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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear linguists,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">below you find a brief version of a call. The full version is in the attached .pdf (which hopefully will come over). The eventual (abridged) proposal for SLE 2016 will be prepared in due time after we get feedback from those interested
in such a workshop.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">With best regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Björn Wiemer.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Call for papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Workshop intended for the annual conference of the
<i>Societas Linguistica Europaea </i>(SLE) 2016 in Naples<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Björn Wiemer (JGU Mainz)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jasmina Grković-Major (University of Novi Sad)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Björn Hansen (University of Regensburg)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The rise of complementizers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">and their relation to subjunctive mood<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">and (ir)realis distinctions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The workshop addresses issues of the diachronic development of complementizers against other clause-linkage devices relevant for
realis</span><span lang="BE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">—</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">irrealis distinctions and</span><span lang="BE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">/</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">or
the lowering of assertiveness</span><span lang="BE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> The issues fall into two groups. First</span><span lang="BE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">,
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">we inquire how the distinction between complementizers and subjunctive markers can be compared crosslinguistically more coherently</span><span lang="BE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">,
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">so that variation on a scale between free and bound morphemes and their relation to the aforementioned distinctions can be correlated with diachronic pathways</span><span lang="BE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
This is tantamount to asking whether</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">‘dependent predicate markersʼ code “at the level of the D[ependent] C[lause] as a whole“ or only „at the level of its nucleus“ (van Lier 2009: 69f.) and what conditions language-specific
preferences for one of these coding levels.</span><span lang="BE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:14.2pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Second</span><span lang="BE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">,
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">we ask for falsifiable methods suited to discern complementizers from other connectives</span><span lang="BE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
(</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">like clause</span><span lang="BE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">initial
particles</span><span lang="BE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">),
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">marking speaker’s stance, quoted speech,
<i>de dicto</i> vs. <i>de re</i>-readings and similar distinctions</span><span lang="BE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thus</span><span lang="BE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">while approaching a comparative concept of the notion</span><span lang="BE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> ‘</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">complementizer</span><span lang="BE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ʼ,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">we ask for diagnostic criteria and the theoretical premises that should be applied in historical morphosyntax</span><span lang="BE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">semantics and pragmatics</span><span lang="BE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">but also in discourse</span><span lang="BE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">-</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">oriented
studies on ongoing or recent change interested in the identification of</span><span lang="BE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> (</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">potential</span><span lang="BE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">)
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">complementizers and how clausal complementation emerges from juxtaposition or adverbial subordination. Especially this concerns the rise of complementizers used in contexts of event or
propositional modality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Full version attached.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Abstracts (max. 300 words, inclusive of references and examples) should be sent
<b>by November, 1</b></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">0</span></b><b><sup><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">th</span></sup></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">,
2015</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> to at least one of the following e-mail addresses:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:wiemerb@uni-mainz.de">wiemerb@uni-mainz.de</a> (Björn Wiemer, U Mainz)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><a href="mailto:jgrkovicns@gmail.com"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">jgrkovicns@gmail.com</span></a><span lang="PL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
(Jasmina Grković-Major, U Novi Sad)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:Bjoern.Hansen@sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de">Bjoern.Hansen@sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de</a> (Björn Hansen, U Regensburg)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE">Björn Wiemer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE">Professor für slavische Sprachwissenschaft<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE">Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE">Institut für Slavistik<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE">Jakob-Welder-Weg 18<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE">D- 55128 Mainz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE">tel. +49/ 6131/ 39 -22186<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE">fax. +49/ 6131/ 39 -24709<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE"><a href="mailto:wiemerb@uni-mainz.de">wiemerb@uni-mainz.de</a>
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