30.23, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Pragmatics, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/Italy

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Subject: 30.23, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Pragmatics, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/Italy

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Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 23:25:18
From: Giuliana Giusti [giusti at unive.it]
Subject: Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions. The Second Meeting

 
Full Title: Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions. The Second Meeting 
Short Title: PseCoMAC 2 

Date: 19-Mar-2019 - 19-Mar-2019
Location: Venice, Italy 
Contact Person: Giuliana Giusti
Meeting Email: psecomac at unive.it
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/unive.it/psecomac/home 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2019 

Meeting Description:

Pseudo-Coordination is one type of the many different Multiple Agreement
Constructions, such as  serial verb constructions in African languages or the
subjunctive for infinitive in Balkan languages. It consists of two inflected
verbs that combine to refer to a single complex event. The phenomenon is
well-descripted in traditional as well as theoretical literature and has
gained a renewed interest in the last few years, as witnessed by the large
participation to the First PseCoMAC meeting held at Ca' Foscari University of
Venice on May 2-3, 2017.
In Italo-Romance, Pseudo-Coordination is largely limited to the spoken
register and tends to be used more in particular pragmatic functions. For
example, if a language has Mood and Person restrictions, the less marked
combination is the Imperative 2nd Person Singular (Di Caro 2019).

The aim of PseCoMAC 2 is to bring linguists of different theoretical
persuasion and specialization to reflect on the pragmatic-communicative
potentials of Pseudo-Coordination and the possible grammaticalization paths
for the V1 as the functional part of the verbal periphrasis. A non-exhaustive
list of research questions is the following:

- Are there privileged registers / discourse / pragmatic functions for
Pseudo-Coordination?
- How does Pseudo-Coordination compete with other Multiple Agreement
Constructions, Infinitival Constructions, or Verbal Periphrases present in the
language?
- Can the micro-variation found across cognate languages (e.g. among Sicilian
or Scandinavian dialects) be captured by a unitary parameter?
- How does such a variation react to language contact and change?

Important dates:

deadline of the call for papers: January 31, 2019
notification of acceptance February 28, 2019
conference date: March 19, 2019


Call for Papers:

We invite submissions of max 2-page anonymous abstracts, in pdf-format, for
30+10 min presentations or for the poster session to psecomac at unive.it, by
January 31, 2019. 

In the object of the mail, specify ''Abstract / Poster Submission''. In the
body of the mail, specify Title of the contribution, Name and Affiliation of
the author(s). Accepted papers will be notified by February 17, 2019.




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