[Lingtyp] Reminder - CfPWorkshop Partitive cases, pronouns and determiners: diachrony and variation University of Pavia, Pavia (Italy) - 2 September 2019

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> Apologies for cross-posting
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> Workshop
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> *Partitive cases, pronouns and determiners: diachrony and variation*
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> *University of Pavia, Pavia (Italy) - 2 September 2019*
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> Following the Workshop on Partitive Determiners and Partitive Case
> (Venice, 13-14 November 2017) the second workshop of the PARTE Network will
> take place in Pavia on September 2nd, 2019.
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> PARTE (PARTititvity in European languages) is a network of nine research
> teams from European universities, which combines theoretical linguist,
> dialectologists, historical linguists, typologists, and applied linguists.
> It is funded by NWO (the Netherlands Organization for scientific research)
> and co-funded by the Universities of Zurich, Venice, Budapest and Pavia.
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> *Aims of the Workshop*
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> The workshop aims to bring together researchers on partitive cases,
> including genitives or ablatives used as partitives, partitive determiners,
> partitive pronouns, and other partitive elements, and focusing on their
> diachronic development, on dialectal variation, language contact and
> language acquisition.
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> *Contact person: Silvia Luraghi, University of Pavia, luraghi at unipv.it
> <luraghi at unipv.it>*
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> *Workshop website: http://paviapartitives.wikidot.com/
> <http://paviapartitives.wikidot.com/>*
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> *Invited speakers*
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>    - Michael Daniel, National Research University Higher School of
>    Economics, Moscow
>    - Riho Grünthal, University of Helsinki
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> *Scientific Committee*
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> Anna Cardinaletti, University “Ca’ Foscari”, Venice
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> Michael Daniel, HSE, Moscow
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> Giuliana Giusti, University “Ca’ Foscari”, Venice
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> Riho Grünthal, University of Helsinki
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> Tuomas Huumo, University of Turku
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> Iván Igartua, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz
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> Tabea Ihsane, University of Geneva
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> Silvia Luraghi, University of Pavia
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> Petra Sleeman, University of Amsterdam
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> Anne Tamm, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary,
> Budapest
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> *Call for papers*
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> Abstracts are invited for oral and/or poster presentation.
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> Abstracts must be anonymous and no longer than two pages, 12 pt single
> spaced in pdf format.
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> Please submit your abstract through Easychair:
> https://easychair.org/cfp/Partitives2
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> *Important dates*
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>    - Deadline for submission: 31 March 2019
>    - Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2019
>    - Workshop: 2 September 2019
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> *Background*
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> The term ‘partitive’ has been used in linguistic literature in reference
> to different types of linguistic items (morphemes and/or constructions). In
> the first place, partitive may refer to partitive nominal constructions,
> codifying the part-whole relation, as in *I drank some of the wine from
> that bottle*, or to pseudo-partitive nominal constructions, as in *I
> drank a glass of wine* (Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2001: 527).
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> In contrast to these two well-described types of construction, other items
> that are also referred to as partitives have, until recently, never
> received a unified treatment, in spite of striking similarities. Such
> partitive elements include partitive cases, as in Finnish or Estonian,
> partitive determiners, as in Basque, French and Italian, and partitive
> pronouns, as in Germanic and Romance languages.
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> (1)        *Elmeri*   *löys-i                mansiko-i-ta.*
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>             Elmer    find-3sg.pst     strawberry-pl-par [Finnish]
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> (2)        *Elmer    ha                     trovato*              *delle*
> *fragole.*
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>             Elmer    have.3sg.prs    find.pst.ptcp    art.par.f.pl
> strawberry(f).pl [Italian]
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>             “Elmer found some strawberries.”
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> In (1) and (2) the NPs *mansikoita* and *delle fragole* ‘some
> strawberries’ refer to an indefinite quantity of not previously identified
> items, contrary to partitive nominal constructions and do not even qualify
> as pseudo-partitive nominal constructions (Luraghi/Huumo 2014). Partitive
> pronouns refer to indefinite quantities, as *ne *in (3).
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> (3)        *Elmer    ne                     ha
> trovate*                          *molte.*
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>             Elmer    par.pron          have.3sg.prs    find.pst.ptcp.f.pl
> many.f.pl [Italian]
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>             “Elmer found many (of them).”
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> A number of recent publications have highlighted cross-linguistic and
> typological similarities of partitive elements, including cases,
> partitively used genitives or ablatives, determiners, and pronouns
> (Luraghi/Huumo 2014, Ihsane/Stark fothc.). Research on the rise of
> partitive elements has shown their relation to other linguistic items and
> constructions. For example, the French partitive article is the outcome of
> the fusion of the genitive/ablative preposition *de* with the definite
> article, and its diachrony can be traced down in historical sources
> (Carlier 2007). In in Finnic languages (Wickman 1955: 27), the partitive
> case ending has been shown to have originated out of older ablative cases
> or postpositions. The partitive use of the genitive case is typical of
> Ancient Indo-European languages as well. Remarkably, some of these
> languages feature a separate ablative case, the development is partly
> different, and the partitive meaning seems to be directly connected with
> the genitive, not necessarily involving the ablative (see Luraghi/Kittilä
> 2014:49-53). Hence, more research on diachrony is needed. Research on
> language contact suggests that the extension of partitive elements may be
> an areal phenomenon (Bjarnadóttir/De Smit 2013, Seržant 2015), and that
> partitive elements may constitute a characteristic but up to now not
> acknowledged feature of Standard Average European (Luraghi/De Smijt/Igártua
> forthc.). In the Oceanic area available indefinite partitives show a
> different extension and possibly different diachronic developments from
> European partitive elements (Budd 2014), which would also be worth
> investigating more in depth.
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> Moreover, dialectal variation in virtually all areas in which languages
> show partitive elements is under-investigated, and especially non-standard
> varieties deserve more accurate and in-depth treatment. In several areas,
> data are missing where native speakers of the dialects are disappearing.
> Research on contact among languages of different genetic affiliation and
> contact among varieties, including standard and sub-standard, of the same
> language is of paramount importance for the understanding of both
> diachronic change and synchronic variation (e.g. Cerruti/Regis forthc.).
> Partitive determiners may exist in Luxembourgish, possibly as a contact
> phenomenon, but available descriptions are superficial, and confuse
> different constructions. Romance languages possessing partitive determiners
> also have (clitic) partitive pronominals (Ihsane 2013), but from a
> comparative perspective it is unclear whether partitive pronominals that
> also occur in Germanic varieties (cf. Glaser 1992), have the same syntactic
> distribution and meaning(s) as Modern Romance ones*.* In this
> perspective, learners’ varieties also deserve attention, as they can help
> shed light on how interference between languages with and without partitive
> elements operates.
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> *Possible topics *
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>    - The rise of partitive cases, pronouns and determiners: origin of the
>    development, grammaticalization, constructional change.
>    - Partitives and indefiniteness: Moravcsik (1978: 272) mentions among
>    typical semantic correlates of partitives the definitness-indefinitness of
>    the noun phrase. How does this function of partitives emerge, and how does
>    it correlate with the morphological status of the partitive element (case
>    marker vs. determiner, cf. Luraghi/Kittilä 2014: 20-27).
>    - What is the relation between partitive elements and other markers of
>    NP indefiniteness, e.g. indefinite articles? Is the relation the same in
>    different linguistic areas?
>    - How specific cases (genitives, ablatives, ...) develop into
>    partitive markers and possible constrains on ensuing syncretism: what is
>    the relation between the genitive, the partitive and the ablative in
>    languages that feature distinct cases? Do other cases e.g. locatives, or
>    other determiners e.g. the numeral one/indefinite article (see Budd 2014 on
>    Oceanic languages) also develop into partitives?
>    - Partitive elements deriving from case markers (cases, adpositions)
>    do not show the typical function of case markers to indicate
>    grammatical relations (Moravcsik 1978, Luraghi 2003, Luraghi/Kittilä 2014
>    among others). How does this shift come about precisely?
>    - Contact induced change and the rise or loss of partitive elements as
>    documented in historical varieties (e.g. Ibero-Romance, see Carlier/Lemiroy
>    2014)
>    - Dialectal variation, including field studies and documentation of
>    vernacular and sub-standard varieties of poorly documented languages.
>    - The acquisition of partitives: bilingual speakers and learners. How
>    are partitive elements acquired? Do bilingual speakers of languages that
>    feature different types of partitive elements show interference in their
>    use of partitive elements?
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> *References*
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> Bjarnadóttir, Valgerður and Merlijn De Smit. 2013. Primary argument
> case-marking in Baltic and Finnic. *Baltu Filologija* 22:1. 31–65.
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> Budd, Peter. 2014. Partitives in Oceanic languages. Luraghi/Huumo*, *523–561.
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> Carlier, Anne. 2007. From preposition to Article: the grammaticalization
> of the French partitive. *Studies in Language* 31(1). 1–49.
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> Carlier, Anne and Beatrice Lamiroy. 2014. The gramaticalization of the
> prepositional partitive in Ro- mance. In S. Luraghi e T. Huumo (eds.), *Partitive
> Case and Related Categories*. Berlino: Mou- ton de Gruyter. 477-519.
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> Cerruti, Massimo and Riccardo Regis. Forthcoming. Partitive determiners in
> Piedmontese: a case of language varia- tion and change in a contact
> setting. In Ihsane/Stark, fothcoming*.*
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> Glaser, Elvira. 1992. Umbau partitiver Strukturen in der Geschichte des
> Deutschen. *Sprachwissenschaft* 17:2. 113-132.
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> Ihsane, Tabea. 2013. *En* pronominalization in French and the structure
> of nominal expressions. *Syntax* 16(3). 217–249.
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> Ihsane, Tabea and Elisabeth Stark (eds.). Forthcoming. *Shades of
> Partitivity: Formal and areal properties*. Special Issue in *Linguistics*.
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> Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. 2001. „A piece of the cake‟ and „a cup of tea‟.
> In *Circum-Baltic Languages*. Volume 2: *Grammar and Typology*, Östen
> Dahl & Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (eds). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins,
> 523-568
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> Luraghi, Silvia 2003. *On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases. A Study
> of the Expression of Semantic Roles in Ancient Greek*.  Amsterdan:
> Benjamins.
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> Luraghi, Silvia & Tuomas Huumo (eds.). 2014. *Partitive cases and related
> categories*. Berlin.
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> Luraghi, Silvia and Seppo Kittilä. 2014. The typology and diachrony of
> partitives. In Silvia Luraghi & Tuomas Huumo (eds). *Partitive Cases and
> Related Categories*. Berlin/New York, Mouton De Gruyter, 17-62
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> Luraghi, Silvia, Merlijn De Smit and Iván Igártua. Forthcoming. Contact
> indiced change in the languages of Europe. In Ihsane/Stark, fothcoming*.*
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> Moravcsik, Edith 1978. On the case marking of objects. In Joseph Greenberg *et
> al*. (eds.) *Universals of Human Language*, vol IV. *Syntax.* Stanford
> University Press, 249-290.
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> Seržant, Ilja. 2015. Independent partitive as a Circum-Baltic isogloss. *Journal
> of Language Contact* 8. 341–418.
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> Wickman, Bo. 1955. *The form of the object in the Uralic languages*.
> Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksell.
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> Silvia Luraghi
> Università di Pavia
> Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sezione di Linguistica Teorica e
> Applicata
> Strada Nuova 65
> I-27100 Pavia
> tel.: +39/0382/984685
> Web page personale:
> http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68
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