28.1112, Calls: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics/France

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Subject: 28.1112, Calls: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics/France

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Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 20:10:01
From: Alexandru Mardale [alexandru.mardale at inalco.fr]
Subject: Diachrony of Differential Object Marking

Full Title: Diachrony of Differential Object Marking 

Date: 16-Nov-2017 - 17-Nov-2017
Location: Paris - INaLCO, France 
Contact Person: Alexandru Mardale
Meeting Email: alexandru.mardale at inalco.fr, ilja.serzants at uni-leipzig.de

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2017 

Meeting Description:

This workshop addresses the differential marking of the object argument in the
narrow sense, as defined in Witzlack-Makarevich & Seržant (2017+): “Any kind
of situation where an argument of a predicate bearing the same generalized
semantic role may be coded in different ways, depending on factors other than
the argument role itself and/or the clausal properties of the predicate such
as polarity, TAM, embeddedness, etc.” For example, in (1), the direct object
of the verb ‘to see’ in Spanish may be marked in two different ways depending
on the properties of the NP, all other things being equal:

a. Vi   *(a)          la    mujer         Modern Sp. (von Heusinger & Kaiser
2005: 35)
 see.PST.1SG DOM DEF woman
‘I saw the woman.’

b. Vi   (*a)         la     mesa
see.PST.1SG DOM DEF  table
‘I saw the table.’

The phenomenon of the Differential Object Marking (DOM) has been widely
discussed in the literature after it was put forward by Bossong (1982, 1985).
DOM is typically conditioned by factors pertaining to various grammatical
dimensions such as animacy, definiteness/specificity, topicality,
pats-of-speech distinctions (e.g. pronouns vs. nouns), etc. (cf. Aissen 2003,
Bossong 1982, 1985, 1998, Croft 1998, Dalrymple & Nikolaeva 2011, Iemmolo
2011, Lazard 1994, 2011, Leonetti 2003, 2007, Næss 2004, de Hoop & de Swart
2007; cf. the overview in Witzlack-Makarevich & Seržant 2017+). 

However, much less attention has been paid to the diachronic aspect of DOM in
the literature, Dalrymple & Nikolaeva (2011) being an important exception here
alongside with few case-studies on particular languages (such as Melis 1995
and von Heusinger & Kaiser 2005 on Spanish, Heusinger & Onea 2008, Mardale
2009, 2015, Hill 2013, Avram & Zafiu 2017 on Romanian, Iemmolo 2011 on
Romance, Seržant & Taperte 2016 on Latvian, McGregor, to appear, on Khoe
languages). 

Invited speakers: 

- Virginia Hill (University of New Brunswick)
- Irina Nikolaeva (SOAS University of London)

The organizers:

- Alexandru Mardale (INaLCO de Paris & Laboratoire SeDyL UMR 8202 CNRS)
- Ilja A. Seržant (Universität Leipzig)

Call for Papers:

In this workshop we welcome contributions focusing on the diachronic aspect of
DOM.

Potential topics may address questions such as the following:

- What are the possible sources for DOM?
- What kind of internal developments are attested with DOM systems once they
are established? 
- How stable diachronically the phenomenon of DOM actually is?
- Are the typical DOM constraining factors such as animacy, topicality,
definiteness diachronically interrelated? If so, which function is typically
acquired first?
- How can DOM phenomena be transferred or copied via language contact, if at
all?
- How do DOM systems disappear in favor of a straightforward government?
- When and why related phenomena, such as clitic-doubling, may interact with
DOM?

Abstracts are invited for the workshop session. Each presentation has 20
minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Only one paper per participant
is admitted. 

Abstracts should be anonymous, maximally of two pages in length, including
references and examples (in doc, pdf or docx).

Abstracts should be submitted per e-mail to both organizers:
alexandru.mardale at inalco.fr,  ilja.serzants at uni-leipzig.de

Important dates:

- Deadline for abstract submission: June 1, 2017
- Applicants notified of abstract acceptance: July 1, 2017
- Conference session: November 16-17, 2017

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