32.1483, Calls: Uralic; Typology/Online

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Subject: 32.1483, Calls: Uralic; Typology/Online

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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 21:41:27
From: Nikolett Mus [mus.nikolett at gmail.com]
Subject: Antipassive in Uralic languages

Full Title: Antipassive in Uralic languages 
Short Title: ApUr 

Date: 27-Jan-2022 - 27-Jan-2022
Location: Budapest (Online), Hungary 
Contact Person: Nikolett Mus
Meeting Email: musn at nytud.hu

Linguistic Field(s): Typology 

Language Family(ies): Uralic 

Call Deadline: 12-Sep-2021 

Meeting Description:

The Department of Finno-Ugric Studies, Eötvös Loránd University and the
Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics announce this call for a workshop on
antipassive constructions in the Uralic languages.

The workshop will take place on January 27, 2022 and will be held as a fully
virtual event.

Theoretical background: 
A prototypical transitive event has traditionally been defined as a dynamic,
concrete event where a volitionally acting agent acts on a patient that is
directly affected as a result of this action. Thus, a sentence pattern that
prototypically depicts such an event, and is therefore considered to represent
active voice, has to consist of three constituents: an Agent (NP) as the
subject of the sentence, a bivalent transitive verb as its predicate and a
Patient (NP) as the direct object of the verb. In other words, the
construction displays a transitive verb with two arguments. This type of
transitive sentence can be related to two intransitive patterns with marked
versions of the same verbal lexeme only preserving one of its arguments, the
other one being demoted. A passive sentence is one where the Patient of the
underlying transitive sentence becomes the subject of the sentence, remaining
the sole argument of the predicate, whereas an antipassive sentence retains
the Agent of the transitive sentence in the role of the subject, being
similarly the sole argument of the predicate. Hence, in both cases, the verbal
predicate becomes syntactically intransitive. Further common features for the
two derived patterns are that in both of them, the verb gets marked for the
respective pattern (viz. passive or antipassive voice), and the non-argumental
(aka adjunctival) constituent is backgrounded. The demotion of these adjuncts
can be partial (they appear in an oblique form) or total (they are omitted
altogether). It should be noted that the verbal marker that differentiates
either of these constructions from their active counterpart can, but is not
necessarily supposed to, only serve this function in the language.

In order, then, to be a genuine antipassive construction, the following four
criteria must be met (cf. Heaton 2017): 1. The antipassive clearly has a
corresponding unmarked or less marked bivalent active transitive construction;
2. There is an overt marker for antipassivity; 3. The agent of the transitive
construction is preserved, while the patient is either inexpressible or
optionally displayed in the form of an oblique phrase; 4. The antipassive
construction is intransitive (no direct object is possible alongside its
predicate).

The workshop welcomes contributions that address, among others, the following
questions:
    1. Does the examined Uralic language have antipassive constructions at
all?
    2. In antipassive constructions, can the Patient be expressed in the
sentence by an oblique form or is it necessarily omitted?
    3. Is the marker of antipassivity special (dedicated to this function
only) in the language or does it fulfil other tasks, too? If it does, which
ones?
    4. Can it be proven that the marker appears just for indicating
antipassivity and not some (other) modification of the verbal meaning (such as
reflexivity, reciprocity, etc.)?
    5. Is the speakers’ choice between antipassive constructions and active
transitive ones optional or are there any syntactic, semantic, pragmatic
circumstances or stylistic considerations that require using them?
    6. Can we form any hypotheses about the origin and/or rise of antipassive
constructions in the given language?

Call for Papers: 

The languages of the workshop are English and/or Russian, nevertheless,
abstracts are expected to be written in English only. In case you wish to
deliver your talk in Russian, please indicate its title in Russian, too.

Presentations will be 30 minutes long followed by a 10-minute discussion
period.

Participants are invited to submit abstracts no later than September 12, 2021.
Submissions are limited to two per author, with at most one paper being single
authored. Abstracts should not exceed one page (excluding references,
examples, tables, keywords, etc.) and must be set in Times New Roman with a
12pt font, single spaced having 2,5 cm (1 inch) margins on all sides. The
abstracts must be sent in pdf format to the address: apur2022 at gmail.com
Abstracts must be anonymous and not reveal the identity of the author(s) in
any way. Please indicate the name, affiliation of the Author(s) and the title
of the abstract in the text of the e-mail.

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