LINGUIST List 21.2466 Thu Jun 03 2010 Calls: Pragmatics/Syntax/ Lodz Papers in Pragmatics (LPP) (Jrnl) Editor for this issue: Dayn Schulert <daynlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Igor Ž. Žagar, Lodz Papers in Pragmatics (LPP) Message 1: Lodz Papers in Pragmatics (LPP) Date: 02-Jun-2010 From: Igor Ž. Žagar <igor.zzagargmail.com> Subject: Lodz Papers in Pragmatics (LPP) E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Lodz Papers in Pragmatics (LPP) Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Semantics; Slavic Subgroup; Syntax Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2010 Aspect and performativity in Slavic languages (and beyond) In this special issue of LPP, we would like to contrastively explore the relation between formal grammatical features, such as tense, aspect, Aktionsart, mood, voice, and (potential) performativity in linguistic expressions. We would like to focus on Slavic languages, whose morphological potential have not been widely documented with regard to the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface. We believe that contrasting rich and sometimes contradictory Slavic data (see H. Galton's The Main Functions of the Slavic Verbal Aspect and S.M. Dickey's Parameters of Slavic Aspect), with related data from other language families can shed new light on the still mysterious and elusive concept of performative value. We especially invite contributions which focus on the relation between morpho-syntactic form and its (possible) performative effect, where performativity is understood as linguistic action, an instance of 'doing something rather than merely saying', to use J.L. Austin's words, or alternatively, we could quote Stanislav Škrabec, a 19th-century Slovene linguist, 'As long as we are only promising (imperfective), we have not promised anything yet, and if we are not (doing anything) but promising (imperfective), we cannot take anything as having been promised.' Full texts and proposals in the form of abstracts should be sent to both issue editors: Iwona Plisiecka (iw.plisieckagmail.com), University of Lodz, Poland Igor Ž. Žagar (igor.zzagargmail.com), Educational Research Institute & University of Maribor, Slovenia. This call is part of a bigger project whose aim is a separate volume devoted to aspect and performativity in Slavic and other Indo-European languages, which is to be published with John Benjamins' Pragmatics & Beyond New Series. Deadline for proposals: 15. August 2010 Deadline for submissions: 31. December 2010 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 03-Jun-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.