SLE 2012 workshop proposal

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Workshop: Contrastive studies of verbal valency in European languages

Proposal to be submitted to the:
45th Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE2012)
Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University
Stockholm (Sweden), 29 August-1 September 2012
http://www.societaslinguistica.eu
http://sle2012.eu
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Convenors/selection committee:
Johanna Barðdal (University of Bergen)
Lars Hellan  (University of Trondheim)
Anna Kibort (University of Cambridge)
Andrej Malchukov (University of Mainz/Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy
of Sciences, St-Petersburg/Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Leipzig)
Michela Cennamo (University of Naples)

Description

In recent years, issues of verbal valency, valency alternations, and verb
classes has seen a new upsurge of interest from a variety of perspectives (cf.
Abraham 2006, Barðdal 2007, 2008, 2011, Barðdal, Kristoffersen & Sveen 2011,
Bayer 2004, Bickel &  Nichols 2009, Cennamo 2003, 2010, 2011, Cennamo & Sorace
2007, Cennamo & Jezek 2011, Donohue & Wichmann 2008, Fried 2005, Haspelmath
2007, Kibort 2008, 2009, Kittila & Zúñiga  2010, Kulikov & Lavidas 2012; Levin &
Rappaport Hovav 2005, Levin 2008, Malchukov, Haspelmath & Comrie 2010, Malchukov
& Siewierska 2011): in lexicographic studies, corpus studies, as well as current
projects taking cross-theoretical (Syntactic Government and Subcategorisation
project), historical-comparative (IECASTP/NonCanCase project), contrastive 
(CONTRAGRAM, e.g., Colleman 2002), and typological perspectives (Leipzig Valency
Classes project and Construction Labeling project – cf. Hellan and Dakubu 2010,
Hellan 2008). Yet, systematic comparative studies even for the better studied
European languages are still missing, so one still lacks work which could be
sensibly compared to Levin’s well known study of English verb classes and
alternations. Thus, in spite of a long tradition in valency studies in European
(especially, German) scholarship and recent progress in corpus studies and
computational approaches to lexicography (cf., e.g.,  Herbst et al. 2004, and
Korhonen & Briscoe 2004 on English, Schulte im Walde 2003 on German,
contributions in Feuillet (ed.) 1998 dealing with different European languages,
as well as earlier classic studies by Levin 1993, Apresjan 1969, Lehmann 1991,
Lazard 1994/1998), the field has not yet yielded many generalizations in this
domain, partly due to complexity of the topic, but also to a variety of
perspectives which are not always compatible. Some topics concerning matching of
semantic properties with syntactic/distributional properties, and to what extent
such correlations hold for different languages still remain a matter of
controversy (cf.  Faulhaber 2011).

The workshop aims at  bringing together researchers interested in contrastive
studies of valency patterns in European languages from a variety of
perspectives:

–    areal-typological
–    contrastive descriptive
–    variationist
–    corpus studies and computational lexicography
–    theoretical

The workshop topic is not confined to certain verb types/valency classes, and
addresses both valency frames and valency alternations, which are both relevant
distributional properties of verbs.

It is expected that workshop contributions, including those taking a more
descriptive perspective, attempt generalizations as to what are the differences
in certain domains across European languages, as well as venture accounts as to
how to  explain the attested differences and similarities. On the other hand, it
is equally crucial that contributions, including those taking a more theoretical
approach, will marshal new empirical data. In this way it is expected that the
workshop will contribute to and synthesize different strands of research based
on valency patterns in European languages.

We ask those who are interested to participate in the workshop to send the
provisional title of your contribution and a short abstract (up to 300 words)
(both in English)before November 10 2011.  Please, indicate you name,
affiliation and email.

The abstracts (in MS Word or pdf format) should be sent to the following
addresses:
lars.hellan at hf.ntnu.no [mailto:lars.hellan at hf.ntnu.no]
andrej_malchukov at eva.mpg.de [mailto:andrej_malchukov at eva.mpg.de]

Abstracts are invited for 20 minute presentations with 10 minute discussion.

Important dates

Submission of provisional abstract:10 November 2011.

15 November 2011:             submission of workshop proposals
(description+abstracts)

15 December 2011:             notification of acceptance/rejection

15 January 2012:                 submission of all abstracts

31 March 2012:                   notification of acceptance

If the workshop proposal is accepted then all abstracts will need to be
submitted to SLE by 15th January 2012, via the SLE conference
website:http://www.sle2012.eu

Notification of acceptance:   31st March 2012

Registration:                          From April 2012 onwards

Conference:                           29 August – 1 September 2012

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