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<p><font face="Calibri-Bold"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b>TypoBo 2020 – Typology in Bologna</b></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri-BoldItalic"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b><i>Comparative constructions: linguistic typology at the crossroads</i></b></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri" size="4"><a href="http://airmail.calendar/2020-05-25%2012:00:00%20CEST" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;">25-26 May 2020</a><br>
<font face="helvetica Neue, helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna (Italy)</span></font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><b>Organized by</b> Alessandra Barotto, Nicola Grandi, Simone Mattiola, Caterina Mauri (University of Bologna)</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><b>Invited speakers:</b> Thomas Stolz (University of Bremen), Yvonne Treis (CNRS-LLACAN) </span></font></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Calibri;">Call for </span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Calibri;">Papers </span></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Comparative constructions are a set of grammatical strategies that the languages of the world use to compare two or more items in order to highlight both differences and similarities among them (cf. Dixon
2008, Stolz 2013, Treis 2018). We can recognize different types of comparative constructions depending on the kind of relationship existing between the two (or more) items (Fuchs 2014, Treis 2018). The first relevant distinction to be made is between quantitative
comparison and qualitative comparison (cf. Treis 2018: iii): quantitative comparison can be further divided into comparison of inequality (superiority, e.g. <i>taller than, tallest,</i> or inferiority, e.g. <i>less tall than, least tall</i>) or equality (e.g. <i>as
tall as</i>), while qualitative comparison can be further distinguished into similarity (e.g. <i>like a horse</i>) and simulation (e.g. <i>as if he were a horse</i>).</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">The languages of the world exhibit several different formal strategies to express these functions, as argued in the typological literature (e.g. Ultan 1972, Andersen 1983, Stassen 1985, Cuzzolin & Lehmann
2004, Dixon 2008, Stolz 2013, Treis & Vanhove 2017, Treis 2018). However, we can generally identify some elements that are cross-linguistically recurrent within a comparative construction (cf. Stolz 2013: 9 and Treis 2018: ii). The comparee and the standard
are the items being compared to each other, respectively, the primum comparationis (comparee) and the secundum comparationis (standard). The parameter or quality is the property on which comparee and standard are compared (tertium comparationis). The degree
(or parameter) marker explicates the kind of relationship that comparee and standard have with respect to the parameter/quality (e.g. <i>more, less, as ... as</i> in English). Finally, the tie or standard marker is the grammatical function or relation that
connects comparee, standard, and quality (e.g. <i>than</i> in English).</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Standard markers of comparison seem to develop out of a restricted set of recurrent sources (cf. Heine & Kuteva 2002), such as verbal forms meaning ‘exceed/defeat/surpass’ (Cantonese <i>kwo</i> ‘surpass’
> <i>kwo</i> ‘than’) and interrogative adverbs (Hungarian <i>mint</i> ‘how’ > <i>mint</i> ‘than’). Furthermore, comparative constructions themselves can constitute the source for different diachronic paths, leading to subjective functions such as evidentiality
(e.g. in Even <i>ureci-n</i> ‘like, apparently’ cf. Malchukov 2000: 461) or more intersubjective functions applying at the discourse level, leading to elements such </span></font><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">as discourse markers (e.g.
English</span> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;"><i>like</i></span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">) and topic markers (e.g. English</span> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;"><i>as for</i></span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">).
In addition, the discourse use of comparative constructions reveals that these strategies are frequently employed in a highly creative way, taking scope over phrases other than the prototypically gradable ones (e.g. superlatives on nouns and verbs).</span></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">This workshop aims to gather scholars working on comparative constructions, both of the quantitative and qualitative types, integrating the typological perspective with complementary approaches and methodologies,
including diachronic and sociolinguistic ones.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">To reach this aim, we invite submissions addressing one of the following topics:</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">(i) Cross-linguistic investigations of one or more comparative constructions using data from </span></font><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">descriptive grammars and/or corpora;</span></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">(ii) Language-specific descriptions of one or more comparative constructions adopting a </span></font><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">typological perspective, taking into consideration
also discourse variation;</span></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">(iii) Diachronic analyses (typological and/or language specific) investigating the source of one </span></font><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">or more comparative constructions;</span></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">(iv) Diachronic analyses (typological and/or language specific) investigating the development </span></font><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">of one or more comparative strategies into
new constructions (e.g. evidential markers, discourse markers, etc.).</span></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Selected papers of the workshop will be published in the newly founded, open-access journal </span></font><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;"><i>Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads</i>.</span></p>
<p><u><font face="Calibri-Bold" size="4"><b>Submission information</b></font></u></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Anonymous abstracts should be no longer than one-page A4 (margins of 2,5 cm on each side, single- spaced lines, Times New Roman font, 12 pt. font size), with the possibility of using an additional page
for examples and references. Abstracts should be written in English, with fully glossed examples conforming to the Leipzig Glossing Rules.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Submissions should be sent to <span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="mailto:typologyinbologna@gmail.com" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;">typologyinbologna@gmail.com</a> </span></span></font></p>
<p><b style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">Deadline for submission</b><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">: <a href="http://airmail.calendar/2020-02-05%2012:00:00%20CET" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;">February
5</a>, 2020.</span></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><b>Notification of acceptance:</b> <a href="http://airmail.calendar/2020-03-01%2012:00:00%20CET" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;">March
1, 2020</a>.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Information and updates can be found on the TypoBO 2020 website: </span></font><a href="https://eventi.unibo.it/typobo-2020" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">https://eventi.unibo.it/typobo-2020</a></p>
<p><font face="Calibri-Bold" size="4"><b><u>References</u></b></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Andersen, Paul Kent. 1983. <i>Word Order Typology and Comparative Constructions.</i>Amsterdam: John Benjamins.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Cuzzolin, Pierluigi & Christian Lehmann. 2004. Comparison and gradation. In Geert Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan & Stavros Skopeteas (eds.), <i>Morphologie. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Flexion
und Wortbildung</i>, vol. 17.2, 1857–1882. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Dixon, R.M.W. 2008. Comparative constructions: A cross-linguistic typology. <i>Studies in Language</i> 32(4). 787–817.</span></font></p>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">Fuchs, Catherine. 2014.</span><i> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">La comparaison et son expression en français</span></i><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">. Paris:
Ophrys.</span><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><img src="file:///Users/caterinamauri/Library/Group%20Containers/2E337YPCZY.airmail/Library/Application%20Support/it.bloop.airmail2/Airmail/General/Local/1575046097891848960/Attachments/page2image53774592" alt="page2image53774592" width="152.640000" height="0.480000" style="border: 0px !important; max-width: 100%;"> <img src="file:///Users/caterinamauri/Library/Group%20Containers/2E337YPCZY.airmail/Library/Application%20Support/it.bloop.airmail2/Airmail/General/Local/1575449829171200000/Attachments/5D6E7DC7-A174-4ECC-BBB2-666B9366FD8D" alt="page2image53774784" width="179.520000" height="0.480000" style="border: 0px !important; max-width: 100%;"></span></font></div>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Heine, Bernd & Tania Kuteva. 2002. <i>World Lexicon of Grammaticalization</i>. Cambridge: Cambridge </span></font><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">University Press.</span></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Malchukov, Andrej L. 2000. Perfect, evidentiality and related categories in Tungusic languages. In </span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Lars Johanson & Bo Utas (eds.), <i>Evidentials:
Turkic, Iranian and neighbouring languages,</i> </span></font><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">441–469. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.</span></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Stassen, Leon 1985. <i>Comparison and Universal Grammar.</i> Oxford: Basil Blackwell.<br>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Stolz, Thomas 2013. Competing Comparative Constructions in Europe. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag. Treis, Yvonne & Martine Vanhove (eds). <i>Similative and Equative Constructions. A cross-linguistic </i></span></font><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;"><i>perspective</i></span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;"><i>.</i> Amsterdam:
John Benjamins.</span></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Treis, Yvonne 2018. <i>Comparative Constructions: An Introduction</i>. Linguistic Discovery 16(1). i–xxvi. Ultan, Russell 1972. Some features of basic comparative constructions. Working Papers on Language </span></font><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">Universals
(Stanford)</span> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">9. 117–162. </span></p>
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