26.688, Confs: Lang Documentation, Semantics, Syntax/Singapore

Mon Feb 2 20:38:40 UTC 2015

LINGUIST List: Vol-26-688. Mon Feb 02 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.688, Confs: Lang Documentation, Semantics, Syntax/Singapore

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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 15:38:23
From: Joanna Sio [ussio at ntu.edu.sg]
Subject: Affectedness Workshop 2015

Affectedness Workshop 2015 
Short Title: AW2015 

Date: 13-Aug-2015 - 14-Aug-2015 
Location: Singapore, Singapore 
Contact: Joanna Sio 
Contact Email: ussio at ntu.edu.sg 
Meeting URL: http://affectednessworkshop2015.yolasite.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

“Affectedness” is concerned with the way and the degree in which an object changes as a result of the action described by the verb. Sensitivity to affectedness is detected in many typologically distinct languages (e.g. Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, Japanese, Papuan, and Indo-European, etc.) and manifested in different ways including but not limited to lexical differentiation, case marking, verbal inflection, voice system as well as various grammatical constructions. 

Affectedness Workshop 2015 invites abstracts on the following themes: (i) The manifestation of affectedness in natural languages (ii) The nature of the scale in the measurement of affectedness (a universal scale? Multiple scales?) (iii) Classification of verbs with respect to affectedness effects, rigidity of such classification and the possibility of shifting between classes (e.g., by morpho-syntactic marking).

Affectedness Workshop 2015 is part of the program of the 22nd International Conference on HPSG. The HPSG conference is the major conference for research on unification-based grammars, and brings in a wide range of linguistics working on not just syntax, but also semantics, pragmatics and typology.   This collaboration aims to bring a wider audience to the issue of affectedness and gain insight of the phenomenon across various sub-fields. 

For more information, please check: 
http://affectednessworkshop2015.yolasite.com/ 

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