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because I have classes in those days), but I wanted to make sure you saw this. Would it be worth submitting something?</span></div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Sonja Riesberg <sonja.riesberg@uni-koeln.de><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 22 December 2023 16:23<br>
<b>To:</b> lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Lingtyp] Workshop on larger discourse units in (spoken) language, Paris, March 21-22, 2024</font>
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<div><font face="Arial"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Call for Papers: Workshop on larger discourse units in (spoken) language, Paris, March 21-22, 2024</span></b><br>
<b style=""><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><br>
</font><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height:107%">The choice of grammatical forms and constructions used for event descriptions, such as voice, differential case marking, or the realization of argument expressions, can be influenced by many
different factors. One such factor is the internal organization of a text into what we call here “(larger) discourse units”.
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height:107%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height:107%">In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a number of works on the internal structure of discourse have been published (cf. Chafe 1980, Longacre 1979, van Dijk 1981</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height:107%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height:107%">)
that investigate the syntax and semantics of so-called “paragraphs” or “episodes” in spoken and written language, i.e. units characterized as “coherent sequences of sentences of a discourse, linguistically marked for beginning and/or end, and further defined
in terms of some kind of 'thematic unity' – for instance, in terms of identical participants, time, location or global event or action” (van Dijk 1981: 177). While in written language, discourse units are usually signalled graphically, in oral or signed speech
such units are much less easily recognizable.</span><br>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height:107%">The workshop is based on a collaboration between the projects “Morphosyntax in Discourse” of the LABEX
<i style="">Empirical Foundations in Language </i>in Paris (<a href="https://en.labex-efl.fr/" originalsrc="https://en.labex-efl.fr/" shash="RP/p2jRkA5/8gzKhsMSKCdESwTMYvByosfYuYob611bS4ODANwCVATU2wxlW3kyxcTPaDdCeAtBQX5cXO5hHOfb8QSd0IJOoTBX1qc5oYvmt2w7RhNegFxx2FZo3lqEPc21022Vhk+HwBEMbdCccJe3L7JL3RHl1l0atmDX/soY=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk752088" class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext">https://en.labex-efl.fr/</a>)
and “<span style="">Prominence-related structures in symmetrical voice systems and Papuan languages” of the Collaborative Research Centre
<i style="">Prominence in Language</i> in Cologne (</span><a href="https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/" originalsrc="https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/" shash="RuQvVi1ua/V+vFuYIKzmRhoBadouhXIeOxLOa9ubj+PUuFlZna2/5bU/HVZh9ypsIHlkXTdd1xj+PUTBw+M9DaDpzS9oBsK8A/Go0f4greYIFHPzXhY95IPXDKJQwkJsaJ34Ff7NUQJRaHPWnlHXssMO81b6mjogTwgMADSdNU0=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk959772"><span style="">https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/</span></a><span style="">).
</span>We hope to discover operationalizable methods for identifying larger discourse units with the help of semantic, lexical, grammatical and/or prosodic cues both in well-studied and in more recently documented languages. We are particularly interested in
cues that so far have not been considered as being discourse boundary related such as differential case marking, specific voice constructions, etc. The workshop is meant as an opportunity for researchers from different theoretical backgrounds and with an expertise
on typologically distinct languages to make further progress in the analysis of discourse data.
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height:107%">We invite abstracts (max. 500 words plus abbreviation and reference list) on topics including but not restricted to the following:</span></font><font face="Arial"><br>
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<li><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">cues for unit boundaries</span></font></li><li><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">cues for cohesion within a unit</span></font></li><li><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">discourse units in different text genres
</span></font></li><li><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">units in monologic vs. dialogic discourse</span></font></li><li><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">discourse structuring in spoken vs. written language
</span></font></li><li><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">the role of reported speech for discourse structure</span></font></li><li><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">…</span></font></li></ul>
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<div><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height:107%">For more information, see attachment.</span></font><br>
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</font><font face="Arial"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Keynote speakers: </span>
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</font><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">Jakob Egetenmeyer (Universität zu Köln)</span></font><font face="Arial"><br>
</font><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">Tatiana Nikitina (CNRS, Paris)</span><br>
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</font><font face="Arial"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Dates: <span style=""> </span>
</span></b></font><font face="Arial"><br>
</font><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">End of submissions: <span style="">
</span>January 20<sup>th</sup>, 2024</span></font><font face="Arial"><br>
</font><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">Notification of acceptance: <span style="">
</span>February 2<sup>nd</sup>, 2024</span></font><font face="Arial"><br>
</font><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">Workshop dates: <span style="">
</span>March 21<sup>st</sup>-22<sup>nd</sup>, 2024</span><br>
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</font><font face="Arial"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Scientific Committee: </span>
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</font><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">Isabelle Bril</span></font><font face="Arial"><br>
</font><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">Katharina Haude</span></font><font face="Arial"><br>
</font><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">Nikolaus P. Himmelmann</span></font><font face="Arial"><br>
</font><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">Sonja Riesberg</span></font><font face="Arial"><br>
</font><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB">Fahime Same</span><br>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height:107%">Best wishes</span></font><font face="Arial"><br>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height:107%">Sonja</span></font><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height:107%; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont""></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont""><br>
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