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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Propositions vs. States-of-Affairs <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Workshop proposal for the 49th SLE meeting, Naples, August 31 – September 3, 2016</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">FULL VERSION OF CALL IS ATTACHED!</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Convenors</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Kasper Boye and Marie-Louise Lind Sørensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Aim<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This workshop aims at bringing together linguists of different orientations and with different research focuses in order to furnish our understanding of contrasts between Propositions (truth-valued predications) and SoAs
(non-truth-valued predications). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Topics and issues covered<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">All aspects of Proposition-SoA contrasts are of relevance to the workshop, including the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:14.2pt;text-indent:-14.2pt"><span lang="EN-US">Proposition-SoA contrasts in individual languages or language families or across language families<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:14.2pt;text-indent:-14.2pt"><span lang="EN-US">- Nominalization contrasts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:14.2pt;text-indent:-14.2pt"><span lang="EN-US">- Noun contrasts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:14.2pt;text-indent:-14.2pt"><span lang="EN-US">- Contrasts in complement, adverbial and/or relative clauses<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:14.2pt;text-indent:-14.2pt"><span lang="EN-US">Modelling the Proposition-SoA contrast in specific frameworks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:14.2pt;text-indent:-14.2pt"><span lang="EN-US">A typology of Proposition types and/or SoA types<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:14.2pt;text-indent:-14.2pt"><span lang="EN-US">Interaction of the Proposition-SoA contrast with other categories, including:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:14.2pt;text-indent:-14.2pt"><span lang="EN-US">- Realis-irrealis contrasts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:14.2pt;text-indent:-14.2pt"><span lang="EN-US">- Finite-nonfinite or balanced-deranked contrasts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:14.2pt;text-indent:-14.2pt"><span lang="EN-US">- Tensed-nontensed contrasts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:14.2pt;text-indent:-14.2pt"><span lang="EN-US">- Evidentiality<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:14.2pt;text-indent:-14.2pt"><span lang="EN-US">- Modality<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:14.2pt;text-indent:-14.2pt"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:14.2pt;text-indent:-14.2pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">Submission procedure<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We invite you to submit abstracts of up to 300 words related to the topic outlined above. Please send your abstract to the organizers of the workshop:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:boye@hum.ku.dk"><span lang="EN-US">boye@hum.ku.dk</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US">mlsoerensen@hum.ku.dk</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Deadline for submission of the 300 word abstract is November 10, 2015. Selected abstracts will be included in the workshop proposal, and a 500 word version will have to be submitted directly to the SLE by January 15,
2016 (cf. </span><a href="http://sle2016.eu/call-for-papers"><span lang="EN-US">http://sle2016.eu/call-for-papers</span></a><span lang="EN-US">).
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Kasper Boye and Marie-Louise Lind Sørensen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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