[Slling-l] FW: [SLLS] Workshop: Sign language agreement revisited: new theoretical and experimental perspectives -- 23.-26. February 2016 - Second Call of Paper

[Adam Schembri]

Forwarding this on behalf of Christian Rathmann.
Adam

>Dear colleagues, dear friends,
>
>Workshop: Sign language agreement revisited: new theoretical and
>experimental perspectives -- 23.-26. February 2016
>
>Second Call of Paper:
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>Short Title: AGRevisitedLocation: Konstanz, GermanyStart Date:
>23-Feb-2016 - 26-Feb-2016Contact: Annika Herrmannl
><http://linguistlist.org/callconf/browse-conf-action.cfm?ConfID=217876>Mee
>ting URL: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/515385.htmlMeeting
>Description:Research in the last 30 years has shown that agreement in
>sign languages differs in interesting ways from agreement in spoken
>languages (Lillo-Martin/Meier 2011, Mathur/Rathmann 2012). In
> the literature, various phenomena such as verb agreement, classifier
>constructions, or role shift have been subsumed under the notion of
>‘agreement’. It has been shown that agreement in sign language is subject
>to grammatical restrictions. At the same time,
> its gestural basis and typological uniformity have questioned the
>grammatical status of agreement in sign language. In each sign language,
>we find, for instance, similar distinctions between plain verbs, i.e.
>verbs that are lexically specified as non-inflectional,
> and agreement verbs, i.e. verbs that show inflection. Likewise, the
>system of classifiers seems to be very similar across sign languages.
>Moreover, agreement may systematically incorporate gestural components.
>
>Recent empirical studies and theoretical discussions initiated a
>controversial debate about the grammatical status of agreement in sign
>languages and modality-specific properties such as the use of space, body
>as subject, incorporation of gestural components
> and the optionality of overt agreement marking (cf. e.g.
>Lillo-Martin/Meier 2011 and the comments on this paper, de Beuzeville et
>al. 2009, Hänel-Faulhaber et al. 2014). Likewise, studies on the origin
>of agreement show that at least three (possibly modality-specific)
> aspects are relevant for a better understanding of agreement in sign
>languages: (i) Sign languages seem to have the unique property to
>grammaticalize gestural elements. (ii) Plain verbs may develop into
>agreement verbs over time. (iii) Some sign languages
> have systematically developed specific agreement markers to fill the
>agreement gap with plain verbs (Pfau/Steinbach 2011).
>
>This workshop aims at expanding our understanding on agreement in sign
>languages in particular and natural languages in general through
>different typological, experimental, corpus-based, and theoretical
>approaches and addresses both well-established researchers
> and young researchers. Submissions on but not limited to the following
>topics are invited:
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>- Lexical, morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties of various
>kinds of agreement in sign languages
>- Typological variation of agreement (including standardized (‘old’) as
>well as young sign languages and ‘village sign languages’)
>- Modality-specific and modality-independent typological aspects
>- The formal analysis of different phenomena related to sign language
>agreement such as, for instance, verb-argument agreement or classifier
>agreement) 
>- Grammatical and semantic restrictions of agreement (such as, for
>instance, specific phonological restrictions, animacy restriction, verb
>type, optionality)
>- Grammaticalization of agreement at the interface between gesture and
>sign language
>- New insights from experimental and acquisitional studies on sign
>language agreement
>- Corpus-based analyses of agreement phenomena in sign languages
>- Agreement verbs, classifiers, and role shift in complex sentence
>constructions and discourse
>
>The languages of the workshop are English and ASL/IS. Interpretation
>between English and ASL/IS will be provided.Linguistic  General
>Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus
>Linguistics; Typology
>
>Abstract submission:
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>We invite submissions for 30 minutes (20+10) or 60 minutes (45+15) talks.
>Abstracts should be anonymous and not exceed one page, including
> title, text, examples and references. Please use Times New Roman, 12pt,
>1.5 line spacing and send your abstracts electronically in both a .pdf-
>and .txt-format (please use Unicode UTF-8) to
>
>annika.herrmann at phil.uni-goettingen.de
>
>and include your name, affiliation and the title of the abstract in the
>body of the e-mail.
>
>Please note that people are not supposed to present in more than one
>workshop at the DGfS annual meeting. If you get accepted in more than
> one workgroup, please inform the organizers of both workshops.
>
>Deadline for abstract submission: August 15, 2015
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>
>
>Prof. Dr. Christian Rathmann
>Universität Hamburg
>Inst. f. Dt. Gebärdensprache und Kommunikation Gehörloser
>Binderstr. 34
>20146 Hamburg 
>
>
>christian.rathmann at uni-hamburg.de
>
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