call for papers: workshop on preverbs at Nijmegen (Netherlands)

[Ans van Kemenade]

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Call for papers for a two-day workshop on PREVERBS

Date of the workshop:            19-20 January 2001
Venue:                                       University of Nijmegen
Deadline for abstracts:           15 September 2000
Notification of acceptance:    20 October 2000

Invited speakers (confirmed) include   Farrell Ackerman (UCSD), Alice Harris
(Vanderbilt), Adrienne Bruyn (Amsterdam/Manchester), Thorhallur Eythorsson
(Manchester), Marian Klamer (Amsterdam), Muriel Norde (Amsterdam), Willem
Koopman (Amsterdam)

Abstracts are solicited for 40-minute papers (including discussion). Here
follows a brief description of the topic indicating the types of work that
we welcome in particular:

Preverbs pose a range of interesting questions along many dimensions of
linguistic study. They are of relevance to current theoretical debates
concerning the nature of the syntax-morphology interface and the
representation of argument structure. They are attested across a broad range
of language families, so that one is led to ask what are the typological
factors that impinge on their distribution. Last but not least, their
historical development can both provide further evidence about their
synchronic status and shed interesting light on the mechanisms of
morphosyntactic change.
       In this workshop, therefore, we will attempt to bring together
typological, historical and theoretical insights, in order to gain a better
understanding of how and why preverbs developed in the way they did.

Proposals for contributions are invited under the followed heads:
* theoretically informed analyses of a synchronic set of data pertaining to
preverbs in one or more languages or language families
* theoretically informed analyses of the diachronic development in one or
more of the languages or language families
* typologically based surveys of preverbs across a larger or smaller set of
languages
*  systematic (sub)inventories of data for those languages for which
preverbs do not seem to have been much of an issue so far

Organisers:  Geert Booij, Bettelou Los (Vrije Univ.) Olga Fischer (Univ. of
Amsterdam)
Nigel Vincent (Manchester), Ans van Kemenade (Nijmegen, local organiser)

The workshop is sponsored by NWO, through the collaborative effort between
the Dutch linguistics network LOT, and the NorthWest Centre of Linguistics