27.905, Calls: Indo-European, Historical Ling, Syntax, Typology/Poland

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Subject: 27.905, Calls: Indo-European, Historical Ling, Syntax, Typology/Poland

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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 09:50:18
From: Leonid Kulikov [kulikovli at googlemail.com]
Subject: Non-Canonical Subjects: Their Rise and Development (Evidence from Indo-European and Beyond)

 
Full Title: Non-Canonical Subjects: Their Rise and Development (Evidence from Indo-European and Beyond) 

Date: 15-Sep-2016 - 17-Sep-2016
Location: Poznan, Poland 
Contact Person: Leonid Kulikov
Meeting Email: kulikovli at googlemail.com
Web Site: http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2016/Non_canonical 

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

Language Family(ies): Indo-European 

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2016 

Meeting Description:

The recent two decades are marked with a considerable progress in the study of
transitivity and grammatical relations (subject, object). Valuable results are
achieved both in the study of the notion of prototypical subject and
non-canonical subject marking, and in the research of intermediary types, with
non-canonical encoding of the core relations (non-nominative/oblique subjects
etc.). Meticulous research of subject properties has uncovered an amazing
variety of criteria of subjecthood that can be used as a powerful tool for
detecting (non-canonical) subjects and, ultimately to arrive at a more
adequate definition of subject.  Indo-European languages are particularly
notorious for their diversity of non-canonical subject marking, ranking from
nominative (standard), to dative, genitive, accusative etc., as in Icelandic,
Latin, or Hindi.

By now, the synchronic study of subject and transitivity in Indo-European
languages has furnished detailed descriptions of syntactic patterns,
inventories of features and types and valuable cross-linguistic observations.
We have at our disposal well-elaborated catalogues of predicates with
non-canonically case-marked subject-like arguments in the earliest attested
stages of all branches of the Indo-European language family. Less attention
has been paid to the diachronic aspects of the phenomena in question. Although
considerable progress has been made in the analysis of the history of
constructions with non-canonical subjects in Indo-European and reconstruction
of their sources in Proto-Indo-European, many historical processes and
phenomena that are relevant for this syntactic domain still need to be
elucidated. Many details of the emergence and disappearance of the
non-canonical subject marking are still unclear to us, and there is no
complete inventory of the basic mechanisms of the rise and evolution of this
subject-marking. 

Indo-European languages, with their well-documented history and long tradition
of historical and comparative research, offer a particularly rich opportunity
for a diachronic typological study of the above-listed issues. The aim of this
workshop is to bring together scholars interested in comparative research on
non-canonical subjects in Indo-European and beyond and to open up new horizons
in the study of these phenomena, paying special attention to its diachronic
aspects. While the workshop concentrates mainly on evidence from
Indo-European, papers on non-Indo-European languages which could be relevant
for a diachronic typological study of the issues in question are also welcome.



Call for Papers: 

The aim of this workshop is to bring together scholars interested in
comparative research on non-canonical subjects in Indo-European and beyond and
to open up new horizons in the study of these phenomena, paying special
attention to its diachronic aspects. While the workshop concentrates mainly on
evidence from Indo-European, papers on non-Indo-European languages which could
be relevant for a diachronic typological study of the issues in question are
also welcome.

The issues to be addressed include, among others: 

- subject criteria and subject properties 
- syntactic functions of the subject-like obliques in both ancient and modern
Indo-European languages
- mechanisms of the rise or disappearance of non-canonical subject-marking
- semantic classes of predicates with non-canonically case-marked subject-like
arguments
- relations between subject marking and transitivity types: evolution of
subject-marking with different semantic classes of verbs 
- the main evolutionary types (from the point of view of case-marking of
subjects) attested for Indo-European
- subject and changes in the type of alignment: the emergence of ergativity
out of constructions with non-canonical subjects
- methodological issues of the reconstruction of case-marking of subjects and
core arguments in general.

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 25 April 2016




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