29.4521, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Germany

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Subject: 29.4521, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Germany

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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 22:06:21
From: Grete Dalmi [grete at t-online.hu]
Subject: Predicative Possession in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective

 
Full Title: Predicative Possession in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective 

Date: 21-Aug-2019 - 22-Aug-2019
Location: Leipzig, Germany 
Contact Person: Ilyana Krapova
Meeting Email: krapova at unive.it

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 19-Nov-2018 

Meeting Description:

(Session of 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea) 

We hereby announce the following workshop call on Predicative Possession on
Slavic and Finno-Ugric for SLE 2019 to be held at the University of Leipzig on
21st-24th August 2019. Originally planned as a one day workshop, the convenors
will be happy to turn it into a two-day workshop if proper interest is shown.

Predicative possession is realized in various ways cross-linguistically.
Stassen (2009) establishes four major types of predicative possession:
locational BE-possessives, BE WITH-possessives, topic possessives and
HAVE-possessives. While in Germanic and Romance languages HAVE-possessives are
predominantly used, Uralic languages employ locational BE-possessives with the
possessor taking a more prominent VP-internal position and bearing oblique
case. In the Slavic language family, West Slavic uses HAVE-possessives while
East Slavic has locational BE-possessives. Old Church Slavic displays
locational BE-possessives, which is replaced by HAVE-possessives in
present-day Bulgarian. In Baltic Slavic the two types co-occur with some
semantic restrictions on the possessee. These areal and lexical distributions
raise the question whether the choice between HAVE-possessives and locational
BE-possessives is the syntactic reflex of parametric variation or whether the
two forms are more intrinsically related.

The derivationist approach relates BE-possessives and HAVE-possessive to
copular sentences. This view goes back to Benveniste’s (1966) claim that
possessive sentences are nothing but inverted copular sentences. which is also
reflected in Kayne (1993), Den Dikken (1997), Jung (2011) and Myler (2016).  
Under the lexicalist approach, BE-possessives and HAVE-possessives are
structurally distinct constructions. Both sentence types have two
participants, the possessor and the possessee (see Paducheva 2000, Partee &
Borschev 2008, Blaszczak 2007, 2010). BE-possessives share a whole range of
syntactic and semantic properties with BE-existentials, The Definiteness
Restriction in affirmative sentences, GEN NEG in Slavic negated possessive and
existential sentences, binding relations, verb agreement and case marking on
the possessor and the possessee are important issues that cannot be ignored in
connection with predicative possession.


Call for Papers:

SLE 2019 Workshop Call

This thematic workshop aims to bring together linguists working on predicative
possession primarily in Slavic and Finno-Ugric languages. The reason for this
is that predicative possession in these two languages families is still
understudied. Papers on Polish, Belarusian and Bulgarian, Finnish, Komi,
Udmurt, Meadow Mari, Selkup and Hungarian will address the following issues:

1. Definiteness Restriction in existential and possessive sentences 
2. Genitive of Negation in negated existential and possessive sentences
3. Lexical-semantic factors determining the choice between BE-possessives and
HAVE-possessives 
4. Agreement in possessive sentences
5. The case of the possessor and the possessee in BE-possessives
6. The argument structure of BE-possessives 
7. Types of possessive sentences

Please contact the convenors for any queries and send your short abstract to
either of the email addresses below by 19 November 2018:

Convenors: 

Iliyana Krapova (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice)
krapova at unive.it

Gréte Dalmi (Budapest University of Technology, Budapest)
grete at t-online.hu

Venue: 
University of Leipzig, Germany

Date: 
21-24 August 2019

Keywords: predicative possession, BE-possessives, HAVE-possessives,
Definiteness Effect, Genitive of Negation, possessive marker




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