30.4840, Calls: Typology/Italy

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Subject: 30.4840, Calls: Typology/Italy

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Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 18:31:57
From: Simone Mattiola [typologyinbologna at gmail.com]
Subject: Typology in Bologna - Comparative Constructions: Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads

 
Full Title: Typology in Bologna - Comparative Constructions: Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads 
Short Title: TypoBO2020 

Date: 25-May-2020 - 26-May-2020
Location: Bologna, Italy 
Contact Person: Simone Mattiola
Meeting Email: typologyinbologna at gmail.com
Web Site: https://eventi.unibo.it/typobo-2020/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Typology 

Call Deadline: 05-Feb-2020 

Meeting Description:

The TypoBO 2020 workshop will be held at the University of Bologna on May
25-26, 2020. The topic of this first edition will be comparative
constructions.

Comparative constructions are a set of grammatical strategies that the
languages of the world use to compare two or more items in order to highlight
both differences and similarities among them (cf. Dixon 2008, Stolz 2013,
Treis 2018). We can recognize different types of comparative constructions
depending on the kind of relationship existing between the two (or more) items
(Fuchs 2014, Treis 2018). The first relevant distinction to be made is between
quantitative comparison and qualitative comparison (cf. Treis 2018: iii):
quantitative comparison can be further divided into comparison of inequality
(superiority, e.g. ‘taller than’, ‘tallest’, or inferiority, e.g. ‘less tall
than’, ‘least tall’) or equality (e.g. ‘as tall as’), while qualitative
comparison can be further distinguished into similarity (e.g. ‘like a horse’)
and simulation (e.g. ‘as if he were a horse’). 

This workshop aims to gather scholars working on comparative constructions,
both of the quantitative and qualitative types, integrating the typological
perspective with complementary approaches and methodologies, including
diachronic and sociolinguistic ones.


Call for Papers:

To reach this aim, we invite submissions addressing one of the following
topics:

(i) Cross-linguistic investigations of one or more comparative constructions
using data from descriptive grammars and/or corpora; 
(ii) Language-specific descriptions of one or more comparative constructions
adopting a typological perspective, taking into consideration also discourse
variation;
(iii) Diachronic analyses (typological and/or language specific) investigating
the source of one or more comparative constructions;
(iv) Diachronic analyses (typological and/or language specific) investigating
the development of one or more comparative strategies into new constructions
(e.g. evidential markers, discourse markers, etc.).

Selected papers of the workshop will be published in the newly founded,
open-access journal Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads.

Anonymous abstracts should be no longer than one-page A4 (margins of 2,5 cm on
each side, single-spaced lines, Times New Roman font, 12 pt. font size), with
the possibility of using an additional page for examples and references.
Abstracts should be written in English, with fully glossed examples conforming
to the Leipzig Glossing Rules.

Submissions should be sent to typologyinbologna at gmail.com

Deadline for submission: February 5, 2020.
Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2020.

Organizing committee: Alessandra Barotto, Nicola Grandi, Simone Mattiola,
Caterina Mauri (University of Bologna)

Invited speakers: Thomas Stolz (University of Bremen), Yvonne Treis
(CNRS-LLACAN)

Scientific Committee:

Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp)
Alessandra Barotto (University of Bologna)
Sonia Cristofaro (University of Pavia)
Pierluigi Cuzzolin (University of Bergamo)
Chiara Gianollo (University of Bologna)
Nicola Grandi (University of Bologna)
Martin Haspelmath (MPI-SHH Jena & Leipzig University)
Agnes Jäger (University of Cologne)
Livia Kortvelyessy (University of Rzeszów)
Elisabetta Magni (University of Bologna)
Francesca Masini (University of Bologna)
Simone Mattiola (University of Bologna)
Caterina Mauri (University of Bologna)
Emanuele Miola (University of Bologna)
Andrea Sansò (University of Insubria/Como)
Thomas Stolz (University of Bremen)
Yvonne Treis (CNRS-LLACAN)

See the full call for papers on the TypoBO 2020 website:
https://eventi.unibo.it/typobo-2020/




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