Last Call for papers Pluractionality Leiden 26 Aug 2010

[Patricia Cabredo Hofherr]

De la part de Kateřina Součková and Jenny Doetjes

Last call for papers

Workshop on pluractionality: towards a typology of verbal plurality

26 August 2010,

following on the 40th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics  
(CALL)
Leiden University Centre for Linguistics

Invited speaker: Sigrid Beck (Universität Tübingen)

Abstracts:
Anonymous 1 page abstracts must be submitted prior to 1 June 2010 by
email to CALL at hum.leidenuniv.nl; make sure you write your name, email  
address
and affiliation in the mail and mention ‘Workshop on  
pluractionality’ in the Subject line

Submission deadline: 1st June 2010
Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2010

Organizers:     Kateřina Součková and Jenny Doetjes

In the descriptive literature the phenomenon of pluractionality has a
long history even if not necessarily under this label. Quite recently,  
there has also been an
increase of interest in the phenomenon in the formal semantic  
literature, especially since
Lasersohn (1995). Researchers have been looking not only at  
traditionally pluractional languages
such as many Amerindian or African languages, but also at languages  
such as Germanic or Romance
where certain phenomena and constructions – often traditionally  
analyzed as aspectual – have
been analyzed as involving pluractional operators (see for instance  
Van Geenhoven 2005). This
raises the question of what the limits of pluractionality are – what  
should be included and what
is outside the domain of the phenomenon. For that purpose, cooperation  
of descriptive and formal
linguists is crucial as the theoretical predictions of various  
approaches need to be compared with
the empirical findings in many different languages.
In this workshop we would like to bring together researchers working
on pluractionality both in traditional pluractional languages and on  
similar phenomena in
languages that do not have morphological marking of event plurality.  
The goal of this workshop is
to increase the understanding of various aspects of pluractionality.  
We are interested
in talks discussing the relation between the following formally  
different ways of encoding
event plurality:
morphological pluractionality and event plurality marked by other
means (e.g. by the use of specific constructions). This kind of  
investigation necessarily leads
to the relation between pluractionality and aspect, as the so called  
pluractional
constructions in “non-pluractional” languages generally manifest  
only the temporal “flavor” of
pluractionality (roughly corresponding to the so called event number  
from Corbett 2000). It is
clear that pluractionality and aspect or aktionsart are closely  
related categories. However, the
exact nature of the connection remains elusive. In connection to that  
it is important to
look at issues such as the relation between temporal pluractionality  
(or, event number,
potentially identical to certain “aspects”) and participant-based  
pluractionality (or, participant
number). Participant-based pluractionality is not really comparable to  
aspect, although many
languages do use a single marker for both temporal and participant- 
based plurality. Apart from
these inter-related issues, the workshop is open to other  
contributions that will throw new light
on pluractionality, e.g., the specialization in meaning in the case of  
multiple pluractional markers
in a language, comparison of plurality in the nominal and verbal  
domains, or interaction of
pluractional morphology with other kinds of verbal morphology.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/parislinguists/attachments/20100526/31c393e4/attachment.htm>