23.2380, Calls: Typology/France

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LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2380. Fri May 18 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 23.2380, Calls: Typology/France

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Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 10:15:37
From: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr [pcabredo at univ-paris8.fr]
Subject: Workshop on Impersonal Pronouns

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Full Title: Workshop on Impersonal Pronouns 

Date: 08-Nov-2012 - 09-Nov-2012
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
Meeting Email: pcabredo at univ-paris8.fr
Web Site: http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/-Towards-a-typology-of-human-.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Typology 

Call Deadline: 15-Jul-2012 

Meeting Description:

The workshop focuses on the morphological, syntactic and semantic properties of impersonal pronouns allowing human reference such as English one, they, you French on, ils, ça, tu, Germanic man/men (R-impersonals in Siewierska's terminology).

The workshop will be held at:

Salle de conférences, CNRS Pouchet
59 rue Pouchet, 75017 Paris
métro Guy Môquet ou Brochant (ligne 13)

Invited Speakers:

Friederike Moltmann (CNRS - IHPST)
TBC

This workshop is part of the project 'Towards a typology of human impersonal pronouns (Typoimp)' (ANR-DFG). 

Call for Papers:

We encourage submissions exploring questions including - but not limited to - the following:

- What are the differences between episodic and generic uses of impersonal pronouns? Why do some pronouns not admit episodic uses? Is this contrast better understood in terms of inclusiveness (generic being inclusive while episodic impersonals are exclusive of the speaker)?
- What readings are available for the different case-forms of the pronouns?
- Why do impersonal human pronouns often have defective (French on) or suppletive (German man) oblique forms?
- What are binding properties of impersonal human pronouns?
- What semantic restrictions are found for impersonal readings (types of predicates, inclusive vs exclusive readings, role of locative expressions in the licensing of impersonal readings)?
- How do impersonal human pronouns differ from indefinite pronouns like someone, impersonal uses of personal pronouns (3pl and 2sg/pl), and from the human subject implicit in the interpretation of impersonal verb forms and passives?

We invite submissions for 25 minute presentations (plus 10 minute discussions). Abstracts should be at most 2 pages in length (including examples and references) written in French or English.

Abstracts must be anonymous and should be sent by email (plain ASCII, rtf or pdf) to:

pcabredo //AT// univ-paris8.fr

Please write the (first) author's name plus the word 'abstract' in the subject line of your message (e.g., 'Dupont abstract'), and include author name(s), affiliation, contact information and the title of the abstract in the body of the email. For co-authored papers indicate the email address that we should use for correspondence.

Abstracts should reach us by July 15, 2012.

For more information:

Website: http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/-Towards-a-typology-of-human-.html

Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: July 15, 2012
Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2012
Workshop: November 8-9, 2012

Organising Committee:

Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (CNRS UMR 7023/Paris 8 & SMG)
Volker Gast (Jena)






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