33.2189, Calls: Indo-European; General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics/Austria

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-2189. Mon Jul 04 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.2189, Calls: Indo-European; General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics/Austria

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Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2022 07:39:02
From: Laura Grestenberger [Laura.Grestenberger at oeaw.ac.at]
Subject: Deadjectival Verb Formation in Indo-European: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

Full Title: Deadjectival verb formation in Indo-European: Historical and theoretical perspectives 
Short Title: Deadjectivals 

Date: 10-Mar-2023 - 11-Mar-2023
Location: Vienna, Austria 
Contact Person: Laura Grestenberger
Meeting Email: Laura.Grestenberger at oeaw.ac.at

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Indo-European 

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2022 

Meeting Description:

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from Indo-European studies as
well as from theoretical linguistics to discuss deadjectival verb formation
from different perspectives, as part of the FWF-funded project “The diachrony
of verbal categories and categorizers” (V 850G). Submissions from MA- and
PhD-students are especially welcome. The workshop will take place at the
Institute of Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna
from March 10-11, 2023 and is planned as an in person event, though a
livestream/zoom option for guests will be made available.

Call for Papers:

Productive means for deriving deadjectival verbs exist in all older
Indo-European languages, but these have for the most part not been the subject
of systematic study and analysis from the perspective of comparative
reconstruction or theoretical linguistics. There are several reasons for this
fact: On one hand, verbal (especially internal) derivation is less examined
than nominal derivation, and within the verbal domain one can notice a
research gap between primary and secondary derivates. On the other hand, their
synchronic productivity makes it difficult to distinguish forms that are
“einzelsprachlich” from cognates. Furthermore, more research is needed to
establish valid diagnostics for derivational directionality (cf. Grestenberger
& Kastner forthcoming) – the problem therefore lies in the state of research
as well in methodology. 

As a consequence, existing case studies on denominal and deadjectival verb
formation (e.g. Tucker 1990) have raised a multitude of questions for
comparative reconstruction. This potential is reinforced by recent work on the
factitive verbs of the “newaḫḫi-type” (Jasanoff 2003,  Rau 2009b, Sasseville
2015, 2020) or the discussion on a potential deadjectival origin of the PIE
u-presents, respectively the class of simple thematic presents (cf.
Villanueva-Svensson 2021, Jasanoff forthcoming).

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from Indo-European studies as
well as from theoretical linguistics to discuss deadjectival verb formation
from different perspectives, as part of the FWF-funded project “The diachrony
of verbal categories and categorizers” (V 850G). Submissions from MA- and
PhD-students are especially welcome. The workshop will take place at the
Institute of Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna
from March 10-11, 2023 and is planned as an in person event, though a
livestream/zoom option for guests will be made available.

We invite abstract submissions for presentations of 30 minutes (in English or
German), to be followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Abstracts should be
anonymous and not exceed more than one page. Please send your abstracts as PDF
files to deadjectivals at oeaw.ac.at by Sept. 30, 2022. Notifications of
acceptance will be sent around Nov. 15. If you have any questions, please use
the conference e-mail address or contact the organizers directly: Laura
Grestenberger (laura.grestenberger at oeaw.ac.at) and Viktoria Reiter
(viktoria.reiter at univie.ac.at).

We are pleased to announce the following keynote speakers at this workshop:

- Jeremy Rau, Harvard University
- Miguel Villanueva Svensson, Vilnius University

Research questions that could be addressed in the presentations include (but
are not limited to) the following:

- Which suffixes/derivational possibilities to derive verbs from adjectives
can be found synchronically in the Indo-European languages? Which of these are
inherited, which are einzelsprachlich? When/why do periphrastic constructions
arise in these contexts?
- How do accent and ablaut interact within those derivations?
- Which diagnostics are needed or applicable to distinguish forms that are
einzelsprachlich from cognates? How can directionality (deadjectival verb vs.
deverbal adjective) be established? What are synchronic criteria for
classifying a form as deadjectival?
- How do these derivations interact with voice, aspect, and tense? Why are
some derivates media tantum when others alternate?
- How do deadjectivals evolve diachronically? When and why are they reanalysed
as primary? 
- Cross-linguistically, change of state verbs are frequently derived from or
closely associated morphologically and semantically to primary property
concept adjectives (Hale & Keyser 1998, 2002; Harley 2005, 2011,
Koontz-Garboden 2005, Francez & Koontz-Garboden 2017, etc.). To what extent
does this apply to the Indo-European Caland system as well, and which types of
deadjectivals can be ascribed to the Caland system?

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