32.3268, Calls: General Linguistics / Languages (Jrnl)

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Subject: 32.3268, Calls:  General Linguistics / Languages (Jrnl)

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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 15:15:40
From: Giorgio Carella [giorgio.carella at uniroma3.it]
Subject: General Linguistics / Languages (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Languages 


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2022 

Call for Papers:

Special Issue on ''Narrow Focus and Fronting Strategies''
Guest Editors: Mara Frascarelli and Giorgio Carella (University of Roma Tre)

Keywords: 
informative focus; corrective focus; mirative focus; focus strategies;
fronting optionality; discourse grammar; narrow syntax; 

Focus is a discourse category which has been given great attention by scholars
in the last 50 years and is traditionally described as “that part of
information that is assumed by the speaker not to be shared by the hearer”
(Jackendoff 1972), while the unfocused part of the sentence provides
background information. However, several works have shown the necessity to
distinguish different Focus types for their formal, semantic and pragmatic
properties (cf. Kiss 1998, Krifka 2007, Bianchi 2013, Bianchi et al. 2015,
among others).

>From a structural viewpoint, Focus can be realized in situ in a great number
of languages. Nevertheless, Focus Fronting (FF) is also a major strategy,
especially for some specific Focus types (cf., among many others, Alboiu 2004,
Hartmann and Zimmermann 2007). However, its specific realization shows diverse
patterns and seems to be prominently optional in a number of languages,
calling into question the assumption that movement operations are driven by
narrow syntax requirements (i.e., the interpretation of formal features in
dedicated functional projections). Since such requirements should not be
flexible, FF stands up as a vexed question.        

Given this scenario, this Special Issue aims to offer a fine-grained analysis
of FF (and related marked strategies, such as clefting) across natural
languages, concentrating in particular on Corrective Focus (cf. Neeleman et
al. 2006; Bianchi and Bocci 2012, among others) and Mirative Focus (cf.
Bianchi et al 2016).

We strongly encourage interested scholars and researchers to contribute to
this Special Issue, submitting a paper on marked Focus strategies, preferably
comparing typologically different languages. Contributions addressing the
thematics of fronting optionality and investigating Slavic and
non-Indo-European languages will be prioritized.

Interested authors are requested to submit a title and an abstract of 400–600
words. Relevant deadlines are given in the completion schedule below.

Abstracts should be sent to the Languages editorial office
(languages at mdpi.com). They will be reviewed by the guest editors for the
purposes of ensuring proper fit within the scope of the Special Issue.

Notification of acceptance will be given by the end of February. Full
manuscripts will then undergo double-blind peer-review.

Completion schedule:

-Abstract submission deadline: 15 January 2022
-Notification of abstract acceptance: 28 February 2022
-Full manuscript deadline: 15 September 2022

Invited contributors:

-Silvio Cruschina
-Àngel Jiménez-Fernandez
-Victor Junnan Pan

Detailed info on the CfPs and on manuscript submission can be found at the
following link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/languages/special_issues/narrow_focus_fronting_st
rategies




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