<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div id="m_3177777732114990485gmail-:us" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:85px" aria-controls=":1jo" aria-expanded="false"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear all, </font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I'd like to bring to your attention this workshop, organized by Valentina Alfarano and myself, on valency-changing operations in Oceanic and Papuan languages (</font><a href="https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/44/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/44/</a><font face="arial, sans-serif">.) </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">The workshop will take place on July 9th, 2025 at the University of Oslo in </span><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">hybrid</b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> format, that is, both in-person and online attendance is possible (depending on the participants' wishes and number). </span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Important dates: </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Deadline for abstract submission: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><u>5 March 2025</u></b></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Notification of acceptance: <b><u>20 March 2025.</u></b></span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Workshop:<b><u> 9 July 2025, Oslo/online</u></b></font></span></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">Contact and abstract submission: </font><a href="mailto:valentina.alfarano@iln.uio.no" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(33,118,245);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none">valentina.alfarano@iln.uio.no</a> and<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"> </span><a href="mailto:lidiafederica.mazzitelli@unior.it" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(33,118,245);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none">lidiafederica.mazzitelli@unior.it</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><u><br></u></b></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Below the Call for Papers. </font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">All the best,</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Lidia</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">========================================================</font></span></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">This workshop aims to bring together scholars studying argument structure and valency-changing operations in Oceanic and Papuan languages of the Pacific region. Languages worldwide employ various strategies to modify their diathetical structures, either altering the argument structure of a predicate or leaving it unchanged (Zúñiga & Kittilä 2019). Mechanisms that modify the argument structure involve the addition or removal of an argument (e.g. causativization), while those that preserve the argument structure typically involve the promotion, demotion, or rearrangement of arguments (e.g. passivization). Our workshop focuses on all types of operations targeting both agents and patients, including causativization, applicativization, anticausativization, antipassivization, and passivization.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">We invite any submissions that explore the descriptive, typological, or diachronic aspects of these operations in Oceanic and Papuan languages, with a particular emphasis on their features in lesser-known and under-documented languages.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">Abstracts should not exceed one A4 page, excluding references, tables, and examples. Please send your submissions</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"> to <a href="mailto:valentina.alfarano@iln.uio.no" style="color:rgb(33,118,245);box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">valentina.alfarano@iln.uio.no</a> and <a href="mailto:lidiafederica.mazzitelli@unior.it" style="color:rgb(33,118,245);box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">lidiafederica.mazzitelli@unior.it</a>.</p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"></span><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Submission deadline: 5 March 2025<br style="box-sizing:border-box">Notification of acceptance: 20 March 20ss25</p></div></div></div>
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