33.1302, Calls: Typology/Italy

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Subject: 33.1302, Calls: Typology/Italy

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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 17:55:45
From: Jakob Maché [jakob.mache at letras.ulisboa.pt]
Subject: Uniformity, Variability and Diversity in the Syntax of Serial Verb Constructions

 
Full Title: Uniformity, Variability and Diversity in the Syntax of Serial Verb Constructions 

Date: 21-Sep-2022 - 23-Sep-2022
Location: Naples, Italy 
Contact Person: Jakob Maché
Meeting Email: jakob.mache at letras.ulisboa.pt
Web Site: https://www.unior.it/ricerca/26771/3/4th-symposium-on-west-afr ican-languages-21-23-september-2022.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Typology 

Call Deadline: 06-Jun-2022 

Meeting Description:

As shown by Dimmendaal (2002: 382–387), serial verb constructions (SVCs) are
an essential syn- tactic characteristic a couple of West-African sub-branches
in the Volta-Congo branch. Apart from the well studied Kwa and prominent
Western Benue-Congo, SVC are also attested in Bamileke (Southern Bantoid) (cf.
Hyman 1971 for FePfeP and H. Keupdijo and C. Keupdijo 2021 for Medumba and
Eastern Ndà’ndà’ ) in Ijoid (cf. Williamson 1965, Carstens 2002), Gur (cf.
Lord 1993: 128–129 for Kuusal and Dagbani, Hiraiwa and Bodomo 2008 for
Dàgáárè) and Senufo (cf. Lord 1993). However, the most recent insights on
West-African SVCs were gained from data from Kwa such as Shluinsky’s (2017)
classification into ‘take’-SVCs and ‘give’-SVCs which account for the majority
of SVCs in Kwa, or Putten (2017) findings on expression of manner and path in
motion or Beermann and Hellan’s (2018) analysis. The research on SVCs in
Western Benue Kwa is to a large extent based on data from Defoid, Apke-Edoid
and Igboid (cf. Stahlke 1970, Lord 1993, Déchaine 1993, Ogie 2009, Schaefer
and Egbokhare 2010; 2017).


Call for Papers:

This panel invites contributions that are dedicated to one of the research
questions especially but not only from Gur, Ijoid, Senufo and lesser studied
branches of Benue-Congo such as Delta- Cross (cf. Ikoro 1996 for Kana,
Delplanque 1998:223 for Efik and Major 2014 for Ibibio), Bantoid, other
families, or on creoles based on these languages. Analyses from any theoreti-
cal framework are warmly welcome (CxG, cognitivsm, minimalism, constraint
based approaches, quantitative corpus linguistics).

1. Which syntactic properties of SVCs can be identified which hold across all
these language families (eg. unified tense, aspect, mood polarity value,
reference to single event, no markers of syntactic dependency, obligatory
argument sharing) ? Which properties are inclined to vary crosslinguistically?

2. How are the arguments and events introduced by the different SVC-components
 mapped to the semantic representation (cf. Baker and Stewart 1999, Zimmermann
and Amaechi 2020)? Is the assumption of phonological empty arguments a
necessity (cf. Baker 1989, Collins 1997, Hellan, Beermann, and Andenes 2003,
Ogie 2009)?

3. Which syntactic types of SVCs can be distinguished (‘take’-SVCs,
‘give’-SVCs, resultative SVCs, comparative SVCs, manner SVCs, multi-event
SVCs, ‘say’-SVCs, locative SVCs)? Which syntactic diagnostics are helpful to
justify this classification (eg. focus clefting, scope of negation, case of
pronouns, question formation, availability of verbal inflection eg. factative
suffixes in Ìgbò and Èdóid, compounding/root verb serialisation, compatible
verb classes)?

4. Can the recent findings on Kwa SVCs be extended to other languages as well?
Does Shluin- sky’s (2017) syntactic taxonomy of take-SVCs and ‘give’-SVCs also
apply to languages outside Kwa?

5. Are there any properties which are particular to West-African SVCs and
which cannot be found in other language families such as Sino-Tibetean or
Austroniesan?

6. What is the nature of the components of SVCs? Qualify both of them as
finite verbs? Can some of these components more efficiently analysed as
preposition or particle? How does one account for the fact that in some
languages such as Ìgbò both components bear different morphological markings?
Is this a hint that some components are actually nonfinite or nominalisations?

7. How can SVCs be distinguished from other constructions (cf.ten
generalisations by Haspelmath 2016, four parameters by Aikhenvald 2006, single
event constructions Durie 1997, Bisang 2009 or as suggested by Veenstra and
Muyskens 2017)?

This panel is an in presence event which is part of the 4th Symposium on West
African Languages taking place from 21st till 23rd September 2022 at
Università di Napoli l’Orientale.

https://www.unior.it/ricerca/26771/3/4th-symposium-on-west-african-languages-2
1-23-september-2022.html

Abstract should not exceed the length 500 words (including references) and
should be sent to the address below before 6th June.

 Jakob.Mache at letras.ulisboa.pt




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