Date: 02-Apr-2010
From: Patrizia Noel <Vocative2010 gmx.net>
Subject: Vocative!
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Full Title: Vocative!
Date: 10-Dec-2010 - 11-Dec-2010
Location: Bamberg, Germany
Contact Person: Patrizia Noel
Meeting Email: Vocative2010gmx.net
Web Site:
http://www.uni-bamberg.de/germanistik/sprachwissenschaft_des_deutschen/professur_fuer_germanistische_sprachwissenschaft/workshop_vocative_10_11_december_2010
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language
Acquisition; Typology
Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2010
Meeting Description:
Vocatives are classified either in purely formal terms (vocative case) as part
of the 'language system', or as functional structures manifesting themselves in
'language use' only. Although languages differ in terms of usage conditions and
availability of morphological marking, vocatives are amongst the most basic and
also most early acquired structures of language. While the focus of research
clearly lies on languages with morphologically marked vocative, syntactic
(non-)integration, pragmatic factors, and the emergence and decline of vocative
forms are among the less studied aspects.
Call for Papers
The aim of the international workshop 'Vocative!' is to bring together
researcher from various linguistic disciplines in order to come to a more
detailed picture of this structure between 'system' and 'performance' on a
cross-linguistic basis. We invite contributions from all theoretical approaches,
both synchronic and diachronic.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Morphology: (asymmetrical) marking of structures
- Syntax: position, integration, internal structure
- Phonology
- Grammaticalisation and obsolescence
- Diachrony: 'old' and 'new' vocatives
- Pragmatics: conditions of usage
- Typology: distribution
- Medium and genre
- Vocative particles
- Language acquisition
Invited Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Christian Stetter (RWTH Aachen)
Prof. Dr. Helmut Pape (University of Bamberg)
Organising Committee:
Patrizia Noel
Barbara Sonnenhauser
Olga Dioubina-Reubold
Ludmila Klara
Abstracts are invited for a 30 minute presentation followed by a 10-minute
question period. One-page (including references and examples) anonymous
abstracts in both .doc and .pdf format (times new roman, 12p) should be sent to
Vocative2010gmx.net .
Important dates
- Submission deadline: 15 June 2010
- Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2010
- Registration deadline: 15 November 2010
- Workshop: 10-11 December 2010
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