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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dear Leonid,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <span lang=EN-US> Back from a long mission, I am too late to participate, but this makes me free to express some surprise about the notion of <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>“non-canonical”. This notion is so widespread, at least since Aikhenvald <i>et al.</i> 2001, that nobody puts into question its <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> implications. Is non-canonical” a synonym of “oblique”? Is English the model of what is canonical, since it says <i>I am in a </i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;layout-grid-mode:char'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>fever</span></i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>, while Russian says <i>menja lixoradit</i>? Aren’t there some anglocentric implications in the notion of “non-canonical”? If not anglocentric, this notion seems, at least, to be aprioristic, since it presupposes some canon according to which languages are studied. Shouldn’t we rather study, for example, the reasons why many languages (Indio-Aryan and Dravidian among others) treat identically, from the morphological viewpoint, physical affects, like “be cold”, moral affects, like “be angry” and intellectual “affects”, like “know” ? </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(cf. Claude Hagège,</span> <span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>« Vers un typologie linguistique des affects <i>», Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris</i>, CI, 1, 2006, 89-132, which studies the problem based on a corpus of 268 languages from the five continents).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;layout-grid-mode:char'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;layout-grid-mode:char'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;layout-grid-mode:char'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>With all very best wishes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;layout-grid-mode:char'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;layout-grid-mode:char'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Claude<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>De :</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Lingtyp [mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org] <b>De la part de</b> Kulikov, L.I.<br><b>Envoyé :</b> jeudi 24 mars 2016 22:36<br><b>À :</b> LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<br><b>Cc :</b> Johanna.Barddal@ugent.be; CynthiaAmy.Johnson@ugent.be; sigridur.sigurdardottir@ugent.be; Esther.LeMair@ugent.be<br><b>Objet :</b> [Lingtyp] FINAL CALL / REMINDER: Workshop: Non-canonical subjects: Their rise and development (Evidence from Indo-European and beyond)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> Workshop: Non-canonical subjects: Their rise and development (Evidence from Indo-European and beyond) - <strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>FINAL CALL / REMINDER</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>***Apologies for cross-posting***<br><br><b>Workshop</b>: Non-canonical subjects: Their rise and development (Evidence from Indo-European and beyond)<br><b>Date</b>: 15-17 September, 2016 <br><b>Location</b>: Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland <br><b>Organizers</b>: Leonid Kulikov, Jóhanna Barðdal, Thórhallur Eythórsson, Cynthia Amy Johnson, Esther Le Mair, Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir<br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Web Site</span></strong>: <a href="https://webmail.campus.leidenuniv.nl/owa/redir.aspx?REF=GxoKFWALyXB0Ae7f2w4-i2rfykCvp8kEmWUlTiHNSj_4o9POK1TTCAFodHRwOi8vd2EuYW11LmVkdS5wbC9wbG0vMjAxNi9Ob25fY2Fub25pY2Fs" target="_blank">http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2016/Non_canonical</a><br><br><b>Description</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> The recent decades are marked with a considerable progress in the study of transitivity and grammatical relations (subject, object). Valuable results are achieved both in the study of the notion of prototypical subject and non-canonical subject marking (see, in particular, <strong><span style='font-weight:normal'>Aikhenvald et al. 2001; Bhaskararao </span></strong>&<b> </b><strong><span style='font-weight:normal'>Subbarao 2004)</span></strong>, and in the research of intermediary types, with non-canonical encoding of the core relations (non-nominative/oblique subjects etc.). Meticulous research of subject properties has uncovered an amazing variety of criteria of subjecthood that can be used as a powerful tool for detecting (non-canonical) subjects and, ultimately to arrive at a more adequate definition of subject. </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> Indo-European languages are particularly notorious for their diversity of non-canonical subject marking, ranking from nominative (standard), to dative, genitive, accusative etc., as in Icelandic (1) (see, among others, Barđdal 2001) and other Germanic languages (Eythórsson & Barðdal 2005), Latin (2) (Fedriani 2014) and Romance languages (Bauer 2001), Polish (Holvoet 1991), or Bengali (Onishi 2001), Hindi and other (New) Indo-Aryan languages (Masica 1991: 346ff.; Verbeke, Kulikov & Willems 2015): </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>(1) Icelandic </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> <b><i>Mér</i></b><i> líkar þessi tilgáta</i></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> I:<span style='font-variant:small-caps'>dat </span>like:<span style='font-variant:small-caps'>pres</span>:<span style='font-variant:small-caps'>3sg</span> this hypothesis:<span style='font-variant:small-caps'>nom</span></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> ‘I like this hypothesis.’</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>(2) Latin (Cic.)</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;line-height:115%'><b><i><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>mihi</span></i></b><i><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'> caligae eius et fasciae cretatae non placebant</span></i><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>I:<span style='font-variant:small-caps'>dat</span> boot:<span style='font-variant:small-caps'>nom.pl</span> his and leggings:<span style='font-variant:small-caps'>nom.pl</span> white:<span style='font-variant:small-caps'>nom.pl</span> not please:<span style='font-variant:small-caps'>impf:3pl</span> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>‘I did not like his boots and white leggings.’</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>(3) Hindi</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;line-height:115%'><i><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>mujh-e mithāī cāhiye</span></i><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>I-<span style='font-variant:small-caps'>dat</span> sweet:<span style='font-variant:small-caps'>nom</span> want:<span style='font-variant:small-caps'>3sg</span></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>‘I want candy.’</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>By now, the synchronic study of subject and transitivity in Indo-European languages (and beyond; see, for instance, Haspelmath & Caruana 2000 on Maltese/Semitic) has furnished detailed descriptions of syntactic patterns, inventories of features and types and valuable cross-linguistic observations. We have at our disposal well-elaborated catalogues of predicates with non-canonically case-marked subject-like arguments in the earliest attested stages of all branches of the Indo-European language family. A work in progress is the compilation of an online interactive database<b> </b>with non-canonically case-marked argument structure constructions, which is now prepared within the </span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>the ERC-funded project “</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>The Evolution of Case, Alignment and Argument Structure in Indo-European” </span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>(see below) and </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>will be available to the research community at large.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Less attention has been paid to the diachronic aspects of the phenomena in question. Although considerable progress has been made in the analysis of the history of constructions with non-canonical subjects in Indo-European and reconstruction of their sources in Proto-Indo-European (see, in particular, Barðdal & Smitherman 2013; Barðdal et al. 2012), many historical processes and phenomena that are relevant for this syntactic domain still need to be elucidated. Many details of the emergence and disappearance of </span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>the non-canonical subject marking are still unclear to us, and there is no complete inventory of the basic mechanisms of the rise and evolution of this subject-marking (but cf. </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>a typology of changes typical for case marking in Barðdal 2015</span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>). </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'> Indo-European languages, with their well-documented history and long tradition of historical and comparative research, offer a particularly rich opportunity for a diachronic typological study of the above-listed issues (see, for instance, </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Barðdal & Eythórsson. 2009</span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>). One of the first research projects concentrating on the diachronic aspects of these phenomena, the ERC-funded project “</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>The Evolution of Case, Alignment and Argument Structure in Indo-European</span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>” (EVALISA), started in 2013 at Ghent University under the general supervision of Prof. J. Barðdal (see <a href="https://webmail.campus.leidenuniv.nl/owa/redir.aspx?REF=YIXogU9I0OpCAeJoEX1qpCry5BfY7yaNk2PpjP7eeJf4o9POK1TTCAFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmV2YWxpc2EudWdlbnQuYmUv" target="_blank">http://www.evalisa.ugent.be/</a>). </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>The aim of this workshop is to bring together scholars interested in comparative research on non-canonical subjects in Indo-European and beyond and to open up new horizons in the study of these phenomena, paying special attention to its diachronic aspects. We invite scholars working within all theoretical frameworks, such as Construction Grammar (which is the main theoretical vehicle of the EVALISA project) and other functional and formal frameworks. </span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>While the workshop concentrates mainly on evidence from Indo-European, papers on non-Indo-European languages which could be relevant for a diachronic typological study of the issues in question are also welcome.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>The issues to be addressed include, among others: </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>• subject criteria and subject properties </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>• syntactic functions of the subject-like obliques in both ancient and modern Indo-European languages</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>• mechanisms of the rise or disappearance of non-canonical subject-marking</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>• semantic classes of predicates with non-canonically case-marked subject-like arguments</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>• relations between subject marking and transitivity types: evolution of subject-marking with different semantic classes of verbs </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>• </span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>the main evolutionary types (from the point of view of </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>case-marking of subjects</span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>) attested for Indo-European</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>• subject and changes in the type of alignment: the emergence of ergativity out of constructions with non-canonical subjects</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;line-height:115%'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>• </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>methodological issues of the reconstruction of case-marking of subjects and core arguments in general </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText style='line-height:16.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:16.0pt;page-break-after:avoid'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>REFERENCES</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:16.0pt;page-break-after:avoid'><span lang=DA style='color:black'>Aikhenvald, A.Y. et al. </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>(eds) 2001. <i>Non-canonical marking of subjects and objects</i>. 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Oblique case-marking in Indo-Aryan experiencer constructions: Historical roots and synchronic variation. <i>Lingua </i>163: 23-39.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;text-indent:-14.2pt'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Abstract submission</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><br>Abstracts should be submitted via EasyChair. 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