28.4527, Calls: Sign Language, Gen Ling, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/Hungary

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Subject: 28.4527, Calls: Sign Language, Gen Ling, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/Hungary

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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 13:58:18
From: Veronika Hegedus [hegedus.veronika at nytud.mta.hu]
Subject: Sign Language Syntax and Linguistic Theory

 
Full Title: Sign Language Syntax and Linguistic Theory 
Short Title: GLOW41Sign 

Date: 14-Apr-2018 - 14-Apr-2018
Location: Budapest, Hungary 
Contact Person: Balazs Suranyi
Meeting Email: glow41bud at gmail.com
Web Site: https://glowlinguistics.org/41/sign/ 

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

Language Family(ies): Sign Language 

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2017 

Meeting Description:

Linguistic research on typologically different sign languages (SLs) over the
past fifty years has demonstrated vividly that SL grammars incorporate
grammatical systems of pronominal reference, quantification, agreement,
subordination, mood, aspect, and rules of sign order that are comparable to
that found in spoken languages, including their historical development,
acquisition, processing and variation. Taking this general conclusion to be
well-established, a prominent trend of research focuses on those aspects of SL
grammar that nevertheless appear to make SLs different from spoken languages.
Such apparently SL-specific grammatical properties pose potentially fruitful
challenges to the study of Universal Grammar (UG), and they offer illuminating
perspectives on the ways sign languages are shaped by the gestural-visual
nature of their modality (including the use of space, non-manuals,
simultaneity, the interaction with gesture, etc).

Invited speaker: Markus Steinbach (University of Göttingen)

Workshop Organizers: Balázs Surányi and Marcel den Dikken


2nd Call for Papers:

This workshop provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical, and
theoretically oriented typological and psycholinguistic aspects of SL syntax
whose analysis contributes to a better understanding of UG, as well as the
ways in which UG interacts with the properties of the gestural-visual modality
to yield apparently SL-specific linguistic structures and phenomena.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the grammatical systems of:

- Syntactic categories
- Agreement (incl. verbal agreement, classifier constructions, role shift)
- Anaphor binding
- Coordination and subordination
- Syntactic displacement
- Sentence types
- Information structure
- Ellipsis

Abstract Submission:

This workshop will follow the main colloquium of GLOW41. The same abstract may
not be submitted to both the main colloquium and the workshop.

No abstract may be longer than 2 pages (A4 or letter size) with 1in margins,
set single spaced in a 12pt font. Abstracts must be anonymous, self references
should be avoided.

You can submit an abstract to the workshop via Easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=glow41sign

The deadline for submitting abstracts is 15 November 2017.

Further information on GLOW41 and the workshop is available at:
https://glowlinguistics.org/41 .




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