29.1623, Calls: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax / Lingvisticae Investigationes (Jrnl)

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Subject: 29.1623, Calls: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax / Lingvisticae Investigationes (Jrnl)

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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:05:23
From: Pineda Anna [anna.pineda at upf.edu]
Subject: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax / Lingvisticae Investigationes (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Lingvisticae Investigationes 


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

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2018 

Call for Papers: 

Contributions are invited for a special issue on Differential objects and
datives - a homogenous class? to appear in Lingvisticae Investigationes,
edited by Monica Alexandrina Irimia and Anna Pineda.

Please find all the information here:
http://www.annapineda.cat/ca/recerca/call-for-papers/
One of the cross-linguistically robust, yet puzzling uses of dative morphology
is to signal certain classes of structural (direct) objects, normally
including animates, specifics, definites, or a combination thereof (Givón
1984, Bossong 1991, Lazard 2001, de Swart 2007, Glushan 2010, Manzini and
Franco 2016, a.o). This picture is common across Romance, as illustrated by
Spanish, where animate definite objects must take a marker which is
homophonous with the dative ''a'', under differential object marking (DOM -
Moravcsik 1978, Comrie 1979, 1981, Croft 1988, 1990, Bossong 1991, 1998,
Aissen 2003, López 2012, a.o.). The same picture is seen in the Indo-Aryan
family (Butt 1993, Mohanan 1994, Bhatt and Anagnostopoulou 1996, a.o.).

This type of syncretism extends to Guaraní (Shain 2008), Tigre (Raz 1980),
Yiddish (Katz 1987), Basque varieties that have DOM (Odria 2014, 2017,
Fernández and Rezac 2016, a.o.), Arabic varieties (Aoun 1999), etc. A
non-trivial question is whether it signals a common syntactic source or is
simply a matter of surface opacity. Under some accounts, the homomorphism has
a structural nature, for example DOM and (certain types of) datives occupying
the same (licensing) position (López 2012) or encoding the same relation
(Manzini and Franco 2016). Various contributions have also pointed out
important structural differences between datives and differentially marked
objects (Ormazabal and Romero 2007 for Spanish, Odria 2014, Fernández and
Rezac 2016 for Basque, Bárányi 2018 for a cross-linguistic picture, a.o.),
motivating a morphological solution to the syncretism. Yet, a mixed
explanation is proposed under other analyses: differential objects are
absolutives/accusatives structurally but require additional marking due to the
syntactic configuration (Odria 2017) or due to  their complex featural make-up
(Irimia 2018a, b). There are also languages where differentially marked
objects and datives are not homophonous (Farsi, Hebrew, Romanian, Turkish,
Palauan, Kannada, etc.), raising the question whether the 'dative behavior'
also extends to them. Another important aspect is what type of diagnostics can
be used to motivate a syntactic or a morphological analysis for the
syncretism. 

We welcome descriptive or theoretical contributions that address the source of
the syncretism, as well as how to model it. Novel data or examples from less
studied languages are particularly appreciated, and proposals that confront
various theoretic approaches are welcome. We are also interested in
discussions of this problem from an experimental perspective, in
microvariation, and as well as in diachronic studies. 

Papers submitted in English will follow the double-blind revision process.
Submission of papers: October 31st 2018. Submissions should not exceed 37000
characters (including spaces), references included, and must respect the
typographical conventions of Lingvisticae Investigationes.

Scientific Committee:
Larisa Avram 
András Bárány 
Alexandra Cornilescu 
Cristina Cuervo
Beatriz Fernández 
Cristina Guardiano
Klaus von Heusinger 
Virginia Hill 
Monica Alexandrina Irimia 
Jaklin Kornfilt 
Béatrice Lamiroy 
Luis López 
Alexandru Mardale 
Dimitris Michelioudakis 
Javier Ormazabal 
Anna Pineda 
Juan Romero 
Alina Tigău 
Jenneke van der Wal




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