Arabic-L:LING:Clause Linking in Semitic Languages Symposium in Sweden, extended deadline

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Date: 08 May 2012
From:Bo Isaksson <bo.isaksson at lingfil.uu.se>
Subject:Clause Linking in Semitic Languages Symposium in Sweden,
extended deadline

International Symposium on Clause Linking in Semitic Languages, 5-7
August 2012 in Kivik, Sweden

THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS with extended deadline

We recently found out that there have been problems reaching us via
the conference e-mail address. We apologize for this and have decided
to extend the deadline for submission of abstracts to 21 May. Deadline
for registration (participant without paper) and payment is, as
before, 25 May

International Symposium on Clause Linking in Semitic Languages 5-7
August 2012 in Kivik, Sweden

Key-note speakers:
Dr. Eran Cohen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Dr. Reinhard G. Lehmann, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Germany
Assoc. Prof. Tsvetomira Pashova, Sofia University, Bulgaria

The symposium welcomes papers dealing with clause linking in all
varieties of Semitic languages. A strong incentive for the symposium
is the renewed interest in recent years in the nature of non-main
clause linking, which has brought into focus the concept of a main
line and digressions from this main line in various discourse types.
Recent research has also questioned the traditional view that non-main
clauses must be introduced by a conjunction (Dixon 2009, Givón 2001,
299, Isaksson et al. 2009). The conference committee invites scholars
to submit papers on all related topics with emphasis on "ways of
combining clauses other than through relative clause and complement
clause constructions" (Dixon 2009, 1). Specific areas of interest are:

• the concept of a main line and digressions from a main line
• features of specific discourse types in the coding of a main line
and its digressions
• the use and non-use of conjunction in non-main clause linking
• the use and function of gram-switching in clause linking (Fleischman
1985, 1990)
• non-main clauses functioning as focal clauses (Dixon 2009, 4)
• the nature and coding of conditional clause linking
• the encoding of hierarchies in non-main clause linking (non-main
clauses having mutually "unequal status", Halliday 2004, 374)

Important dates and practical information:
Dead-line for abstracts: 21 May 2012.
Conference fee: 800 SEK (25% VAT included). To be paid according to
instructions on the conference website. Online payment is enabled.
Information on other alternatives will be posted closer to the
conference date.
Dead-line for payment: 25 May 2012.

Venue: Agda Lund Hotel, Kivik, Sweden.
Accommodation:The conference board has reserved accommodation for the
participants at Hanöbris Hotel. The whole hotel, located at walking
distance from the conference venue, is reserved for the conference and
this is also where all conference dinners will be served.
Participants who wish to stay at the hotel need to make a reservation
through the conference website. The accommodation cost is paid
directly to the hotel upon arrival. More information on costs and
alternatives as well as instructions on how to make a reservation at
Hanöbris Hotel online will be posted closer to the conference date.

Conference Home page: http://conference.sol.lu.se/en/scls-2012/
Conference board: Professor Bo Isaksson and PhD Maria Persson on
behalf of The International research project on “Circumstantial Clause
Combining in Semitic”, Swedish Research Council project 2010-2012 (Dnr
2009-2197), Uppsala University, Gothenburg University, Lund
University, Hebrew University.

References
Dixon, R. M. W. 2009. “The semantics of clause linking in typological
perspective”. In The semantics of clause linking: A cross-linguistic
typology, edited by R. M. W.
Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald. 1-55. Explorations in linguistic
typology 5. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fleischman, Suzanne. 1985. “Discourse functions of tense-aspect
oppositions in narrative: Toward a theory of grounding”. Linguistics
23 no. 6: 851-882.

Fleischman, Suzanne. 1990. Tense and narrativity: From medieval
performance to modern fiction. Croom Helm romance linguistics series.
London: Routledge. Reprint, 2002.

Givón, Talmy. 2001. Syntax: An introduction. Rev. ed. Vol. 1.
Amsterdam, Philadelphia: J. Benjamins.

Halliday, Michael A. K. 2004. An introduction to functional grammar.
Edited by Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen. 3rd rev. ed. London: Arnold.

Isaksson, Bo, Heléne Kammensjö, and Maria Persson. 2009.
Circumstantial qualifiers in Semitic: The case of Arabic and Hebrew.
Edited by Bo Isaksson. Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 70.
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.

Isaksson, Bo. 2011. “The textlinguistics of the Suffering Servant:
Subordinate structures in Isaiah 52,13-53,12”. In En pase grammatike
kai sophia. Saggi di linguistica ebraica in onore di Alviero Niccacci,
ofm, edited by Gregor Geiger and Massimo Pazzini. 173-212. Collana
Analecta: Studium Biblicum Franciscanum 78. Jerusalem; Milano:
Franciscan Printing Press; Editioni Terra Santa.

Matthiessen, Christian, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1988. “The structure
of discourse and ‘subordination’”. In Clause combining in grammar and
discourse, edited by John Haiman and Sandra A. Thompson. 275-329.
Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Persson, Maria. “Circumstantial clause”. In Encyclopedia of Arabic
Language and Linguistics Online, edited by Lutz Edzard and Rudolf de
Jong. Leiden –
Boston: Brill.

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