32.1829, Calls: Gen Ling/Online

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Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 13:28:37
From: Jan Židek [jan.zidek at linguistics.cz]
Subject: Converbs from a cross-linguistic perspective workshop

 
Full Title: Converbs from a cross-linguistic perspective workshop 

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

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 16-Jun-2021 

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.


Second Call for Papers: 

The workshop ''Converbs from a cross-linguistic perspective'' organized by the
Prague Descriptive Linguistics group, originally planned to be held physically
in April 2020 as part of the annual Linguistics Prague conference at Charles
University, has been rescheduled to 2021/07/15 on the Zoom platform. The start
is late evening JST / early morning ET to accommodate all the current
participants' needs. We encourage those interested in the topic to apply via
e-mail: PDL at linguistics.cz , subject: workshop. Authors of the accepted papers
will be notified by 2021/06/24. The format is to be semi-open with public
attendance per speaker's request. The invited speaker is Florian Siegl -
presenting his Constructional Auxilliaries.

The abstract must be anonymous (please include your affiliation into the email
body, not the abstract). The length should not exceed 400 words (without
references). Please use 12 point Times New Roman (Unicode) font, single line
spacing and set margins to 2.5 cm all around. Abstracts should be submitted by
16 June 2021 in pdf or docx format. Presentation time for papers will be 20
minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion.

Original call:
https://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-261/




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