26.772, Calls: General Linguistics, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 26.772, Calls: General Linguistics, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 20:07:07
From: Lidia Federica Mazzitelli [lidia.mazzitelli at uni-bremen.de]
Subject: Linguistic Workshop: Possession as a Linguistic Category

 
Full Title: Linguistic Workshop: Possession as a Linguistic Category 

Date: 13-Jul-2015 - 13-Jul-2015
Location: Bremen, Germany 
Contact Person: Lidia Federica Mazzitelli
Meeting Email: lidia.mazzitelli at uni-bremen.de

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

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2015 

Meeting Description:

The workshop aims at making a point on the current state of research on the linguistic expression of possession, taking into account both nominal and predicative constructions. The languages of the workshop are English and German.

Keynote speaker: Bernd Heine (Düsseldorf).

Call for Papers:

We welcome papers  - in form of oral presentation or poster - addressing the following points:

- Theoretical approaches to possession
- Cross-linguistic analysis of possessive constructions
- Types of possessive constructions in (a) specific language(s)
- Competing possessive constructions and their semantic motivation
- Grammaticalization paths: to and from possession

Abstracts (no longer than 250 words, in German or English) should be sent to lidia.mazzitelli at uni-bremen.de by April 30, 2015.







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