35.307, Calls: International Argument Alternation Workshop

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Subject: 35.307, Calls: International Argument Alternation Workshop

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Date: 25-Jan-2024
From: Kiyoko Toratani [ktora at yorku.ca]
Subject: International Argument Alternation Workshop

Full Title: International Argument Alternation Workshop
Short Title: IAAW

Date: 20-Jul-2025 - 21-Jul-2025
Location: Kobe University, Japan
Contact Person: Kiyoko Toratani
Meeting Email: iaaw.kobe2025 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/iaaw2025

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics;
Semantics; Syntax; Typology

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2024

Meeting Description:

The International Argument Alternation Workshop (IAAW) will be held in
person at Kobe University in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, on
July 20 and July 21, 2025.

“Argument alternations” are phenomena in which a set of (or one of
the) arguments of the verb have alternative realizations (in terms of
grammatical relations, case marking, etc.) (e.g., Dowty 2000; Levin
and Rappaport Hovav 2005). English has a wide range of argument
alternations. Some representative ones include causative/inchoative
alternation (e.g., The boy broke the dish/The dish broke), locative
alternation (e.g., John loaded hay onto the truck/John loaded the
truck with hay), and dative alternation (e.g., Chris gave Kim a
book/Chris gave a book to Kim), among many others (Levin 1993).

Argument alternations have been studied by applying a diverse range of
theories, methods, and approaches: cognitive linguistics (e.g., Law
2022), corpus linguistics (e.g., Gries and Stefanowitsch 2004),
Construction Grammar (e.g., Goldberg 1995), Head-Driven Phrase
Structure Grammar (e.g., Davis, Koenig and Wechsler 2021), Generative
Grammar (e.g., Baker 1988), Lexical-Functional Grammar (e.g., Bresnan
and Kanerva 1989), Role and Reference Grammar (e.g., Van Valin 2007),
and typology (e.g., Malchukov 2015), to name a few.

The workshop aims to serve as a platform encouraging cross-theoretical
discussions on argument alternations, bringing together researchers
with different backgrounds. We invite papers that discuss new data or
new generalizations of argument alternations—they can be argument
alternation patterns from understudied languages or microvariations of
already well-studied alternations (verb A alternates but verb B does
not, yet both verbs belong to the same category), or papers that
highlight some fresh data on well- or less-known argument alternations
and discuss them in light of a newly developed component of the theory
or under a new perspective.

We welcome papers dealing with any types/aspects of argument
alternations (e.g., swarm alternation, passive, possessor raising,
noun incorporation, differential subject/object marking). We are
particularly interested in research on less-known types (e.g.,
Kishimoto 2024).

Possible research questions include (but are not limited to):

     1. Are there any differences in the encoded lexical meanings
between the alternants?
     2. How are the morphological codings motivated in argument
alternations? Are they unique to the alternations or found elsewhere?
    3. Are alternations driven syntactically or semantically? What is
the evidence for the division?
    4. Are there microvariations or speaker variations in alternation
patterns? How are they motivated?
    5. What do diachronic data tell us about the changes involved in
argument alternations?
    6. Can a metaphor improve the acceptability of an alternating
pattern (cf. Salkoff 1983)? If so, why?
    7. Are multiple argument alternations possible with a single verb?
What factors trigger them?
    8. What is the possible range of the (micro-)variations in
argument alternations? What is their motivation?
    9. Are there any grammatical contexts in which one alternant is
possible, while the other is not? Why?
    10. What semantic classes of predicates show the same alternation
patterns?
    11. Are there any grammatical operations that make argument
alternations possible?

Note: Kobe University will consecutively host two independent
international meetings. IAAW (July 20-21, 2025) will take place
immediately after The 18th International Conference on Role and
Reference Grammar (RRG2025) (July 18-19, 2025).

Call for Papers:

Submissions are invited for 20-minute oral presentations (+10 min.
Q&A.).
Please submit an anonymous one-page abstract, not exceeding 500 words,
including examples (references and tables/figures may be on the second
page), by December 31, 2024, in PDF format, via EasyAbs system on the
Linguist List, whose URL will become available in November 2024.

Please use a few representative words from the title as the filename
(e.g., locative_clear_verbs_korean.pdf) to maintain the file’s
anonymity.
Authors may submit one individual and/or one co-authored abstract.

Important dates:
•       Abstract submission: November 1 - December 31, 2024
•       Notification of acceptance: January 31, 2025
•       Workshop dates: July 20 and 21, 2025

Scientific committee:

John Beavers (The University of Texas, Austin)
Hideki Kishimoto (Kobe University)
Jean-Pierre Koenig (University at Buffalo)
Andrej Malchukov (University of Mainz)
Gillian Ramchand (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Robert Van Valin, Jr. (University at Buffalo/ Heinrich Heine
University Düsseldorf)
Stephen Wechsler (The University of Texas, Austin)
Michael Wilson (University of Delaware)

Workshop organizers:

Hideki Kishimoto (Kobe University)
Kiyoko Toratani (York University)

For the full call for papers, visit the website:
https://sites.google.com/view/iaaw2025

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