27.2537, Calls: Under-Described Languages, Morphology, Lang Doc, Ling Theories, Semantics/Sweden

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Subject: 27.2537, Calls: Under-Described Languages, Morphology, Lang Doc, Ling Theories, Semantics/Sweden

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Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 09:54:26
From: Malin Petzell [malin.petzell at sprak.gu.se]
Subject: The Semantics of Verbal Morphology in Under-Described Languages

Full Title: The Semantics of Verbal Morphology in Under-Described Languages 
Short Title: SemVerbMorph1 

Date: 02-Jun-2017 - 03-Jun-2017
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden 
Contact Person: Andrew Symes
Meeting Email: andrew.symes at sprak.gu.se
Web Site: http://sprak.gu.se/forskning/konferenser/verbal-morphology--juni-2017 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation; Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 19-Dec-2016 

Meeting Description:

Recent years have seen an increase in scholarship devoted to the significance
of lexical semantics for verbal morphology and the functioning of
tense-aspect-mood (TAM) systems (for a general introduction, see Boogaart &
Janssen (2012)). Much of this was prompted by work on tense and aspect from a
general typological and diachronic perspective (see, e.g. Comrie 1976, 1985;
Dahl 1985; Bybee, Perkins & Pagliuca 1994). This has also been joined by the
work of Hogeweg, de Hoop & Malchukov (2009) which also offers a methodological
contribution, as well as approaches which stress the way in which time,
temporality and evidentiality are reflected in grammatically-conventionalised
TAM categories (Botne & Kershner 2008; Botne 2012, 2014).

Keynote speakers (confirmed):
Leora Bar-el, Associate Professor at the University of Montana

Scientific committee:
Leora Bar-el
Robert Botne
Evie Coussé
Östen Dahl
Laura Downing
Hannah Gibson
Nancy Kula
Derek Nurse
Thera Crane Ringhofer

Organising committee:
Malin Petzell
Hannah Gibson

References:
Boogaart, R., & Janssen, T. (2012). Tense and Aspect. In D. Geeraerts & H.
Cuyckens (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. New York ;
Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199738632.001.0001.
Botne, R. (2014). Resultatives, Remoteness, and Innovation in Eastern and
Southern Bantu T/A Systems. Nordic journal of African studies, 23(1), 16-30.
Botne, R. D. (2012). Remoteness distinctions. In R. I. Binnick (Ed.), The
Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect (pp. 536-562). Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Botne, R. D., & Kershner, T. L. (2008). Tense and cognitive space: On the
organization of tense/aspect systems in Bantu languages and beyond. Cognitive
Linguistics, 19(2), 145-218.
Bybee, J. L., Perkins, R. D., & Pagliuca, W. (1994). Evolution of Grammar:
Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World. Chicago: Univ. of
Chicago Press.
Comrie, B. (1976). Aspect: an Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and
Related Problems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Comrie, B. (1985). Tense. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
Dahl, Ö. (1985). Tense and Aspect Systems. Oxford: Blackwell.
Hogeweg, L., de Hoop, H. and Malchukov A. (2009) (Eds.). Cross-linguistic
semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality. Amsterdam: Benjamins

Call for Papers:

This workshop provides a forum for the discussion of issues relating to the
morphological encoding of tense, aspect and mood (TAM) distinctions within the
verbal form. We welcome papers that examine TAM systems through an exploration
of forms, their basic meanings, distribution and extended functions. Work on
the sub-categorisation (such as the Aktionsart) of the verb and its
interaction with broader TAM categories is also encouraged. The focus is on
under-described languages and the contribution of that these can make to our
understanding of the semantics of verbal morphology and TAM
cross-linguistically. However, talks developing cognitive models for
approaching TAM, as well as those which touch on the development of
methodology (including field-based research methods) for examining TAM and the
lexical semantics of the verb will also be considered.

Papers including, but not limited to, the following topics are welcome:
- Variation in the encoding of TAM distinctions
- The interaction between TAM markers and lexical semantics of the verb (i.e.
Akionsart)
- Methodology and issues involved in data collection, verbal semantics and TAM
- Cognitive approaches to modelling TAM

Please submit an anonymous 1-page abstract via Easychair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/conference_info.cgi?a=11848732).

The workshop is part of an on-going project http://anslag.rj.se/en/fund/50126
the purpose of which is to describe and analyse the semantic construal of TAMs
notions and their grammatical realisation in the verb from in the East Ruvu
Bantu languages (i.e. Kagulu, Kami, Kwere, Kutu, Luguru and Zalamo) spoken in
Tanzania.

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