[Ura-list] CfP: CIFU XIV, Symposium on Grammatical Subjects and Objects in Uralic

[Katrin Hiietam]

Dear Colleagues,

This is a gentle reminder that the deadline for submitting abstracts for the Symposium on Grammatical Subjects and Objects in Uralic is 30 September 2024.

The full symposium description is here.<https://cifu14.ut.ee/symposium-b6/>

Below is a list of possible topics of interest for the workshop:

  1.  What are the prototypical characteristics of subjects and objects in Uralic? (The marking of the subjects in intransitive and transitive constructions, and the marking of the objects).
  2.  What categories act as subjects and objects (e.g. noun phrases, verb phrases, clauses, etc)?
  3.  Are subjects and objects uniform concepts within the Uralic language family (or even cross-linguistically).
  4.  How do we class elements that show only some characteristics of subjects and objects? Or the elements that show characteristics of both subjects and objects?
  5.  Similarities and differences of subjects and objects in Uralic and in SAE.
  6.  The relationship between grammatical relations and topic and focus functions.
  7.  Agreement and subjects and objects.
  8.  Word order – unmarked word order, factors affecting word order variations.
  9.  The factors affecting the assignment of grammatical roles to a noun phrase in a sentence (e.g. animacy, agency etc).
  10. Syntactic processes affecting the assignment of grammatical relations (e.g. passivisation).
  11. Subjects and objects as pivots, e.g. in control and raising constructions.
  12. Pro-forms as subjects and objects, including inclusive and exclusive pronouns.
  13. How are non-prototypical subjects and objects marked (e.g. indefiniteness of the subjects)?
  14. Is it more correct to describe the syntactic structure of the Uralic languages using the grammatical or pragmatic relations (subject and object vs topic and focus)?

The abstract submission guidelines are here<https://cifu14.ut.ee/2nd-circular/>

Kind Regards,

Katrin Hiietam
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