29.1002, Calls: Historical Ling, Lexicography, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/Poland

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Subject: 29.1002, Calls: Historical Ling, Lexicography, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/Poland

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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 16:04:27
From: Leonid Kulikov [kulikovli at googlemail.com]
Subject: Labile Verbs and Transitivity Oppositions in Diachrony

 
Full Title: Labile Verbs and Transitivity Oppositions in Diachrony: Evidence from Indo-European and Beyond 

Date: 13-Sep-2018 - 15-Sep-2018
Location: Poznań, Poland 
Contact Person: Leonid Kulikov
Meeting Email: kulikovli at googlemail.com
Web Site: http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2018/PLM2018_Thematic_sessions 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Lexicography; Morphology; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 20-Mar-2018 

Meeting Description:

The aim of the workshop is to bring together scholars working on labile verbs
(i.e. verbs which can show valency alternation, i.e. changes in syntactic
pattern, with no formal change in the verb, cf. Eng. “The door opened” ~ “John
opened the door”), with special focus on lability and labile verbs over time.
While numerous works deal with synchronic syntax of transitivity and labile
verbs 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 lability in
diachrony from different methodological perspectives, in order to uncover and
clarify the paths and mechanisms of the emergence and disappearance of labile
verbs as well as morphological and syntactic changes in the domain of encoding
of transitivity oppositions in the languages of the world) and other phenomena
related to encoding of transitivity oppositions, paying special attention to
its diachronic aspects and thus opening up new horizons in the research of
these phenomena in both (1) languages (language families) with well-documented
history (such as, first of all, Indo-European or 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 (such as Uralic). 

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

- Theoretical and descriptive aspects of a study of labile verbs
- Diachronic changes within the systems of encoding of transitivity
oppositions
- Labile verbs over time
- Lability considered as an instance of syncretism (transitive/intransitive)
and its possible relationships with other types of syncretism
- Mechanisms of the emergence of labile verbs (as in Germanic languages)
- Mechanisms of decline and disappearance of labile verbs (as in Indo-Iranian)
- Semantic and syntactic classes of verbs for which the labile patterning is
particularly common or uncommon
- Correlations between the grammatical characteristics of a form and its
lability
- Changes in argument structure constructions over time
- Types of lability (e.g. reflexive lability: Mary washed the baby ~ Mary
washed; reciprocal lability: Mary and John kissed the baby ~ Mary and John
kissed; etc.) in synchronic and diachronic perspective
- Productivity, expansion and decline of syntactic patterns over time
- Paths of development of valency changing markers in individual languages
- Reconstructing basic valency orientation and lability 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
- The position of Indo-European and other language families in a diachronic
typological classification of lability types
- Creation of digital resources for the diachronic study of transitivity
oppositions and labile verbs


Call for Papers:

We invite submission of abstracts up to 500 words (the title, linguistic
examples and references not included), describing original, unpublished
research related to the topics of the workshop. Please submit your abstracts
in in PDF format through the EasyChair system. Further instructions can be
found on the Website of PLM2018
(http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2018/Abstract_submission ).




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