[Lingtyp] call for papers

[Irina Nikolaeva]

Workshop title: *The Syntax of Differential Internal Possessors *

 Date: 03-Sep-2018 - 05-Sep-2018

Location: Paris, France

Contact Person: András Bárány

Meeting Email: andras.barany at soas.ac.uk

Web Site: https://swl8.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/1
<https://swl8.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/1>

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2018



Meeting Description:



(See http://andras.barany.at/files/the-syntax-of-internal-possessors.pdf
<http://andras.barany.at/files/the-syntax-of-internal-possessors.pdf>for

full proposal.)



Many languages have more than one possessive construction in which the

possessor is internal to the same syntactic phrase as the possessum. This

phenomenon is sometimes referred to as Differential Possessor Marking or

Differential Possessor Expression, by analogy with Differential Argument

Marking. Although recent years have seen a growing interest in the study of

Differential Argument Marking, Differential Possessor Marking is by far less

systematically investigated.



Especially little is currently known about the syntactic effects
differential

internal possessors may have. This perspective will add a new dimension to
the

traditional typological studies of internal possessive constructions, which

have mostly concentrated on the morphosyntactic encoding of their components

or the (relational) semantics underlying their distribution.



The aim of the workshop is to bring some important issues regarding the

cross-linguistic variation in the syntax of internal possessive
constructions

to the attention of the typological community. Without claiming to encompass

the whole range of Differential Possessor Marking phenomena, the workshop
will

focus on two partially interrelated questions that appear to be
typologically

understudied.



The first one relates to behavioural syntactic properties of differential

internal possessors. For example, in Turkish (Turkic) the possessor normally

bears the genitive case and the possessed noun may host possessive
agreement,

although it is not obligatory. Constructions without agreement require

discourse contexts which establish the possessor as a clearly identifiable

referent, so that it cannot be indefinite or quantified. This indicates a

split in the syntactic behaviour of possessors within the possessive phrase.

Even more striking are cases where an internal possessor exhibits syntactic

effects outside of its own phrase and participates in syntactic processes

which typically target a phrasal head, such as predicate-argument agreement

(e.g. in Maithili, Ngumpin-Yapa, Chimane) or switch-reference (Turkic,
Aleut,

Tundra Nenets, California Uto-Aztecan).



Second, the workshop will focus on functional factors determining
differential

expression of internal possessors in their relationship to syntax. The

alternative possessive constructions are usually specialized on the
expression

of possessive relations of a different semantic nature, as is observed in

languages with possessive classifiers or an alienability opposition, or they

reflect a split in the lexicon and the inherent semantic properties of the

possessor (e.g. lexical vs. pronominal possessors).



This workshop aims to bring some important issues regarding the

cross-linguistic variation in the syntax of internal possessive
constructions

to the attention of the typological community. We are looking forward to
submissions covering the following topics:



- Syntactic behaviour of differential possessors within the possessive
phrase

- Grammatical interaction between internal possessors and a larger syntactic

domain

- Discourse factors that affect the choice between alternative internal

possessive constructions within one language to what extent the factors that

determine differential coding of internal possessors are analogous to DAM?

- Recurrent cross-linguistic patterns and parameters of variation in

discourse-conditioned differential internal possessors

- Correlations between functional properties and syntactic prominence of

internal possessors



Anonymous abstracts for the general session and posters should be no longer

than one page A4 (normal margins of 2,5 cm on each side, single spaced
lines,

Times New Roman, Doulos SIL or DejaVu font, 12 pt font size), with the

possibility of using an additional page for examples, and should be written
in

English, with fully glossed examples conforming to the Leipzig Glossing

Conventions. Please romanise all Asian texts, and do not use Asian character

fonts unless absolutely required. Participants may not be involved in more

than two abstracts for the general session, of which at most one may be

single-authored.



All abstracts should be submitted as an MS Word or Open Office Writer file
via

the conference website. The file name of your abstract should be the first
two

words of the title of your abstract separated by a hyphen.



When submitting your abstract, you will have a choice between three

categories: “oral”, “poster” and “oral or poster”. The latter category means

that you prefer an oral presentation but can also do a poster. If there are

more good abstracts than we can accommodate, some will be scheduled as

posters. If you choose either category “poster” or “oral or poster” you will

increase your chances of acceptance. Poster sessions will be preceded by a

plenary five minute oral presentation of each poster. If you choose “oral”,

you will also need to indicate whether your submission is for the “general

session” or one of the workshops. In the latter case, please select the name

of the workshop from the list. Time for oral presentations will be 30
minutes,

including 10 minutes for discussion.



All authors interested in the workshop should submit their abstracts
following

the instructions for abstract submission indicating the relevant workshop.
All

the abstracts submitted to the workshop will be reviewed individually by the

Programme Committee and the workshop conveners.

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Prof. Irina Nikolaeva
Department of Linguistics
University of London, SOAS
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
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