28.1778, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 28.1778, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 18:04:46
From: Stefanie Böhm [stefanie.boehm at uni-bielefeld.de]
Subject: OV to VO, VO to OV: Word Order Change in an Areal Perspective

 
Full Title: OV to VO, VO to OV: Word Order Change in an Areal Perspective 

Date: 23-Jun-2017 - 24-Jun-2017
Location: Bielefeld, Germany 
Contact Person: Stefanie Böhm
Meeting Email: stefanie.boehm at uni-bielefeld.de

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

Call Deadline: 10-May-2017 

Meeting Description:

Changes in basic word order are reported for several language contact
situations. For instance, several Turkic languages or varieties of Turkish are
reported to change from OV to VO in contact with Indo-European languages; see
Gagauz (Menz 1999), Karaim (Csato 2001), Macedonian Turkish (Matras & Tufan
2007), Turkish spoken in the Netherlands (Banaz 2002), while the reverse shift
from VO to OV is attested in dialects of North Eastern Neo-Aramaic (Semitic)
spoken in contact with Azeri Turkic and Kurdish (e.g. Khan 2008). Similar
changes either towards VO or towards OV are reported for several languages
around the world; see Harris & Campbell (1995: 136-150) for earlier summary
discussion, and Dunn et al. (2011) for a broader perspective on the dispersion
of such features in genetically related languages.

This workshop addresses two core questions:

(a) What is the entity of change?
(b) How does the change proceed in real time?

Invited Speakers:

- Wilbert Heeringa (Fryske Akademy)
- Michael Rießler (Freiburg)

Organizers:

Stefanie Böhm, Johanna Lorenz, Geoffrey Haig, Stavros Skopeteas


Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for presentations which are concerned with word order
change  from an areal perspective. In particular we are interested in
contributions relating to the two core questions of  the workshop:

(a) What is the entity of change?

The linearization of verbs and objects has remained a central parameter of
traditional word-order typology, and is implicated in some way in most formal
approaches to syntax. The question arises as to whether the changes of the
OV/VO are part of larger phenomena, concerning the directionality of verb
phrases or even more abstract entities (e.g., head and complements), or
whether they are a relatively isolatable syntactic feature? In order to
address these questions, we welcome contributions that reflect on the
syntactic properties of these changes and their correlates.

(b) How does the change proceed in real time?

Language change evolves through variation (between speakers, between
registers). We invite contributions to the techniques of examining variation
and change with respect to OV/VO and related syntactic aspects. This includes
observational (corpora) or experimental methods, ideas about the
interpretation of variation between speakers or between age groups or about
capturing the effects of bilingual situations.
 
Abstracts should not exceed one page (excluding presentation title, authors
and affiliations). Please submit your anonymized abstract electronically in
pdf-format to Stefanie Böhm (stefanie.boehm at uni-bielefeld.de) and Johanna
Lorenz (johanna.lorenz at uni-bielefeld.de).

Abstract Submission Deadline: 10-May-2017
Notification of Acceptance: 24-May-2017




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