28.1681, Calls: Germanic, Semitic, Cog Sci, Gen Ling, Neuroling, Psycholing, Typology/Germany

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Subject: 28.1681, Calls: Germanic, Semitic, Cog Sci, Gen Ling, Neuroling, Psycholing, Typology/Germany

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Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 21:56:48
From: Eva Smolka [eva.smolka at uni-konstanz.de]
Subject: ''What is a Verb?'' - the Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Indo-Germanic and Semitic Languages

 
Full Title: "What is a Verb?" - the Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Indo-Germanic and Semitic Languages 
Short Title: CoGS 

Date: 26-Jul-2017 - 28-Jul-2017
Location: Konstanz, Germany 
Contact Person: Eva Smolka
Meeting Email: conference-verbs at uni-konstanz.de
Web Site: https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/smolka/konferenzen/the-cross-linguistic-comparison-of-indo-germanic-and-semitic-languages-cogs/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Typology 

Language Family(ies): Germanic; Semitic 

Call Deadline: 18-Apr-2017 

Meeting Description:

Verbs are the basic building blocks of a sentence, setting the structure of
arguments and putting the more static building blocks (the nouns) into
relation one with the other. The question we ask in this endeavor is whether
and how the meaning of (complex) verbs is processed and represented in lexical
memory, and how this may differ across languages. In contrast to previous
cross-linguistic comparisons, we are interested in contrasting languages like
German, Dutch, and English on the one hand and Hebrew and Arabic on the other
hand, belonging to two completely different language families - Germanic and
Semitic, respectively. We ask how the different typological features of these
languages affect the processing of verbs - in healthy adults, in children who
are in the process of learning the language, and in patients who have
experienced language loss.

Keynote speaker: Emmanuel Keuleers (Tillburg University)


Call for Papers:

We invite 500-word abstracts for talks in .doc or .pdf format.

Please send your abstract to conference-verbs at uni-konstanz.de and quote
''abstract'' in the subject line.

Abstract notifications will be sent by the end of April 2017.




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