29.2468, Calls: Historical Ling, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/Germany
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Subject: 29.2468, Calls: Historical Ling, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/Germany
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Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 11:18:08
From: Javier Caro Reina [jcarorei at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: Proper Names Versus Common Nouns: Morphosyntactic contrasts in the languages of the world
Full Title: Proper Names Versus Common Nouns: Morphosyntactic contrasts in the languages of the world
Date: 06-Mar-2019 - 08-Mar-2019
Location: Bremen, Germany
Contact Person: Javier Caro Reina
Meeting Email: jcarorei at uni-koeln.de
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Syntax; Typology
Call Deadline: 29-Jul-2018
Meeting Description:
Recent research has shown that proper names may differ morphosyntactically
from common nouns (see Schlücker & Ackermann 2017 for details). These
morphological and syntactic differences are so striking that Nübling et al.
(2015) speak of a specific “onymic grammar”. However, little is known of the
morphosyntactic contrasts between proper names and common nouns in less
studied European and Non-European languages, or even from a cross-linguistic
perspective. The goal of this workshop is to bring together papers that
examine the morphological and syntactic patterns of proper names in opposition
to common nouns in related and unrelated languages (and language families),
from a descriptive, comparative-typological, or diachronic perspective.
Topics to be explored include language-specific and/or cross-linguistic
differences between proper names and common nouns regarding:
- verbal agreement (cross-reference) of argument positions;
- word order of argument positions and/or non-arguments (adjuncts);
- topicalization and dislocation;
- differential case marking of arguments and/or non-arguments (adjuncts);
- inflection and word-formation (including allomorphy);
- gender assignment (e.g. Bantu languages);
- definite articles (e.g. Austronesian languages);
- modifiers;
- etc.
Grammatical phenomena that have received more attention in typology and that
fall under these possible topics of the workshop are Differential Object
Marking (DOM) and changes of alignment types in split ergative languages. In
Old Spanish, for instance, DOM was obligatory with personal names while it was
optional with human definite common nouns. In Corsican, by contrast, DOM
occurs with proper names but not with common nouns. Furthermore, personal
names pattern differently with regard to the alignment type in so-called split
ergative languages. For example, Meriam Mer (a Papuan language of the Torres
Strait region) has a nominative-accusative case marking pattern with personal
pronouns and an ergative-absolutive marking pattern with common nouns. Proper
names, on the other hand, have a three-way marking pattern with an ergative
case for the A argument, absolutive case for the S argument, and an accusative
case for the O argument (see Helmbrecht et al. 2018 for further examples and a
discussion).
Additionally, proper names have been traditionally viewed as a homogeneous
group. However, there is cross-linguistic evidence that an animacy-based
classification of proper names comprised of deity names (theonyms), personal
names (anthroponyms), animal names (zoonyms), and place names (toponyms)
contributes to a better understanding of the distinct morphosyntactic patterns
of proper names.
The workshop will enable us to explore the morphosyntactic differences between
proper names and common nouns, and also to strive for semantic and pragmatic
explanations of these differences. We invite submissions of abstracts that
address the morphosyntactic contrasts between common nouns and proper names in
a language or language family, cross-linguistically, or from a diachronic
perspective.
Organizers:
Johannes Helmbrecht, Universität Regensburg, Johannes.Helmbrecht at ur.de
Javier Caro Reina, Universität zu Köln, javier.caroreina at uni-koeln.de
References:
Helmbrecht, Johannes et al. 2018. Morphosyntactic coding of proper names and
its implications for the Animacy Hierarchy. In Sonja Cristofaro & Fernando
Zún͂iga (eds.), Typological hierarchies in synchrony and diachrony, 381–404.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Nübling, Damaris et al. 2015. Namen: Eine Einführung in die Onomastik.
Tübingen: Narr.
Schlücker, Barbara & Tanja Ackermann. 2017. The morphosyntax of proper names:
An overview. Folia Linguistica 51(2). 309–339.
Call for Papers:
Please send abstracts (not more than one page in pdf format) to Johannes
Helmbrecht (Johannes.Helmbrecht at ur.de) and Javier Caro Reina
(javier.caroreina at uni-koeln.de) no later than July 29, 2018. Abstracts should
contain contact details (name, affiliation, and email address). Notification
of acceptance will be send around by August 26, 2018. Talks will be given 30
or 60 minute slots including discussion, depending on the program.
The regulations of the German Society for Linguistics (DGfS) do not allow that
workshop participants present two or more papers in different workshops.
Likewise, organizers of other workshops of this conference are not allowed to
present a paper in this workshop.
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