36.230, Calls: General Linguistics; Morphology; Typology / Finland

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Date: 16-Jan-2025
From: Silvio Cruschina [silvio.cruschina at helsinki.fi]
Subject: Avertives in European Languages


Full Title: Avertives in European Languages

Date: 22-May-2025 - 23-May-2025
Location: University of Helsinki, Finland
Web Site:
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/comparing-and-contrasting-languages-and-cultures/news-events/avertives-in-european-languages

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

Call Deadline: 10-Mar-2025

AVERTIVES IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES
Workshop, University of Helsinki, 22–23 May 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS
Avertives are primarily used to describe past situations where the
intended outcome was interrupted, averted, or frustrated rather than
successfully completed, as illustrated in examples (1)–(3). According
to Kuteva (1998), avertives are characterised by three features:
imminence, pastness and counterfactuality. This workshop aims to
develop a more comprehensive description and analysis of the various
ways avertivity is expressed in European languages. Additionally, it
seeks to compare these findings with previous research on the topic,
which has predominantly focused on indigenous languages in Amazonia
(see Overall, 2017) and Australia (see Caudal, 2023). The ultimate
objective is to achieve a broader cross-linguistic understanding of
this phenomenon.
(1)     a.      French:
                La route est glissante et j’ai failli tomber.
                ‘The road is slippery and I nearly fell.’
        b.      Estonian:
                Laps oleks maha kukknud.
                ‘The child nearly fell.’
        c.      Finnish:
                Olin kaatua kadulla.
                ‘I almost fell in the street.’
                (Kuteva 1998: 116–117)
(2)     Sicilian:
        Jivu pi mi susiri e… mi detti cuntu ca un putiva caminari
        ‘I was about to get up… I realized that I couldn’t walk.’
        (Cruschina 2018: 298)
(3)     Lithuanian:
        Aš buvau beparašąs tau laišką, kai baigėsi rašalas.
        ‘I had almost finished the letter to you when the ink ran
out.’
        (Arkadiev 2019: 70)
We invite abstracts on any aspect related to the linguistic expression
and manifestation of avertivity in the languages of Europe.
Submissions from all theoretical frameworks and approaches are
welcome. The language of the workshop will be English.
The invited speakers will be:
 - Patrick Caudal (University of Université Paris Diderot-Paris,
France)
 - Peter Arkadiev (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Papers can address questions such as the following:
 • How is avertivity expressed in a language X?
 • What kind of structures and constructions are used to express
avertivity?
 • Are the expressions used exclusively to convey avertivity or is
avertivity only one of several meanings of polysemous expressions? If
so, what are the other meanings covered by the same expression? (cf.
Pahontu 2024)
 • Is it possible to find a pattern of regular polysemy across
languages for avertive expressions?
 • What are the common steps in the diachronic evolution of
expressions that have become avertives?
 • Can we design a battery of tests to detect whether a given
expression represents an avertive meaning in a language?
 • What kind of aspect and modality do the avertive expression encode?
(cf. Caudal 2023)
 • Are the avertive expressions limited to the past tense?
 • Is the avertive reading lexically determined (e.g. requiring
perfective verbs)?
 • Does the avertive expression(s) denote avertivity in a by
themselves, or are other contextual elements necessary (or possible)
to establish an avertive reading?
Abstracts should be no longer than 350 words (including examples and
references) and are to be sent to <begona.sanroman at helsinki.fi>. The
submission deadline is 10 March 2025. Authors will be notified of the
results of their abstract review by 17 March 2025.
The dates of the workshop are 22 and 23 May 2025.
Organizers:
Anton Granvik
Begoña Sanromán Vilas
Silvio Cruschina
References
Arkadiev, Peter M. 2019. The Lituatinan “buvo + be-present active
participle” construction revisited: A corpus-based study. Baltic
Linguistics 10, 65–108.
Caudal, Patrick. 2023. Avertive/frustrative markers in Australian
languages: Blurring the boundaries between aspecto-temporal and modal
meanings. In Kasia M. Jaszczolt (ed.), Understanding Human Time.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 103–173.
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192896445.003.0006
Cruschina, Silvio. 2018. The ‘go for’ construction in Sicilian. In R.
D’Alessandro & D. Pescarini (eds.) Advances in Italian Dialectology.
Sketches of Italo-Romance Grammars. Leiden: Brill, 292–320.
Kuteva, Tania. 1998. On identifying an evasive gram: Action narrowly
averted. Studies in Language 22(1), 113–60.
Overall, Simon. 2017. A typology of frustrative marking in Amazonian
languages. In: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon (eds.) The
Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology. (Cambridge Handbooks in
Language and Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
477–512.
Pahontu, Béatrice. 2024. La dynamique des périphrases dans une
perspective romane : Périphrases progressives/proximatives et
avertivité en roumain. Unpublished PhD thesis. Université Paris
Diderot-Paris 7.



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