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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Call for expressions of interest: Theme session at ALT13 (Pavia, 4-6 September 2019)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u><span lang="EN-US">Typologising the noun phrase: Beyond (non-)configurationality
<span style="letter-spacing:-1.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">Dana Louagie (University of Leuven) & Uta Reinöhl (University of Cologne)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Expression of interest: before 12 November 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Please contact us by email (<u><span style="color:blue"><a href="mailto:dana.louagie@kuleuven.be"><span style="color:blue">dana.louagie@kuleuven.be</span></a></span></u>;
<u><span style="color:blue"><a href="mailto:uta.reinoehl@uni-koeln.de"><span style="color:blue">uta.reinoehl@uni-koeln.de</span></a></span></u>) with a provisional title.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">Description:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">In the nominal domain, languages are often categorised as either having classic, rigidly structured NPs (like English), or as lacking phrasal structure altogether (like Nunggubuyu, Australia),
a distinction that is often linked with the more general concept of (non-)configurationality (e.g. Hale 1983; Heath 1986). However, there is wide-ranging evidence in the literature that the picture is far more complex than a simple dichotomy suggests. There
are also several studies that do not think in these binary terms including Croft (2007), Krasnoukhova (2012), Schultze-Berndt & Simard (2012), Louagie & Verstraete (2016), Louagie (2017). However, a comprehensive typology is still wanting. The aim of this
theme session is to build on this literature and on cross-linguistic studies of the NP such as Rijkhoff (2002), in order to try and develop an alternative typology that deals with the full range of structural diversity in the nominal domain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">A first complication for the existing dichotomy is that many languages actually show mixed evidence: they have a range of structures available, some of which may correspond
to ‘classic’ NPs and others that do not. For example, Kanum (New Guinea, Donohue 2010) is described as having a hierarchically structured DP with strictly ordered elements and right-edge case marking, but also allows for discontinuous structures. Another example
is Panare (Cariban; Payne 1993; see also Krasnoukhova [2012] for broader typological context), which has flexibly ordered nominal expressions and discontinuous structures, but also a few tightly ordered expressions (e.g. numerals always precede the head noun
when the NP is in clause-initial position). A final example is that several Australian languages have flexibly ordered nominal expressions which sometimes, but not always, show phrasal case marking (e.g. Louagie & Verstraete 2016: 46-49).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Second, traditional ‘non-configurational’ features like flexible internal order or discontinuity can also be analysed in other ways, which do not involve positing a complete
absence of phrasal structure. Discontinuity may be treated as a separate structural type rather than as evidence against NP phrasehood across a whole language (e.g. Croft 2007: 27-30; Louagie & Verstraete 2016: 49-54), for example because its use is often
functionally motivated (e.g. Siewierska [1984] for Polish; Reinholtz [1999] for Swampy Cree; Schultze-Berndt & Simard [2012] for Jaminjung). A partially related approach is to account for ordering constraints in terms of “functional templates”, where ordering
is determined on the basis of functional roles such as qualifying, classifying, or entity-denoting ones, as proposed by McGregor (1990) for Gooniyandi.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Finally, diachronic studies have shown that NP configurationality is an emergent phenomenon, in that, for example, it arises as a by-product of the grammaticalization of articles
(see e.g. the cross-linguistic study of Himmelmann [1997]) or of adpositions (e.g. Reinöhl [2016] on Indo-Aryan). It has been shown that, at least in some cases, nominal expressions historically gain in internal structure in a gradual manner, which suggests
that we are not dealing with a binary distinction of expressions being phrasally organized or not (e.g. Van de Velde [2009], [2010] on the emergence of determiner and modifier slots, and increasing numbers of slot-fillers, in the history of the Dutch NP; Reinöhl
[2016] on the gradual emergence of a paradigm of postpositions in Indo-Aryan).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">These data and analyses suggest that the time is ripe to develop an alternative typology of structural diversity in the nominal domain, which goes beyond the basic dichotomy
between presence or absence of phrasal structures, and takes into account the full range of structures available. The aim of this theme session is to bring together work on languages or language families that show ‘non-classical’ features as well as ‘classical’
ones in the nominal domain, and to examine their significance for the typology of NPs<i>.</i> Possible topics include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(i)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Descriptive accounts: analysis of the range of nominal structures available, and motivations (syntactic, semantic, discursive) for their distribution within and across languages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(ii)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Theoretical accounts: alternative analyses for the occurrence or use of ‘non-classical’ features, instead of as mere symptoms of (non-)configurationality<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(iii)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Typological accounts: areal or genetic distribution of patterns<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:53.85pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">(iv)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Historical accounts: changes in the range of structures available in the nominal domain over time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">We plan to provide a target paper, which surveys the literature and presents a number of questions participants can use to structure their papers.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Dates</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">12 November 2018: expression of interest <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">25 November 2018: notification of acceptance for theme sessions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">End of January 2019: deadline for abstract submissions (if proposal is accepted)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">4-6 September 2019: ALT13, Pavia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">(Information about the conference: <a href="https://sites.google.com/universitadipavia.it/alt2019/home">
https://sites.google.com/universitadipavia.it/alt2019/home</a>) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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