<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear All,<div><br></div><div>apologies for cross-postings – this could be very interesting to our community!</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div>JL<br><div>
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<div><br><div>Välitetty viesti alkaa:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Lähettäjä: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"<a href="mailto:johanna.barddal@uib.no">johanna.barddal@uib.no</a>" <<a href="mailto:johanna.barddal@uib.no">johanna.barddal@uib.no</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Päiväys: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">30. elokuuta 2011 23.11.42 UTC+2.00<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Vastaanottaja: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:nordlingnet@uib.no">nordlingnet@uib.no</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Aihe: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[NLN] CfP: Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects within and across Languages and Language Families: Stability, Variation and Change</b><br></span></div><br><div>In collaboration with the Institute of Linguistics at the University of<br>Iceland, the IECASTP/NonCanCase project at the University of Bergen is<br>organizing a conference on "Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects<br>within and across Languages and Language Families: Stability,<br>Variation and Change"<br><br>Invited Speakers:<br><br>- Miriam Butt (University of Constance)<br>- Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland)<br>- Julie Ann Legate (University of Pennsylvania)<br>- Andrej Malchukov (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig)<br><br>Date: 4.-8. June 2012<br><br>Location: Reykjavík and Hótel Hekla (near Eyjafjallajökull)<br><br>Website 1: <a href="http://vefir.hi.is/SubjectCase">http://vefir.hi.is/SubjectCase</a> (under construction)<br>website 2: <a href="http://org.uib.no/iecastp/IECASTP/SubjectCase.htm">http://org.uib.no/iecastp/IECASTP/SubjectCase.htm</a><br>Contact Person: Tonya Kim Dewey (University of Bergen)<br>Official Email: SubjectCase @ <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a><br><br>Call for papers: Oblique, "quirky", or non-canonically case-marked<br>subjects have been the focus of enormous interest and massive research<br>ever since Andrews (1976) and Masica (1976). Early on, research in<br>this area was mainly carried out within the generative tradition, but<br>by now interest in oblique subjects has spread to all other frameworks<br>(cf. papers in Aikhenvald, Dixon & Onishi 2001, Bhaskararao & Subbarao<br>2004, and Malchukov & Spencer 2009). The attention has generally been<br>on the syntactic behavior of oblique subjects, such as their ability<br>to be left unexpressed in conjoined clauses and control infinitives,<br>their ability to figure in object and subject raising, and to control<br>reflexives, as well as on their word order properties (e.g. Sigurðsson<br>1991). Nevertheless, the validity of certain tests for subjecthood<br>remains controversial, especially in diachronic studies (e.g.<br>Eythórsson & Barðdal 2005).<br><br>Recent research has increasingly turned to the semantics of oblique<br>subjects, both within individual languages and within language<br>families. Barðdal et. al (2011), for instance, show that there is a<br>host of lexical-semantic verb classes associated with oblique subjects<br>in several of the ancient/archaic Indo-European languages, ranging<br>from experiencer, cognition, perception, and attitudinal predicates,<br>to all kinds of happenstance predicates and predicates denoting purely<br>relational and ontological states. Oblique subjects may also denote<br>possession, modality and evidentiality, as well as featuring in the<br>intransitive variant of causative pairs (anticausatives) in some<br>Indo-European languages (e.g. Cennamo, Eythórsson & Barðdal 2011). In<br>a wider typological perspective, it remains to be established which<br>semantic features are language-family-specific and which are generally<br>found cross-linguistically.<br><br>Given the central role that Icelandic has played in research on<br>oblique subjects (witness the classic paper by Zaenen, Maling &<br>Thráinsson 1985), Iceland is the obvious location for this conference.<br>The conference will start in Reykjavík, followed by a one-day tour in<br>Southern Iceland, visiting Thingvellir, Geysir, Gullfoss and other<br>places of great natural beauty and historical interest. The concluding<br>part of the conference will take place at Hótel Hekla, a charming<br>country hotel about 70 km east of the capital, Reykjavík, with a<br>marvelous view of (in)famous volcanoes such as Hekla and<br>Eyjafjallajökull.<br><br>We welcome contributions focusing on a specific language, language<br>family or cross-linguistic comparison, from different theoretical<br>frameworks, on all aspects of oblique subjects, synchronic, diachronic<br>and typological, including the following:<br><br>- The semantics of the oblique subject construction, for instance in<br>terms of lexical semantics, within a single language, or in a<br>comparative or a typological perspective<br>- The syntactic behavior of oblique subjects within a language, a<br>language family, or across languages<br>- The validity of particular tests for subjecthood, both in modern<br>languages as well as corpus languages (e.g. the older Indo-European<br>languages).<br>- The dichotomy between oblique subjects and subject-like obliques<br>which pass some, but perhaps not all, of the subject tests, and its<br>practical and theoretical implications<br>- The origin and emergence of non-canonical subject case marking<br>The potential role of oblique anticausatives in the emergence of<br>oblique subjects<br>- The syntax and semantics of oblique subjects in non-Indo-European languages<br><br>Please submit your abstracts of 500 words or less through<br><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=subjectcase2012">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=subjectcase2012</a>, no later<br>than November 15th, 2011. A response on abstracts will be sent out on<br>December 15th, 2011.<br><br><br>References:<br> Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y., R.M.W. Dixon & M. Onishi (eds.). 2001.<br>Non-Canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects. Amsterdam: John<br>Benjamins.<br> Andrews, Avery D. 1976. The VP complement analysis in Modern<br>Icelandic. North Eastern Linguistic Society 6: 1-21.<br> Barðdal, Jóhanna, Valgerður Bjarnadóttir, Eystein Dahl, Gard B.<br>Jenset & Thomas Smitherman. 2011. Reconstructing Constructional<br>Semantics: The Dative Subject Construction in Old Norse-Icelandic,<br>Latin, Ancient Greek, Old Russian and Lithuanian. Submitted to a<br>thematic volume in Studies in Language, entitled "Theory and Data in<br>Cognitive Linguistics", Nikolas Gisborne & Willem Hollmann (eds).<br> Bhaskararao, Peri & K. V. Subbarao (eds.) 2004. Non-Nominative<br>Subjects. (2 vols.) (Typological studies in language 60-61.)<br>Amsterdam: John Benjamins.<br> Cennamo, Michela, Thórhallur Eythórsson & Jóhanna Barðdal. 2011.<br>The Rise and Fall of Anticausative Constructions in Indo-European: The<br>Context of Latin and Germanic. Submitted to a thematic volume in<br>Linguistics, entitled ?Typology of Labile Verbs: Focus on Diachrony?,<br>Leonid Kulikov & Nikolaos Lavidas (eds).<br> Eythórsson, Thórhallur & Jóhanna Barðdal. 2005. Oblique Subjects:<br>A Common Germanic Inheritance. Language 81(4): 824-881.<br> Malchukov, Andrej & Andrew Spencer (eds.). 2009. In The Oxford<br>Handbook of Case. Oxford: Oxford University Press.<br> Masica, Colin P. 1976. Defining a Linguistic Area: South Asia.<br>Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<br> Sigurðsson, Halldór Ármann. 1991. Icelandic Case-Marked PRO and<br>the Licensing of Lexical Arguments. Natural Language and Linguistic<br>Theory 9: 327-362.<br> Zaenen, Annie, Joan Maling & Höskuldur Thráinsson. 1985. Case and<br>Grammatical Functions: The Icelandic Passive. Natural Language and<br>Linguistic Theory 3: 441-483.<br><br>-- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br>Jóhanna Barðdal<br>Research Associate Professor<br>Coeditor of the Journal of Historical Linguistics<br>Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies<br>University of Bergen<br>P.O. box 7805<br>NO-5020 Bergen<br>Norway<br><a href="mailto:johanna.barddal@uib.no">johanna.barddal@uib.no</a><br><br>Phone +47-55582438 (work)<br>Phone +47-55201117 (home)<br>Fax +47-55589660 (work)<br><br>http://org.uib.no/iecastp/barddal<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>nordlingnet mailing list<br>nordlingnet@uib.no<br>http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/nordlingnet<br><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>