29.3631, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Typology/Australia

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Subject: 29.3631, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Typology/Australia

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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:59:45
From: Eystein Dahl [eystein.dahl at uit.no]
Subject: Alignment Change in Different Frameworks

 
Full Title: Alignment Change in Different Frameworks 

Date: 01-Jul-2019 - 05-Jul-2019
Location: Canberra, ACT, Australia 
Contact Person: Eystein Dahl
Meeting Email: eystein.dahl at uit.no

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 12-Oct-2018 

Meeting Description:

(Session of International Conference on Historical Linguistics 24)

This workshop aims to bring together scholars working on diachronic alignment
typology from different theoretical perspectives and with different
methodological approaches in order to accommodate a nuanced and critical
discussion of various dimensions of alignment change. It explores the rise of
and interaction between major alignment types (accusative, ergative,
active/semantic/split-S/fluid-S, double-oblique, hierarchical and tripartite
alignment, as well as their diachronic relation to different types of
valency-affecting, especially valency-reducing, constructions, (e.g.
causatives, passives, anticausatives/middles, antipassives,
impersonals/transimpersonals and A- or P-lability). It also addresses the fact
that some languages and language families have undergone considerable changes
in their alignment systems through time, while others show remarkable
stability in their basic alignment system over a considerable time span,
exploring whether the diachronic stability of a given language-specific
alignment pattern derives from its source construction and to what extent
other factors are involved. A third focal point concerns the rise of
split-alignment patterns, involving both lexically and grammatically
conditioned splits. Finally, we explore the rise of new case markers and their
impact on the syntactic dimension of alignment. For a full workshop
description, cf. the following webpage:
https://cloudstor.aarnet.edu.au/plus/s/RaZT0O2okS4B5wB#pdfviewer 



Call for Papers:

The workshop addresses research questions including but not limited to the
following:

- What are the respective merits and shortcomings of formally and functionally
oriented approaches to alignment change? How do these two types of explanation
strategies complement each other? 
- To what extent do different source constructions determine the relative
diachronic stability of a given alignment pattern? What, if any, other factors
may be involved?
- To what extent do languages with split alignment show a diachronic tendency
to generalize one alignment pattern? 
- Which role do Differential Argument Marking and other, non-canonical
argument realization patterns play in alignment change? What are the
grammatical and lexical restrictions determining extensions of ergative,
nominative-accusative and other patterns?
- To what extent are the grammaticalization paths leading to ergative and
accusative alignment analogous, reflecting more or less similar patterns of
development? To what extent are these paths unidirectional?
- To what extent do the results yielded by corpus studies of alignment change
converge with studies based on comparative reconstruction? To what extent can
quantitatively oriented studies complement for the most part qualitatively
oriented studies of alignment typology and change?

We invite individuals to submit abstracts on the relationship between basic
alignment and valency-changing categories across languages and language
families. Contrastive and typological perspectives are especially solicited,
but other approaches, including in-depth studies concerned with individual
languages are also very welcome. 

Abstract Submission:

Abstracts of maximum two pages, including references, should be submitted via
the conference web page
(http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/ichl24/call-for-papers/). Scholars may
submit a maximum of two papers, sole authored or co-authored, including
submissions to workshops. Acceptance of abstracts will be announced by
mid-November 2018.




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