26.4424, Calls: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Typology/Italy

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Subject: 26.4424, Calls: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Typology/Italy

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2015 18:00:31
From: Bjoern Wiemer [wiemerb at uni-mainz.de]
Subject: Rise of Complementizers

Full Title: Rise of Complementizers 
Short Title: ComplRise 

Date: 01-Sep-2016 - 02-Sep-2016
Location: Naples, Italy 
Contact Person: Bjoern Wiemer
Meeting Email: wiemerb at uni-mainz.de
Web Site: http://www.staff.uni-mainz.de/wiemerb/pdfs/CfP_The_rise_of_complementizers.pdf 

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

Call Deadline: 10-Nov-2015 

Meeting Description:

The workshop addresses issues of the diachronic development of complementizers against other clause-linkage devices relevant for realis—irrealis distinctions and/or the lowering of assertiveness. The issues fall into two groups. First, we inquire how the distinction between complementizers and subjunctive markers can be compared crosslinguistically more coherently, so that variation on a scale between free and bound morphemes and their relation to the aforementioned distinctions can be correlated with diachronic pathways. This is tantamount to asking whether ‘dependent predicate markersʼ code “at the level of the D[ependent] C[lause] as a whole“ or only „at the level of its nucleus“ (van Lier 2009: 69f.) and what conditions language-specific preferences for one of these coding levels.

Second, we ask for falsifiable methods suited to discern complementizers from other connectives (like clause-initial particles), marking speaker’s stance, quoted speech, de dicto vs. de re-readings and similar distinctions. Thus, while approaching a comparative concept of the notion ‘complementizerʼ, we ask for diagnostic criteria and the theoretical premises that should be applied in historical morphosyntax, semantics and pragmatics, but also in discourse-oriented studies on ongoing or recent change interested in the identification of (potential) complementizers and how clausal complementation emerges from juxtaposition or adverbial subordination. Especially this concerns the rise of complementizers used in contexts of event or propositional modality.

For the full version of the call please click:

www.staff.uni-mainz.de/wiemerb/pdfs/CfP_The_rise_of_complementizers.pdf

Call for Papers:

We invite papers by representatives of all theoretical convictions and from different methodological frameworks. We equally welcome crosslinguistic and language-specific contributions that address any questions related to the issues sketched above (not restricted to those formulated in questions 1.-4.).

Abstracts (max. 300 words, inclusive of references and examples) should be sent by November 10, 2015 to at least one of the following e-mail addresses:

wiemerb at uni-mainz.de (Björn Wiemer, U Mainz)
jgrkovicns at gmail.com (Jasmina Grković-Major, U Novi Sad)
Bjoern.Hansen at sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de (Björn Hansen, U Regensburg)

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