26.3274, Calls: Syntax/UK

Mon Jul 13 17:26:02 UTC 2015

LINGUIST List: Vol-26-3274. Mon Jul 13 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.3274, Calls: Syntax/UK

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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:25:55
From: Athanasia Asyllogistou [a-asyllogistou at email.ulster.ac.uk]
Subject: Diachrony of Satellite and Verb-framed Languages

Full Title: Diachrony of Satellite and Verb-framed Languages 
Short Title: DoSVe 

Date: 16-Oct-2015 - 16-Oct-2015
Location: Belfast, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Athanasia Asyllogistou
Meeting Email: asyllogistou-a at email.ulster.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2015 

Meeting Description:

The Diachrony of Satellite or Verb-framed languages
Ulster University, Belfast, 16 October 2015
Keynote speakers: Elena Anagnostopoulou, Jaume Mateu, Victor Acedo- Matellan, Michelle Troberg
Conference organizers: Athanasia Asyllogistou, Raffaella Folli, Christina Sevdali

The distinction between satellite-framed  vs verb-framed languages has sustained a long and privileged position in theoretical literature. Since Talmy (1975)’s seminal work where it is argued that languages vary on their availability to express both motion and manner in the verbal component, there has been extensive discussion on the cross-linguistic variation of how this notion of complementarity is expressed. Talmy (1985) correlated the availability of the manner-of-motion structure with the availability of other patterns, including adjectival resultatives and verb-particle constructions. Following Talmy’s proposal in the literature we find varied and often controversial accounts of the observed cross-linguistic variation (see for example Folli (2002) and Folli and Harley (2005, 2006, 2008, 2013) for English and Italian, Acedo-Matellán  (2006, 2010) for Latin , and more generally Romance languages, Nikitina (2013) for Ancient Greek, Papafragou et al. (2006) for Modern Greek, I
 acobini & Massini (2007) for Italian,  Kopecka (2009) for French, Inagaki (2002) for Japanese, among others). See also Beavers, Levin, and Tham 2011 for a recent summary and synthesis. Recent work by Folli and Harley (2012) have proposed a more syntactic approach to the distinction, showing that a head movement parameter, a Res-to-v parameter is responsible for the distinction as well as the host of properties associated with being verb-framed vs satellite-framed.

Recent work on languages such as Latin (Acedo-Matellan 2010), Old French (Troberg and Burnett, 2011), and Modern Greek (Alexiadou and Anagnostopoulou, 2014) reveal that the diachrony can shed further light on the parametric conditions of languages that do not strictly adhere to Talmy’s (1975, 1985, 2000) typological distinctions .

This workshop aims at discussing exactly this: how the diachrony of languages that exhibit (or not) a typological shift from satellite to verb framedness and vice versa can help us understand both the nature of the parameter(s) involved and the nature and processes of change. 

Call for Papers:

We invite submission of abstracts for presentation at the conference. Two papers will be selected for publication as part of a special issue with a Historical linguistics journal.

Papers are invited addressing the following questions: 

1. What is v? 
2. Is there one or are there many v's? 
3. Is v the head where passive is encoded? 
4. Are v and Voice the same or different heads? / What is the relationship between them? 
5. Is v in transitives the same as v in unergatives and unaccusatives? If not, what are the differences? 
6. Is there a special v for impersonal passives, middles, anticausatives? 
7. What is the relationship between v and argumental agreement, if any? 
8. Can we derive idiosyncratic meaning from v? 
9. What is the phasehood of v? 

Submission Guidelines: 

Abstracts are invited for 30-minute talks (plus 10 minutes for discussion). There will also be a poster session. 

Deadlines: 

Abstracts submission deadline: 1 September 2015 
Speakers will be notified of the results of their abstract review by 7 September 2015

Abstract Guidelines: 

Abstracts should be anonymous and are not to exceed two pages in length (including examples and references), 12-point type. Submissions are limited to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract per author, or 2 joint abstracts per author. 

Authors are asked to submit their abstracts via Easy Chair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dosve1)

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