28.2618, Calls: Gen Ling, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Germany

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Subject: 28.2618, Calls: Gen Ling, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Germany

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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 10:52:24
From: Ljudmila Geist [Ljudmila.Geist at ling.uni-stuttgart.de]
Subject: Possessive relations: interpretation, syntax and argument structure

Full Title: Possessive relations: interpretation, syntax and argument structure 
Short Title: PossRel-DGfS 2018 

Date: 07-Mar-2018 - 09-Mar-2018
Location: Stuttgart, Germany 
Contact Person: Ljudmila Geist
Meeting Email: possessionworkshop at gmail.com

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

Call Deadline: 16-Aug-2017 

Meeting Description:

This workshop is part of the 2018 meeting of the German Linguistic Society
DGfS, which will be hosted by the University of Stuttgart. 

Possession is a semantic relation holding between two referents: the possessor
and the possessee. A marker/construction is said to express possession
relation if it can minimally express ownership of some object by a person.
However, morphosyntactic means used to code ownership such as English have
usually express many more related meanings (possession sensu lato) such as
part-whole, kinship, location, experiencer/beneficiary, attributive or social
relations (inter alia, Belvin 1996). Alongside with this versatility in
meaning there is also significant variation in the morphosyntactic means that
code possession. E.g., languages vary as to whether they employ the
intransitive presentational/existential strategy (BE type) with no dedicated
lexical verb or the transitive strategy with a special possession verb (HAVE
type) for the predicative possession (cf. Stassen 2013); there is even more
variation with internal possession: genitive case/adpositions, possessive
agreement indexes, zero, etc. (cf. Aikhenvald & Dixon 2013; Börjars et al.
2013; Jacob 2003). Finally, other constructions have been claimed to involve
possession: different kinds of external-possessor constructions (EPC), e.g.,
the ''possessor promotion to dative'', the locative EPC, restrictive-topic or
applicative con-structions, etc. (cf. Payne & Barshi 1999; Lee-Schoenefeld
2006; Pylkkänen 2008). The workshop aims at bringing together linguists
working on possession from different angles and with different theoret¬ical
persuasions. Topics on any aspect of possession such as the following ones are
welcome:

- Interpretation: To what extent can the particular interpretation be derived
from the meaning of the parts and how much is determined by pragmatic
reasoning and context (e.g., Vikner & Jensen 2002; Seržant 2016)? 
- Syntax: Are subtypes of possession associated with different structures or
are they derived from one un¬der¬lying locative structure (Boneh & Sichel 2010
vs. Freeze 1992)?
- Argument structure: How can new developments in the representation of
arguments, thematic roles and possessor binding (e.g., Wood & Marantz 2017;
Geist & Hole 2016; Hole 2012) enhance our understanding of argument structure
in EPCs?

Organizers: 
Ljudmila Geist (University of Stuttgart), 
Daniel Jacob (University of Freiburg), 
Ilja Seržant (University of Leipzig)

Invited speaker:
Nora Boneh (the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for talks (20 minutes presentation + 10 minutes for
discussion) for the workshop ''Possessive relations: interpretation, syntax
and argument structure'' to be held during the Annual Meeting of the Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, March 7-9, 2018, University of Stuttgart,
Germany.

Abstracts should be 2 pages in length (references may be on a third page),
using a 12-point font and 2.5cm/1 inch margins on all four sides. Please
submit anonymous abstracts in pdf and doc format to
possessionworkshop at gmail.com by August 16, 2017. Please include your name,
affiliation, and title of the abstract in the body of your email.

Important dates:
- Deadline for abstract submission: August 16, 2017
- Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2017
- Workshop dates: March 7-9, 2018

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