33.1395, Calls: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Syntax, Typology/Italy

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-1395. Tue Apr 19 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.1395, Calls: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Syntax, Typology/Italy

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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 06:00:19
From: Jelena Živojinović [jelena.zivojinovic at univr.it]
Subject: Towards a Diachronic Typology of Converbs

 
Full Title: Towards a Diachronic Typology of Converbs 
Short Title: DiaCon2022 

Date: 06-Oct-2022 - 08-Oct-2022
Location: Verona, Italy 
Contact Person: Jelena Zivojinovic
Meeting Email: diacon2022 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/diacon2022/home 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2022 

Meeting Description:

This conference aims at bringing together scholars working on converbs and
related categories from different theoretical and methodological angles.
Topics may include but are not restricted to the following:

- Converb as a metalinguistic concept through history and in different
traditions
- The synchronic properties of converbs in typological perspective
- Converbs and related constructions as areal features
- Converbs in the context of linguistic families
- Converbial constructions and competing construction types
- The diachronic typology of converbs and their source constructions.

Keynote speakers:
Andrea Drocco (University of Venice, Ca' Foscari)
Anna Pompei (Roma Tre University)
Krzysztof Stroński (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Carlotta Viti (Beijing Normal University)

Organizing & scientific committee:
Paola Cotticelli (University of Verona)
Eystein Dahl (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Jelena Živojinović (University of Verona)

Contact e-mail: diacon2022 at gmail.com


Final Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for 20 minute talks, which are followed by 10 minute
discussions. They should clearly state the research questions, approach,
method, data and (expected) results. They must be anonymized and should not
exceed 500 words (including examples, excluding references).
All abstracts will be subject to a double-blind peer review.

Abstracts are submitted via Easychair by June 1, 2022 at the following link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=diacon2022




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