34.632, Calls: All About ‘Voice’: A Crosslinguistic Perspective

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Subject: 34.632, Calls: All About ‘Voice’: A Crosslinguistic Perspective

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From: Anindita  Sahoo [anindita at iitm.ac.in]
Subject: All About ‘Voice’: A Crosslinguistic Perspective

Full Title: All About ‘Voice’: A Crosslinguistic Perspective
Short Title: AAV2023

Date: 14-Apr-2023 - 15-Apr-2023
Location: Chennai, India
Contact Person: Anindita Sahoo
Meeting Email: anindita at iitm.ac.in
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/aav2023/home?authuser=1

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Hindi (hin)
Language Family(ies): Indo-Aryan

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2023

Meeting Description:

This is a two day seminar on "All About ‘Voice’: A Crosslinguistic
Perspective" organized by the Department of Humanities & Social
Sciences, IIT Madras, Chennai.

Concept Note:

Voice constructions are one of the oldest and most ancient topics in
the traditions of descriptive grammar. Historically, the study of
voice dates at least to the Sanskrit Grammar of Pāṇini (circa 500 BCE)
where he has described it through inflectional paradigms. In the
recent decades too, the field of both theoretical and descriptive
grammar studies have seen an outpouring of detailed research on voice
constructions cross-linguistically. This has substantially enriched
our understanding of the typology of voice constructions, as well as
their consequences for theoretical analysis.

Grammatical voice, as a morphosyntactic phenomenon, signifies a
specific relationship between the meaning and form of clauses. Its
values correspond to particular diatheses marked on the form of
predicates. Under the umbrella of ‘Voice’, a range of grammatical
categories are listed, such as passives, causatives, middles,
reflexives, antipassives and applicatives. These constructions have
been studied through both synchronic and diachronic perspectives by
using inductive or deductive methodologies. Researchers have been
exploring them through various typological, pragmatic and generative
frameworks.

Though the voice systems in some of the Indian languages have been
studied in great detail following both theoretical and typological
frameworks, yet we haven’t had much clarity on various aspects of this
system because of the diversity of views among researchers. For
example, while on the one hand we understand Indian languages have
both canonical and non-canonical passives, on the other hand, we do
not have much clarity on what leads to the variations in these
constructions, both theoretically and typologically. We also have very
little understanding of the cognition, perception and acquisition of
voice constructions of the children who speak Indian languages. The
seminar attempts to explore the voice constructions through the lens
of theoretical, typological and acquisition centric perspectives.

Paper Topics:

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the ways voice and other
related phenomena are represented in the following areas:

Typology of voice constructions

Theoretical analysis of grammatical voice

Acquisition of voice

Pragmatics of voice constructions

Voice in conversational discourse

The text and the voice system

Diachrony of voice constructions

Voice and gender

Voice systems and their areal distribution

Cognition and perception in voice systems

Submission Guidelines:

All the abstracts should be submitted anonymous with the author(s)'
details in the body of the text. They should not exceed 500 words
(excluding examples and references, if any) and be mailed (in both
.doc and .pdf formats) at aslinguistics.iitm at gmail.com. Each
participant can maximally submit one single-authored abstract and one
co-authored abstract. In the case of a co-authored paper, each of the
authors joining the conference in person has to pay the registration
fees.

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