35.1977, Calls: Ergativity and Information Structure

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Subject: 35.1977, Calls: Ergativity and Information Structure

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Date: 04-Jul-2024
From: Elisabeth Verhoeven [verhoeve at cms.hu-berlin.de]
Subject: Ergativity and Information Structure


Full Title: Ergativity and Information Structure

Date: 21-Nov-2024 - 22-Nov-2024
Location: Berlin, Germany
Contact Person: Jana Bajorat
Meeting Email: jana.bajorat at hu-berlin.de

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Morphology; Pragmatics;
Syntax; Typology

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2024

Meeting Description:

It has been reported for several languages that ergative case marking
interacts with information structural factors, such as focus, topic,
givenness or discourse prominence (Quesada 1999, McGregor &
Verstraete, eds. 2010, Schultze-Berndt 2017, Riesberg 2018, Chamoreau
2021, among many others). These phenomena open a range of questions
about the relationship between information structure and core syntax.
How can the organization of an utterance in discourse-related
partitions affect case marking? Two major possibilities arise:
(a)     Information structure affects morphology, i.e., particular
information structural domains affect the presence/absence of case
markers; the question is whether optionality of ergative markers
exhibits properties that differ from case optionality in general (see
Chappell & Verstraete 2019 for the impact of information structure on
case marking).
(b)     Information structure affects syntax, i.e., information
structure directly affects the choice of syntactic construction, which
is reflected in case marking, similar to cases of differential subject
marking that arise with non-specific objects showing concomitant
effects on the case marking of subjects (Baker 2014, Coon & Preminger
2017).

The present workshop intends to discuss the relevant facts and to shed
light on the analytical aspects of the relation between information
structure and ergativity.

Call for Papers:

We invite papers (30+15 min.) on individual languages or
cross-linguistic studies:
-       either providing analytical insights into the relationship
between core syntax and discourse,
-       or focusing on the empirical side of optional ergativity with
solid studies in corpora, experiments and/or fieldwork.

References
Baker, M. 2014. Types of cross-linguistic variation in case
assignment. Picallo, M.C. (ed.) Linguistic Variation in the Minimalist
Framework. Oxford: OUP, 36-60.
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198702894.003.0003
Chamoreau C., 2021. Morphological split ergative alignment and
syntactic nominative-accusative alignment in Pesh. IJAL 87.4:501-537.
doi.org/10.1086/715755
Chappell, H., Verstraete, J‐C. 2019. Optional and alternating case
marking: Typology and diachrony. Lang Linguist Compass. 13:e12311.
doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12311
Coon, J., Preminger, O. 2017. Split ergativity is not about
ergativity. Coon, J. et al. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Ergativity.
Oxford: OUP, 226-252. doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198739371.013.10
McGregor, W.B., Verstraete, J-C. (eds.) 2010. Optional ergative
marking. Lingua 120.7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2009.05.009
Quesada, J., 1999. Ergativity in Chibchan. STUF, 52.1:22-51.
doi.org/10.1524/stuf.1999.52.1.22
Riesberg, S. 2018. Optional ergative, agentivity and discourse
prominence – Evidence from Yali (Trans-New Guinea). Linguistic
Typology 22.1, 17-50. doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2018-0002
Schultze-Berndt, E., 2017. Interaction of ergativity and information
structure in Jaminjung (Australia).  Coon, J. et al. eds. The Oxford
Handbook of Ergativity. Oxford: OUP, 1089-1113.
doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198739371.013.44

Instructions for submissions:
-       One page, excluding graphics and literature



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