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<div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="courier new, monospace">Call for papers</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="courier new, monospace">Workshop on the topic “Valency and Transitivity in Contact: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective”</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></p></div><div><div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="courier new, monospace">Research on verb borrowing has focused on several major issues, primarily the borrowability of verbs vis-à-vis other word classes and the typology of morphosyntactic integration or ‘accommodation strategies’ (Moravcsik 1978, Wichmann & Wohlgemuth 2007, Matras 2008, Wohlgemuth 2009). Much less prominent in research on verb borrowing are questions related to <b>the integration of loan verbs into the valency and transitivity patterns of the recipient language, on the one hand, and the innovation or retention of valency and transitivity patterns as the result of contact, on the other.</b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></b></p><font face="courier new, monospace"></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="courier new, monospace">Possible questions to be addressed in the workshop:</font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><div class="im"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="courier new, monospace">What are the formal and functional factors involved in determining the integration of loan verbs into recipient language valency and transitivity patterns?<br>
</font></li></div><div class="im"><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">Do pidgins show simplification/restriction in valency patterns compared to the corresponding patterns in the contributing languages?</span><br>
</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="courier new, monospace">Do creoles retain valency patterns of the corresponding substrate languages, and if so, which verbs are mostly affected? Does frequency play a role here?</font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="courier new, monospace">What happens in mixed languages: are the valency patterns copied along with the 'matter' (verb stems and/or verbal morphology) from one of the contributing languages, or is there a mismatch between 'matter' and 'pattern' of the copied verb?</font></li>
</div></ul><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">Papers addressing these questions - and others - from descriptive and theoretical perspectives are welcome, as are papers dealing with specific contact situations or cross-linguistic samples. Especially welcome are papers that address areal and socio-historical aspects of borrowing situations in shaping the outcomes of language contact.</span><br>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="courier new, monospace">If you are interested in participating in the workshop, please send a short (1-page) abstract by 25 November 2013 to</font></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:michaelis@eva.mpg.de" target="_blank" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">michaelis@eva.mpg.de</a><font face="courier new, monospace"><br>
</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="courier new, monospace"><a href="mailto:eitan.grossman@mail.huji.ac.il" target="_blank">eitan.grossman@mail.huji.ac.il</a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Organizing committee:</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Eitan Grossman (Jerusalem), Susanne Michaelis (Leipzig), Sebastian Richter (Leipzig)</font></div>
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