29.222, Calls: Historical Ling, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/Estonia

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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:06:13
From: Leonid Kulikov [kulikovli at googlemail.com]
Subject: Constructions and Valency Changing Strategies in a Diachronic Perspective: Evidence from Indo-European and Beyond

 
Full Title: Constructions and Valency Changing Strategies in a Diachronic Perspective: Evidence from Indo-European and Beyond 

Date: 29-Aug-2018 - 01-Sep-2018
Location: Tallinn, Estonia 
Contact Person: Guglielmo Inglese
Meeting Email: guglielmo.inglese01 at ateneopv.it

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

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

The workshop aims at investigating valency changing strategies and encoding of
transitivity oppositions over time. Despite the wealth of works on the
synchronic syntax of verbal valency in the languages of the world, the
diachronic aspects of these phenomena are most often neglected or
underestimated in linguistic and typological research. We invite proposals
addressing topics related to transitivity and language change from different
methodological perspectives, in order to uncover and clarify the paths and
mechanisms of morphological and syntactic changes in the domain of verbal
valency and encoding transitivity oppositions in the languages of the world.
The recent decades are marked with a considerable progress in the study of the
encoding of transitivity oppositions in a typological perspective. Impressive
results are achieved in the synchronic study of the systems of voices and
valency-changing derivations, such as passive, causative, reflexive,
antipassive and anticausative. Thanks to these studies, our understanding of
transitivity phenomena has dramatically increased. Moreover, studies in basic
valency orientation (cf. Nichols et al. 2004) have attempted a typological
classification of languages based on their preferred patterns of encoding
valency increase ad reduction. 

By contrast, a systematic treatment of these categories in a diachronic
perspective remains a desideratum (see, however, Barðdal, Cennamo & van
Gelderen 2012). The rise, development and decline of these categories mostly
remain on the periphery of the typological research.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together scholars working on
valency-changing categories and other transitivity phenomena in both (1)
languages (language families) with well-documented history (such as, first of
all, Indo-European as well as, for instance, Semitic) and (2) languages which
furnish less historical evidence but, nevertheless, can provide us with some
valuable data on the basis of comparison of daughter languages and linguistic
reconstruction (e.g. Uralic).

Possible Topics to be addressed at the workshop include (but are not limited
to):

- Diachronic changes within the systems of voice and voice-related categories
(causative, reflexive etc.) 
- Encoding of transitivity oppositions and labile verbs over time
- Mechanisms of the emergence, decline and disappearance of labile verbs
- Changes in argument structure constructions over time
- Productivity, expansion, and decline of competing syntactic patterns over
time
- Paths of development of valency changing markers in individual languages
- Reconstructing basic valency orientation and valency changing markers in
proto-languages
- Possible sources of valency changing markers and patterns of polysemy
- Changes in basic valency orientation over time
- The role of language contacts in the development of valency-changing
derivations
- Alignment change in the history of individual languages
- Markers of valency changing categories in a diachronic perspective
- Creation of digital resources for the diachronic study of argument structure
construction and valency-changing categories


2nd Call for Papers:

We invite submission of abstracts up to 500 words (references not included).

Abstracts should (i) be anonymous, (ii) not exceed 500 words (including
examples, exclusive of references), and (iii) state research questions,
approach, method, data and (expected) results. 

The submission is via Easychair; you find the SLE guidelines and the link for
abstract submission at http://sle2018.eu/call-for-papers .

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is January 15, 2018. 

Convenors of the workshop:

Michela Cennamo: micennam at unina.it 
Leonid Kulikov: kulikovli at googlemail.com




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