21.4110, Calls: Morphology, Syntax/Spain

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Date: 15-Oct-2010
From: Mirjam Fried [fried at ujc.cas.cz]
Subject: Ethical Datives and Related Constructions
 

	
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Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:20:44
From: Mirjam Fried [fried at ujc.cas.cz]
Subject: Ethical Datives and Related Constructions

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Full Title: Ethical Datives and Related Constructions 

Date: 08-Sep-2011 - 11-Sep-2011
Location: Logroño, Spain 
Contact Person: Mirjam Fried
Meeting Email: fried at ujc.cas.cz
Web Site: http://www.societaslinguistica.eu 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 05-Nov-2010 

Meeting Description:

Workshop 'Ethical Datives and Related Constructions'
Within the 44th Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE)
Logroño, Spain, 8-11 September 2010

Convenors:
Mirjam Fried, Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague) 
Francesca Masini, Roma Tre University/University of Bologna 

Call For Papers

Potential participants should send us a provisional title and a short
abstract (max. 200 words) no later than November 5, 2010, so that we can 
submit the workshop proposal (including a preliminary list of participants) to 
the SLE Scientific Committee by November 15, 2010. 

If the workshop is accepted, all abstracts will have to be submitted to the 
SLE by January 15, 2011 via the conference site (http://sle2011.cilap.es/).

The label Ethical Dative appears frequently in the literature on dative 
marking and on argument structure, as well as in traditional grammars of 
various European languages. It refers to a dative-marked personal pronoun 
that is not required by the valence of the verb and tends to be interpreted, 
broadly, as an expression of the referent's interest in the described event. 
Current understanding of the topic is rather sketchy and impressionistic, 
and Ethical Dative is far from being a well-defined grammatical category. A 
comprehensive cross-linguistic overview of the phenomenon is still missing 
and its contours, including its relationship to other dative constructions, are 
still to be traced. The goal of this workshop is to start filling this gap by 
bringing together scholars whose research concentrates on the issues 
surrounding certain pronominal datives in various languages and whose 
contributions can advance our understanding of this topic. 

The workshop contributions are expected to shed light on Ethical Datives by 
providing more accurate and informative linguistic descriptions of relevant 
empirical material, thereby also leading toward a well-grounded 
characterization of Ethical Datives as a distinct linguistic category. 
Therefore, we welcome contributions that aim at getting:

a) a clearer idea about the spread of Ethical Datives and related 
constructions in the languages of the world;
b) a better understanding of their 'form', such as the role of the case (e.g., 
why dative?), the clitic status of the form, the interaction with voice 
(reflexives, middles, etc.);
c) a better understanding of the 'meaning' or 'function' pole of these 
constructions, e.g. the semantic roles involved (benefactive, malefactive, 
affectee, etc.), the interaction with argument structure and verb classes;
pragmatic function(s) in discourse, possible textual restrictions;
d) a better definition of the domain that properly delimits Ethical Datives with 
respect to related constructions, such as External Possessors, Middles, 
Ditransitives, Applicatives, Miratives;
e) suitable theoretical proposals that would account for the attested 
patterns.





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