26.5290, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Mexico

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Subject: 26.5290, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Mexico

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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 10:15:48
From: Lilián Guerrero [lilianguerrero at yahoo.com]
Subject: The Co-Expression of Motion and Non-Motion Events

Full Title: The Co-Expression of Motion and Non-Motion Events 

Date: 20-Aug-2016 - 20-Aug-2016
Location: Mexico City, Mexico 
Contact Person: Marine Vuillermet
Meeting Email: marinevui at yahoo.fr
Web Site: http://swl-7.weebly.com/workshops.html 

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2016 

Meeting Description:

The goal of this workshop is to explore not only associated motion systems, but the various strategies attested cross-linguistically to associate motion events to non-motion events. Our original interest was limited to associated motion morphemes; in order to study their discourse use, we designed a stimulus “A hunting story”, a wordless story combining motion and non-motion subevents (Vuillermet and Desnoyers 2013, available on request). This stimulus turned out to be good to capture the general diversity of modes of expression of combinations of (a)motion: it has so far been successfully used on/with a half dozen of languages (mostly Amazonian with no specific associated motion category), and it put forward varied strategies for co-expressing motion and non-motion events, such as SVCs, clause chaining or coordination. 

The workshop will address the question of how languages deal with the linguistic coexpression of a motion and a non-motion event, seeking to cover all strategies: lexical, morphosyntactic, syntactic constructions, including multiclausal strategies (in contrast with the works previously mentioned). The workshop aims at bringing together specialists of typologically diverse languages to discuss the following questions: Do languages use only one strategy, or more than one, for the co-expression of motion & non-motion events? Do languages with similar typological profiles display the same strategies? If a language has more than one strategy, what are the reasons for the use of one over the other? Intra vs interspeaker variation? Pragmatics? Speech style / genre? Syntactic constraints (e.g. co-referential subjects) How grammaticalized / conventionalized is the strategy used? Is it used elsewhere in the grammar / in other situations, i.e. for the co-expression of non-motion events (e.g. 
 serial verbs or clause chaining)?

Call for Papers: 

We invite you to submit abstracts in English or Spanish of up to 300 words (excluding examples and references) related to the topic outlined above for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minute discussion). The abstract should be submitted as an anonymous email attachment to the organizers of the workshop:

Marine Vuillermet (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands): marinevui at yahoo.fr
Carolyn O’Meara (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico): omeara.ck at gmail.com

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