27.822, Calls: General Ling, Historical Ling, Ling Theories, Syntax, Typology/Poland

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Subject: 27.822, Calls: General Ling, Historical Ling, Ling Theories, Syntax, Typology/Poland

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Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 10:14:23
From: Katarzyna Janic [katarzyna.janic at univ-lyon2.fr]
Subject: Correlations of valency-changing operations within and across languages

 
Full Title: Correlations of valency-changing operations within and across languages 

Date: 15-Sep-2016 - 17-Sep-2016
Location: Poznan, Poland 
Contact Person: Katarzyna Janic
Meeting Email: katarzyna.janic at univ-lyon2.fr
Web Site: http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2016/Home 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2016 

Meeting Description:

Many languages use verbal derivational morphology to mark valency-changing
mechanisms such as causative, applicative, reflexive, anticausative,
antipassive, and other (Dixon & Aikhenvald 2000; Haspelmath & Müller-Bardey
2004; Wunderlich 2015). The aim of this workshop is to explore the status and
functioning of such morphology within language systems to find correlations
among valency-changing mechanisms within individual languages and
cross-linguistically, and to investigate their interaction with grammatical
categories and/or with lexical-semantic features of verbs (Malchukov & Comrie
2015). We welcome papers focusing on detailed analysis in individual languages
as well as contributions that discuss cross-linguistic generalizations. The
perspective of the workshop is integrative, as we believe that an approach
that integrates syntactic and semantic aspects and the way they correlate in
discourse context will lead to a better understanding of how valency-changing
mechanisms function in languages.

The following scholars indicated their interest in contributing to the
workshop:

Seppo Kittilä, Helsinki University
Leonid Kulikov, Ghent University
Alexander Letuchiy Vinogradov, Russian Language Institute in Moscow
Natalia Levshina, Leipzig University
Jurgis Pakerys, Vilnius University
Alena Witzlack, Kiel University
Fernando Zúñiga, Bern University

Contacts:

Katarzyna Janic: Katarzyna.Janic at univ-lyon2.fr
Nicole Nau: naunicol at amu.edu.pl


Call for Papers:

The workshop aims to bring together functional, historical, cognitive and
theoretical linguists, typologists and other specialists working on
morphosyntactic variation and lexical semantics. Possible topics will include,
but are not limited to, the following: 

- Correlations between semantic verb classes and valency-changing mechanisms
(e.g. digestive verbs and causative, or antagonistic verbs and the
antipassive)
- Functional restrictions on valency-changing operations
- Correlations between valency-changing operations and grammatical categories
- Possible combinations of derivational processes (e.g. causative and
applicative)
- Polysemy and the functional range of individual markers, or groups of
markers
- Diachronic sources of valency-changing morphology
- The status of valency-changing mechanisms within a language and as a
possible parameter for language typology (cf. Nichols et al. 2004; Haspelmath
et al. 2014)
- The use of valency-changing devices in discourse

Abstracts should be submitted via EasyChair system. Please check the PLM
homepage for further details:
http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2016/PLM2016_Abstract_submission 

Important Dates:

A deadline for abstract submission to our session is 31 March 2016
Notification of acceptance for papers is due 24 April 2016




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