3rd call for papers - extended deadline - referential hierarchies in ditransitives

[Van Lier, Eva]

3rd Call for papers Workshop on Referential Hierarchies in
Three-participant Constructions

*** extended deadline ***

20-22 May 2011, Lancaster University, UK

Organizers: Anna Siewierska & Eva van Lier

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/referential_hierarchies/

Meeting description

The workshop aims at bringing together language(-family) specialists and
typologists working on the effects of referential hierarchies on the
expression of three-participant constructions, within and across
languages. Relevant referential factors may include animacy, information
structure, definiteness, anaphoricity (pronoun vs. noun), person,
number, and others. The effects of these factors may target word order,
agreement marking, direction marking, case/adpositional marking, and may
involve various types of splits and alternations.

Keynote speakers are Dr. Andrej Malchukov (Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) and Professor Beth Levin (Stanford
University). The workshop is part of the EuroBABEL project on
Referential Hierarchies in Morphosyntax.

Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):

-          Three-participant constructions that deviate from the
prototypical 'give'  type, in terms of the referential properties of the
participants and/or in terms of the lexical verb(s);

-          The interaction between the referential properties of
multiple (i.e. two or three) participants;

-          The interaction between the effects of referential properties
of participants on the one hand, and lexical semantics of verb classes
or individual verbs on the other hand;

-          The relationship between the effects of referential
properties of arguments on intransitive and transitive constructions on
the one hand, and on ditransitive constructions on the other hand;

-          Differences between the effects of referential properties of
arguments on different types of marking: word order, agreement,
direction marking, and/or case and adpositional marking;

-          Referential effects in derived three-participant
constructions (as opposed to non-derived ones);

-          Frequency data obtained from corpora of spoken and/or written
language;

-          The effects of language contact and language change on the
above phenomena.

Abstract submission

We invite abstracts for 20 minute papers. Abstracts should be maximum
500 words, excluding title, references, and examples. Abstracts should
be anonymous, and should be attached in Word and PDF format to an e-mail
specifying author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), abstract title, and
contact information, and be sent to e.vanlier at lancaster.ac.uk. Deadline
for submission is 15 January 2011. Notification of acceptance will be
sent out before 15 February 2011.

For further information, please contact Eva van Lier:
e.vanlier at lancaster.ac.uk

 

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