35.260, Calls: Workshop at LLcD Conference: Applicative Uses of Spatial Markers: Typological and Diachronic Perspectives

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Subject: 35.260, Calls: Workshop at LLcD Conference: Applicative Uses of Spatial Markers: Typological and Diachronic Perspectives

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Date: 19-Jan-2024
From: Dana Louagie [dana.louagie at kuleuven.be]
Subject: Workshop at LLcD Conference: Applicative Uses of Spatial Markers: Typological and Diachronic Perspectives


Full Title: Workshop at LLcD Conference: Applicative uses of spatial
markers: typological and diachronic perspectives

Date: 09-Sep-2024 - 11-Sep-2024
Location: Paris, France
Contact Person: Dana Louagie
Meeting Email: dana.louagie at uliege.be

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation;
Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)

Call Deadline: 28-Jan-2024

Meeting Description:

This workshop will investigate how elements with spatial meaning
develop applicative functions from a typological and diachronic
perspective. Whereas applicatives have been described to originate in
adpositions with spatial meaning for a long time, for example in Bemba
(Atlantic-Congo, Bantu, Zambia; Givón 1975: 85, cited in Peterson
(2007: 126)), spatial verb morphology has only recently been
established as a source for applicatives (e.g. Payne (2021) on Nilotic
languages). For instance, this new pathway of grammaticalization is
proposed on the basis of present-day examples like (1) from Harakmbut
(non-classified, Peru), featuring the spatial prefix ok-~k-, which
expresses ‘separation’.

(1) Harakmbut (An Van linden 2022: 131, 142)
(a)     Lupe    o-k-tegŋ-me     mbiʔigŋ
        Lupe    3SG.IND-SPAT:separation-cut-REC.PST     fish
        ‘Lupe cut the fish into pieces.’

(b)     i-k-totok-me-y  eʔ-pidn abuela-ta
        1SG-SPAT:separation-pull-REC.PST-1.IND  NPF-thorn
grandmother-ACC
        ‘I pulled a thorn out of grandmother(ʼs knee).’

In (1a), the spatial prefix specifies the internal spatial
configuration of the O-participant resulting from the action denoted
by the verb; the fish ended up being cut into separate pieces rather
than showing cuts but still being in one piece. The prefix does not
affect the valency of the verb, which remains transitive. In (1b), by
contrast, it introduces a Source argument to the clause (viz.
accusative-marked abuela-ta ‘grandmother’), and thus turns a
transitive root into a ditransitive stem. In addition to general
spatial markers like the spatial prefixes in Harakmbut, applicative
uses have also been attested for directionals (e.g. in Nilotic
languages, see Payne (2021: 719)), associated motion markers (e.g. in
Bystraja Even (Tungusic, Russia; Pakendorf & Stoynova 2021: 857)),
incorporated spatial nouns (e.g. in Abaza (Northwest Caucasian,
Russia; Arkadiev 2021)), as well as particles in verb-particle
constructions (e.g. in Dutch (Indo-European, Belgium, the Netherlands
and Suriname)).

It is still unknown how widespread these ‘old’ and ‘new’ pathways from
spatial element to applicative marker are, which stages can be
distinguished, and what the main types of variation of the outcomes
are.

The workshop will bring together linguists working on these issues,
either on the basis of historical corpus data for languages with
written records or based on first-hand data collected in the field for
those languages that do not have historical data. We invite
language-specific contributions, as well as cross-linguistic or areal
studies. More specifically, the questions to be addressed include, but
are not limited to, the following:

̶       What type of spatial markers can develop applicative
functions? And do these also still show non-applicative functions?
̶       What are the thematic/semantic roles of the applied phrases
introduced by applicatives of spatial origin?
̶       How do these applicative markers affect the valency of their
host verb? Do they increase its valency with a core argument (direct
applicatives) or a non-core argument (non-direct applicatives; cf.
Zúñiga & Kittilä 2019: 58), or do they rearrange the semantic roles of
their arguments without changing the valency of the verb?
̶       When or why do language users employ these applicatives? Does
the use of applicatives consistently cause the same meaning shift
across verbs or does this differ between verbs or between applied
phrases (cf. Pijpops et al. 2021)?
̶       What stages can be proposed for diachronic pathways from
spatial element to applicative marker? Do these spatial elements
retain their spatial semantics in their applicative use (cf. (1b)), or
do they show semantic bleaching depending on the host verb?
Specifically for the case of adpositional sources, what is the role of
adposition stranding in the grammaticalization process (cp. Peterson
2007)?
̶       Where do we find hotbeds of applicative markers of spatial
origin? Are there any areal or genetic patterns?

Please send provisional abstracts (in English or French) of 300 words
(excluding references) in PDF format by 28 January 2024 to
dana.louagie at uliege.be. Authors will be asked to submit revised
abstracts if the workshop is approved. For more details, visit the
conference webpage: https://llcd2024.sciencesconf.org/.

Important dates:
28 January: expressions of interest with provisional abstract
21 February: notification of acceptance of workshops
10 April: deadline for abstract submissions (if workshop is accepted)
10 May: notification of acceptance of papers
9-11 September: conference

Workshop convenors: An Van linden (University of Liège), Dana Louagie
(University of Liège; F.R.S.-FNRS) & Dirk Pijpops (University of
Antwerp)



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