30.1298, Calls: Russian; Slavic Subgroup; Syntax/Russia

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Subject: 30.1298, Calls: Russian; Slavic Subgroup; Syntax/Russia

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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 03:27:31
From: Sergey Say [serjozhka at yahoo.com]
Subject: 6th conference “Constructional & Lexical Semantic Approaches to Russian”

Full Title: 6th conference “Constructional & Lexical Semantic Approaches to Russian” 
Short Title: RusConstr 

Date: 03-Oct-2019 - 05-Oct-2019
Location: St. Petersburg, Russia 
Contact Person: Sergey Say
Meeting Email: rusconstr at gmail.com
Web Site: https://iling.spb.ru/events/rusconstr2019/announce.html.en 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Subject Language(s): Russian (rus)

Language Family(ies): Slavic Subgroup 

Call Deadline: 15-May-2019 

Meeting Description:

The Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, announces
the 6th conference ''Constructional & Lexical Semantic Approaches to Russian''
to be held 3-5 October 2019 at the Institute for Linguistic Studies, RAS, in
Saint Petersburg. The programme and abstracts from the previous conferences in
the series (held in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017) are available on the
Institute's website.

Conference Description:

The meeting will focus on the issues of Russian syntax. Its central theme is
the relation between formal properties of various syntactic constructions in
Russian and their semantic, pragmatic and discourse properties. Participants
are encouraged to discuss not only regular syntactic patterns, but also
''marginal'' types of constructions. We particularly welcome studies based on
empirical data, including corpus-based and experimental studies.

Originally, the central idea of the conference was to contrast two types of
approach to syntax: lexical semantic approaches, which examine syntactic
constructions ''bottom-up'', and constructional approaches, which are based on
''top-down'' analysis of syntactic units.

The lexical semantic approaches take as their starting point combinatorial
potential of individual lexemes. In particular, the distribution of syntactic
patterns is often claimed to reflect subtleties of lexical semantics (cf. the
work by Yuri D. Apresjan and the Moscow Semantic School). According to this
approach, semantic and syntactic properties of complex constructions are
derivable from semantic and combinatorial properties of their component parts.

For the constructional approaches, the central syntactic unit is a
construction -- a complex form-meaning pairing whose semantic and syntactic
features are not predictable from the properties of its component parts.
Within ''Western'' linguistic tradition, this type of approach is typical of
various kinds of Construction Grammars (Ch. Fillmore, A. Goldberg, etc.). The
findings of Construction Grammar have been widely implemented for the analysis
of Russian data by Ekaterina V. Rakhilina and her co-authors.

In the subsequent years, the focus of the conference shifted from comparing
the two types of approach and it became mostly devoted to the
empirically-based analysis of the relation between semantic and formal
properties of syntactic constructions in Russian.

The upcoming conference is not associated with any theoretical approach. The
major preference is given to the studies which focus on the analysis of
Russian syntactic phenomena in light of their semantic properties and against
the background of general linguistic mechanisms that govern, in particular,
the distribution of rival constructions and the diachronic semantic change.

The working languages of the conference are Russian and English. There is no
conference fee. 

Invited speakers:

Björn Hansen (Regensburg University)
Leonid Iomdin (Institute for Information Transmission Problems, RAS / Russian
State University for Humanities)

Programme Committee:

Nina Dobrushina
Dmitry Gerasimov
Anastasia Makarova
Dmitry Sichinava
Natasha Stoynova
Natalia Zaika

Organizing Committee:

Sofia Oskolskaya
Maria Ovsjannikova
Sergey Say

Call for Papers:

The aim of the conference is to gather researchers who are interested in the
topic of the conference irrespective of their official status. Abstracts from
young researchers, including students, are very welcome. Abstracts based on
work in progress are also welcome, provided that there are already some
empirical findings to be presented at the conference.

The deadline for abstract submission is 15 May 2019. Abstracts should not be
longer than two pages (3600 characters, including examples and references) and
should be sent as .pdf or .doc attachments to the following address
rusconstr at gmail.com. One author may submit no more than two abstracts, of
which no more than one can be written individually. The authors should refrain
from disclosing their identity either in the text or in the name of the file.
The following information about the author(s) should be given in the body of
the letter:

author's name(s),
affiliation(s),
contact e-mail.

The abstracts will be anonymously evaluated by the members of the programme
committee. Notifications of acceptance / rejection will be sent before 15 June
2019.

Participants will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation plus 10 minutes for
discussion.

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