24.4014, Confs: Language Documentation, General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics/Belgium

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LINGUIST List: Vol-24-4014. Mon Oct 14 2013. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 24.4014, Confs: Language Documentation, General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics/Belgium

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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 09:55:02
From: Lieven Vandelanotte [lieven.vandelanotte at arts.kuleuven.be]
Subject: Complex Sentences International Workshop

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Complex Sentences International Workshop 
Short Title: CSI 

Date: 16-Nov-2013 - 17-Nov-2013 
Location: Leuven, Belgium 
Contact: Lieven Vandelanotte 
Contact Email: np3-csi at kuleuven.be 
Meeting URL: http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/ling/fest/events/np-3-2013-CSI-2013 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation 

Meeting Description: 

CSI is an informal workshop with invited speakers on the analysis of complex sentences. Papers were invited on any topic in the broad domain of complex sentences, but particularly ones that deal with the following questions, from typological, comparative or historical perspectives, or using data from less well-documented languages or varieties:

The Typology of Complex Sentences:
It is obvious that traditional dichotomies like coordination versus subordination, or adverbial versus complement clauses are less than adequate in many ways. How can we develop alternatives that are both descriptively more adequate and theoretically more interesting? What data and methods should we bring to bear on this question?

The Semantics and Pragmatics of Complex Sentences:
Complex sentences play a central role for many questions at the interface between semantics and pragmatics, like presupposition, factivity, scope relations and lexical versus construction-level meaning. Many of these concepts are central in analyses of well-described languages, but they figure much less prominently in typological work and in grammars of less well documented languages. Are these concepts generally relevant? How can we develop semantically more sensitive analyses of complex sentences in typology and documentation?

The Diachrony of Complex Sentences:
There is a good deal of literature on the pathways that lead into complex sentences, especially subordinate-type structures. But we know much less about the pathways that lead out of the complex sentence domain. One prominent example is 'insubordinate' constructions, which have the same shape as subordinate constructions but are used as independent main clauses. How can we integrate these structures into the study of complex sentences, and how can we bring the literature on complex sentences to bear on the analysis of insubordination?

Information on registration:
Participation is free of charge, but registration via the online form available on the website is requested by 5 November. The conference dinner is payable in cash on site by participants who have registered for it.

NP3 Workshop:
The CSI workshop is immediately preceded by the third international workshop The Structure of the English Noun Phrase (NP3, 14-15 November). The programme and further information is available on the same website: 
http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/ling/fest/events/np-3-2013-CSI-2013 

Saturday 16 Nov 2013

9:00-9:30  
Registration/coffee

9:30.10:30
Holger Diessel, University of Jena
Crosslinguistic asymmetries in the morphosyntactc structures of externally headed and internally headed relative clauses

10:30-11:00 
Coffee/tea

11:00.-11:45  
Sarah D’Hertefelt, Jean-Christophe Verstraete, An Van linden, University of Leuven
Independent complement and conditional clauses in Germanic languages: Functional range and influence of ‘subordinate’ semantics

11:45-12:45  
William McGregor, University of Aarhus
Person-gender-number markers and subordination in Shua

12:45-14:30
Lunch

14:30-15:30   
Pedro Gras, University of Barcelona/University of Leuven
Insubordination and the development of pragmatic categories: Evidence from non subordinating uses of subordination markers in Spanish

15:30-16:15  
Maria Sol Sansiñena Pascual, Bert Cornillie, Hendrik De Smet, University of Leuven
Between subordinate and insubordinate. Complementizer-initial responses in English, French, German and Spanish

16:15-16:45  
Coffee/tea

16:45-17:45  
Johannes Kabatek, University of Zürich  
On the complexity of diachronic research on complex sentences: Examples from the history of Spanish

17:45-18:45  
Round table

20:00
Conference dinner

Sunday 17 Nov 2013

9:00-10:00  
Gunther Kaltenböck, University of Vienna
Presentational matrix clauses: Exploring the link between information packaging and grammaticalization

10:00-10:45  
Caroline Gentens, Kristin Davidse, Lot Brems, Lieven Vandelanotte, University of Leuven
Factive versus reported speech complements in English

10:45-11:15 
Coffee/tea

11:15-12:15  
Kasper Boye & Peter Harder, University of Copenhagen
Complex sentences: Grey zones and clear criteria

12:15-13:15  
Peter Bakker, University of Aarhus, and Robert A. Papen, Université du Québec à Montréal
Clause combining in Plains Cree and Michif

13:15-13:30 
Closing remarks

13:30 
Lunch

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