32.2359, Confs: Gen Ling/Online

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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 15:37:36
From: Jan Židek [jan.zidek at linguistics.cz]
Subject: Converbs from a cross-linguistic perspective workshop

 
Converbs from a cross-linguistic perspective workshop 

Date: 15-Jul-2021 - 15-Jul-2021 
Location: Prague (Zoom), Czech Republic 
Contact: Jan Židek 
Contact Email: PDL at linguistics.cz 
Meeting URL: http://linguistics.cz 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The aim of the conference is to bring together students and early career
researchers whose research addresses any topics relevant to linguistics and is
grounded in empirical methods. We encourage presentations of original data
oriented research concerned with different aspects of language structure and
use, as well as discussions of relevant methodological issues.

Workshop ''Converbs from a cross-linguistic perspective'' topic:
In the last twenty years the concept of converbs has been slowly gaining
traction and recognition among the wider linguistic community. The term
converb is being used in place of several other older terms such as gerunds,
deepričastie, adverbial participle, etc. There have been also various attempts
to delimit the phenomenon, e.g. Haspelmath 1995, Ross 2016, that, however, do
not agree on all aspects of the definition. Broadly speaking, converbs can be
understood as adverbial verbal forms, though their actual function can vary
both across languages and across constructions. We would like to discuss the
following issues:

 - Converbs as dependent adverbial form or a device for clause chaining?
 - Coordination vs subordination (co-subordination?)
 - Converbs on the margins (non-prototypical cases of converb usage)
 - Use of converbs in mono-clausal multiverbal constructions (MMC)
 - Is the notion of converbs cross-linguistically a useful label?

The meeting is an online version of the workshop intended to be part of
Linguistics Prague 2020.
 

Program Information: 

Program is available at: https://linguistics.cz/news/current-event-schedule/.





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