28.5312, Calls: Historical Ling, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/Italy

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Subject: 28.5312, Calls: Historical Ling, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/Italy

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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:27:28
From: Silvia Luraghi [luraghi at unipv.it]
Subject: The Shaping of Transitivity and Argument Structure: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

 
Full Title: The Shaping of Transitivity and Argument Structure: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives 

Date: 25-Oct-2018 - 27-Oct-2018
Location: Pavia PV, Italy 
Contact Person: Silvia Luraghi
Meeting Email: luraghi at unipv.it
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/universitadipavia.it/tasf/stas2018-conference-the-shaping-of-transitivity-and-argument-structure?authuser=0 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2018 

Meeting Description:

The conference aims to investigate the shaping of transitivity, argument
structure and alignment patterns over time, with particular regard to the
evolution of voice systems, (in)transitive alternations, and non-finite
syntax. The general goal is to bring together insights from language change,
language reconstruction, and language typology in light of current theories of
argument realization and the encoding of the argument structure of verbs and
clauses. Contributions on general theoretical issues, methodological issues,
data collection, and the development of language resources are equally
welcome.


Call for Papers:

The conference aims to investigate the shaping of transitivity, argument
structure and alignment patterns over time, with particular regard to the
evolution of voice systems, (in)transitive alternations, and non-finite
syntax. The general goal is to bring together insights from language change,
language reconstruction, and language typology in light of current theories of
argument realization and the encoding of the argument structure of verbs and
clauses. Contributions on general the
oretical issues, methodological issues, data collection, and the development
of language resources are equally welcome.

We invite abstracts dealing with the following or other related issues:

- Theoretical issues and approaches to the study of transitivity-related
phenomena over time
- Methodological issues on data collection and analysis of
transitivity-related phenomena over time
- Diachronic changes within voice systems and voice-related categories,
(in)transitive alternations, and non-finite syntax in individual languages or
across languages
- Cross-linguistic analysis of alignment system evolution
- Diachronic corpus-based investigations of argument structure patterns in
individual languages  
- The frequency, productivity, reanalysis, and distribution of rival argument
structure patterns over time
- Competing motivations behind the distribution of rival synchronic argument
structure patterns
- The developments of verbs' argument structure patterns across different
languages 
- Basic valency orientation, its changes over time in individual languages,
the limits and perspectives of its reconstruction in proto-languages
- Sources, reanalysis, and patterns of polysemy of valency changing markers
- The role of language contact in the development of transitivity related
phenomena
- Issues in the creation and development of electronic resources (digitalized
texts, databases, treebanks, tools etc.) for the study of transitivity related
phenomena

Abstract should be submitted at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stas2018 . 

Important Dates:

March 31, 2018: Deadline for abstract submission
Abstracts of no more than one page (plus possibly one additional page for
examples), should be submitted via Easychair by March 31, 2018. Submissions
should be anonymous and refrain from self-reference. 
April 30, 2018: notification of acceptance
October 25-27, 2018: conference




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