36.762, Calls: Catalan Journal of Linguistics - "Partitivity across domains" (Jrnl)

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Subject: 36.762, Calls: Catalan Journal of Linguistics - "Partitivity across domains" (Jrnl)

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Date: 01-Mar-2025
From: Cristina Real Puigdollers [cristina.real.puigdollers at uab.cat]
Subject: Catalan Journal of Linguistics - "Partitivity across domains" (Jrnl)

Journal: Catalan Journal of Linguistics
Issue: Partitivity across domains
Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2025

Call for Papers:
Editors: Anna Bartra-Kaufmann, Cristina Real-Puigdollers, Xavier
Villalba Nicolàs
The concept partitive usually describes nominal constructions that
semantically express the relation between an individual or set of
individuals and a part of it (e.g three of the students). Partitives
have been of interest for both syntacticians and semanticists for many
years in linguistic research since the seminal works by Jackendoff
(1977) and Selkirk (1977).  In recent years, partitives have received
renewed attention as attested by the number of publications on this
issue (see Zamparelli and Falco 2016, Ihsane and Stark 2020, Sleeman
and Luraghi 2023). Several topics have been tackled, which include
issues such as the typology of partitive constructions
cross-linguistically and the relation between partitivity,
quantification, measurement and proportion (Solt 2018, Bale 2022,
Pasternak and Sauerland 2022, de Vries and Tsoulas 2024).
The pervasiveness of partitive markers across domains and across
languages raises many questions that try to solve the tension between
considering partitivity as a primitive of the language faculty with
several overt and covert outputs and disentangling the formal features
of the many constructions that have been labeled as partitive in the
literature. Therefore, the widespread presence of partitive markers
across domains sparks the question about how to model partitivity in
theoretical linguistics. In order to get a deeper understanding on
this issue we would like to ask for contributions dealing with
partitive markers found in understudied and peripheric domains such
as, for instance, partitive markers in exclamative sentences (Villalba
2003, Castroviejo 2006, Tănase-Dogaru 2008), in nominal ellipsis
contexts and degree expressions, in general (Eguren 2007, 2010, Solt
2009, Martí 2010), in dislocated constituents (Cinque 1977, Kayne
1994, 1999, Menshing 2020), in negative environments ( Pesetsky  2013,
Garzonio and Poletto 2020), in quantified expressions (Ionin,
Matushansky and Ruys 2006, Borer 2005), or in binominal predicative or
expressive constructions (Corver 2009, Saab 2022). Moreover, we would
like to understand the process of grammaticalization behind the
evolution of degree expressions and quantifiers from transparent
binominal partitives (e.g. Eng. a lot or Cat. un munt lit. ‘a bunch’)
(Rutkowski 2007, Trauggot 2008, Espinal and Cyrino 2022).
This edited volume aims to address these questions by focusing on the
study of partitive markers in contexts that haven't received extensive
attention. By exploring these new frontiers, we hope to shed light on
the underlying mechanisms of partitivity and its grammaticalization
paths. We welcome papers dealing, but not restricted to, the following
topics:
(1)     Partitivity and exclamative constructions: How can genitive
and degree markers in exclamative sentences be related to (pseudo)
partitivity?
(2)     Partitivity markers in dislocations/in the left periphery:
Which properties are partitive markers related to in languages that
exhibit partitive markers with dislocated phrases?
(3)     Partivitiy markers and their interaction with negation: Why
does negation trigger genitive case and partitive markers in some
languages?
(4)     The grammaticalization of partitive constructions and the loss
of partitive markers: Which paths does the grammaticalization of
partitive constructions and the loss of overt partitive markers
follow?
(5)     Pseudopartivity, number and counting: Is partitivity
inherently related to number and counting?
(6)     Partitivity, predication and expressive constructions: Are the
same features involved in predicate inversion, partitivity and
expressive expressions?
(7)     Partitivity and ellipsis: How is the relationship between
overt / covert partitive markers and ellipsis explained?
Deadline: 1 April 2025
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Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax

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