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Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 10:02:49
From: Iris Vukovics [iris.vukovics at univie.ac.at]
Subject: Outside the Clause: Form and Function of Extra-clausal Constituents

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Full Title: Outside the Clause: Form and Function of Extra-clausal Constituents 
Short Title: OTC2014 

Date: 04-Jul-2014 - 05-Jul-2014
Location: Vienna, Austria 
Contact Person: Evelien Keizer
Meeting Email: otc-workshop at univie.ac.at
Web Site: http://otc-workshop.univie.ac.at/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jan-2014 

Meeting Description:

Outside the Clause: Form and function of Extra-clausal constituents
Dates: Friday, 4 July - Saturday, 5 July 2014
Location: Department of English, University of Vienna, Austria
Organisers: Evelien Keizer, Gunther Kaltenböck, Arne Lohmann

General topic: Linguistic elements which are outside ordinary sentence grammar

Keynote Speakers:

Karin Aijmer (University of Gothenburg)
Laurel J Brinton (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
Bernd Heine (University of Cologne)

2nd Call for Papers:

General Topic:

In recent years there has been increased interest in linguistic elements which are outside ordinary sentence grammar. These elements are subsumed by Dik (1997) under the term Extra-clausal constituents (ECCs), but have also been referred to as supplements (Huddleston & Pullum 2002) or theticals (Kaltenböck, Heine & Kuteva 2011). They are taken to include a variety of different units ranging from single words to phrases and whole clauses, such as the following: parentheticals, discourse markers, appositions, non-restrictive relative clauses, tails and afterthoughts, insubordinate clauses, vocatives, interjections, left-dislocands, formulae of social exchange, etc.

What unites these elements is their syntactic independence from the linguistic environment. This is reflected in their positional mobility with regard to the host construction or their ability to occur as stand-alone items. Prosodically, they tend to be set off from the rest of the utterance. Semantically, ECCs are non-restrictive, that is their meaning is not determined by the structure of the host clause or its constituents. Instead, their meaning is shaped by the immediate situation of discourse, where they play an important role in interaction management, the expression of speaker attitude, discourse organization, etc.

Aim:

The aim of the workshop is twofold: To bring together descriptions of specific constructions used as ECCs and theoretical perspectives on how ECCs can be accounted for in a linguistic model. The assumption is that both theoretical and descriptive approaches will benefit from each other and are necessary for deepening our understanding of ECCs. While trying to keep a broad perspective, we particularly invite contributions within a cognitive-functional framework and qualitative as well as quantitative analyses of naturally occurring language data. The focus is on English, but contributions comparing English with other languages are also welcome.

More specific topics to be addressed may include the following:

- Formal properties of (specific) ECCs: Their external and internal syntax, position in the host construction, prosodic realisation
- Functional properties and use of (specific) ECCs in language corpora
- The link of ECCs to their host construction and their interaction with the level of sentence grammar
- Criteria for determining whether a linguistic unit can be identified as extra-clausal
- Distinction of different subtypes
- Historical genesis and possible developmental pathways of ECCs
- Analysis and representation in linguistic models

Presentation Format:

20 minute papers + 10 minutes for discussion

Submission of Abstracts:

Abstracts may be submitted from 1 October 2013 to 1 January 2014. Abstracts should not exceed 400 words (exclusive of references) and should clearly state research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. Please submit as a .doc or .docx to otc-workshop at univie.ac.at. The notification of acceptance of all abstracts will be sent out by 15 February.







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