33.2496, Calls: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/Germany

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Subject: 33.2496, Calls: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/Germany

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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 01:22:49
From: Daria Alfimova [daria.alfimova at uni-potsdam.de]
Subject: Explaining Cross-linguistic Distribution of Argument-coding Patterns

Full Title: Explaining Cross-linguistic Distribution of Argument-coding Patterns 
Short Title: EDAP2023 

Date: 21-Mar-2023 - 24-Mar-2023
Location: Potsdam, Germany 
Contact Person: Daria Alfimova
Meeting Email: orgteampotsdam at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/edap2023/home 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 20-Oct-2022 

Meeting Description:

Dear colleagues, 
We welcome abstracts for the conference on Explaining cross-linguistic
Distribution of Argument-coding Patterns (EDAP2023) which will be held in
Potsdam (Potsdam University, Campus Am Neuen Palais) on March 21-24, 2023.
Please find the call for abstracts below or visit our website.

Call for Papers:

Submission guidelines 
Abstracts (maximally 1 page plus references and figures) should be submitted
to the conference email orgteampotsdam at gmail.com by October, 20, 2022. The
language of the conference is English. Acceptance notifications will be sent
no later than November, 1, 2022.

Invited speaker
Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History)

Important dates
October 20, 2022: Abstract submission deadline
November 1, 2022: Acceptance notification
March 21-24, 2023: Conference dates

Argument coding patterns consist of bound markers indicating the semantic and
syntactic dependency of the arguments from their verb and are either
argument-bound (flagging or dependent-marking) or verb-bound (indexing or
head-marking), see Haspelmath (2019). Much scholarly attention has been
devoted to the variation in the productivity degrees of the transitive pattern
across languages. The semantic core of the verbs that typically assign the
transitive coding to their arguments is generally stable across languages
(Tsunoda 1985; Haspelmath 2015). This is also true of one-place intransitive
verbs. The features that are responsible for both classes are well understood
(Hopper & Thompson 1980; Tsunoda 1985; Næss 2007). Transitive and intransitive
verbs are also relatively stable cross-linguistically in terms of their
alignment options (ergative, accusative or a mixture of the two). It is
nevertheless known that languages significantly differ in their ‘transitivity
prominence’, that is, in the lexical extent of the transitive class
(Haspelmath 2015). 

By contrast, non-transitive bivalent patterns show much more versatility in
coding frames they represent across and within languages. Although
language-specific non-transitive bivalent patterns display relatively low type
and token frequencies compared to the transitive pattern, collectively, they
can be even more frequent than transitive verbs both in the lexicon (type
frequency) and in the corpus (token frequency). However, they are often
analyzed merely in terms of “deviations” from the transitive prototype
(Kittilä 2011) and, generally speaking, remain quite understudied by
typologists and linguists exploring areal phenomena. For example, so far no
universal trends have been detected with respect to these patterns.

High degrees of both intralinguistic and cross-linguistic versatility of
non-transitive bivalent patterns make it difficult to find strong universal
trends in this domain. By the same token, this variability accounts for strong
local and areal skewings in the cross-linguistic distributions and thus
presents an excellent testing ground for various approaches within the
variationist paradigm. In particular, non-transitive bivalent patterns lend
themselves to exploring various areal pressures and specific contact
situations (see the collection of papers in Grossman et al., eds., 2019).
However, the difficulty here is to establish a cross-linguistically applicable
set of comparative concepts for the non-transitive codings. Various solutions
to this problem have been suggested (Say 2014; Bickel et al. 2016; Hartmann et
al. 2016; Seržant et al., forthc.), but none of them seems to have gained
general acceptance to date. Available studies focusing on areality in valency
patterns are mainly limited to unearthing contact-induced phenomena in
individual languages (Grosmann 2019) or areal effects in medium-size areas
(inter alia, Seržant 2015a, 2015b; Gaszewski 2020; Widmer et al. 2019), while
attempts to trace large-scale effects are generally lacking.

We invite contributions that explore variation, language contact and/or areal
effects, diachronic changes or typological distribution of argument-coding
patterns. The workshop topics include but are not limited to:
- methodology of cross-linguistic studies on valency patterns, including ways
to identify a tertium comparationis;
- calques and other types of PAT-borrowings and their effect on the
development of valency patterns in individual languages;
- areal effects in the distribution of valency patterns associated with
specific verb types, such as, e.g., perception verbs, interaction verbs,
pursuit verbs, etc.;
- areal distribution of valency patterns in synchrony and/or diachrony;
- interaction of genealogical and areal effects in the development of valency
patterns;
- cross-linguistic corpus-based analysis of valency patterns, their frequency
and productivity;
- diachronic (in)stability of the bivalent patterns.

Participation will be free of charge but participants are requested to
register at orgteampotsdam at gmail.com.

Organizing team 
Daria Alfimova (University of Potsdam)
Cem Keskin (University of Potsdam)
Maxim Makartsev (University of Oldenburg)
Sergey S. Say (University of Potsdam)
Christoph Schroeder (University of Potsdam)
Ilja A. Seržant (University of Potsdam)

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