29.324, Calls: Typology/France

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Subject: 29.324, Calls: Typology/France

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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:10:12
From: Ljuba Veselinova [ljuba at ling.su.se]
Subject: Negation in the Langauges of the World

 
Full Title: Negation in the Languages of the World 

Date: 03-Sep-2018 - 05-Sep-2018
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Ljuba Veselinova
Meeting Email: ljuba at ling.su.se
Web Site: https://swl8.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/4 

Linguistic Field(s): Typology 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

The goal of this workshop is to achieve multifaceted and comprehensive
descriptions of the negation systems of various languages from different
families and geographical areas. Negation is a topic that has been widely
studied in various branches of linguistics and there is an extensive body of
literature devoted to negation. For reasons of space, references cannot be
included here, please see the call on the conference website,
https://swl8.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/negation_questionnaire_general_2.pdf.
Nevertheless, detailed descriptions of the domain of negation exist for a
small minority of the world’s languages.

There have been few systematic efforts to collect data from a wider variety of
individual languages. This is a gap that needs to be filled both for the
benefit of linguistic typology and for description of individual languages.

One systematic attempt saw light in 1994 with the publication of Kahrel and
van den Berg’s volume Typological Studies in Negation. In this volume, the
negation systems of 16 languages from different parts of the world were
described on the basis of a unified questionnaire that addressed the main
subdomains of negation as they were known at that time. This volume has been
very useful for typologists and for descriptive linguists as a source of data
and as inspiration for systematic collection of data from different languages
with very diverse expressions of negation. However, no similar projects have
been undertaken since the publication of the volume 23 years ago.

In this workshop we propose to use an expanded version of Miestamo’s
questionnaire, cf. http://tulquest.huma-num.fr . This version will go into
greater detail in understudied domains of negation such as 1) negation of
stative predications (i.e. predications of equation, proper inclusion,
property attribution, existence, location and possession), 2) negation in
subordinate clauses, 3) lexicalization of negation, 4) negative derivation and
case marking, 5) tense-aspect distinctions specific to the domain of negation.
Another important outcome of this workshop will be to critically evaluate and
further develop the existing questionnaire on the basis of the feedback from
the workshop participants and anyone else using the questionnaire.

The project will produce comparable datasets from a wide variety of languages
and, from the descriptive linguist’s point of view, it will result in a
comprehensive and detailed description of the negation system of each
particular language under study. This will be a prime example of the fruitful
cooperation between typologists and descriptive linguists in the context of
diversity linguistics.


Final Call for Papers:

Abstracts are solicited for 20-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes for
discussion). Please follow the instructions for abstract submission found on
the conference website https://swl8.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/1.
Remember to include Negation of the Languages of the World in your submission.

After the workshop, we will organize an online peer-reviewed publication (e.g.
at Language Science Press). The papers to be published after the workshop
should abide by the guidelines detailed in the questionnaire. For the talk at
the workshop we suggest that presenters give a brief overview of the negation
system of their respective language and then focus on subdomains which, in
their particular languages, are most distinctive or are of specific interest
for cross-linguistic studies. These domains may, for instance, pertain to
properties that are especially rare or they can be domains that are
problematic to describe. Prospective participants are encouraged to highlight
these points in their abstracts as well.




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