PIONIER workshop on Case, Valency and Transitivity in Nijmegen, J une 2003 : call for papers

[Kulikov, L.]

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> please put the below call for papers on the HISTLING list
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> Case, Valency and Transitivity
> First CALL FOR PAPERS
> PIONIER-Workshop
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> Dates: second half of June 2003
> Location: Nijmegen
> Organizers: Leonid Kulikov, Andrej Malchukov, Peter de Swart
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> Case, valency and transitivity belong to the most discussed topics of the
> modern linguistics. Case is a grammatical category determined by the
> syntactic or semantic function of a noun or pronoun. Valency is a verbal
> feature which characterizes the capacity of a verb to take a specific
> number and type of arguments and thus, in the languages with case-marking,
> crucially depends on the case-marking of the arguments. Transitivity is a
> more abstract feature of both verbs and syntactic patterns, determined by
> the ability of a given verb (verbal form) to take a (direct) object.
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> Thus, the three concepts listed in the title of the workshop are
> intimately related to each other and build up the foundations of the
> syntactic skeleton of a clause. In fact, however, all the three concepts
> reach far beyond the pure syntax. On the one hand, they are crucially
> connected with such morphological aspects of the clause as case marking
> and person agreement (which both can be understood as case in a broad
> sense of the concept), valency marking on verbs (voice and diathesis) and
> various morphological devices for marking transitivity. On the other hand,
> they inevitably involve several semantic issues, such as meaning of case,
> semantico-syntactic verbal classes, semantic correlates of transitivity
> (in the vein of Hopper & Thompson's (1980) approach to transitivity as a
> bunch of features) and some others.
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> All these issues belong to the scope of the research activity of the
> PIONIER-Project "Case cross-linguistically", started at University of
> Nijmegen in 2002 under the guidance of Dr. H. deHoop.
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> Among the questions which we would like to see addressed are the
> following:
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> · Case systems across languages
> · Case semantics
> · Valency, transitivity and verbal classes
> · Valency change and case-marking
> · Core valency and oblique arguments
> · Case-marking of subject and object: nominative, accusative, ergative,
> absolutive
> · Nominative-accusative and ergative-absolutive patterns in synchronic and
> diachronic perspective
> · Evolution of case systems
> · Person agreement as case-marking on verbs
> · Passive, antipassive and other transitivity alternations
> · Case-marking in causative constructions
> · Marking of transitivity and labile verbs
> · Transitivity and object marking
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> The idea is to organize two- or three-day meeting on Case, Valency and
> Transitivity in the second half of June 2003.
> We hope also to be able to arrange partial reimbursement of travel and
> accommodation costs for some participants if necessary.
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> We invite those interested in these topics to a discussion, with reference
> to specific case histories or more general issues in the study of Case,
> Valency and Transitivity.
> Each presentation will be allotted 30 minutes including time for
> discussion.
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> Abstracts should not exceed one page and can be sent electronically or in
> paper format. Electronic submission should be pdf-files or Word documents.
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> Please include your name, affiliation, and contact information in the
> email message to which the abstract is attached. If sending as paper copy,
> please include your name, affiliation, and contact information on a
> separate sheet. Please specify in the subject line or on the envelope:
> Abstract for "Case, Valency and Transitivity".
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> Deadline for abstract submission: March 1st, 2003
> Notification of acceptance: March 31th, 2003
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> The organizers of the workshop will be the members of the PIONIER-Project
> "Case cross-linguistically" Leonid Kulikov, Andrej Malchukov and Peter de
> Swart.
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> Please send your submissions to:
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> Peter de Swart
> P.deSwart at let.kun.nl
> University of Nijmegen
> Faculty of Arts, Dept. of Linguistics
> PO Box 9103, 6500 HD Nijmegen
> The Netherlands
> Fax: 024-3611070
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