26.16, Calls: Russian, Syntax/Russia

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Subject: 26.16, Calls: Russian, Syntax/Russia

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Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 23:54:38
From: Sergey Say [serjozhka at yahoo.com]
Subject: Constructional & Lexical Semantic Approaches to Russian (IV)

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Full Title: Constructional & Lexical Semantic Approaches to Russian (IV) 

Date: 16-Apr-2015 - 18-Apr-2015
Location: St. Petersburg, Russia 
Contact Person: Sergey Say
Meeting Email: rusconstr at gmail.com
Web Site: http://iling.spb.ru/confs/rusconstr2015/call.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Subject Language(s): Russian (rus)

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2015 

Meeting Description:

Conference Description:

The meeting will focus on the issues of Russian syntax. Its central theme is the relation between formal properties of various syntactic constructions in Russian and their semantic, pragmatic and discourse properties. Participants are encouraged to discuss not only regular syntactic patterns, but also “marginal” types of constructions.

Inquiry into the syntax of Russian has long been associated with the study of semantic and pragmatic properties of syntactic units. Simplifying somewhat, two types of approaches have emerged in the study of complex syntactic units: “bottom-up” (“lexical semantic approaches”) and “top-down” (“constructional approaches”).

The lexical semantic approaches take as their starting point combinatorial potential of individual lexemes; in particular, the distribution of syntactic patterns is often claimed to reflect subtleties of lexical semantics (cf. the work by Yuri D. Apresjan and the Moscow Semantic School). According to this approach, semantic and syntactic properties of complex constructions are derivable from semantic and combinatorial properties of their component parts.

The central unit in the constructional approaches is construction — a complex form-meaning pairing whose semantic and syntactic features are not predictable from the properties of its component parts. Within “Western” linguistic tradition, this type of approach is typical of various kinds of Construction grammars (Ch. Fillmore, A. Goldberg, etc.); some studies within Russian traditional syntax are based on similar (though usually implicit) theoretical assumptions.

The conference is not directly associated with either of these types of approaches. The major preference is given to the studies which focus on the analysis of Russian syntactic phenomena in light of their semantic properties and against the background of general linguistic mechanisms such as grammaticalizaton and lexicalization.

Invited Speakers:

- Yuri D. Apresjan (Russian Language Institute, RAS / Institute for Information - Transmission Problems, RAS, Moscow)
- Marguerite Guiraud-Weber (Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence)
- Yakov G. Testelets (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow)
Ruprecht von Waldenfels (The Institute of the Polish Language, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow)

Programme Committee:

Nina Dobrushina
Dmitry Gerasimov
Alexander Letuchiy
Anastasia Makarova
Natasha Stoynova
Natalia Zaika 

Programme Committee:

Nina Dobrushina (Moscow)
Dmitry Gerasimov (St.Petersburg)
Alexander Letuchiy (Moscow)
Anastasia Makarova (Tromsø)
Natasha Stoynova (Moscow)
Natalia Zaika 

Organizing Committee:

Sofia Oskolskaya 
Maria Ovsjannikova
Sergey Say

Call for Papers:

The aim of the conference is to gather researchers who are interested in the topic of the conference irrespective of their official status; abstracts from young researchers, including students, are very welcome. Abstracts based on work in progress are also welcome, provided there are empirical findings to be presented at the conference. The working languages of the conference are Russian and English. 
There is no conference fee.

The deadline for abstract submission is January 31, 2015. Abstracts should not be longer than two pages (3600 characters, including examples and references) and should be sent as .pdf or .doc attachment to the following address rusconstr at gmail.com. The authors should refrain from disclosing their identity either in the text or in the name of the file. The following information about the author(s) should be given in the body of the letter:

- Author’s name(s)
- Affiliation(s)
- Contact email

Abstracts will be anonymously evaluated by the programme committee. Notifications of acceptance / rejection will be sent before February 20, 2015.

Participants will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation plus 10 minutes for discussion.







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