34.3727, Calls: Syntax / Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos (Jrnl)

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Subject: 34.3727, Calls: Syntax / Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos (Jrnl)

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Date: 06-Dec-2023
From: Kim Groothuis [kim.groothuis at ugent.be]
Subject: Syntax / Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos (Jrnl)

Thematic issue: Finiteness in indigenous languages of South America
Editors: Bernat Bardagil (bernat.bardagil at ugent.be), Kim Groothuis
(kim.groothuis at ugent.be), Karin Vivanco (vivanco at unicamp.br)

The notion of finiteness is notoriously difficult to define
cross-linguistically (cf. Joseph 1983; Ledgeway 2007; Nikolaeva 2007,
a.o.). Despite studies such as those by Givón (1990) or Cristofaro
(2003), research on the issue of finiteness has too often focused on
Indo-European languages, even though indigenous languages such as
those spoken in South America often challenge these more traditional
approaches. They can therefore prove crucial for informing our
theories of grammar and expanding the empirical coverage of existing
approaches. This special issue of Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos
seeks to contribute to fill this gap by bringing together
contributions on finiteness from the perspective of indigenous
languages spoken in South America.

Finiteness has been connected to notions such as deictic anchoring
(Bianchi 2003, Ritter & Wiltschko 2014, Groothuis 2022), assertion
(Klein 1998, 2006), nominalization (Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993, Salanova
2007), mood (Vincent 1998), subordination or clause type. Furthermore,
finiteness can be investigated in relation to its availability in
matrix clauses.

In the specific case of indigenous languages of Amazonia, and South
America more generally, nominalization is frequently exploited as a
subordinating strategy (Dixon and Aikhenvald 1999, Gijn, Haude and
Muysken 2011). The nature of the connection between nominalization and
finiteness is itself still a largely unresolved issue, on which the
indigenous languages of South America can shed light.

For the thematic dossier, we welcome papers that seek to contribute to
descriptive, typological, or theoretical aspects of finiteness in one
or more indigenous South American languages. Contributions from all
theoretical frameworks are welcome, and the following topics are
especially encouraged:
- The universality of finiteness and the categories involved in it
- Finiteness and argument marking
- Complementation/subordination and finiteness
- Nominalization and finiteness
- Embedded contexts and finiteness
- The diachrony of non-finite constructions
- Typological considerations of finiteness
- The connection of finiteness with clause-chaining
- Finiteness and clause size/functional structure
- Finiteness and modality, negation, and reality status

Languages: English (preferred), Portuguese and Spanish.

Instructions for the submission of proposals
The received manuscripts will undergo assessment under double-blind
peer review and adhere to the editorial standards of Cadernos de
Estudos Linguísticos.

We encourage authors to submit their manuscript proposals beforehand.
The proposals should include the following information:
- Name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s)
- Title of the article
- An abstract of no more than 100-200 words of the topic to be
covered, addressing delineates the theoretical framework and research
significance for the topic of finiteness.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February, 2024

The submitted papers will have to follow the journal’s guidelines:
- The file must be 25 pages long, excluding the references.  It can
only contain an  attachment of a maximum of 1 page.
- The text must be typed in Word, line space 2, Times New Roman 12.
- In phonetic transcriptions, the symbols of the International
Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) should be used, preferably the following
fonts: ARIAL UNICODE MS, LUCIDA SANS UNICODE, DOULOS SIL UNICODE,
CHARIS SIL UNICODE, GENTIUM UNICODE.
- Pages must be numbered.
- Papers have to be submitted in two versions: Word and PDF.

https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/cel/announcement/view/
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