<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Dear colleagues,</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">We would like to remind you that the <b>paper submission deadline</b> for the rescheduled conference "Caritive Constructions in the Languages of the World” is the <b>1st September 2020</b>. </div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The conference will be held from November 30th to December 2nd 2020, either in ILS RAS (Saint Petersburg, Russia) or moved online, depending on the epidemiologic situation.</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">With the best wishes,</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Organizing Committee.</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">__________________</div><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:21.25pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences is pleased to announce the conference “Caritive Constructions in the Languages of the World”, has been rescheduled for November 30 - December 2, 2020 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:21.25pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">The conference aims to bring together studies on caritive (a.k.a. abessive or privative) constructions in different languages. The working definition of caritive employed by the organizers is as follows:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:21.25pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Caritive describes non-involvement of a participant (Absentee) in a situation, with the non-involvement predication semantically modifying the situation or a participant of another situation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:21.25pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Examples:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 39.3pt;line-height:normal;border:none"><span lang="EN-US">●  </span><i><span lang="EN-US">Jill went to the party <b>without</b> Jack.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 39.3pt;line-height:normal;border:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:georgia,serif">●  </span><i style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span lang="EN-US">Jack entered a room <b>without</b> windows.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 39.3pt;line-height:normal;border:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent:21.25pt;font-family:georgia,serif">●  </span><i style="text-indent:21.25pt;font-family:georgia,serif"><span lang="EN-US">I saw a beard<b>less</b> man.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;text-indent:21.25pt;line-height:normal;border:none"><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:21.25pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Submissions may address any issues related to caritive constructions: pragmatic, semantic, syntactic, morphological, or lexical, synchronic or diachronic, language-particular as well as cross-linguistic. We are especially interested in papers concerning the expression of caritive semantics in the languages that do not have a dedicated caritive marker.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:21.25pt;line-height:normal"><u><span lang="EN-US">Invited speakers</span></u><span lang="EN-US">:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:21.25pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Thomas Stolz (University of Bremen)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:21.25pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Matti Miestamo (University of Helsinki)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:21.25pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">One person can submit two abstracts at most, only one of which can be single-authored. Abstracts should be submitted in .doc/.docx/.rtf format to </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:caritive.spb@gmail.com" target="_blank">caritive.spb@gmail.com</a></span><span lang="EN-US"> no later than <b>September 1st, 2020</b>. Submissions should be anonymous. Abstracts must not exceed 4,000 characters (with spaces), excluding references. If you use non-standard fonts, please attach them to the email together with a PDF copy of your abstract. Each talk will be allotted either 30 minutes (20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion) or 45 minutes (30 minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for discussion). The following information should be provided in the body of the email:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 39.3pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">●<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Abstract title</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 39.3pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">●<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Authors’ first and last names</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 39.3pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">●<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Affiliation</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 39.1pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">●<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US">E-mail</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt 39.1pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">●<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US">The preferable length of the talk (30 or 45 minutes)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:21.25pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">There are no conference fees.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:21.25pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Working languages: English (preferable), Russian.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Important Dates:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Submission deadline: September 1, 2020.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Notification of acceptance no later than: September 15, 2020</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Conference dates: November 30 - December 2, 2020</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Webpage of the conference: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.caritive.org/conference-2020" target="_blank">https://www.caritive.org/conference-2020</a></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Email address for submissions: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:caritive.spb@gmail.com" target="_blank">caritive.spb@gmail.com</a></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;break-after:avoid"><span lang="EN-US">Organizing Committee:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Sofia Oskolskaya, ILS RAS, chair</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Elizaveta Zabelina, ILS RAS, secretary</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Maksim Fedotov, ILS RAS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Sergei Klimenko, ILS RAS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Ezequiel Koile, HSE & MPI-SHH<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Kirill Kozhanov, ISS RAS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Natalia Zaika, ILS RAS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Anastassiya Zhuk, SPbSU</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">The conference is organised by the Institute for Linguistic Studies as part of the research project “Grammatical periphery in the languages of the world: a typological study of caritives” supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation No. 18-78-10058.</span></p></blockquote></div></div>