26.2598, Calls: Austro-Asiatic; Dravidian; Indo-Aryan; Tibeto-Burman; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax/ Linguistic Analysis (Jrnl)

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Subject: 26.2598, Calls: Austro-Asiatic; Dravidian; Indo-Aryan; Tibeto-Burman; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax/ Linguistic Analysis (Jrnl)

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Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 11:36:50
From: Emily Manetta [emily.manetta at uvm.edu]
Subject: Austro-Asiatic; Dravidian; Indo-Aryan; Tibeto-Burman; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax/ Linguistic Analysis (Jrnl)

Full Title: Linguistic Analysis 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Semantics; Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Austro-Asiatic; Dravidian; Indo-Aryan; Tibeto-Burman 

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2015 

Special Issue of the journal Linguistic Analysis: Formal syntax, semantics,
and morphology of South Asian languages

Guest editors: Ayesha Kidwai (Jawaharlal Nehru University) and Emily Manetta
(University of Vermont) 

The journal Linguistic Analysis invites contributions for a special issue
focusing on the latest research in the formal syntax, semantics, and
morphology of South Asian languages. The goal of the special issue is to
collect and disseminate cutting edge research that brings data from South
Asian languages to bear on questions broadly relevant to linguistic theory. 

Languages of South Asia, including those in the Indo-Aryan, Dravidian,
Austroasiatic and Tibeto-Burman families, have a deep history of significant
contributions to the study of language as a whole. Indeed, Panini's grammar of
Sanskrit (ca 500BC) was remarkably influential in the development of the
formal approaches to language structure in modern linguistics. South Asian
languages feature a range of important empirical phenomena that are widely
relevant to syntactic and semantic theory such as ergativity (e.g.
Pandharipande and Kachru 1977; Comrie 1984; Saksena 1985; Hook 1985; Mahajan
1990), verb finality and complex predication structures (e.g. Hook 1974;
Bashir 1989; Mohanan 1994; Butt 1995), non-nominative subjects (e.g.
Jayaseelan 1999, 2004; Amritavalli and Jayaseelan 2003; Amritavalli 2004;
Davison 2004a, b), and scrambling (e.g. Gambhir 1981; Mahajan 1990; Dayal
1994; Kidwai 2000). More recently, linguists working on languages of South
Asia have made contributions to the analysis of wh-movement and the spectrum
of wh-in-situ constructions (Dayal 1996, 2000; Fanselow and Mahajan 2000;
Simpson and Bhattacharya 2003), causation and valency (Beavers and Zubair
2013), mechanisms driving case assignment and agreement processes (Butt and
King 2004; Bhatt 2005; Subbarao 2012), and finiteness (see contributions to
Sundaresan, Ramchand, and McFadden 2014). Scholars in the field anticipate
that investigations into the many lesser-studied languages of the region have
the opportunity to be influential in formal linguistic theory. 

For this special issue, we welcome original full-length article submissions
couched in any current framework and/or engaged with the interfaces of various
components of the grammar, as well as analyses featuring comparative work with
non-South Asian languages. Submitted articles will undergo rigorous peer
review. 

Submission Guidelines: 

Abstracts no longer than 2 pages, including examples and references, should be
submitted for consideration by June 1, 2015 as PDF attachment to
emily.manetta at uvm.edu. Authors of abstracts chosen for inclusion will be
notified by July 15, 2015. Complete papers ready for review are due to the
editors on November 1, 2015. Decisions and peer reviews will be sent to
authors no later than January 31, 2016 with expected publication by summer
2016. 

Important Dates: 

Abstract due: June 1, 2015 
Full paper due: November 1, 2015 
Decisions/Reviews to author: January 31, 2016

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