35.2501, Calls: ICHL27 Workshop – Argument Marking and Valency Changing Phenomena in the Native Languages of the Americas

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Subject: 35.2501, Calls: ICHL27 Workshop – Argument Marking and Valency Changing Phenomena in the Native Languages of the Americas

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Date: 11-Sep-2024
From: Estefania Baranger [estefaniabaranger at gmail.com]
Subject: ICHL27 Workshop – Argument Marking and Valency Changing Phenomena in the Native Languages of the Americas


Full Title: ICHL27 Workshop – Argument Marking and Valency Changing
Phenomena in the Native Languages of the Americas

Date: 18-Aug-2025 - 22-Aug-2025
Location: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Contact Person: Martin Califa
Meeting Email: martin.califa at unahur.edu.ar
Web Site: https://ichl27santiago.cl/

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

Call Deadline: 18-Oct-2024

Meeting Description:

Argument marking refers to the way languages encode the arguments on a
predicate, by means of verbal indexation, flagging, or a combination
thereof. Valency is the number of arguments a predicate takes.
Semantically, it’s the number of arguments of a given verb base, which
can be avalent, monovalent, bivalent, or trivalent. Syntactically and
morphologically, it refers to the number of arguments realized on the
structure of the clause or the morphology of the verb (Zúñiga &
Kittilä, 2019). A related notion, diathesis, corresponds to the
specific projection of the semantic roles onto syntactic functions; in
this regards, diathetic or valency changing mechanisms are strategies
used by languages to modify the valency of constructions (Creissels
2017, Kulikov, 2011, Song 2018, Zúñiga & Kittilä 2019). These
operations allow increasing (e.g., causatives and applicatives) and
decreasing (e.g., passives and antipassives) valency, with functional
overlaps manifested in recurring syncretism patterns (Bahrt 2021).
There is a growing interest in the historical aspects of the languages
of the Americas. Important milestones include Gildea (1998) on Carib
languages, Key’s (1991) pioneering work on language change in South
American languages and Heggarty’s (2005) research on the languages of
the Andes.

This workshop, to be hosted at the 27th International Conference on
Historical Linguistics, proposes the discussion of the diachrony of
argument marking patterns and valency changing phenomena in the native
languages of the Americas. We invite contributions on the following
and related topics.
- Changes in argument structure: changes in locus of marking, in
morphosyntactic alignment (Zúñiga 2019), and the overall profile of
the language (transitivizing vs. detransitivizing in the spirit of
Nichols et al. 2004)
- Grammaticalization and lexicalization of valency changing markers
(including possible cases of contact-induced grammaticalization):
lexical sources, developmental pathways, syncretism patterns (Bahrt
2020; Estrada Fernández et al. 2015; Mithun 1984, 1986; Zúñiga &
Kittilä 2019).
- Syntactic reconstruction: comparative analysis of languages of the
same family and hypotheses about proto argument structures (Barðdal et
al. 2020).
We welcome papers based on the dynamization of the synchrony of a
language and not just on languages with documented sources of previous
stages. We seek to create a collective overview of the domain taking
into consideration perspectives from different areas of the continent.

Call for Papers:

Abstracts of no more than 800 words (excl. references) should be sent
to Martin Califa (martin.califa at unahur.edu.ar) by October 18th 2024 in
PDF format. While ICHL workshops are typically restricted to a maximum
of six papers (all other accepted proposals will be given as part of
the general sessions), should there be sufficient interest, we will
try our best to ask the organizers for an extended workshop. Should
you have any doubts, don’t hesitate to contact us. We look forward to
your proposals.



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