21.2001, Calls: Semantics, Typology/Netherlands

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Date: 27-Apr-2010
From: Jenny Doetjes < j.doetjes at hum.leidenuniv.nl >
Subject: Workshop on Pluractionality: Towards a typology of verbal plurality

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Subject: Workshop on Pluractionality: Towards a typology of verbal plurality

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Full Title: Workshop on Pluractionality: Towards a typology of verbal 
plurality 

Date: 26-Aug-2010 - 26-Aug-2010
Location: Leiden, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Jenny Doetjes
Meeting Email: J.Doetjes at hum.leidenuniv.nl
Web Site: http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/news-events/news/workshop-
pluractionality.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2010 

Meeting Description:

In this workshop we would like to bring together researchers working on 
pluractionality both in traditional pluractional languages and on similar 
phenomena in languages that do not have morphological marking of event 
plurality. The goal of this workshop is to increase the understanding of 
various aspects of pluractionality. 

Call For Papers

Workshop on pluractionality: towards a typology of verbal plurality 

Invited speaker: Sigrid Beck (Universität Tübingen)

In the descriptive literature the phenomenon of pluractionality has a long 
history even if not necessarily under this label. Quite recently, there has 
also been an increase of interest in the phenomenon in the formal semantic 
literature, especially since Lasersohn (1995). Researchers have been 
looking not only at traditionally pluractional languages such as many 
Amerindian or African languages, but also at languages such as Germanic 
or Romance where certain phenomena and constructions - often 
traditionally analyzed as aspectual - have been analyzed as involving 
pluractional operators (see for instance Van Geenhoven 2005). This raises 
the question of what the limits of pluractionality are - what should be 
included and what is outside the domain of the phenomenon. For that 
purpose, cooperation of descriptive and formal linguists is crucial as the 
theoretical predictions of various approaches need to be compared with the 
empirical findings in many different languages. 

In this workshop we would like to bring together researchers working on 
pluractionality both in traditional pluractional languages and on similar 
phenomena in languages that do not have morphological marking of event 
plurality. The goal of this workshop is to increase the understanding of 
various aspects of pluractionality. We are interested in talks discussing the 
relation between the following formally different ways of encoding event 
plurality: morphological pluractionality and event plurality marked by other 
means (e.g. by the use of specific constructions). This kind of investigation 
necessarily leads to the relation between pluractionality and aspect, as the 
so called pluractional constructions in ''non-pluractional'' languages 
generally manifest only the temporal ''flavor'' of pluractionality (roughly 
corresponding to the so called event number from Corbett 2000). It is clear 
that pluractionality and aspect or aktionsart are closely related categories. 
However, the exact nature of the connection remains elusive. In connection 
to that it is important to look at issues such as the relation between temporal 
pluractionality (or, event number, potentially identical to certain ''aspects'') 
and participant-based pluractionality (or, participant number). Participant-
based pluractionality is not really comparable to aspect, although many 
languages do use a single marker for both temporal and participant-based 
plurality. Apart from these inter-related issues, the workshop is open to 
other contributions that will throw new light on pluractionality, e.g., the 
specialization in meaning in the case of multiple pluractional markers in a 
language, comparison of plurality in the nominal and verbal domains, or 
interaction of pluractional morphology with other kinds of verbal 
morphology.

Date: 26 August 2010, following on the 40th Colloquium on African 
Languages and Linguistics (CALL)

Venue: Leiden University Centre for Linguistics

Organizers: Kate?ina Sou?ková and Jenny Doetjes

Abstracts: Anonymous 1 page anonymous abstracts must be submitted prior 
to 1 June 2010 by email to CALL AT hum DOT leidenuniv DOT nl; make 
sure you write your name, email address and affiliation in the mail and 
mention 'Workshop on pluractionality' in the subject line.

Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2010

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