24.4518, Calls: Syntax, Historical Linguistics, Typology/Italy

Tue Nov 12 15:55:54 UTC 2013

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Subject: 24.4518, Calls: Syntax, Historical Linguistics, Typology/Italy

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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:55:47
From: Carina Jahani [carina.jahani at lingfil.uu.se]
Subject: Ditransitive Constructions in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective

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Full Title: Ditransitive Constructions in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective 

Date: 11-Sep-2014 - 11-Sep-2014
Location: Pavia, Italy 
Contact Person: Agnes Korn
Meeting Email: a.korn at em.uni-frankfurt.de

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2014 

Meeting Description:

The workshop proposes to look at ditransitive constructions in various languages. Topics that the papers could address might include (among others):

- Morphological object marking (identical marking of direct and indirect objects; double accusatives; optional object marking; development of object markers; dative drift)
- Hierarchy-driven object marking / Differences between direct and indirect objects in relation to animacy hierarchies; to pro-drop; to word order; to diatheses
- Syntactic objects (e.g. status of objects in complex predicates; status of indirect objects and the definition of core arguments)

Call for Papers:

Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks (plus 10 min. discussion).

Abstracts should be no longer than two pages, including examples and references (1 inch margin all around, font 12 pt, notes 10).

Please send Word / Open Office / Word Perfect files and use Unicode fonts.

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