34.3712, Calls: Alignment and Argument Morphosyntax in Synchrony and Diachrony

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Subject: 34.3712, Calls: Alignment and Argument Morphosyntax in Synchrony and Diachrony

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Date: 07-Dec-2023
From: Eystein Dahl [eystein.dahl at gmail.com]
Subject: Alignment and Argument Morphosyntax in Synchrony and Diachrony

Full Title: Alignment and Argument Morphosyntax in Synchrony and
Diachrony

Date: 12-Sep-2024 - 13-Sep-2024
Location: Poznań, Poland
Contact Person: Eystein Dahl
Meeting Email: astrapie at amu.edu.pl
Web Site: https://eysdah1.web.amu.edu.pl/events/

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Call Deadline: 08-Jan-2024

Meeting Description:

This workshop explores the relationship between alignment and argument
morphosyntax. Alignment is defined as the morphosyntactic realization
of arguments in a language. Argument morphosyntax, on the other hand,
is taken to involve at least two dimensions of grammar, argumenthood
and transitivity prominence. Argumenthood is a cover term for the
morphosyntactic properties characteristic of the core arguments of
verbal predicates, while transitivity prominence is the extent to
which the verbal predicates in a language show the same
morphosyntactic marking as core transitive verbs.

Alignment and argumenthood have been intensively explored from the
early to mid-1970s onward, a research endeavour that has resulted in
an extensive body of research output (cf. e.g., Dixon 1972, 1995,
Keenan 1976, Falk 2006, the papers in Donohue and Wichmann (eds.)
2008, Coon et al. (eds.) 2017 and in Dahl (ed.) 2022). Transitivity
prominence, on the other hand, has received systematic scholarly
attention in relatively recent times (cf. e.g., Bossong 1998, Say
2014, 2017, Haspelmath 2015, Creissels 2018a, 2018b). However,
although these works have greatly enhanced our understanding of the
three domains of argument morphosyntax, it largely remains unexplored
how they interact synchronically and diachronically. For example,
Falk's (2006) important study makes a strong case for the claim that
some types of subject properties (e.g., control. raising) show an
alignment-based alternation in their selection of core argument
anchoring, which in some languages is based on an accusatively
oriented (S/A) profile and in others on an ergatively oriented one
(S/P). Other subject properties (e.g., imperative addressee, anaphoric
prominence) invariably show an accusatively oriented anchoring across
languages and thus are not sensitive to differences in alignment. From
a diachronic perspective, this seems to indicate that certain types of
alignment properties enhance the grammaticalization of certain
subjecthood features, a hypothesis that would be in line with the
results of recent investigations into the relationship between
grammaticalization and typology (e.g., Narrog 2017, Narrog and Heine
(eds.) 2018, Narrog and Heine 2021). Based on a scrutiny of data from
a selection of archaic Indo-European languages, Cotticelli and Dahl
(2022) argue that there may be a correlation between a high degree of
consistency in accusatively oriented case-marking and verb agreement,
notably absence of split alignment, and a rich inventory of
subjecthood properties. However, their analysis is based on a rather
limited comparative basis and restricted to languages with
predominantly nominative-accusative alignment, so that more detailed
study is needed to arrive at firmer conclusions about interactions
between alignment and subjecthood, diachronically and synchronically.
Finally, transitivity prominence is a somewhat new field of research
but it seems likely that it systematically interacts with subjecthood,
on one hand, and alignment type on the other.

2nd Call for Papers:

2nd call for papers for the Workshop 'Alignment and Argument
Morphosyntax in Synchrony and Diachrony' at the 2024 International
Congress of Linguists in Poznań, Poland

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