30.331, Calls: General Linguistics/France

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Subject: 30.331, Calls: General Linguistics/France

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Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 23:05:08
From: Ghanshyam Sharma [sala35paris at gmail.com]
Subject: 35th South Asian Language Analysis Roundtable

 
Full Title: 35th South Asian Language Analysis Roundtable 
Short Title: SALA-35 

Date: 29-Oct-2019 - 31-Oct-2019
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Ghanshyam Sharma
Meeting Email: sala35paris at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sala-35.sciencesconf.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 17-Feb-2019 

Meeting Description:

We are pleased to announce that the 35th South Asian Language Analysis
Roundtable (SALA-35) will be hosted by the National institute of oriental
languages and civilizations (INALCO), Paris, France on October 29-31, 2019.

Special theme session 1: Ellipsis in South Asian Languages - Emily Manetta,
University of Vermont, USA

The study of ellipsis, an instance of meaning in the absence of form, has been
one of the most productive research domains in theoretical linguistics over
the last half century (Ross 1969; Sag 1976; Hankamer 1979; Chung et al 1995;
Merchant 2001; Fox and Lasnik 2003; among many others). Work by linguists of
South Asian languages has also made an outsized contribution to the study of
the syntax-semantics interface and unbounded dependencies (e.g. Mahajan 1990;
Kidwai 2000;  Bhatt 2002, 2003; Butt 2003; Dayal 2006, 2016), forming a
foundation from which to deepen our understanding of how material goes
missing. Recent research has engaged constructions such as sluicing (Mahajan
2005; Simpson and Bhattacharya 2003; Gribanova and Manetta 2016), gapping
(Jayaseelan 1990; Kush 2016), and argument and verb phrase ellipsis (Takahashi
2013; Simpson, Choudhury, and Menon 2013; Manetta, to appear), and has entered
into wider debates concerning the displacement processes that may feed
ellipsis. For this themed session on Ellipsis in South Asian languages we
invite contributions based in any framework or analytical tradition which
probe the syntactic, semantic, or phonological characteristics of ellipsis in
South Asian languages. We welcome excellent descriptive work on elliptical
phenomena in understudied South Asian languages, as well as comparative and
analytical approaches which bring data from South Asian languages to bear on
questions of current theoretical interest. With questions concerning this
call, please contact Emily Manetta (University of Vermont), at
emily.manetta at uvm.edu

Special theme session 2: South Asia as a “Sprachbund”? Advances in the study
of language contact in South Asia -John Peterson, Kiel, Germany

Work on South Asia as a “language area” or “Sprachbund” dates back at least to
Bloch (1934), although it did not reach a larger linguistic audience until the
appearance of Emeneau’s (1956) seminal study. Since then, an extensive
literature on this topic has appeared, with different suggestions as to which
features should be compared throughout the subcontinent and how to define
these. In this panel, we hope to obtain an overview of present work in the
field of language contact studies in South Asia, their respective theoretical
and practical approaches, and the results of such studies, however preliminary
these may be. Our objective is to create a forum for the exchange of ideas,
methods and results among interested scholars, ranging from traditional
historical linguistics and dialectology to computer-based statistical models,
which will be of mutual benefit to all those participating in this field. Work
dealing with all regions of the subcontinent is welcome, as is original
documentational work, historically oriented studies, studies taking
extralinguistic factors such as food, music, folktales, etc. (cf. Masica,
2001), etc. With questions concerning session 2, please contact John Peterson
(University of Kiel, Germany) at jpeterson at isfas.uni-kiel.de


2nd Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for individual presentations, posters as well as workshop
proposals until February 17, 2019. We welcome submissions which report on
current research on South Asian languages in any subfield of linguistics. With
questions concerning general session, please contact the SALA organizer
(Ghanshyam Sharma) at sala35paris at gmail.com

Submissions: 

All sessions will consist of 20-minute talks with a 10-minute question period.
Abstracts of no more than two pages (including references) should be submitted
in both Word and PDF formats by February 17, 2019.

1- Submissions for general session should be attached to an email to: 

sala35paris at gmail.com

2- Submissions for Session 1 should be sent as an attachment to:

sala35paris at gmail.com and emily.manetta at uvm.edu 

with the subject line “Ellipsis in South Asian Languages”.

3- Submissions for session 2 should be sent as an attachment to: 

sala35paris at gmail.com and jpeterson at isfas.uni-kiel.de 

with the subject line “South Asia as a linguistic area”.

For more information visit the website: https://sala-35.sciencesconf.org/




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