Call for Papers: Workshop on Information Structure in Head-Marking Languages

[Dejan Matic]

Workshop on information structure in head-marking languages

Syntax, Typology, and Information Structure Group
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
March 28-29 2014


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:

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


Abstract: anonymous, up to 500 words (without references and examples)
Address for abstracts: dejan.matic at mpi.nl
Abstract deadline: November 15th
Notification of acceptance: December 1st
Date: March 28th-29th 2014

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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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