LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1725. Sat Apr 08 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.
Subject: 28.1725, Calls: Gen Ling, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Germany
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Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2017 16:20:47
From: Tonjes Veenstra [veenstra at zas.gwz-berlin.de]
Subject: Multi Verb Constructions: Semantic, Syntactic and Typological Perspectives
Full Title: Multi Verb Constructions: Semantic, Syntactic and Typological Perspectives
Short Title: MVC2017
Date: 07-Dec-2017 - 08-Dec-2017
Location: Berlin, Germany
Contact Person: Jens Hopperdietzel
Meeting Email: jens.hopperdietzel at hu-berlin.de
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax; Typology
Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2017
Meeting Description:
This is a two-day workshop organized by the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine
Sprachwissenschaft and the Research Unit on experimental syntax and heritage
languages (HU Berlin) to be held on December 7-8 2017 at the Humboldt
Universität zu Berlin.
The theme of the workshop is multi-verb constructions, also known as verb
serialization (cf. Aikhenvald & Dixon 2006, Aikhenvald & Muysken 2011,
Veenstra & Muysken 2017).
Call for Papers:
Multi verb constructions: semantic, syntactic and typological perspectives.
We invite abstracts for a two-day workshop organized by the Leibniz-Zentrum
Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft and the Research Unit on experimental syntax and
heritage languages (HU Berlin) to be held on December 7-8 2017 at the Humboldt
Universität zu Berlin.
The theme of the workshop is multi-verb constructions, also known as verb
serialization ( cf. Aikhenvald & Dixon 2006, Aikhenvald & Muysken 2011). The
most basic question these constructions pose for any grammatical theory is how
multiple predication structures are put together. We therefore invite informed
presentations that address some of the topics mentioned below from a (formal)
semantic, syntactic and typological perspective, or a combination thereof.
We want to address the following questions: (i) how to combine multiple verbs
or verbal roots into one clause? (ii) What are reliable tests for clausehood?
(iii) How much functional structure does each verb have in the series
(Veenstra & Muysken 2017)? (iv) What is the relation, if any, between serial
verbs and light verbs (Hagemeijer 2001, Aboh 2009)? (v) how to analyze event
argument serialization, in which the first predication seems to count as the
external argument of the second predication?
Another important issue concerns argument sharing and the interpretation of
overt NPs in the series. The question is whether the (semantic or syntactic)
sharing of arguments is obligatory (Baker 1989). Is argument sharing a
defining feature of the construction, or are the cross-linguistic patterns we
observe due to language-specific restrictions on how verbs in the different
languages combine?
Furthermore, what kind of semantic and syntactic functions can these verbs
express or develop into, such as prepositions, complementizers, and the like
(including grammaticalization paths of these categories).
Invited Speakers:
Enoch Aboh (Amsterdam)
Diane Massam (Toronto)
Pieter Muysken (Nijmegen)
Kilu von Prince (Berlin)
Malte Zimmermann (Potsdam)
We invite abstracts for 30 minute talks (and 15 minutes for discussion) on
empirical and theoretical approaches to the above issues. Abstracts should not
exceed two pages (including references). Abstracts should be typed in at least
12-point font, with one-inch margins (letter-size; 8 1/2 by 11 or A4).
Abstracts must be anonymous and submissions are limited to 1 individual and 1
joint abstract per author.
Deadline for abstract submission: June 30, 2017
Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2017
Please submit your abstract as pdf file (named: surname_mvc_2017.pdf).
Email: jens (dot) hopperdietzel (at) hu-berlin (dot) de
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