36.1461, Calls: Genitives and Possession in Contact Workshop (Online)

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Subject: 36.1461, Calls: Genitives and Possession in Contact Workshop (Online)

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Date: 06-May-2025
From: Vít Ulman [ulman.vit at post.cz]
Subject: Genitives and Possession in Contact Workshop


Full Title: Genitives and Possession in Contact Workshop

Date: 13-Jun-2025 - 13-Jun-2025
Location: Online
Contact Person: Vít Ulman
Meeting Email: ulman.vit at post.cz
Web Site: https://linguistics.cz/genitives-and-possession-in-contact/

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

Call Deadline: 25-May-2025

Call for Papers:
Much has been written on the topic of possession in general (Heine,
1997; Nichols, 1988, among others), in the last 15 years there have
also been several publications that have discussed the influence of
language contact on possession-related phenomena, such as on split
possession in European languages (Stolz, et al. 2008), predicative
possession in Slavic (McAnallen, 2011) or attributive possession in
Tunisian Arabic (Sayahi, 2015). Possession is also discussed from the
cross-linguistics perspective in Aikhenvald’s 2013 paper. Drawing on
the preceding research, this workshop focuses more narrowly on the
genitive case and more broadly on possession in the languages of the
world when influenced by language contact. This workshop loosely
follows on from the Grammatical Case and Language Contact Workshop
that took place in 2022 at Charles University in Prague.
We welcome general papers on the topic as well as concrete examples of
languages where the marking of possession is changing, new categories
are appearing, or old distinctions are vanishing. Contact between
languages with head-marked possession and those with dependent-marked
possession is of special interest to this workshop. We also encourage
papers on lesser known/underrepresented languages.
Example research questions:
 - What grammaticalization clines are employed in possession under the
influence of contact?
 - Is the possession marking in transition? Does the old marking and
new marking coexist in the language and how do they differ in their
usage?
 - Is possession double-marked? How did it come to be that way?
 - What changes in marking of possession can be observed in minority
languages under the influence of a majority language? / How do the
patterns of the native tongue manifest in speakers when speaking a
second language?
 - Is the genitive marking newly developing or vanishing, and does its
semantic scope change?
 - The workshop is organized by the Prague Descriptive Linguistics
group.
Send abstracts (300 words + bibliography) to ulman.vit at post.cz
Abstract deadline: 25th May 2025
Date: 13th June 2025
Further info will be made available at: linguistics.cz
Bibliography
Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. "Possession and ownership: A cross-linguistic
perspective." Possession and ownership: A cross-linguistic typology,
Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 1-64.
Carlier, Anne and Verstraete, Jean-Christophe. The Genitive, John
Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.
Heine, Bernd. Cognitive foundations of grammar. Oxford University
Press, 1997.
McAnallen, Julia. The history of predicative possession in Slavic:
Internal development vs. language contact. University of California,
Berkeley, 2011.
Nichols, Johanna. "On alienable and inalienable possession". In Honor
of Mary Haas: From the Haas Festival Conference On Native American
Linguistics, edited by William Shipley, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter
Mouton, 1988, pp. 557-610.
Sayahi, Lotfi. “Expression of attributive possession in Tunisian
Arabic: The role of language contact.” Semitic languages in contact.
Brill, 2015, pp. 333-347.
Stolz, Thomas, et al. Split Possession: An areal-linguistic study of
the alienability correlation and related phenomena in the languages of
Europe. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008.



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