31.3785, Calls: Typology/Online

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-3785. Wed Dec 09 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.3785, Calls: Typology/Online

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Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2020 21:54:59
From: Eva van Lier [e.h.vanlier at uva.nl]
Subject: Workshop Lexical restrictions on grammatical relations

 
Full Title: Workshop Lexical restrictions on grammatical relations 
Short Title: LexGR 

Date: 29-Mar-2021 - 30-Mar-2021
Location: Amsterdam (Online), Netherlands 
Contact Person: Eva van Lier
Meeting Email: e.h.vanlier at uva.nl

Linguistic Field(s): Typology 

Call Deadline: 14-Dec-2020 

Meeting Description:

In many languages grammatical relations are to some extent lexically
restricted, in the sense that certain verbs or verb classes take different
argument coding frames than others. While such constraints are well studied
for case marking, they have also been reported for grammatical relations
defining other types of constructions, including a range of voice- and
valency-related constructions and some clause-combining constructions. This
hybrid (on-line/on-site) workshop aims to unite scholars from different
(sub)disciplines, bringing together descriptive, comparative, corpus-based,
and experimental studies, as well as studies that compare linguistic data with
genetic and/or socio-historical evidence. Together, we hope to further our
understanding why lexical restrictions should exist, how they are processed
and acquired, and why/how/where they persist in languages.

Shedding light on these issues requires not only a cross-linguistic
understanding of lexical restrictions in language use, but also thinking
beyond the linguistic system proper. This includes addressing questions about
the cognitive nature of lexical restrictions, e.g. about their role in
language processing or language acquisition, but also about their
cultural-historical behavior in different genealogical and areal contexts. 
With this workshop, therefore, we aim to stimulate the conversation between
different (sub)disciplines, bringing together descriptive, comparative,
corpus-based, and experimental studies, as well as multi-disciplinary studies
that compare linguistic data with genetic and/or socio-historical evidence.

Organizers: Eva van Lier (e.h.vanlier at uva.nl), Rik van Gijn
(e.van.gijn at hum.leidenuniv.nl),  Katherine Walker (k.walker at uva.nl)

Keynote speakers: 
- Gerrit Jan Kootstra (Radboud University Nijmegen)
- Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)


Final Call for Papers: 

DEADLINE: DECEMBER 14

We welcome contributions that address, among others, the following questions:
-What lexical constraints on language-specific constructions defining
grammatical relations exist, especially constructions related to voice/valency
and clause combining?
-Do lexical concepts cluster in terms of their behavior in similar
constructions across languages (of a particular family or area)? Can such
clusters be connected to certain semantic features?
- How are lexical constraints on grammatical relations distributed across time
and space?
- How does this distribution compare with genetic and socio-historical
evidence?
- How are such constraints acquired and used in language production and
comprehension?
- How do lexical constraints play out as statistical preferences as reflected
in corpus data?

Please submit a one-page abstract (with references and/or examples/graphics
allowed on a separate page), no later than December 14, 2020, to
e.h.vanlier at uva.nl.
Notification of acceptance will be given January 22, 2021.
Please note that the workshop will take a hybrid format, accommodating both
on-site and on-line presentations. All on-site presentations will be
live-streamed.




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