Call for Papers: Valency and Transitivity in Contact

[Eitan Grossman]

Call for papers

Workshop on the topic “Valency and Transitivity in Contact: A
Cross-Linguistic Perspective”


Research on verb borrowing has focused on several major issues, primarily
the borrowability of verbs vis-à-vis other word classes and the typology of
morphosyntactic integration or ‘accommodation strategies’ (Moravcsik 1978,
Wichmann & Wohlgemuth 2007, Matras 2008, Wohlgemuth 2009). Much less
prominent in research on verb borrowing are questions related to *the
integration of loan verbs into the valency and transitivity patterns of the
recipient language, on the one hand, and the innovation or retention
of valency and transitivity patterns as the result of contact, on the
other.*


*Possible questions to be addressed in the workshop:*


   - What are the formal and functional factors involved in determining the
   integration of loan verbs into recipient language valency and transitivity
   patterns?
   - Do pidgins show simplification/restriction in valency patterns
   compared to the corresponding patterns in the contributing languages?
   - Do creoles retain valency patterns of the corresponding substrate
   languages, and if so, which verbs are mostly affected? Does frequency play
   a role here?
   - What happens in mixed languages: are the valency patterns copied along
   with the 'matter' (verb stems and/or verbal morphology) from one of the
   contributing languages, or is there a mismatch between 'matter' and
   'pattern' of the copied verb?

Papers addressing these questions - and others - from descriptive and
theoretical perspectives are welcome, as are papers dealing with specific
contact situations or cross-linguistic samples. Especially welcome are
papers that address areal and socio-historical aspects of borrowing
situations in shaping the outcomes of language contact.


If you are interested in participating in the workshop, please send a short
(1-page) abstract by 25 November 2013 to


michaelis at eva.mpg.de

eitan.grossman at mail.huji.ac.il


Organizing committee:
Eitan Grossman (Jerusalem), Susanne Michaelis (Leipzig), Sebastian Richter
(Leipzig)
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