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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Different adnominal possessive constructions related to the so-called « alienable/inalienable » distinction are not necessarily dependent on the lexical class of the possessee. In Amazonian languages, you can find different constructions for:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>-the basket that I made vs. the basket that I bought<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>-my meat (my own flesh) vs. my meat (the flesh of the animal I have killed, or I am eating)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>In these cases, the choice of the construction depends neither on the lexical class of the noun nor on the semantics of the possessor (which would call for the term “differential”), but rather on the semantic type of relationship between possessor and possessee.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Still in this case, I agree with Martin that the alternation is not parallel to what is called “differential argument marking” in the predicate domain, because it does not depend on the properties of the possessor.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Françoise <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>De :</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'> Lingtyp [mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org] <b>De la part de</b> Martin Haspelmath<br><b>Envo</b></span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>yé :</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'> mercredi 10 janvier 2018 21:49<br><b>À :</b> lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org<br><b>Objet :</b> Re: [Lingtyp] differential internal possessors<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>This looks like an interesting workshop, and it is useful to have a new concept of "differential internal possession" (or maybe "differential ad(nominal)possession"? cf. the shortened term "<a href="https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/zfsw.2017.36.issue-2/zfs-2017-0009/zfs-2017-0009.xml">adpossessive construction</a>", for adnominal possessive construction).<br><br>But what exactly falls under this concept?<br><br>The notion of "differential argument marking" is generally applied to cases where the marking of an argument type depends on its own properties, rather than on the verb. Thus, differential object marking refers to cases where an object is marked differently depending on its definiteness, or animacy, or pronominality – and NOT when it is marked differently depending on the verb, e.g. dative-marked or adpositionally marked. (The latter situation normally falls under the heading of "valency classes".)<br><br>So if differential adpossessor marking is parallel to differential argument marking, it should refer to cases like Nganasan (Wagner-Nagy 2014), where personal pronoun adpossessors take no Genitive (and require possessive indexing on the possessed noun), while full-nominal adpossessors must be in the Genitive (and need not be cross-indexed on the noun).<br><br>In some cases, alternative possessive constructions are perhaps best treated as *alternations* (comparable to the English dative alternation), because both constructions are possible with the same nouns under the same grammatical conditions (e.g. German "die Katze meines Vaters / die Katze von meinem Vater" 'my father's cat'), with subtle pragmatic differences.<br><br>In many other cases, alternative possessive constructions occur with different classes of nouns (alienable/inalienable) and are thus analogous to valency classes of verbs.<br><br>Of course, these three types (1: conditioned by grammatical class of adpossessor / 2: both occur side by side / 3: conditioned by lexical class of possessed noun) are ideal types, and there are intermediate or fuzzy cases, but it would be useful if the terminology were fully parallel in the verbal and nomonal domains.<br><br>Martin<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 10.01.18 19:15, András Bárány wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre>2nd Call for Papers, The syntax of Differential Internal Possessors<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Workshop at Syntax of the World's Languages 8, 3-5 September 2018,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Inalco, Paris, France<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Convenors: Irina Nikolaeva (SOAS), András Bárány (SOAS), Oliver Bond<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>(Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey)<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Contact: András Bárány, <a href="mailto:andras.barany@soas.ac.uk">andras.barany@soas.ac.uk</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Deadline: 31 January 2018<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Abstract submission: <a href="https://swl8.sciencesconf.org/">https://swl8.sciencesconf.org/</a>, one A4 page + a<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>page for examples; please indicate the workshop when submitting your<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>abstract<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Full CfP: <a href="https://swl8.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/7">https://swl8.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/7</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Description:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Many languages have more than one possessive construction in which the<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>possessor is internal to the same syntactic phrase as the possessum.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>This phenomenon is sometimes referred to as Differential Possessor<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Marking or Differential Possessor Expression, by analogy with<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Differential Argument Marking. Although recent years have seen a growing<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>interest in the study of Differential Argument Marking, Differential<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Possessor Marking is by far less systematically investigated.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Especially little is currently known about the syntactic effects<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>differential internal possessors may have. This perspective will add a<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>new dimension to the traditional typological studies of internal<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>possessive constructions, which have mostly concentrated on the<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>morphosyntactic encoding of their components or the (relational)<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>semantics underlying their distribution.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>The aim of the workshop is to bring some important issues regarding the<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>cross-linguistic variation in the syntax of internal possessive<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>constructions to the attention of the typological community. Without<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>claiming to encompass the whole range of Differential Possessor Marking<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>phenomena, the workshop will focus on two partially interrelated<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>questions that appear to be typologically understudied.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>The first one relates to behavioural syntactic properties of<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>differential internal possessors. For example, in Turkish (Turkic) the<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>possessor normally bears the genitive case and the possessed noun may<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>host possessive agreement, although it is not obligatory. Constructions<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>without agreement require discourse contexts which establish the<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>possessor as a clearly identifiable referent, so that it cannot be<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>indefinite or quantified. This indicates a split in the syntactic<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>behaviour of possessors within the possessive phrase.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Even more striking are cases where an internal possessor exhibits<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>syntactic effects outside of its own phrase and participates in<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>syntactic processes which typically target a phrasal head, such as<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>predicate-argument agreement (e.g. in Maithili, Ngumpin-Yapa, Chimane)<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>or switch-reference (Turkic, Aleut, Tundra Nenets, California Uto-Aztecan).<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Second, the workshop will focus on functional factors determining<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>differential expression of internal possessors in their relationship to<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>syntax. The alternative possessive constructions are usually specialized<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>on the expression of possessive relations of a different semantic<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>nature, as is observed in languages with possessive classifiers or an<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>alienability opposition, or they reflect a split in the lexicon and the<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>inherent semantic properties of the possessor (e.g. lexical vs.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>pronominal possessors).<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>This workshop aims to bring some important issues regarding the<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>cross-linguistic variation in the syntax of internal possessive<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>constructions<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>to the attention of the typological community. We are looking forward to<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>submissions covering the following topics:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>- Syntactic behaviour of differential possessors within the possessive<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>phrase<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>- Grammatical interaction between internal possessors and a larger<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>syntactic domain<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>- Discourse factors that affect the choice between alternative internal<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>possessive constructions within one language to what extent the factors<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>that determine differential coding of internal possessors are analogous<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>to DAM?<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>- Recurrent cross-linguistic patterns and parameters of variation in<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>discourse-conditioned differential internal possessors<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>- Correlations between functional properties and syntactic prominence of<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>internal possessors<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Anonymous abstracts for the general session and posters should be no<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>longer than one page A4 (normal margins of 2,5 cm on each side, single<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>spaced lines, Times New Roman, Doulos SIL or DejaVu font, 12 pt font<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>size), with the possibility of using an additional page for examples,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>and should be written in English, with fully glossed examples conforming<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>to the Leipzig Glossing Conventions. Please romanise all Asian texts,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>and do not use Asian character fonts unless absolutely required.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Participants may not be involved in more than two abstracts for the<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>general session, of which at most one may be single-authored.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Please submit abstracts through the SWL8 website:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="https://swl8.sciencesconf.org/">https://swl8.sciencesconf.org/</a> by *31 January 2018*<o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Martin Haspelmath (<a href="mailto:haspelmath@shh.mpg.de">haspelmath@shh.mpg.de</a>)<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Kahlaische Strasse 10 <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>D-07745 Jena <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>&<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Leipzig University <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>IPF 141199<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Nikolaistrasse 6-10<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>D-04109 Leipzig <o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre></div></body></html>