[etnolinguistica] Informativo: Encontro sobre o Dativo e casos similares

[Christiane de Oliveira]

Dative and similar cases

Date: 25-FEB-04 - 26-FEB-04
Location: Mainz, Germany
Contact: André Meinunger
Contact Email: <mailto:andre at zas.gwz-berlin.de>andre at zas.gwz-berlin.de

Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics
Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2003

Meeting Description:

Dative and similar cases - workshop held during the Annual Meeting of the 
German Society of Linguistics (DGfS) 2004 in Mainz (Germany), February 25-26

Second call / Final call:

We invite abstracts for presentations at a short workshop held during the 
Annual Meeting of the German Society of Linguistics (DGfS) 2004 in Mainz, 
February 25-26.

There are eight slots of 30 (20+10) minutes to be filled, supplemented by a 
one-hour discussion group on the following day.  We welcome submissions for 
presentations in German or English.

Workshop description:
A lot of research has been devoted to determining the syntax and semantics 
of indirect objects in German and other languages. Despite these efforts, 
no consensus has been reached in key areas of
analysis. On the syntactic side, the following matters are controversial: 
dative nominals as arguments or adjuncts, the dative as a structural case, 
the array of unmarked word order patterns found with datives, the 
similarity of dative nominals with prepositional phrases, quirky 
case/inverse linking, or binding phenomena involving dative nominals. The 
semantic analysis of dative nominals typically struggles with the following 
problems: dative nominals as linking to a
single thematic role vs. dative nominals as instantiating many different 
thematic roles, dative nominals as linking to the main eventuality as 
opposed to a secondary eventuality. While these
phenomena are diverse, there is a certain degree of cohesion in the 
literature: Many researchers are aware of several of the above-mentioned 
issues and aim at an overarching analysis. Another area in which datives 
likewise figure prominently is typically treated in a very different 
tradition: The discussion of so-called possessor raising, external 
possession and extra argumentality has often detached itself from the above 
topics. One reason for this lies in the difference among frameworks and 
their pet issues: Chomskyan Generativism vs. approaches in the tradition of 
Relational Grammar vs. (functional) typology. Another reason is provided by 
the fact that, from the typological point of view of external possession, 
datives are just one kind of structural realization of a more general 
phenomenon.

The workshop strives to bring together linguists of diverse theoretical 
persuasions to assemble a state-of-the-art picture of research into 
datives, into similar morphological cases, and into
phenomena that are semantically or functionally similar while displaying a 
divergent constructional make-up (e.g., applicatives). The organizers aim 
at a balanced representation of theoretical papers on the one side, and of 
submissions concentrating on empirical generalizations and/or 
cross-linguistic coverage.

Important deadlines:
Submission of abstracts: August 15th, 2003
Notification of acceptance: September 30th, 2003

Please submit abstracts via e-mail (MS-Word or pdf) to the following address:

mailto:     <mailto:andre at zas.gwz-berlin.de>andre at zas.gwz-berlin.de

André Meinunger/ZAS
Jägerstraße 10-11
10117 Berlin
Tel.: 030/20192-404; Fax: -402
<mailto:andre at zas.gwz-berlin.de>andre at zas.gwz-berlin.de

Hole/LMU München
Schellingstraße 3/RG
80799 München
Tel.: 089/2180-2061; Fax: -3871
<mailto:hole at germanistik.uni-muenchen.de>hole at germanistik.uni-muenchen.de



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