29.2901, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Poland

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Subject: 29.2901, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Poland

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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 17:40:09
From: Piotr Sobotka [psobotka at umk.pl]
Subject: Diachronic Slavonic Syntax 4: Functional Organisation of Utterance in Diachronic and Comparative Perspective in Slavic Languages

 
Full Title: Diachronic Slavonic Syntax 4: Functional Organisation of Utterance in Diachronic and Comparative Perspective in Slavic Languages 
Short Title: DSSL 4 

Date: 13-Jun-2019 - 15-Jun-2019
Location: Torun, Poland 
Contact Person: Piotr Sobotka
Meeting Email: psobotka at umk.pl

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Slavic Subgroup 

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2018 

Meeting Description:

The Committee of Linguistics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in cooperation
with the Faculty of Languages, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland, and the
Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University in
Poznan, Poland, will host a three-day workshop on diachronic Slavonic syntax,
with special reference to the functional organisation of utterance as the
minimal communicative unit in diachronic and comparative perspective in Slavic
languages. The workshop is part of the workshop series Diachronic Slavonic
Syntax (DSSL).

The workshop is dedicated to the study of the causes and mechanisms of
syntactic change in Slavonic languages, with a special focus on the shifts in
such areas of utterances as:

1. the functional perspective of the sentence expressed in terms of focus,
theme, rheme, transition etc., 
2. syntactic markers of modality understood as a category covering indications
either of a kind of speech act or of the degree of certainty with which
something is said,
3. all extra-grammatical means of organising an utterance (cf. Daneš 1964:
228),
4. variations of the linear order of the sentence as the means of coding or
constructing the meaning,
5. extra-sentence comments, including conjunctions, connectives, discourse
particles
6. suprasegmental coding of the meaning 
etc.

Functional approaches to the linguistic research, in particular in the field
of syntax, are usually applied and tested to the contemporary linguistic
phenomena. We propose to reflect on the functional aspects of Slavic syntax
both in diachronic and comparative perspectives, taking into account reference
to the influences of Greek and Latin. The aim is to promote recent
developments in the field, be it empirical, theoretical or methodological, as
well as the confrontation between contemporary theoretical approaches and the
analysis of old Slavic texts.

The conference will feature keynote speeches by Svetlana M. Tolstaya (Russian
Academy of Sciences, Moscow) and Björn Wiemer (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
Mainz).

Conference languages are English or Russian.

We invite submissions for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes for discussion).

Contact:
Agnieszka Sloboda (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan) asloboda at amu.edu.pl
Piotr Sobotka (Nicolaus Copernicus University) psobotka at umk.pl


Call for Papers:

Abstracts must be anonymous, in PDF format, 1 page A4 or letter (plus possibly
one additional page for examples and references), in a font size no less than
12pt, and with margins of 1 inch/2.5 cm. Please submit abstracts via Easychair
no later than September 30, 2018: 
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/DSSL4-2019




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