[Lingtyp] Call for papers: Conference "Caritive constructions in the languages of the world", 30 November - 2 December 2020, St. Petersburg (Russia)

[Sonya Oskolskaya]

Dear colleagues,

We have rescheduled the conference "Caritive constructions in the 
language of the world" (St. Petersburg, Russia) to 30 November - 2 
December, 2020. Since there are still some free slots in the program, 
you are welcome to submit your abstracts no later than September 1st, 2020.
The detailed information can be found at the conference webpage: 
https://www.caritive.org/conference-2020

Stay healthy!
Sonya Oskolskaya

20.10.2019 18:05, Sonya Oskolskaya пишет:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I would like to draw your attention to the following conference on 
> caritive constructions to be held in April 2020 in St. Petersburg (see 
> the call for papers below). You are welcome to submit your abstracts 
> (deadline December 15th).
>
> Best wishes,
> Sonya Oskolskaya
>
> Conference “Caritive Constructions in the Languages of the World”
>
> The Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences is 
> pleased to announce the conference *“Caritive Constructions in the 
> Languages of the World”*, to be held in Saint Petersburg, Russia on 
> *April 21–23, 2020*.
>
> The conference aims to bring together studies on caritive (a.k.a. 
> abessive or privative) constructions in different languages. The 
> working definition of caritive employed by the organizers is as follows:
>
> Caritive describes non-involvement of a participant (Absentee) in a 
> situation, with the non-involvement predication semantically modifying 
> the situation or a participant of another situation.
>
> Examples:
>
> ●/Jill went to the party *without* Jack./
>
> ●/Jack entered a room *without* windows./
>
> ●/I saw abeard*less* man./
>
> Submissions may address any issues related to caritive constructions: 
> pragmatic, semantic, syntactic, morphological, or lexical, synchronic 
> or diachronic, language-particular as well as cross-linguistic. We are 
> especially interested in papers concerning the expression of caritive 
> semantics in the languages that do not have a dedicated caritive marker.
>
> _Invited speakers_:
>
> Thomas Stolz (University of Bremen)
>
> Matti Miestamo (University of Helsinki)
>
> One person can submit two abstracts at most, only one of which can be 
> single-authored. Abstracts should be submitted in .doc/.docx/.rtf 
> format to caritive.spb at gmail.com <mailto:caritive.spb at gmail.com>no 
> later than *December 15, 2019*. Submissions should be anonymous. 
> Abstracts must not exceed 4,000 characters (with spaces), excluding 
> references. If you use non-standard fonts, please attach them to the 
> email together with a PDF copy of your abstract. Each talk will be 
> allotted either 30 minutes (20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes 
> for discussion) or 45 minutes (30 minutes for presentation and 15 
> minutes for discussion). The following information should be provided 
> in the body of the email:
>
> ●Abstract title
>
> ●Authors’ first and last names
>
> ●Affiliation
>
> ●E-mail
>
> ●The preferable length of the talk (30 or 45 minutes)
>
> There are no conference fees.
>
> Working languages: English (preferable), Russian.
>
> *Important Dates:*
>
> Submission deadline: December 15, 2019
>
> Notification of acceptance no later than: January 15, 2020
>
> Conference dates: April 21–23, 2020
>
> Webpage of the conference: https://www.caritive.org/conference-2020
>
> Email address for submissions: caritive.spb at gmail.com 
> <mailto:caritive.spb at gmail.com>
>
> Organizing Committee:
>
> Sofia Oskolskaya, ILS RAS, chair
>
> Elizaveta Zabelina, ILS RAS, secretary
>
> Maksim Fedotov, ILS RAS
>
> Sergei Klimenko, ILS RAS
>
> Ezequiel Koile, HSE & MPI-SHH
>
> Kirill Kozhanov, ISS RAS
>
> Natalia Zaika, ILS RAS
>
> The conference is organised by the Institute for Linguistic Studies as 
> part of the research project “Grammatical periphery in the languages 
> of the world: a typological study of caritives” supported by a grant 
> from the Russian Science Foundation No. 18-78-10058.
>

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