28.5089, Calls: Gen Ling, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/France

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Subject: 28.5089, Calls: Gen Ling, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/France

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Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 15:45:45
From: András Bárány [andras.barany at soas.ac.uk]
Subject: The Syntax of Differential Internal Possessors

 
Full Title: The Syntax of Differential Internal Possessors 

Date: 03-Sep-2018 - 05-Sep-2018
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: András Bárány
Meeting Email: andras.barany at soas.ac.uk
Web Site: https://swl8.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/1 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Morphology; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

(See http://andras.barany.at/files/the-syntax-of-internal-possessors.pdf for
full proposal.)

Many languages have more than one possessive construction in which the
possessor is internal to the same syntactic phrase as the possessum. This
phenomenon is sometimes referred to as Differential Possessor Marking or
Differential Possessor Expression, by analogy with Differential Argument
Marking. Although recent years have seen a growing interest in the study of
Differential Argument Marking, Differential Possessor Marking is by far less
systematically investigated.

Especially little is currently known about the syntactic effects differential
internal possessors may have. This perspective will add a new dimension to the
traditional typological studies of internal possessive constructions, which
have mostly concentrated on the morphosyntactic encoding of their components
or the (relational) semantics underlying their distribution.

The aim of the workshop is to bring some important issues regarding the
cross-linguistic variation in the syntax of internal possessive constructions
to the attention of the typological community. Without claiming to encompass
the whole range of Differential Possessor Marking phenomena, the workshop will
focus on two partially interrelated questions that appear to be typologically
understudied.

The first one relates to behavioural syntactic properties of differential
internal possessors. For example, in Turkish (Turkic) the possessor normally
bears the genitive case and the possessed noun may host possessive agreement,
although it is not obligatory. Constructions without agreement require
discourse contexts which establish the possessor as a clearly identifiable
referent, so that it cannot be indefinite or quantified. This indicates a
split in the syntactic behaviour of possessors within the possessive phrase.
Even more striking are cases where an internal possessor exhibits syntactic
effects outside of its own phrase and participates in syntactic processes
which typically target a phrasal head, such as predicate-argument agreement
(e.g. in Maithili, Ngumpin-Yapa, Chimane) or switch-reference (Turkic, Aleut,
Tundra Nenets, California Uto-Aztecan).

Second, the workshop will focus on functional factors determining differential
expression of internal possessors in their relationship to syntax. The
alternative possessive constructions are usually specialized on the expression
of possessive relations of a different semantic nature, as is observed in
languages with possessive classifiers or an alienability opposition, or they
reflect a split in the lexicon and the inherent semantic properties of the
possessor (e.g. lexical vs. pronominal possessors).


Call for Papers:

This workshop aims to to bring some important issues regarding the
cross-linguistic variation in the syntax of internal possessive constructions
to the attention of the 
typological community. We are looking forward to submissions covering the
following topics:

- Syntactic behaviour of differential possessors within the possessive phrase
- Grammatical interaction between internal possessors and a larger syntactic
domain
- Discourse factors that affect the choice between alternative internal
possessive constructions within one language to what extent the factors that
determine differential coding of internal possessors are analogous to DAM?
- Recurrent cross-linguistic patterns and parameters of variation in
discourse-conditioned differential internal possessors
- Correlations between functional properties and syntactic prominence of
internal possessors

Anonymous abstracts for the general session and posters should be no longer
than one page A4 (normal margins of 2,5 cm on each side, single spaced lines,
Times New Roman, Doulos SIL or DejaVu font, 12 pt font size), with the
possibility of using an additional page for examples, and should be written in
English, with fully glossed examples conforming to the Leipzig Glossing
Conventions. Please romanise all Asian texts, and do not use Asian character
fonts unless absolutely required. Participants may not be involved in more
than two abstracts for the general session, of which at most one may be
single-authored.

All abstracts should be submitted as an MS Word or Open Office Writer file via
the conference website. The file name of your abstract should be the first two
words of the title of your abstract separated by a hyphen.

When submitting your abstract, you will have a choice between three
categories: “oral”, “poster” and “oral or poster”. The latter category means
that you prefer an oral presentation but can also do a poster. If there are
more good abstracts than we can accommodate, some will be scheduled as
posters. If you choose either category “poster” or “oral or poster” you will
increase your chances of acceptance. Poster sessions will be preceded by a
plenary five minute oral presentation of each poster. If you choose “oral”,
you will also need to indicate whether your submission is for the “general
session” or one of the workshops. In the latter case, please select the name
of the workshop from the list. Time for oral presentations will be 30 minutes,
including 10 minutes for discussion.

All authors interested in the workshop should submit their abstracts following
the instructions for abstract submission indicating the relevant workshop. All
the abstracts submitted to the workshop will be reviewed individually by the
Programme Committee and the workshop conveners.




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