30.2927, Confs: Uralic; Syntax, Typology/Austria

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-2927. Fri Jul 26 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.2927, Confs: Uralic; Syntax, Typology/Austria

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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 19:22:10
From: Nikolett Mus [mus.nikolett at nytud.mta.hu]
Subject: Interrogativity in the Uralic Languages

 
Interrogativity in the Uralic Languages 

Date: 16-Aug-2020 - 21-Aug-2020 
Location: Vienna, Austria 
Contact: Nikolett Mus 
Contact Email: mus.nikolett at nytud.mta.hu 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax; Typology 

Language Family(ies): Uralic 
Meeting Description: 

The Symposium on Interrogativity in the Uralic languages will take place as
part of the programme of the XIII International Congress for Finno-Ugric
Studies in Vienna.
 

Call for Papers:

Abstracts are solicited for 20-minute presentations (followed by a 5-minute
question period) that approach interrogativity in Uralic languages primarily
from a syntactic and/or prosodic perspective. Abstracts, limited to 3000
characters (including spaces), must be submitted using the electronic
submission tool of the conference
(https://cifu13.univie.ac.at/call/online-submission/). Please select symposium
B.5 Interrogativity in the Uralic languages. The language of the symposium is
English. Selected papers of the presentations will be published in a special
issue of the journal Finno-Ugric Languages and Linguistics (FULL).

We invite submissions addressing questions in the following major topics in
particular:

(i) Intonation
In many languages, the intonational patterns of interrogatives differ from
those of declarative clauses. Considering the interrogative intonation
patterns cross-linguistically, the following questions might be raised: is
there a dedicated intonational pattern of the different question-types in the
Uralic languages? If so, is it only intonation that differentiates
interrogatives from other clause types? How do different pragmatic uses of
interrogatives differ in their intonation?

(ii) Morphemes
In some languages, there are morphemes employed for marking interrogativity.
The interrogative element can usually be a particle, a tag, an inflectional
suffix – such as the interrogative mood marker in some Samoyedic languages –
and (even) an interrogative verb. New questions which have not been addressed
before may be raised. These may include, but are not limited to: the
availability of such interrogative morphemes, their position in the clause,
their polarity, and their defectivities. Additionally, in some languages it is
the declarative clause type that is marked by a marker, which is unavailable
in interrogative clauses. Are there such examples in the Uralic languages?

(iii) Syntax
In this domain the central empirical question to explore is what differences,
if any, the various interrogative constructions show in their syntax as
compared to declarative patterns. The following topics may be highlighted:
What is the distribution of interrogative phrases in constituent questions
(e.g. fronted, optionally fronted, in situ)? Is there a dedicated position for
syntactically marked interrogative phrases? If so, how does the position of
interrogative phrase(s) relate to the position of focus in the language, i.e.,
do these elements occupy the same or different syntactic positions? What
characterizes the marking of focus and negation in polar and alternative
questions? If adjacency of interrogative phrases to the verb figures in the
syntax of constituent questions, how can it be captured, and how can
exceptions be explained? What syntactic strategies are available to questions
containing multiple interrogative phrases? What asymmetries, if any, do root
and non-root contexts exhibit with regard to the syntactic marking strategies
in interrogative clauses of any type? How does syntactic marking interact with
morphological and prosodic marking within a question type? How do different
pragmatic uses of interrogatives differ in their syntax?

Bearing in mind that the main aim of the symposium is to provide
cross-linguistically comparable descriptions of interrogative constructions in
the Uralic languages, submissions employing a typological approach are
especially (but not exclusively) encouraged.





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