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<b>The shaping of transitivity and argument structure: theoretical and empirical perspectives<br><br>Pavia (Italy),October 25th-27th, 2018</b><div><br></div><div>(Abstract submission deadline: March 31st, 2018)</div><br>The
 conference aims to investigate the shaping of transitivity, argument 
structure and alignment patterns over time, with particular regard to 
the evolution of voice systems, (in)transitive alternations, and 
non-finite syntax. The general goal is to bring together insights from 
language change, language reconstruction, and language typology in light
 of current theories of argument realization and the encoding of the 
argument structure of verbs and clauses. Contributions on general 
theoretical issues, methodological issues, data collection, and the 
development of language resources are equally welcome.<div><br>We invite abstracts dealing with the following or other related issues:<br><br><ul><li>Theoretical issues and approaches to the study of transitivity-related phenomena over time<br></li><li>Methodological issues on data collection and analysis of transitivity-related phenomena over time<br></li><li>Diachronic
 changes within voice systems and voice-related categories, 
(in)transitive alternations, and non-finite syntax in individual 
languages or across languages<br></li><li>Cross-linguistic analysis of alignment system evolution<br></li><li>Diachronic corpus-based investigations of argument structure patterns in individual languages<br></li><li>The frequency, productivity, reanalysis, and distribution of rival argument structure patterns over time<br></li><li>Competing motivations behind the distribution of rival synchronic argument structure patterns<br></li><li>The developments of verbs' argument structure patterns across different languages<br></li><li>Basic
 valency orientation, its changes over time in individual languages, the
 limits and perspectives of its reconstruction in proto-languages<br></li><li>Sources, reanalysis, and patterns of polysemy of valency changing markers<br></li><li>The role of language contact in the development of transitivity related phenomena<br></li><li>Issues
 in the creation and development of electronic resources (digitalized 
texts, databases, treebanks, tools etc.) for the study of transitivity 
related phenomena<br></li></ul><div><div class="gmail-m_-3742817109939131919gmail_signature"><b><br></b></div><div class="gmail-m_-3742817109939131919gmail_signature"><b>Important dates</b><br><br><u>March 31st, 2018: deadline for abstract submission</u><br><br>Abstracts of no more than one page (plus possibly one additional page for examples), should be submitted via <u>Easychair</u> <a href="https://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=62831185.cFFOnWsH5f7uMUrE" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/account/<wbr>signin.cgi?key=62831185.<wbr>cFFOnWsH5f7uMUrE</a></div><div class="gmail-m_-3742817109939131919gmail_signature">by March 31st, 2018. Submissions should be anonymous and refrain from self-reference.<br><br>May 31th, 2018: notification of acceptance</div><div class="gmail-m_-3742817109939131919gmail_signature"><br>October 25th-27th, 2018: conference<span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail-m_-3742817109939131919gmail_signature"><br></div><div class="gmail-m_-3742817109939131919gmail_signature"><br></div></font></span></div></div>

<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Silvia Luraghi<br>Università di Pavia<br>Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sezione di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata<br>Strada Nuova 65<br>I-27100 Pavia<br>tel.: +39/0382/984685<div style="display:inline"></div><div>Web page personale: <a href="http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68" target="_blank">http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68</a></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-02-05 16:15 GMT+01:00 Silvia Luraghi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:silvia.luraghi@unipv.it" target="_blank">silvia.luraghi@unipv.it</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">

<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Apologies for cross-posting</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b>The shaping of transitivity and argument structure: theoretical and empirical perspectives</b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b>Pavia (Italy),October 25th-27th, 2018</b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Conference website: <a href="https://sites.google.com/universitadipavia.it/tasf/stas2018-conference-the-shaping-of-transitivity-and-argument-structure" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://sites.google.<wbr>com/universitadipavia.it/tasf/<wbr>stas2018-conference-the-<wbr>shaping-of-transitivity-and-<wbr>argument-structure</a> </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">(Abstract submission deadline: March 31st, 2018) </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The conference aims to investigate the shaping of transitivity, argument structure and alignment patterns over time, with particular regard to the evolution of voice systems, (in)transitive alternations, and non-finite syntax. The general goal is to bring together insights from language change, language reconstruction, and language typology in light of current theories of argument realization and the encoding of the argument structure of verbs and clauses. Contributions on general theoretical issues, methodological issues, data collection, and the development of language resources are equally welcome. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">We invite abstracts dealing with the following or other related issues:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br><ul><li>Theoretical issues and approaches to the study of transitivity-related phenomena over time<br></li><li>Methodological issues on data collection and analysis of transitivity-related phenomena over time<br></li><li>Diachronic changes within voice systems and voice-related categories, (in)transitive alternations, and non-finite syntax in individual languages or across languages<br></li><li>Cross-linguistic analysis of alignment system evolution<br></li><li>Diachronic corpus-based investigations of argument structure patterns in individual languages<br></li><li>The frequency, productivity, reanalysis, and distribution of rival argument structure patterns over time<br></li><li>Competing motivations behind the distribution of rival synchronic argument structure patterns<br></li><li>The developments of verbs' argument structure patterns across different languages<br></li><li>Basic valency orientation, its changes over time in individual languages, the limits and perspectives of its reconstruction in proto-languages<br></li><li>Sources, reanalysis, and patterns of polysemy of valency changing markers<br></li><li>The role of language contact in the development of transitivity related phenomena<br></li><li>Issues in the creation and development of electronic resources (digitalized texts, databases, treebanks, tools etc.) for the study of transitivity related phenomena</li></ul></div></div></blockquote><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> <b>Important dates</b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><u><br></u></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><u>March 31st, 2018: deadline for abstract submission</u></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Abstracts of no more than one page (plus possibly one additional page for examples), should be submitted via <u>Easychair</u> <a href="https://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=62831185.cFFOnWsH5f7uMUrE" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://<wbr>easychair.org/account/signin.<wbr>cgi?key=62831185.cFFOnWsH5f7uM<wbr>UrE</a> </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">by March 31st, 2018. Submissions should be anonymous and refrain from self-reference. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">May 31th, 2018: notification of acceptance </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">October 25th-27th, 2018: conference</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class="m_-2297829012978108956gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br class="m_-2297829012978108956gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">

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