31.2366, Calls: German; Germanic; Morphology, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 31.2366, Calls: German; Germanic; Morphology, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 10:24:03
From: Mirjam Schmuck [mirjam.schmuck at fu-berlin.de]
Subject: 43rd DGfS Annual Conference – AG 5: Encoding aspectuality in Germanic languages — empirical and theoretical approaches

Full Title: 43rd DGfS Annual Conference – AG 5: Encoding aspectuality in Germanic languages — empirical and theoretical approaches 
Short Title: DGfS 2021 – AG 5 

Date: 24-Feb-2021 - 26-Feb-2021
Location: Freiburg, Germany 
Contact Person: Mirjam Schmuck
Meeting Email: mirjam.schmuck at fu-berlin.de
Web Site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=dgfs2021ag5 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Syntax 

Subject Language(s): German (deu)

Language Family(ies): Germanic 

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2020 

Meeting Description:

AG 5: ENCODING ASPECTUALITY IN GERMANIC LANGUAGES – EMPIRICAL AND THEORETICAL
APPROACHES

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in exploring
aspectuality from a diachronic, diatopic, or typological perspective (e.g.
Breed et al. 2017, Weber 2017, Kinn et al. 2018). The workshop aims at
bringing together researchers with different theoretical backgrounds focusing
on aspectuality in Germanic languages. While other Indo-European languages
inherited a whole set of grammatical aspect forms, the verbal systems of the
early Germanic languages were poorly stocked. With the passage of time, the
Germanic languages developed different means to express aspectual functions
(e.g. ing-progressive in English, aan-het- and zitten-te-progressive in Dutch,
sitter-och- and håller-på-att-progressive in Swedish as well as double perfect
constructions in German substandard varieties). 
The broad objective of this workshop is to perform an inventory of aspectual
forms in Germanic languages and dialects. The workshop is intended as a forum
to compare and discuss the emergence, development and the areal distribution
of aspectual forms on the basis of empirical research. Questions to be
discussed include – but are not limited to – the following: 

 - How is aspectuality encoded in Germanic languages and dialects, e.g. by
means of derivational, inflectional, or syntactic forms?
 - How did forms that may indicate aspectuality emerge and develop
diachronically?
 - Which aspectual meanings are differentiated in individual Germanic
languages and which aspectual oppositions can be identified (e.g. habitual,
continuous, progressive, or perfective meanings)?
 - How are the aspectual meanings intertwined with temporal, modal, or
evidential meanings?
 - Do the aspectual forms show specific areal distributions? Are there
languages or varieties that are more prone to encode aspectuality than others?
 - Which empirical methods are suitable to study aspectuality? Which criteria
serve to identify particular aspectual functions

Keynote speakers:
Frank Brisard (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Torodd Kinn (University of Bergen, Norway)

Organizers:
Dr. habil. Hanna Fischer (Marburg)
Prof. Melitta Gillmann (Bamberg)
Prof. Mirjam Schmuck (FU Berlin)
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References: 
Breed, Adri, Frank Brisard & Ben Verhoeven. 2017. Periphrastic Progressive
Constructions in Dutch and Afrikaans: A Contrastive Analysis.  Journal of
Germanic Linguistics 29(4). 305–378.
Kinn, Torodd, Kristian Blensenius & Peter Andersson. 2018. Posture, location,
and activity in Mainland Scandinavian pseudocoordinations. CogniTextes 18.
1–38.
Weber, Thilo. 2017. Die TUN-Periphrase im Niederdeutschen. Funktionale und
formale Aspekte. Tübingen.

Call for Papers: 

We invite submissions for 20-minute oral presentations (+ 10 minutes
discussion) in English. Abstracts should be anonymous, no more than 250 words
and contain a max. number of 5 references. Abstracts should be submitted until
September 15, 2020 via EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=dgfs2021ag5.

A limited number of travel grants of up to 500 Euro are available for accepted
contributions by DGfS members without/with low income.

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