30.1324, Calls: Gen Ling, Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Typology/Austria

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-1324. Sun Mar 24 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.1324, Calls: Gen Ling, Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Typology/Austria

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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 05:59:20
From: Muriel Assmann [unalternatives.project at univie.ac.at]
Subject: Stress-free Focus Workshop

 
Full Title: Stress-free Focus Workshop 
Short Title: SFW 

Date: 18-Oct-2019 - 19-Oct-2019
Location: Vienna, Austria 
Contact Person: Muriel Assmann
Meeting Email: unalternatives.project at univie.ac.at

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Morphology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 31-May-2019 

Meeting Description:

The Unalternative Semantics Team is very happy to announce the first
Stress-free Focus Workshop at the University of Vienna, Austria. 

Our project's goal is to connect up recent formal and typological work on the
realization of focus in various languages with the formal semantics/pragmatics
of focus. Our main interest is in analyzing focus in languages that use other
means than stress and accent to realize focus, for example focus
constructions, focus marking morphemes etc.

For more information see our website: https://unalternatives.univie.ac.at

Invited speakers:
Katharina Hartmann (Frankfurt)
Malte Zimmermann (Potsdam)


Call for Papers:

For this workshop we especially welcome works on languages which do not use
stress to mark focus and/or contrast. We furthermore encourage research within
the Unalternative Semantics framework (Büring 2015, 2016) 

Topics of the workshop may include, but need not be limited to, submissions
on:

- Descriptive overview of Information structure marking in lesser studied
languages.
- Different ways of focus marking: Ways to model the influence of syntactic
position, morphological marking (and prosodic marking) on the signalling of IS
categories, across languages, but also in languages that combine several of
these.
- IS ambiguities: Patterns in which the same form is compatible with different
sizes, or even locations, of pragmatic focus/topic etc ('focus projection’).
How to model these, and what patterns are attested ?
- IS Pragmatics: What are the pragmatic conditions on the use of IS
categories, i.e. how do pragmatic rules make reference to such labels as
`focus’, `topic’ etc. 
- Interaction between focus marking and other categories such as aspect, mood,
etc.

Submission guidelines:

Please submit your anonymous abstracts to unalternatives.project at univie.ac.at
Pdf, 11pt Times New Roman, 2 pages including examples, but excluding
references and graphics.
You should aim at 40 minutes presentation (30min+10min).

Deadline for abstract submission: 31.05.2019
Notification of acceptance: mid June

Organizers:

Muriel Assmann
Daniel Büring
Izabela Jordanoska
Max Prüller




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