Second call for papers: Information Structure in Head-Marking Languages

[Dejan Matic]

Second call for papers


Information Structure in Head-Marking Languages

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Nijmegen, the Netherlands
March 28-29


Head-marking languages exhibit significant morphosyntactic differences 
from dependent-marking languages, as Nichols (1986) and subsequent 
research has showed. An interesting question which is appropriate to ask 
in the context of contemporary research into information structure is 
whether head-marking languages have any distinctive information 
structural properties that are a function of, or related to, their 
head-marking morphosyntax. Information structure concerns the 
morphosyntactic coding of the different informational statuses an 
element may have with respect to the proposition (e.g. topic or focus), 
and it is therefore reasonable to inquire as to whether head-marking 
morphosyntax interacts with discourse in a distinctive manner.

We would like to elicit contributions on the above question and other 
related issues. The call is open for proposals which address pragmatic, 
semantic, morphosyntactic and/or prosodic aspects of the expression of 
IS in head-marking languages, from a theoretical, descriptive, or 
typological perspective. Studies dealing with interesting aspects of the 
expression of IS in particular head marking languages are explicitly 
welcome.


Invited speakers:

Stephen Levinson
Anna Berge
Jürgen Bohnemeyer
Jenneke van der Wal
Eva Schultze-Berndt


Abstract: anonymous, 500 words (without references, without examples)
Contact address: Dejan.Matic at mpi.nl
Abstract deadline: November 15
Notification of acceptance:  December 1
Date: March 28-29

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Dejan Matic
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Wundtlaan 1, 6525 XD Nijmegen, The Netherlands
phone   +31 24 3521 187
fax     +31 24 3521 213
e-mail  dejan.matic at mpi.nl
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