 2004, and Korhonen & Briscoe 2004 on English, Schulte im Walde 2003 on German, contributions in Feuillet (ed.) 1998 dealing with different European languages, as well as earlier classic studies by Levin 1993, Apresjan 1969, Lehmann 1991, Lazard 1994/1998), the field has not yet yielded many generalizations in this domain, partly due to complexity of the topic, but also to a variety of perspectives which are not always compatible. Some topics concerning matching of semantic properties with syntactic/distributional properties, and to what extent such correlations hold for different languages still remain a matter of controversy (cf. Faulhaber 2011).</p>
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<p>The workshop aims at bringing together researchers interested in contrastive studies of valency patterns in European languages from a variety of perspectives:</p>
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<p>– areal-typological</p>
<p>– contrastive descriptive</p>
<p>– variationist</p>
<p>– corpus studies and computational lexicography</p>
<p>– theoretical</p>
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<p>The workshop topic is not confined to certain verb types/valency classes, and addresses both valency frames and valency alternations, which are both relevant distributional properties of verbs.</p>
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<p>It is expected that workshop contributions, including those taking a more descriptive perspective, attempt generalizations as to what are the differences in certain domains across European languages, as well as venture accounts as to how to explain the attested differences and similarities. On the other hand, it is equally crucial that contributions, including those taking a more theoretical approach, will marshal new empirical data. In this way it is expected that the workshop will contribute to and synthesize different strands of research based on valency patterns in European languages.</p>
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We ask those who are interested to participate in the workshop to send the provisional title of your contribution and a short abstract (up to 300 words) (both in English)
<strong>before November 10 2011</strong>
. Please, indicate you name, affiliation and email.
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<p>The abstracts (in MS Word or pdf format) should be sent to the following addresses:</p>
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<a href="mailto:lars.hellan@hf.ntnu.no">lars.hellan@hf.ntnu.no</a>
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<a href="mailto:andrej_malchukov@eva.mpg.de">andrej_malchukov@eva.mpg.de</a>
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<p>Abstracts are invited for 20 minute presentations with 10 minute discussion.</p>
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<strong>Important dates</strong>
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Submission of provisional abstract:
<strong>10 November 2011</strong>
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<p>15 November 2011: submission of workshop proposals</p>
<p>(description+abstracts)</p>
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<p>15 December 2011: notification of acceptance/rejection</p>
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<p>15 January 2012: submission of all abstracts</p>
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<p>31 March 2012: notification of acceptance</p>
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If the workshop proposal is accepted then all abstracts will need to be submitted to SLE by 15th January 2012, via the SLE conference website:
<a href="http://www.sle2012.eu/">http://www.sle2012.eu</a>
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<p>Notification of acceptance: 31st March 2012</p>
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<p>Registration: From April 2012 onwards</p>
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<p>Conference: 29 August – 1 September 2012</p>
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<strong>References:</strong>
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<em>Case, Valency, and Transitivity</em>
. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
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<p>Apresjan, Ju. D. 1969. Eksperementaljnoe issledovanie russkogo glagola. Moskva: Nauka.</p>
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Barðdal, Jóhanna. 2007. The Semantic and Lexical Range of the Ditransitive Construction in the History of (North) Germanic.
<em>Functions of Language</em>
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Barðdal, Jóhanna. 2008.
<em>Productivity: Evidence from Case and Argument Structure in Icelandic</em>
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Cennamo, Michela 2010. Impersonali, verbi, 637-639. In Simone, R. (ed).
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Fried, Mirjam. 2005. A Frame-Based Approach to Case Alternations: The Swarm-Class Verbs in Czech.
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Haspelmath, Martin. 2007. Ditransitive alignment splits and inverse alignment.
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