LAST CALL FOR PAPERS. Workshop: The origin of non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European
Ilja Serzants
ilja.serzants at UIB.NO
Tue Jan 6 09:59:46 UTC 2009
LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
WORKSHOP: THE ORIGIN OF NON-CANONICAL SUBJECT MARKING IN INDO-EUROPEAN
The research team of the project "Indo-European Case and Argument
Structure from a Typological Perspective" (IECASTP)
(http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP[1]) is organizing a workshop at the XIXth
International Conference on Historical Linguistics (10-15 August 2009,
Nijmegen, http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/[2]), devoted on the origin of
non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European.
The URL of the workshop is: http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop5.htm[3]
Invited speaker: Leonid Kulikov (University of Leiden)
Please send a 300-word abstract in pdf format to Ilja Serzants
(Ilja.Serzants at uib.no) no later than January 10th. Notification of
acceptance will be sent out no later than January 25th. The abstract
also has to be submitted through the main conference website at the
same time.
DESCRIPTION
Several of the Modern Indo-European languages that have maintained
morphological case exhibit structures where the subject(-like)
argument is not canonically case marked. These are found amongst the
Modern Germanic languages, Modern Russian, the Modern Baltic languages
and the Modern Indo-Aryan languages, to mention some. It is
traditionally assumed in the literature that these have developed from
objects to subjects (see, for instance, Hewson and Bubenik 2006),
hence the case marking. Recently, however, it has been argued for
Germanic that oblique subjects in the modern languages were syntactic
subjects already in Old Germanic (Eythórsson and Barðdal 2005). This
raises the question whether these non-canonically case-marked
subject(-like) arguments were objects in Proto-Germanic or
Proto-Indo-European, or whether they may have been syntactic subjects
all along, given an assumption of the alignment system in
Proto-Indo-European being a Fluid-S system (cf. Barðdal and Eythórsson
2008). It is, moreover, possible that the case marking patterns of
different predicate types have different origins in Indo-European.
The aim of this workshop is therefore to gather researchers who work
on case marking in Indo-European, and case marking in general, to a
forum where the more general topic of the origin of this non-canonical
case marking can be discussed. By doing that, we hope to shed light on
this important issue within case marking and alignment, historical
linguistics, and Indo-European studies.
LOCATION:
Radboud University Nijmegen,
Centre for Language Studies/Language in Time and Space
Please check the website of the host conference for issues like
registration, conference fee, social program, etc.
http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/[4])
--
Ilja Serzants
PhD Research Student
Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies
University of Bergen
P.O. box 7805
NO-5020 Bergen
Norway
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
WORKSHOP: THE ORIGIN OF NON-CANONICAL SUBJECT MARKING IN INDO-EUROPEAN
The research team of the project ?Indo-European Case and Argument
Structure from a Typological Perspective? (IECASTP)
(http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP[1]) is organizing a workshop at the XIXth
International Conference on Historical Linguistics (10-15 August 2009,
Nijmegen, http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/[2]), devoted on the origin of
non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European.
The URL of the workshop is: http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop5.htm[3]
Invited speaker: Leonid Kulikov (University of Leiden)
Please send a 300-word abstract in pdf format to Ilja Serzants
(Ilja.Serzants at uib.no) no later than January 10th. Notification of
acceptance will be sent out no later than January 25th. The abstract
also has to be submitted through the main conference website at the
same time.
DESCRIPTION
Several of the Modern Indo-European languages that have maintained
morphological case exhibit structures where the subject(-like)
argument is not canonically case marked. These are found amongst the
Modern Germanic languages, Modern Russian, the Modern Baltic languages
and the Modern Indo-Aryan languages, to mention some. It is
traditionally assumed in the literature that these have developed from
objects to subjects (see, for instance, Hewson and Bubenik 2006),
hence the case marking. Recently, however, it has been argued for
Germanic that oblique subjects in the modern languages were syntactic
subjects already in Old Germanic (Eythórsson and Barðdal 2005). This
raises the question whether these non-canonically case-marked
subject(-like) arguments were objects in Proto-Germanic or
Proto-Indo-European, or whether they may have been syntactic subjects
all along, given an assumption of the alignment system in
Proto-Indo-European being a Fluid-S system (cf. Barðdal and Eythórsson
2008). It is, moreover, possible that the case marking patterns of
different predicate types have different origins in Indo-European.
The aim of this workshop is therefore to gather researchers who work
on case marking in Indo-European, and case marking in general, to a
forum where the more general topic of the origin of this non-canonical
case marking can be discussed. By doing that, we hope to shed light on
this important issue within case marking and alignment, historical
linguistics, and Indo-European studies.
LOCATION:
Radboud University Nijmegen,
Centre for Language Studies/Language in Time and Space
Please check the website of the host conference for issues like
registration, conference fee, social program, etc.
http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/[4])
--
Ilja Serzants
PhD Research Student
Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies
University of Bergen
P.O. box 7805
NO-5020 Bergen
Norway
Links:
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[1] http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP
[2] http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/
[3] http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop5.htm
[4] http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
WORKSHOP: THE ORIGIN OF NON-CANONICAL SUBJECT MARKING IN INDO-EUROPEAN
The research team of the project ?Indo-European Case and Argument
Structure from a Typological Perspective? (IECASTP)
(http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP) is organizing a workshop at the XIXth
International Conference on Historical Linguistics (10-15 August 2009,
Nijmegen, http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/), devoted on the origin of
non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European.
The URL of the workshop is: http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop5.htm
Invited speaker: Leonid Kulikov (University of Leiden)
Please send a 300-word abstract in pdf format to Ilja Serzants
(Ilja.Serzants at uib.no) no later than January 10th. Notification of
acceptance will be sent out no later than January 25th. The abstract
also has to be submitted through the main conference website at the
same time.
DESCRIPTION
Several of the Modern Indo-European languages that have maintained
morphological case exhibit structures where the subject(-like)
argument is not canonically case marked. These are found amongst the
Modern Germanic languages, Modern Russian, the Modern Baltic languages
and the Modern Indo-Aryan languages, to mention some. It is
traditionally assumed in the literature that these have developed from
objects to subjects (see, for instance, Hewson and Bubenik 2006),
hence the case marking. Recently, however, it has been argued for
Germanic that oblique subjects in the modern languages were syntactic
subjects already in Old Germanic (Eythórsson and Barðdal 2005). This
raises the question whether these non-canonically case-marked
subject(-like) arguments were objects in Proto-Germanic or
Proto-Indo-European, or whether they may have been syntactic subjects
all along, given an assumption of the alignment system in
Proto-Indo-European being a Fluid-S system (cf. Barðdal and Eythórsson
2008). It is, moreover, possible that the case marking patterns of
different predicate types have different origins in Indo-European.
The aim of this workshop is therefore to gather researchers who work
on case marking in Indo-European, and case marking in general, to a
forum where the more general topic of the origin of this non-canonical
case marking can be discussed. By doing that, we hope to shed light on
this important issue within case marking and alignment, historical
linguistics, and Indo-European studies.
LOCATION:
Radboud University Nijmegen,
Centre for Language Studies/Language in Time and Space
Please check the website of the host conference for issues like
registration, conference fee, social program, etc.
http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/)
--
Ilja Serzants
PhD Research Student
Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies
University of Bergen
P.O. box 7805
NO-5020 Bergen
Norway
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