<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear colleagues,</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br><span class="gmail_default" style=""></span>We invite you to attend the conference <span class="gmail_default" style=""></span><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-size:14px">„</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""></span>Caritive Constructions in the Languages of the World<span class="gmail_default" style=""></span><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-size:14px">“</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""></span>, and we will be happy if you could join us in listening <span class="gmail_default" style="">to the talks </span>and discuss<span class="gmail_default" style="">ing them</span>!</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">The conference will be held from November 30th to December 2nd 2020 online, in Zoom. </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">The <span class="gmail_default" style=""></span><span class="gmail_default" style="">Zoom-</span>link to the conference<span class="gmail_default" style=""> (same for all sessions)</span> <span class="gmail_default" style="">can be found</span>, together with the conference programme, here:<span class="gmail_default" style=""> <a href="https://www.caritive.org/conference-programme">https://www.caritive.org/conference-programme</a></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""></span><span class="gmail_default" style=""></span>We also attach <br></font></div><div><ul><li><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://join.slack.com/t/caritiveconstructions/shared_invite/zt-j9x4ufav-yUIbdJmP5LAFfrT0ck01ww">a link to the platform for discussions of particular talks and informal communication</a>,</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""></span>

and <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19bzg2wBqnzWzJ3dUCNhOS9aODCGVCMB5?usp=sharing">a link to a folder where some handouts for the talks will be later available</a>.  </font></li></ul></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"> <br>With the best wishes,</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Organizing Committee</font></div><div><div style="min-height:100%"><div style="width:1280px"><div><div><div style="display:flex;width:1280px"><div style="min-height:1px;overflow:hidden;width:1037px"><div><div><div><div><div><div id="m_3397552213118465820gmail-:3" style="background:none;overflow-y:scroll;padding-right:0px;height:498px"><div id="m_3397552213118465820gmail-:1" style="padding:0px;vertical-align:bottom;min-height:308px"><div><div><div><table cellpadding="0" style="border-spacing:0px;padding:0px;border-collapse:collapse;width:952px;display:block"><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;padding:0px;display:block;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><div style="margin:0px 0px 0px 16px;padding:0px"><div><div style="background-color:transparent;min-width:502px;padding:0px"><div><div style="clear:both;padding-bottom:0px;max-width:100000px;outline:none"><div style="margin-bottom:0px;border-width:0px;border-top-style:solid;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:rgb(239,239,239);border-right-color:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-radius:0px;width:936px"><div style="padding-top:0px;background-color:transparent;border-right:0px;border-bottom:0px rgba(100,121,143,0.12);border-left:0px;border-top:none;border-radius:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px"><div id="m_3397552213118465820gmail-:2mm"><div style="border-left:none;padding:0px;display:flex"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:864px"><div><div id="m_3397552213118465820gmail-:2mp" style="font-size:0.875rem;direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div id="m_3397552213118465820gmail-:2mo" style="overflow:hidden;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><blockquote type="cite" style=""><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><font face="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.<br><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:<br></span><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.<br></span><span lang="EN-US">Examples:<br></span><span lang="EN-US">●  </span><i><span lang="EN-US">Jill went to the party <b>without</b> Jack.<br></span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="">●  </span><i style=""><span lang="EN-US">Jack entered a room <b>without</b> windows.<br></span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent:21.25pt">●  </span><i style="text-indent:21.25pt"><span lang="EN-US">I saw a beard<b>less</b> man.<br></span></i><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>  </font></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><u><span lang="EN-US">Invited speakers</span></u><span lang="EN-US">:<br></span><span lang="EN-US">Matti Miestamo (University of Helsinki)</span><span lang="EN-US"><br></span><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<br></a></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:caritive.spb@gmail.com" target="_blank"><br></a></span><span lang="EN-US">Organizing Committee:<br></span><span lang="EN-US">Sofia Oskolskaya, ILS RAS, chair<br></span><span lang="EN-US">Elizaveta Zabelina, ILS RAS, secretary<br></span><span lang="EN-US">Maksim Fedotov, ILS RAS<br></span><span lang="EN-US">Sergei Klimenko, ILS RAS<br></span><span lang="EN-US">Ezequiel Koile, HSE & MPI-SHH<br></span><span lang="EN-US">Kirill Kozhanov, ISS RAS<br></span><span lang="EN-US">Natalia Zaika, ILS RAS<br></span><span lang="EN-US">Anastassiya Zhuk, SPbSU<br></span><span lang="EN-US"> <br></span><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></font></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;text-indent:21.25pt;line-height:normal;border:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p></blockquote></div></div><div></div><div></div></div></div><div style="border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px;padding:0px;width:auto;background:rgb(242,242,242);margin:0px"></div></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div style="font-size:0.875rem;padding:0px;width:auto;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-top:none;margin:0px;background:transparent"><div style="border-top:0px;padding:0px"><div style="clear:both;margin:0px;padding:16px 0px;border-top:none"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><div class="gmail_default" style=""></div><br></div></div>