33.3131, Calls: Genetic Classification, Historical Ling, Lang Doc, Morphology, Syntax/Greece

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Subject: 33.3131, Calls: Genetic Classification, Historical Ling, Lang Doc, Morphology, Syntax/Greece

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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 21:55:26
From: Bruno Estigarribia [estigarr at email.unc.edu]
Subject: Diachronic Morphosyntax in South American Languages

 
Full Title: Diachronic Morphosyntax in South American Languages 

Date: 29-Aug-2023 - 01-Sep-2023
Location: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, Greece 
Contact Person: Bruno Estigarribia
Meeting Email: estigarr at email.unc.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Genetic Classification; Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation; Morphology; Syntax 

Language Family(ies): South American Unclassified 

Call Deadline: 13-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

This workshop adopts a comparative approach to the diachrony of
morphosyntactic patterns in South American (SA) languages. Since morphosyntax
involves the internal structure of utterances, both above (syntax) and below
(morphology) the word level, and since grammatical constructions involve both
levels, paired with specific semantics/functions, the study of morphosyntactic
constructions lends itself well to cross-linguistic comparisons and
typological generalizations (Croft 2022).

The workshop's focus is on SA languages because these show the greatest
linguistic diversity found in the world (Seifart and Hammaström 2017). Since
Payne (1990) there has been a considerable increase in the amount of data on
SA languages (see. e.g., Aikhenvald 2012). Even though we know a fair amount
about language classification in the continent from phonological and lexical
reconstructions and comparison, there is still much to be learned about
morphosyntactic change, interference, and convergence. Gildea (1998) pioneered
comparative work on the Cariban family, but many other families still lack
proposals for morphosyntactic reconstruction. Recently, a number of case
studies have revealed diffusion of either morphological matter and/or patterns
across languages from distinct language families spoken in neighboring areas
(Guillaume & Rose 2010; Ciucci 2020; Crevels & van der Voort 2020). This
workshop thus aims to advance our understanding of family-internal changes as
well as of contact-induced changes. A comparative approach promises to shed
light on the classification, contact, and description of languages in this
linguistically diverse macro-area. 

This workshop is aimed at a general audience but will be of special interest
to researchers on South American languages, typologists, and historical
linguists, as well as researchers interested in language contact and change.
Aikhenvald, A. Y. 2012. Languages of the Amazon. Oxford University Press.
Ciucci, L. 2020. Matter borrowing, pattern borrowing and typological rarities
in the Gran Chaco of South America. Morphology 30, 283–310.
Crevels, M. & H. van der Voort. 2020. Areal Diffusion of Applicatives in the
Amazon. In Norval Smith, Tonjes Veenstra & Enoch Oladé Aboh (eds.), Advances
in Contact Linguistics: In Honour of Pieter Muysken, 180–216. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins. 
Croft, W. 2022. Morphosyntax. Constructions of the World's Languages.
Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gildea, S. 1998.  On Reconstructing Grammar: Comparative Cariban Morphosyntax.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Guillaume, A. & F. Rose. 2010. Sociative causative markers in South American
languages: a possible areal feature. In Essais de typologie et de linguistique
générale. Mélanges offerts à Denis Creissels, F. Floricic (ed.), 383-402.
Lyons: ENS Editions.
Payne, D. L. (Ed.). 1990. Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South
American languages. University of Texas Press.
Seifart, F. & H. Hammarström. 2017. Language Isolates of South America. In
Lyle Campbell (ed.), Isolates of South America. In Lyle Campbell (ed.),
Language Isolates, 260–287. (Routledge Language Family Series). Oxon, New
York: Routledge.


Call for Papers:

We invite submissions that take a comparative or historical perspective,
focusing on genealogically related languages and/or near-neighboring
languages, and that address (but need not be limited to) the following
questions:
What patterns can be found among genetically related and/or near-neighboring
languages?
How are grammatical relations expressed? How have they developed?
What kind of noun phrase operations are there, can they be explained
diachronically?
What constructions are related to non-verbal predication? What are their
origins?
What are the voice and valency operations and what are their origins?
What kinds of pragmatically marked structures are there?
How are clauses combined? How have innovative patterns of clause combining
emerged?

Please send provisional abstracts of no more than 300 words (excluding
references) in PDF format by 13 November 2022 to:
estigarr at email.unc.edu & fabricio.gerardi at uni-tuebingen.de

If the workshop is approved, authors will be asked to submit revised 500-word
abstracts according to the SLE guidelines before 15 January 2023.
Convenors: Fabrício Ferraz Gerardi & Bruno Estigarribia




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