8.1028, Calls: Role of Functional Categories

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-8-1028. Thu Jul 10 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 8.1028, Calls: Role of Functional Categories

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Date:  Tue, 8 Jul 1997 15:03:58 +0200 (MET DST)
From:  "T. Veenstra" <T.Veenstra at let.uva.nl>
Subject:  2nd Call for Papers: DGfS meeting 1998

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Date:  Tue, 8 Jul 1997 15:03:58 +0200 (MET DST)
From:  "T. Veenstra" <T.Veenstra at let.uva.nl>
Subject:  2nd Call for Papers: DGfS meeting 1998

CALL FOR PAPERS

As part of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (Deutsche
Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft), to be held in Halle (Saale),
Germany, March 4-6 1998, there will be a workshop (Arbeitsgruppe) on the
following topic:

The Role of Functional Categories in Language Contact and Change

In current syntactic theory functional categories play an important role in
determining the structure of clauses and noun phrases. While in `regular'
language change the content of functional categories seems to be
relatively stable, in many language contact situations, e.g. creolization,
code-switching, functional categories are lost and, subsequently,
reconstituted. A major issue hereby is on which grammatical knowledge
speakers model the reconstitution of these elements. Some of the specific
questions to be adressed in this session are:

(i)      which functional categories are necessarily reconstituted, and which
         are not? This relates to the issues of universality (or UG-
         compatibility) and markedness of functional categories;
(ii)     What type of functional categories are reconstituted: those that
         contribute to meaning (LF-interpretable), or those that only convey
         grammatical information, or both?;
(iii)    which lexical categories are used as a model for reconstitution and,
         consequently, are reinterpreted as functional categories?;
(iv)     from which language(s) in the contact situation are the (lexical or
         grammatical) elements drawn used for reconstitution of
         functional categories?

Papers will are relevant to this topic are invited. Papers should take
30 minutes, to be followed by 15 minutes of discussion. A one-page
abstract should be sent (preferably by e-mail) to the organizer
(address below) by September 1, 1997.


Dr. T. Veenstra
Instituut voor Algemene Taalwetenschap
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Spuistraat 210
NL-1012 VT Amsterdam
tel         00.31.20.525.3858
fax         00.31.20.525.3021
e-mail      t.veenstra at let.uva.nl











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