25.4474, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Italy

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Subject: 25.4474, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Italy

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Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 16:14:39
From: Dagmar Haumann [dagmar.haumann at uia.no]
Subject: The Diachrony of Valence: Changes in Argument

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Full Title: The Diachrony of Valence: Changes in Argument 

Date: 31-Jul-2015 - 31-Jul-2015
Location: Naples, Italy 
Contact Person: Dagmar Haumann
Meeting Email: dagmar.haumann at uia.no
Web Site: http://www.ichl22.unina.it/materiali/workshop/WS-The-Diachrony-of-Valence.pdf 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Jan-2015 

Meeting Description:

This workshop aims at exploring argument structure from a diachronic (and
comparative) perspective focusing on the extent and limitation of variation in
the lexical representation and/or the (morpho)syntactic realization of a
lexical item's arguments. Two types of processes are of prime interest: those
that affect a lexical item's argument structure (transitivization and
detransitivization) and those that affect the mapping of a lexical item's
arguments onto syntax.


Call for Papers:

Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes discussion). They should be no longer than two pages, including examples and references (1 inch margin all around, font 12 pt, notes and references 10 pt). Please send your Word, Open Office or Word Perfect file to: infoichl22 at unina.it. 

Deadline for submission: 30 January 2015.

The major questions that this workshop seeks to address are:

- Which factors, diachronically, have impacted the argument structure of lexical items and induced what types of changes
- What strategies, if any, are employed to formally mark changes in a lexical item's argument structure and/or the mapping of a lexical item's arguments? 
- Which strategies, if any, compensate for the absence of overt morphosyntactic and morphonological cues/marking?
- To what extent are cross-linguistic generalizations possible? 

On a larger scale, we are interested in the following:

- Are there processes that are more (a)typical than others?  
- Are there preferred argument structures? Is there preferred mapping?
- Argument structure changes in categories other than V and N
- Why is it that certain types of changes yield (non)uniform results (e.g. reflexivization results in both augmentation and reduction processes)
- Are certain types of adjuncts more prone to reanalysis than others?
- Do labile verbs have labile argument structures?
- Which types of change affect individual lexical items and which affect classes of lexical items and constructions?
- What is the exact interplay of argument structure and event structure (aspect)?

Additional questions are:

- Since massive syntactic (multiple) fusion of (directional) prepositions (an/unter/über), on the one hand, and aspectual 'ge-' and simple verbs took place (zer-/über-/unterREDEN) the question rises to which systematic extent this influenced the valence of the new fused verbs. 
- What is behind the generality of directional preposition+verb fusion, but not stative preposition+verb?
- Is it possible to explain case in terms of features and clear form-function relations in the vein of Jakobson 1957[1971]?
- Is there any systematics behind case selection of verba deponentia? 
- Speaking in terms of paradigms, how do languages encode causatives as opposed to decausatives, transitives as opposed to detransitives?
- Given the common insight that under L-contact (i.e. with pidginization and creolization) grammar is transferred to the recipient L a lot less than semantic-lexical information, what role does semantic valence play in the emerging language? 
- Bare datives and the pertinent prepositional constituents (as in English): simply linear alignment or semantic difference? 

The full description of the workshop: http://www.ichl22.unina.it/materiali/workshop/WS-The-Diachrony-of-Valence.pdf







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