31.261, Calls: General Linguistics/Czech Republic

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-261. Tue Jan 21 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.261, Calls: General Linguistics/Czech Republic

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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:34:07
From: Jan Židek [jan.zidek at centrum.cz]
Subject: ''Converbs from a cross-linguistic perspective'' Workshop at Linguistics Prague

 
Full Title: "Converbs from a cross-linguistic perspective" Workshop at Linguistics Prague 

Date: 25-Apr-2020 - 25-Apr-2020
Location: Prague, Czech Republic 
Contact Person: Martina Rybová
Meeting Email: linguistics.prague at ff.cuni.cz
Web Site: http://linguisticsprague.ff.cuni.cz/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 29-Feb-2020 

Meeting Description:

The aim of the conference is to bring together students and early career
researchers whose research addresses any topics relevant to linguistics and is
grounded in empirical methods. We encourage presentations of original data
oriented research concerned with different aspects of language structure and
use, as well as discussions of relevant methodological issues.

The conference takes place at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in the
very center of Prague, Thursday 23 April to Saturday 25 April 2020.

The event will consist of 2 plenary talks, 2 tutorial workshops, and a general
session for oral presentations and posters.

Workshop ''Converbs from a cross-linguistic perspective'' topic:

In the last twenty years the concept of converbs has been slowly gaining
traction and recognition among the wider linguistic community. The term
converb is being used in place of several other older terms such as gerunds,
deepričastie, adverbial participle, etc. There have been also various attempts
to delimit the phenomenon, e.g. Haspelmath 1995, Ross 2016, that, however, do
not agree on all aspects of the definition. Broadly speaking, converbs can be
understood as adverbial verbal forms, though their actual function can vary
both across languages and across constructions. We would like to discuss the
following issues:

Converbs as dependent adverbial form or a device for clause chaining?
Coordination vs subordination (co-subordination?)
Converbs on the margins (non-prototypical cases of converb usage)
Use of converbs in mono-clausal multiverbal constructions (MMC)
Is the notion of converbs cross-linguistically a useful label?


Call for Papers: 

Abstract Submission Guidelines:

Abstracts must be anonymous and their length should not exceed 400 words
(without references). Please use 12 point Times New Roman (Unicode) font,
single line spacing and set margins to 2.5 cm all around. Abstracts should be
submitted by 29 February 2020 in pdf format using the EasyAbs system at:
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/lp20

Presentation time for papers will be 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of
discussion.

Please clearly indicate your presentation is meant for our workshop.

Important Dates:

29 February 2020: Abstract submission deadline
15 March 2020: Notification of acceptance
23 April - 25 April 2020: Conference




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