29.3465, Calls: Anthro Ling, Lang Documentation, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Brazil

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Subject: 29.3465, Calls: Anthro Ling, Lang Documentation, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Brazil

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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 15:45:05
From: Tonjes Veenstra [veenstra at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: Complex Structures in Brazilian Languages

 
Full Title: Complex Structures in Brazilian Languages 

Date: 08-May-2019 - 08-May-2019
Location: Maceió. Alagoas, Brazil, Brazil 
Contact Person: Tonjes Veenstra
Meeting Email: veenstra at leibniz-zas.de
Web Site: https://www.abralin.org/abralin50/programme-special-sessions/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Semantics; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 30-Oct-2018 

Meeting Description:

The special session ''Complex structures in Brazilian indigenous languages''
is part of the Abralin -- 50 anos Conference. The description of this session
is also available on the Abralin website.

Organizadores: Suzi Lima e Tonjes Veenstra

Proposal In the literature on Brazilian indigenous languages, although many
papers present preliminary descriptions on various aspects of the syntax of
these languages, few have explored in detail the syntax and semantics of
complex sentences. In this special session, we are particularly interested in
gathering scholars who have been working on the description and analysis of
structures characterized by two or more non-serialized verbs, that is,
structures that highlight syntactic and semantic embedding. More specifically,
this special session will feature papers that describe and analyze relative
clauses, switch-reference marking, quotative constructions with a special
focus on indexicals, sequence of tense effects and counterfactuals. The
contributions of this special session are threefold: 1) further the
documentation of complex structures in Brazilian languages; 2) discuss the
development of new methods, questionnaires and stimuli for fieldwork in the
field of morphosyntax and semantics of complex structures; 3) advance the
debate about such topics in theoretical linguistics. 

Contributions to the Field of Language Documentation: 

As discussed by Moore, Galucio and Gabas (2008) only 38% of Brazilian
languages have an advanced description. However, in most cases, an advanced
description does not include a detailed analysis of the complex constructions
in a particular language. While some work has been done on the documentation
and analysis of complex structures on Brazilian languages which suggests that
the field is growing (for example, Storto 2012, Vivanco 2017, and the papers
featured in Amaral, Maia, Nevins and Roeper 2018 on a variety of topics on
embedded structures in Brazilian languages such as embedding of evidentials
[Stenzel 2018], embedding of imperatives [Thomas 2018], switch reference
[Nonato 2018], multiple embedding of relative clauses [Storto, Vivanco and
Rocha 2018] among others) for most languages the description of complex
structures is incipient, which is unfortunate since much of these languages
are endangered. Furthermore, the emergence of descriptions of the phenomena
described above can be useful not only for the better understanding of a
particular language but can also be revealing for typological studies. 

Methodological Contributions: 

A fundamental aspect of fieldwork is the design of materials for field
elicitation. As such, one of the goals of this session is to bring to light
new methods (cf. for example Sauerland 2014), questionnaires and stimuli used
in the description of the topics featured in this session. 

Theoretical Contributions:

Finally and crucially, the presentations featured in this special session will
contribute to advance the discussion of such topics in theoretical linguistics
by means of featuring new data of languages underrepresented in the literature
so far. This is critical since evidence from less well-studied languages has
in several cases proved to be very revealing for linguistic theory. Three
examples of this type are the discussion of indexical shift in complex clauses
in Amharic (Schlenker 2003), Slave (Anand and Nevins 2004), and others, the
semantics of logophoric pronouns in Ewe (Pearson 2015), and the discovery of
backwards control initially in Tsez (Polinsky and Potsdam 2002).


Call for Papers:

Submissions at: 

https://www.abralin.org/abralin50/registration/ 

- Only abstracts will be accepted. They must be sent using the registration
platform. 
- Abstracts must contain a title and a minimum of three keywords. 
- Abstracts must contain a maximum of 4000 characters with space. 
- If you identify yourself in any way in the abstract, your submission will be
rejected without being evaluated. 
- Abstracts that do not comply with the above guidelines will not be
considered.




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