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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:17:28
From: Sebastian Dom [sebastian.dom at ugent.be]
Subject: General Linguistics / Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Narrow Bantu 

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2017 

Call for Papers:

Guest editors: Sebastian Dom, Leonid Kulikov & Koen Bostoen (Ghent University)

As a follow-up to the workshop ''Verbal derivation and verb extensions in
Bantu'', held at the 6th International Conference on Bantu Languages, we plan
on a special issue of the Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language
Studies Journal dedicated to the topic 'Valency-decreasing derivations and
(quasi-)middles in Bantu'.

This volume focuses on a variety of topics related to those Bantu verb
suffixes, also called extensions, which encode, above all, valency-decreasing
derivations and have been characterized in Dom et al. (Forthcoming) as
'quasi-middles' (this is a working term referring to verbal markers used to
encode more than one functions of the middle domain, which do not however
encompass the major part of the middle domain). These include the reflexes of
Proto-Bantu neuter *-ɪk-, positional *-am-, extensive *-al-, tentive
(contactive) *-at-, separative *-ʊk-, passive *-ʊ-/*-ibʊ and associative
*-an-. For the latter two extensions, we especially welcome articles which
deal with lesser-known and/or more peripheral functions such as the
'antipassive' association with the reflex of Proto-Bantu *-an- in several
Bantu languages (Bostoen et al. 2015). Studies considering other
valency-decreasing morphology are equally on-topic.

We invite contributions dealing with the following issues and questions (among
others):
- in-depth case studies of one or several of the above-listed extensions in
individual languages, providing new data for typologically valid cross-Bantu
generalizations and shedding light on language-specific innovations
- less or non-productive extensions and the relation between regular and
lexicalized meanings of the corresponding morphemes, and interactions with the
lexical semantics of the verbs
- in-depth syntactic and semantic analyses of one or several of these
extensions from a cross-Bantu perspective, the interaction between the common
function(s) of the extension and verb class semantics
- the polysemy of verb extensions, such as the associative (Bostoen et al.
2015) or the neuter (Dom et al. Forthcoming)
- compounded/complex suffixes, i.e. the combination of two or more extensions
one of which is a quasi-middle marker, that has developed non-compositional
meanings, such as the passive -Vban- in Fang (Bostoen & Nzang-Bie 2010), or
the sociative/reciprocal/antipassive extension -angan- in Cilubà (Dom et al.
2015)

Interested contributors are welcome to send their abstract to
sebastian.dom at ugent.be, not later than the 31st of August 2017, as indicated
below in the timeline.

Timeline:
End of August 2017: Deadline for abstracts
September 2017: Review of abstracts
January 2018: Submission deadline for papers
March 2018: End peer review process 
April 2018: Submission deadline for revised chapters
June 2018: Publication Volume 38, Issue 1 of SALALS 

References:
Bostoen, Koen & Dom, Sebastian & Segerer, Guillaume. 2015. The antipassive in
Bantu. Linguistics 53(4). 731-772.
Bostoen, Koen & Nzang-Bie, Yolande. 2010. On how ''middle'' plus
''associative/reciprocal'' became ''passive'' in the Bantu A70 languages.
Linguistics 48(6). 1255-1307.
Dom, Sebastian & Kulikov, Leonid & Bostoen, Koen. Forthcoming. The middle as a
voice category in Bantu: Setting the stage for further research. Yearbook of
the Poznan Linguistic Meeting. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Dom, Sebastian & Segerer, Guillaume & Bostoen, Koen. 2015.
Antipassive/associative polysemy in Cilubà (Bantu, L31a): A plurality of
relations analysis. Studies in Language 39(2). 354-385.




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