25.4567, Calls: General Ling, Lang Documentation, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/Netherlands

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Subject: 25.4567, Calls: General Ling, Lang Documentation, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/Netherlands

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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:21:51
From: Felix Ameka [f.k.ameka at hum.leidenuniv.nl]
Subject: The Diversity of Multiverb Constructions In and Across Languages

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Full Title: The Diversity of Multiverb Constructions In and Across Languages 

Date: 02-Sep-2015 - 05-Sep-2015
Location: Leiden, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Felix Ameka
Meeting Email: f.k.ameka at hum.leidenuniv.nl

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 23-Nov-2014 

Meeting Description:

Title: The diversity of multiverb constructions in and across languages

Complex predicates continue to be a challenge to formal models of grammar as well as to functionally typologically oriented frameworks, despite numerous studies over the years. In the case of formal models, the challenge is how to account for two or more elements functioning together as a predicate in a mono-clausal construction. For typologically oriented models, the variation and diversity of forms that behave this way do not lend themselves to a crosslinguistically valid characterisation. Studies of these forms over the years have shown that there are areal types of such constructions, e.g. Papuan (Pawley 2008, Senft 2008); Oceanic (Crowley 2002, Brill & Ozanne-Rivierre 2004); Australian (McGregor 2002, Schultze-Berndt 2000); South Asian (Butt 1995, 2010) Southeast Asian (Bisang 2009); North East African (Amha and Dimmendaal 2006); West African (Ameka 2005), Americas (Aikhenvald and Muysken & Birchall 2010) etc.  But it is hard to identify features that will apply across these languages to identify the construction type. 

One thing that continues to exacerbate these definitional and analytical problems is that we do not as yet have descriptions of the full range of verbal constructions in individual languages, the linguistic landscape within which these joint predication monoclausal constructions function. The focus has been on particular instantiations of the structure.

Call for Papers:

In this workshop we would like to address, among other things, the following questions:

- What is the full range of joint predication constructions in individual languages as well as within areas?

- For the light verb construction type, Butt (e.g. 2010) has observed that there are five to about twenty common verbs that occur in the construction crosslinguistically.  What are the most frequent verbs that combine in such constructions in individual languages and what are the semantic effects?

- What are the meanings of the constructions in the individual languages and what functions are the constructions used to serve?

We believe this will provide the basis for a more informed discussion about the crosslinguistic parameters of such structures. We also hope that the workshop will provide a forum for the beginning of their comparison across languages and areas.

We invite contributions that focus on the diversity of these constructions either within one language or across a number of languages. The contributions should be empirically rich and presented in ways accessible across frameworks and traditions.

Please send preliminary abstracts of no more than 300 words in .doc and/or .pdf formats by November 23, 2014 to f.k.ameka at hum.leidenuniv.nl.

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