[Lingtyp] CfP: "Possessive relations: interpretation, syntax and argument structure", a workshop at the DGFS, Stuttgart, March 7-9, 2018

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*Workshop: **Possessive relations: interpretation, syntax and argument 
structure*

*University of Stuttgart*

*Call deadline: 16-August-2017*

Possession is a semantic relation holding between two referents: 
the/possessor /and the /possessee/. A marker/construction is said to 
express possession relation if it can minimally express ownership of 
some object by a person. However, morphosyntactic means used to code 
ownership such as English /have/ usually express many more related 
meanings (/possession/ /sensu lato/) such as part-whole, kinship, 
location, experiencer/beneficiary, attributive or social relations 
(/inter alia/, Belvin 1996). Alongside with this versatility in meaning 
there is also significant variation in the morphosyntactic means that 
code /possession/. E.g., languages vary as to whether they employ the 
intransitive presentational/existential strategy (BE type) with no 
dedicated lexical verb or the transitive strategy with a special 
possession verb (HAVE type) for the predicative possession (cf. Stassen 
2013); there is even more variation with internal possession: genitive 
case/adpositions, possessive agreement indexes, zero, etc. (cf. 
Aikhenvald & Dixon 2013; Börjars et al. 2013; Jacob 2003). Finally, 
other constructions have been claimed to involve possession: different 
kinds of external-possessor constructions (EPC), e.g., the “possessor 
promotion to dative”, the locative EPC, restrictive-topic or applicative 
constructions, etc. (cf. Payne & Barshi 1999; Lee-Schoenefeld 2006; 
Pylkkänen 2008). The workshop aims at bringing together linguists 
working on possession from different angles and with different 
theoretical persuasions. Topics onany aspect of possession such as the 
following ones are welcome:

·Interpretation: To what extent can the particular interpretation be 
derived from the meaning of the parts and how much is determined by 
pragmatic reasoning and context (e.g., Vikner & Jensen 2002; Seržant 2016)?

·Syntax: Are subtypes of possession associated with different structures 
or are they derived from one underlying locative structure (Boneh & 
Sichel 2010 vs. Freeze 1992)?

·Argument structure: How can new developments in the representation of 
arguments, thematic roles and possessor binding (e.g., Wood & Marantz 
2017; Geist & Hole 2016; Hole 2012) enhance our understanding of 
argument structure in EPCs?

*Organizers*

Ljudmila Geist (University of Stuttgart, Daniel Jacob (University of 
Freiburg), Ilja A. Seržant (University of Leipzig)

*Invited Speaker*

Nora Boneh (the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

*Submission Guidelines***

We invite abstracts for talks (20 minutes presentation + 10 minutes for 
discussion) for the workshop “Possessive relations: interpretation, 
syntax and argument structure” to be held during the Annual Meeting of 
the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, March 7-9, 2018, 
University of Stuttgart, Germany.

URL: http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/linguistik/dgfs2018

Abstracts should be 2 pages in length (references may be on a third 
page), using a 12-point font and 2.5cm/1 inch margins on all four sides. 
Please submit anonymous abstracts in pdf and doc format to 
possessionworkshop at gmail.com <mailto:possessionworkshop at gmail.com>by 
August 16, 2017. Please include your name, affiliation, and title of the 
abstract in the body of your email.

*Important Dates*

  * Deadline for abstract submission: August 16, 2017, via e-mail to:
    possessionworkshop at gmail.com <mailto:possessionworkshop at gmail.com>
  * Notification of acceptance: September 16, 2017
  * Workshop dates: March 7-9, 2018

*References *

Aikhenvald, A., & Dixon, R. (2013). /Possession and Ownership/ (Vol. 6). 
Oxford University Press.

Belvin, Robert S. (1996). Inside Events: The Non-Possessive Meanings of 
Possession Predicates and the Semantic Conceptualization of Events. (PhD 
Thesis, 466 University of Southern California)

Boneh, N. & I. Sichel. (2010). Deconstructing Possession. /Natural 
Language and Linguistic Theory /28:1-40.

Börjars, K., Denison, D., & Scott, A. (2013). /Morphosyntactic 
categories and the expression of possession/, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Freeze, R. (1992). Existentials and other locatives. /Language, 68/, 
553–596.

Geist, L. & D. Hole (2016). Theta-head binding in the locative 
alternation. In: Bade, N., P. Berezovskaya & A. Schöller 
(eds.)Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung in Tübingen2015, 270-287.

Hole, D. (2012). German free datives and Knight Move Binding. In: A. 
Alexiadou, T. Kiss, and G. Müller (Eds.). /Local modelling of non-local 
dependencies in Syntax/. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter. 213-246.

Jacob, D. (2003). ‘Possession’ zwischen Semasiologie und Onomasiologie. 
In: Blank A. & P. Koch (eds.) /Kognitive romanische Onomasiologie und 
Semasiologie/. Tübingen: Niemeyer.

Lee-Schoenefeld, V. (2006). German possessor datives – raised and 
affected. /Journal of comparative Germanic Syntax/ 9, 101-142.

Kayne, R. S, (1993). Toward a Modular Theory of Auxiliary Selection 
Reprinted in Kayne, Richard S. (2000) Parameters and Universals 
(pp.107-130) (Oxford: OUP)

Payne, D. L. & I. Barshi (1999). External possession. What, where, how 
and why. In Payne, D. L. & I. Barshi, eds., 1999. 3–29.

Payne, D. L. & I. Barshi, eds., (1999). External possession. 
(Typological Studies in Language, 39). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John 
Benjamins.

Pylkkänen, L. (2008). /Introducing arguments. /Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Stassen, L. (2013). Predicative Possession. In: Dryer, Matthew S. & 
Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. 
Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Seržant, I, A. (2016). External possession and constructions that may 
have it, /STUF/ 69(1), 131-169.

Shibatani, M. (1994). An integrational approach to possessor raising, 
ethical datives and adversative passives, /Berkeley Linguistic Society/ 
20, 461–486.

Vikner, C., & Jensen, P. (2002). A semantic analysis of the English 
genitive. Interaction of lexical and formal semantics. /Studia 
Linguistica,/ 56(2), 191-226.

Wood, J. & A. Marantz (2017). The interpretation of external arguments. 
In D’Alessandro, R., et al. (eds.) /The Verbal Domain/. Oxford: Oxford 
University Press.

*Organizers:*

Ljudmila Geist (University of Stutgart), Daniel Jacob (University of 
Freiburg), IljaSeržant (University of Leipzig)

*Invited speakers*

1. Nora Boneh (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2. tba

*Submission Guidelines:*

We invite submission of abstracts for presentations of 30 minutes 
(20+10). Abstracts must be in English, 2 pages (A4 or letter) in a font 
size no smaller than 12pt, including examples and references.

*Important dates*

Deadline for abstract submission: July 20, 2017
Notification of acceptance: August 30, 2017
Workshop: March 7-9, 2018

Please send your abstract (PDF format) to:

possessionworkshop at gmail.com <mailto:possessionworkshop at gmail.com>

-- 
Ilja A. Seržant, postdoc
Project "Grammatical Universals"
Universität Leipzig (IPF 141199)
Nikolaistraße 6-10
04109 Leipzig

URL: http://home.uni-leipzig.de/serzant/

Tel.: + 49 341 97 37713
Room 5.22

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