29.1757, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Italy
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Subject: 29.1757, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Italy
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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:14:21
From: Maria Napoli [maria.napoli at uniupo.it]
Subject: International Workshop on the Diachrony of Ditransitives
Full Title: International Workshop on the Diachrony of Ditransitives
Date: 29-Nov-2018 - 30-Nov-2018
Location: Vercelli, Italy
Contact Person: Maria Napoli Chiara Fedriani
Meeting Email: maria.napoli at uniupo.it; chiara.fedriani at unige.it
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2018
Meeting Description:
Ditransitives are typically described as verbs with three arguments that
encode the transfer of a Theme from an Agent to a Recipient: canonical
ditransitives are, for instance, those denoting an event of possessive
transfer (e.g., to give) or mental transfer (e.g., to teach). From a syntactic
point of view, the two object arguments, Theme and Recipient, are expressed
through different types of constructions across languages, which have been
described also in terms of alignment patterns in typological perspective (cf.,
e.g., Dryer 1986, Siewierska 2003, Malchukov, Haspelmath & Comrie 2010,
Haspelmath 2011).
While a huge amount of literature exists on ditransitives from a synchronic
point of view and within different theoretical frameworks, diachronic issues
related to these verbs have been not so widely investigated (in spite of many
valuable contributions, such as, e.g., Bardddal 2007, de Cuypere 2015, Geleyn
2016 on Germanic).
Therefore, this workshop aims to explore ditransitives and the constructions
to which they give rise across languages looking specifically at their
behaviour and evolution over time, in order to shed light on the diachronic
changes involving these verbs. The possible research questions that this topic
raises include the following:
(i) In which directions ditransitives change from a semantic and syntactic
point of view. In other words, is it possible to identify general
developmental directions followed mostly by ditransitive verbs across
languages?
(ii) To what extent diachronic variation in argument realization is reflected
in the synchronic syntax of ditransitives.
(iii) How we may model the emergence and disappearance of ditransitive
constructions in a given language (for instance, with regard to the so called
double object construction).
(iv) Which factors play a major role in determining alignment types and
alternations with ditransitives over time.
(v) Whether we may identify common diachronic paths in the substitution of
morphological cases with prepositional strategies in the syntax of
ditransitives.
(vi) How the semantic characteristics of specific classes of ditransitives
influence their diachrony. For instance, which sub-categories of
ditransitives, if any, are more prone to diachronic change, and along which
paths of development?
Invited speakers:
Timothy Colleman (Ghent University)
Michele Prandi (University of Genoa)
Selected bibliography:
Bardddal J. 2007. The Semantic and Lexical Range of the Ditransitive
Construction in the History of (North) Germanic. In Functions of Language
14/1: 9-30.
Colleman T. & B. de Clerck. 2011. Constructional semantics on the move: on
semantic specialization in the English double object construction. In
Cognitive Linguistics 22/1: 183-209.
de Cuypere L. 2015. The Old English to-dative construction. In English
Language and Linguistics 19/1: 1-26.
Dryer M.S. 1986. Primary Objects, Secondary Objects, and Antidative. In
Language 62/4: 808-845.
Geleyn T. 2016. Syntactic variation and diachrony. The case of the Dutch
dative alternation. In Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 13/1: 65-96.
Haspelmath M. 2011. On S, A, P, T, and R as comparative concepts for alignment
typology. In Linguistic Typology 15/3: 535-567.
Malchukov A., Haspelmath M. & B. Comrie. 2010. Ditransitive constructions: a
typological overview. In A. Malchukov, M. Haspelmath & B. Comrie (eds.),
Studies in Ditransitive Constructions. A Comparative Handbook, 1-64. Berlin:
Mouton de Gruyter.
Siewierska A. 2003. Person agreement and the determination of alignment. In
Transactions of the Philological Society 101/2: 339-370.
Call for Papers:
The workshop invites abstracts related to the themes including, but not
limited to, the lines of research emerging from the list above, and encourages
submissions:
- Based on different theoretical models
- Discussing new historical data in individual languages
- Analyzing data from a comparative perspective
- Following a corpus based approach
- Providing qualitative and quantitative analyses
Abstracts are invited for oral presentations (20 minutes plus 10 minutes for
discussion). They should be at most 2 pages long (including examples and
references) and should be submitted in both PDF and Word format by sending
them to the organizing Committee (Chiara Fedriani chiara.fedriani at unige.it and
Maria Napoli maria.napoli at uniupo.it). Submissions should be anonymous. Please,
include contact details (name, affiliation and email address) and the title of
the submission in the body of the email. Abstracts will be reviewed
anonymously by two members of the Scientific Committee.
Organizing Committee:
Chiara Fedriani (University of Genoa)
Maria Napoli (University of Eastern Piedmont)
Scientific Committee:
Chiara Fedriani (University of Genoa), Chiara Gianollo (University of
Bologna), Maria Napoli (University of Eastern Piedmont), Andrea Sansò
(University of Insubria).
Important Dates:
Abstract submission;
30 June 2018: Deadline for abstract submission
15 July 2018: Notification of acceptance
Registration (free of charge):
15 September 2018: registration opens
31 October 2018: registration closes
Workshop:
29-30 November 2018: workshop in Vercelli
The web-site of the workshop is under construction!
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