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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:24:26
From: Barbara Sonnenhauser [barbara.sonnenhauser at uzh.ch]
Subject: Variation in Space and Time: Clausal Complementation in South Slavic

Variation in Space and Time: Clausal Complementation in South Slavic 

Date: 17-Mar-2016 - 19-Mar-2016 
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact: Barbara Sonnenhauser 
Contact Email: barbara.sonnenhauser at uzh.ch 
Meeting URL: http://www.slav.uzh.ch/de/forschunguebersicht/tagungen/complementation.html 

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

Language Family(ies): Slavic Subgroup 
Meeting Description: 

The South Slavic languages - Slovene, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Bulgarian, and
Macedonian - constitute a quite heterogeneous group of languages. On the one
hand, they form a dialect continuum, while on the other hand, they are part of
different areal convergence zones. The intersection of dialectal and areal
affiliation is further complicated by the individual standardisation
histories, which may have led to differentiations on the level of the standard
languages that are not necessarily observed for the spoken varieties and
dialects. This makes the investigation of non-standard and historical data an
urgent requirement.

One case in point illustrating this complex situation is clausal
complementation (CC). The linguistic complexity of South Slavic has been
impeding studies covering the unity and diversity of the CC strategies
encountered for these languages in their entirety. Moreover, CC itself is
still an under-defined notion. Crucially, discussing CC in South Slavic from
various points of view, applying different theoretical approaches and methods
of investigation, as shall be done by the contributions to this conference,
necessitates a clear elaboration of the key notions used in the individual
analyses.

Against this background, the conference aims at gaining a detailed picture of
the diverse patterns of CC in South Slavic by bringing together researchers
which focus on different aspects of this topic. Striving to arrive at a
clearer concept of CC, the conference also contributes to linguistic concept
formation, which will enhance further collaborative investigations. In
addition, the workshop intends to explore the possibilities of creating a
unified platform of corpora and similar kinds of data necessary for empirical
research in this domain.

Program:

Thursday, March 17 2016 

14.00-14.40
Barbara Sonnenhauser (Zurich) & Björn Wiemer (Mainz):
Introduction: the many facets of clausal complementation

Approaching the nature of complementation

14.45-15.15
Bojan Belić (Seattle): 
Finite infinity: controllers and choice of clausal complements (in Serbian)

15.20-15.50
Björn Hansen (Regensburg) & Zrinka Kolaković (Regensburg): 
Clitic climbing in complement taking predicates in Serbian and Croatian: a
study on semantic clause integration

15.50-16.20 Coffee break

16.20-16.50
Liljana Mitkovska (Skopje) & Eleni Bužarovska (Skopje):
Clausal complementation of visual perception verbs in Balkan Slavic: inherited
and contact-induced features

16.55-17.25
Ivana Vrdoljak (Mainz): 
Factivity status of complements in Croatian/Serbian

17.25-17.45
Discussion

Friday, March 18 2016 

Resources

09.45-10.15
Taras Zakharko (Zurich): 
Annotating semantics of complementisers in corpora: the case of interpretative
backgrounds

10.20-10.50
Tanja Samardžić (Zurich): 
The 'Regional data initiative': resources of Croatian and Serbian 

10.50-11.20 Coffee break 

11.20-11.50
Teodora Vuković (Belgrade):
Towards the Torlak vernacular corpus

11.55-12.25
Hanne Eckhoff (Tromsö): 
The history of Slavic complementation: data and pitfalls 

12.25-12.45
Discussion

12.45-14.15 Lunch 

Complementation in space

14.15-14.45
Pino Marco Pizzo (Mainz): 
On the variability of syntactic structures from the Freising manuscripts to
the East-Southslavic classical literary canon. Sources and data.

14.50-15.20
Marc L. Greenberg (Kansas): 
Antemurale innovationis: the Mura river area as both a center and a periphery

15.20-15.50 Coffee break

15.50-16.20
Maxim Makartsev (Moscow): 
Contact phenomena in clausal complementation in several Slavic varieties in
Albania 

16.25-16.55
Walter Breu (Konstanz): 
Complementizers in language contact (South Slavic and Albanian in Italy)

17.00-17.30
Discussion 

Saturday, March 19 2016 

Complementation in time

09.30-10.00
Yannis Kakridis (Bern): 
Mark 2,10-11: Periphrastic imperative and ὅτι recitativum?

10.05-10.35
Veronika Kampf (Cologne):
Emerging complementizer contrasts in pre-standardized Bulgarian

10.40-11.10
Jasmina Grković-Major (Novi Sad): 
The development of emotion predicate complements in Serbian

11.10-11.30 Coffee break 

11.30-12.00
Discussion; Summary of results and prospects for further collaboration

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