27.2339, Calls: Historical Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Germany

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Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 15:46:59
From: Ingo Reich [i.reich at mx.uni-saarland.de]
Subject: Non-Canonical Verb Positioning in Main Clauses

 
Full Title: Non-Canonical Verb Positioning in Main Clauses 

Date: 08-Mar-2017 - 10-Mar-2017
Location: Saarbrücken, Germany 
Contact Person: Sonja Müller
Meeting Email: sonja.mueller at uni-wuppertal.de

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

Call Deadline: 20-Aug-2016 

Meeting Description:

In the last 15 years, the verb-second phenomenon in the Germanic languages has
received particular interest and a lot of research has been devoted to its
occurrence in dependent environments aiming at finding out whether, and if so,
by which criteria it is licensed. However, not only dependent clauses display
verb-order variation, there are also different options for positioning the
finite verb in main clauses. For example, German declarative clauses (which
have been the focus of attention) can display verb-first order. Furthermore,
attention has been paid to declarative clauses which are claimed to show
verb-third order. And the finite verb might also occur in final position in
other types of non-embedded utterances. This workshop intends to study the
formal and interpretative properties of main clauses which do not display the
word order which is canonically expected of them. 

Questions we like to address are e.g.: What are the conditions under which the
above mentioned orders become possible or even necessary? Is their nature
syntactic, semantic, information structural or stylistic? Are there
genre-specific distributions? How similar are the licensing conditions for
such 'deviating' orders across different (Germanic) languages and/or different
historical stages within one language? What are the differences between
verb-end and verb-first/-second structures in less well-studied non-assertive
utterance types such as interrogatives or exclamatives? How can such variation
be accounted for at all? How do such structures fit into systems of sentence
mood/type or utterance types? How important is further linguistic material
(such as modal particles, intonation, verbal mood)? 

We aim at appealing to researchers who work synchronically or diachronically
on cases of non-canonical verb positioning in main clauses. Theoretical as
well as empirical approaches on any language displaying variations of this
kind are welcome.

Invited Speakers:

1) Hubert Truckenbrodt (ZAS, Berlin) (confirmed) 
2) tba

Workshop Details:

Organizers: Mailin Antomo (Göttingen) & Sonja Müller (Wuppertal)
Contact: sonja.mueller at uni-wuppertal.de
Date: March 8-10, 2017
Venue: Saarland University, Saarbrücken


Call for Papers:

Submission Details:

We invite submissions of abstracts for 30 minute talks including discussion.
Submissions should not exceed one page, 12pt. single spaced, with an optional
additional page for examples and references. Either PDF or Word format is
accepted. Please send your abstract to sonja.mueller at uni-wuppertal.de or
mailin.antomo at phil.uni-goettingen.de by the deadline listed below.

Important Dates:

Deadline for submission: August 20, 2016
Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2016




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