25.4370, Calls: General Linguistics/France

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Subject: 25.4370, Calls: General Linguistics/France

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Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 16:37:49
From: Irina Thomières [irina.thomieres at gmail.com]
Subject: The Grammar of Causation

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Full Title: The Grammar of Causation 
Short Title: La Grammaire de la Cause 

Date: 23-Oct-2015 - 24-Oct-2015
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Irina Thomières
Meeting Email: colloquecause2015 at inmano.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jan-2015 

Meeting Description:

International Conference
Paris, University Paris – La Sorbonne,
Conference organizers : Stéphane Viellard, Irina Thomieres

The conference will bring together scholars in a variety of languages on the subject of causation and the linguistic resources to express it.

The conference will address the following topics:

- The identification of causative verbs
- Simple causative verbs, including verbs of feeling, their arguments, their combinatory possibilities, the opposition 'causative verb - non causative verb'
- The relationship between verbs and their casual adjuncts
- In the case of prepositional phrases, the relationships between preposition and noun (de peur, par jalousie, de miedo, di amore, от счастья, etc.). What role do analogy and diachronic mechanisms play in explaining the way languages function?
- Verbal phrases, including those expressing feelings (trembler de peur, rougir de honte, temblar de miedo, arrossire di vergogna, побелеть от гнева, etc.). What is the explanatory value of the theory of prototypes? What other concepts such as intensity, polarity, etc. can help us describe these linguistic units?
- Similarities and differences between simple verbs and reflexice verbs (attrister – s’attrister, взорвать – взорваться),
- Causative verbs as mental operators and the expression of cause and effect between two events (L’exposition de Picasso suscita l’intérêt du public. Torrential rain caused a major flood. Принятие нового закона привело к массовым забастовкам). Is it possible to establish a typology of verbal operators ?
- The distinction between ‘agentive’ cause and ‘accidental cause’
- In the case of predicative nouns, particular attention will be paid to compound nouns in which one element is the cause of the predicated action: the noise of the engine, the smell of the sea, le bruit du moteur, l’odeur de la mer, l’odore delle rose, аромая чая. Is a typology of these units possible? Why do compound nouns and simple nouns coexist and what are the prerequisites for the appearance, in a given context, of a simple predicate or a compound predicate? Which pragmatic criteria must be met to answer this question?
- The 'zero sign' of causation

The linguistic encoding of causal relationships will be at the heart of the conference and it will lead us to discuss a number of essential questions:

- What does one express? 
- How does one express it and in what respect are languages different? 
- What is the role of subjectivity? 
- Lexical gaps: can one always express causation?

Conference fees : Academics : 120 eur / PhD candidates : 60 eur  (to be confirmed)
Frais d’inscription : chercheurs et enseignants chercheurs 120 euros, doctorants 60 euros (à confirmer).

Call for Papers:

The conference working languages are French, English and Russian.

Deadline for proposal submission: January 1, 2015 (please, send a 400 word abstract together with your name, title and institution).
Confirmation will be sent in by Mars 1, 2015.
Contact : colloquecause2015 at inmano.com 

Date limite pour l’envoi des propositions (nom, prénom, grade scientifique, fonction, résumé de 400 mots) : 1 janvier 2015.
Réponse : 1 mars 2015
Contact : colloquecause2015 at inmano.com

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