31.313, Calls: Slavic Subgroup; Syntax/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-313. Wed Jan 22 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.313, Calls: Slavic Subgroup; Syntax/Germany

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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:47:07
From: Olav Mueller-Reichau [reichau at uni-leipzig.de]
Subject: Workshop on Seconday Imperfectives in Slavic

Full Title: Workshop on Seconday Imperfectives in Slavic 

Date: 02-Dec-2020 - 04-Dec-2020
Location: Leipzig, Germany 
Contact Person: Olav Mueller-Reichau
Meeting Email: fdsl14 at uni-leipzig.de
Web Site: https://conference.uni-leipzig.de/fdsl14/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Slavic Subgroup 

Call Deadline: 31-May-2020 

Meeting Description:

Workshop on Secondary imperfectives in Slavic, as part of FDSL-14

Workshop description:
The term ''secondary imperfectivization'' describes the process of deriving an
imperfective stem/verb from a perfective one by means of suffixal markers such
as Russian -yva, -iva, -va. (''YVA'' for short). Paradigmatic examples are:

pisat' ('to write.IPFV') -> podpisat' ('to sign.PFV') -> podpisyvat' ('to
sign.IPFV') (Russian)
pisati ('to write.IPFV') -> prepisati ('to copy.PFV') -> prepisivati ('to
copy.IPFV') (Croatian)
pisać ('to write.IPFV') -> zapisać ('to record.PFV') -> zapisywać ('to
record.IPFV') (Polish)
piša ('I write.IPFV') -> napiša ('I write up.PFV') -> napisvam ('I write
up.IPFV') (Bulgarian)

Due to its central place in Slavic verb formation, this operation, which
structurally dates back to Proto-Indo-European times (Wiemer & Seržant 2017),
has attracted a lot of attention. Nevertheless, there are still many open
issues related to this phenomenon, including the form and function of its
products. The aim of this workshop is to broaden the empirical database and to
deepen our understanding of secondary imperfectives. We welcome investigations
into any Slavic language. Since little is known about inner-Slavic variation
among secondary imperfectives, we would like to especially encourage
contributions on Slavic languages other than most studied Russian. Issues
include:

•Do secondary imperfectives fulfill the same functions across Slavic
languages? 
•Can secondary imperfectives be used in the same set of contexts as simple
imperfectives, or only in a subset thereof?
•Is YVA an aspectual head (e.g. Ramchand 2008)? Or does it apply below aspect
(Tatevosov 2017, Ramchand & Minor 2019)? 
•What is the morphological status of YVA? Can the heterogeneity of forms be
traced back to one underlying morpheme (Matushansky 2007), or is it a
manifestation of a function that transposes verb stems to a specific
conjugation class (Isačenko 1960; Gladney 2013)?
•Intuitively, the attachment of YVA can be described as the undoing of
perfectivization induced by prefixation. How can we model this interpretative
effect in a compositional semantic framework?
•How do secondary imperfectives relate to simple iteratives like Russian
pisyvat' ('to write from time to time'), where suffixation does not lead from
a perfective to an imperfective form?
•How can we account for observed differences, such as the existence of generic
-va besides imperfective -va (Filip & Carlson 1997) in Czech, but not in
Russian? 
•Why is secondary imperfectivization more productive in Bulgarian than in
other Slavic languages (e.g. Rivero & Slavkov 2014)? 
•Is attachment of YVA (always) lexically empty, as suggested by analyses that
consider forms such as podpisat' and podpisyvat' as genuine aspectual pairs
(Isačenko 1960)?  
•How can we make sense of so-called orphan secondary imperfectives, i.e.
secondary imperfectives that lack a prefixed counterpart (Polančec 2018)?
•Is there just one instance of YVA, or do we need to distinguish (at least)
between early -a and late -yva , as suggested by Tatevosov (2013:65ff.) for
Russian?
•Why does Russian exclude past passive participles with YVA, while allowing
for PPPs based on simple imperfective stems (Knjazev 2007; Borik & Gehrke
2018)?

Organizing team: Berit Gehrke (HU Berlin), Olav Mueller-Reichau (Leipzig
University), Jurica Polančec (Zagreb University), Sergei Tatevosov (MSU
Moscow)

Call for Papers: 

Abstracts must not exceed 2 pages (including examples, graphs, references).
They should have 2.5 cm or 1 inch margins, should be single-spaced, in a font
size not smaller than 12 pt. Examples, graphs etc. should be intertwined in
the text (rather than placed at the end). 
Abstracts must be anonymous (nothing in the abstract or the document should
identify the authors), and must be submitted in PDF format via Easychair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fdsl14)

Deadline for the receipt of abstracts: May 31, 2020 
Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2020 
Conference homepage: https://conference.uni-leipzig.de/fdsl14/ 
Conference e-mail: fdsl14 at uni-leipzig.de

References:

BORIK, O. & B. GEHRKE 2018. Imperfective past passive participles in Russian.
In D. Lenertová, R. Meyer, R. Šimík and L. Szucsich (eds), Advances in formal
Slavic linguistics 2016, Language Science Press, Berlin, 53–76.
FILIP, H. & G. CARLSON 1997. Sui generis genericity. A. Dimitriadis et al.
(eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-first Penn Linguistics Colloquium.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 91-110.
GLADNEY, F.Y. 2013. On the syntax, morphology, and semantics of Russian verbal
aspect. The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 57, No. 4, 628-648.
ISAČENKO, A.V. 1960. Grammatičeskij stroj russkogo jazyka v sopostavlenii so
slovackim. Morfologija, čast’ 2. Bratislava: Slovackaja akademija nauk.
KNJAZEV, J. 2007. Grammatičeskaja Semantika: Russkij jazyk v tipologičeskoj
perspektive, Moscow: Jazyki slavjanskix kul’tur.
MATUSHANSKY, O. (2007). Deriving the Russian secondary imperfective. Paper
presented at the Workshop on Problems with Surface-based Generalizations.
Paris, October 8-9, 2007.
POLANČEC, J. 2018. Osamostaljeni izvedeni nesvršeni glagoli u hrvatskom jeziku
[Orphan Secondary Imperfectives in Croatian]. Suvremena lingvistika 85,
113-138.
RAMCHAND, G. (2008): Perfectivity as aspectual definiteness: Time and the
event in Russian, Lingua 118, 1690-1715.
RAMCHAND, G. & S. MINOR (2019): Stativity vs. Homogeneity:  Similarities and
Differences between the English Progressive and the Russian Imperfective.
Paper presented at FARL-3. Moscow, April 5-6, 2019.
RIVERO, M. & N. SLAVKOV (2014): Imperfect(ive) variation: The case of
Bulgarian. Lingua 150, 232-277. 
TATEVOSOV, S. (2013): Množestvennaja prefiksacija i ee sledstvija. Voprosy
jazykoznanija 3, 42-89
TATEVOSOV, S. (2017): On the aspectual architecture of Russian. Ms. Moscow
State University.
WIEMER, B. & I. SERŽANT (2017): Diachrony and typology of Slavic aspect: What
does morphology tell us? In W. Bisang & A. Malchukov (eds.),Unity and
diversity in grammaticalization scenarios. Berlin: Language Science Press,
239-307.

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