30.2177, Calls: Slavic Subgroup; Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Germany
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Subject: 30.2177, Calls: Slavic Subgroup; Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Germany
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Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 01:14:11
From: Björn Wiemer [wiemerb at uni-mainz.de]
Subject: Slavic Aspect and (Diachronic) Corpora
Full Title: Slavic Aspect and (Diachronic) Corpora
Date: 25-Mar-2020 - 27-Mar-2020
Location: Mainz, Germany
Contact Person: Björn Wiemer
Meeting Email: wiemerb at uni-mainz.de
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Language Family(ies): Slavic Subgroup
Call Deadline: 20-Jul-2019
Meeting Description:
The workshop addresses desiderata in the corpus-based study of Slavic aspect,
which are felt primarily in diachronic research, and aims at uniting the
expertise of specialists in the field of Slavic aspectology, Slavic
(diachronic) morphosyntax as well as of corpus and computer linguistics.
We invite contributions addressing issues related to the development of aspect
systems in Slavic languages on the basis of corpus data (or comparable
databases). This implies interference with other verbal categories, with
notional categories on sentence or discourse level (e.g., modality,
presupposition management) and with the morphosyntactic coding of argument
structure. Studies on recent or ongoing change are also very welcome.
Call for Papers:
The diachronic study of aspect (pfv. : ipfv. opposition) in Slavic languages
has remained a stepchild of Slavic aspectology and of research in morphosyntax
and semantics, despite some diachronic studies on aspect in Russian and in Old
Church Slavonic. Probably, one reason is that diachronic corpora of particular
Slavic languages have started to appear only recently; most of them are rather
small, or they are not sufficiently annotated. Another reason is that neither
the functional distribution of pfv. or ipfv. verbs, nor even the formal
patterns marking the relation between pfv. and ipfv. stems can be easily
retrieved. The same applies to issues related to aspect, such as the syntactic
coding of arguments (e.g., the locative alternation) or prefix stacking. So
far corpus-based research in the productivity of patterns of the derivation of
ipfv. and pfv. stems, or in the distribution of particular grammatical forms
interfering with aspect, has been conducted almost entirely on a synchronic
level, again, predominantly for Russian. A similar remark applies to research
into the relation between aspect, actionality, argument structure and
quantification or for derivational chains and prefix stacking.
Contributions should address the development of aspect systems in Slavic
languages on the basis of corpus data (or comparable databases). This implies
interference with other verbal categories, with notional categories on
sentence or discourse level and with the morphosyntactic coding of argument
structure. Studies on recent or ongoing change are also very welcome. We
invite talks which are concerned primarily, though not exclusively, with at
least one of the following issues:
1. How can productivity of aspectual derivation, both of assumed pairs and of
derivational chains (e.g. prefix stacking), be measured on type or token
level? Can methods applied to corpora of contemporary stages be transferred to
earlier stages?
2. How can we assess the weight of phenomena that are regarded either as
marginal or as remnants of earlier stages, such as unprefixed stems and their
role in so-called aspect triplets? How can corpus-based studies help to better
understand how triplets came about, why some decayed, while others haved
„stayed alive“?
3. How can we detect and explain discrepancies of type/token ratios, e.g. if
we compare the share of different actionality or lexical groups for
(un)productive patterns of aspectual derivation? How can corpora be used to
better explore biases in the distribution of particular verb groups over
acknowledged functions of ipfv. or pfv. verbs?
4. How can corpora help pin down frequency effects (on token or type level)
responsible for the survival of rare patterns, or for the spread of patterns
restricted to certain actionality types?
5. How can corpora be employed to better understand changes in the relation of
aspect choice with various modal meanings, in clause combining and discourse
patterns?
6. How can corpora help to better understand the relation of derivational
patterns and aspect choice with patterns (and their changes) in the coding of
arguments?
Abstracts of maximally 500 words (exclusive of examples and references), with
author’s affiliation, should be sent by July, 20, 2019 to Björn Wiemer
(wiemerb at uni-mainz.de) and Marek Łaziński (m.lazinski at uw.edu.pl). Notes of
acceptance due by September, 15, 2019.
A more detailed version of the call for papers can be sent upon request.
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