LINGUIST List 21.2630 Thu Jun 17 2010 Calls: Syntax/Germany Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.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.    Artemis Alexiadou, Non-Canonical Passives Message 1: Non-Canonical Passives Date: 16-Jun-2010 From: Artemis Alexiadou <artemisifla.uni-stuttgart.de> Subject: Non-Canonical Passives E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Non-canonical Passives Date: 23-Feb-2011 - 25-Feb-2011 Location: Göttingen, Germany Contact Person: Artemis Alexiadou Meeting Email: artemisifla.uni-stuttgart.de Web Site: http://ifla.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/mitarbeiter/florian/dgfs/Non- canonical passives.html Linguistic Field(s): Syntax Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2010 Meeting Description: Workshop on (Non-)canonical passives Organizers: Artemis Alexiadou and Florian Schaefer (University of Stuttgart) Workshop organized as part of the Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) to be held in Göttingen, Germany, February 23- 25, 2011 Non-canonical (NC) passives are constructions, which crucially differ from their canonical counterparts in the auxiliary used, e.g. in English get vs. be, cf. Haegeman (1985). In this workshop, we want to investigate the extent to which the key ingredients of canonical passivization (argument suppression, Case absorption, NP-movement) surface also in NC passivization. Call for Papers (Non-)canonical passives Non-canonical (NC) passives are constructions of the type in (1b), which crucially differ from their canonical counterparts in (1a) in the auxiliary used: in English get vs. be, cf. Haegeman (1985). In Standard German, kriegen/bekommen-passives instantiate NC passives. Unlike their English counterparts, they are licit mainly with ditransitives, Haider (1984), Reis (1985). 1) a. John was killed in the war. b. John got killed in an accident. 2) a. Ihm wurde/??Er kriegt geholfen. He-dat was/He got helped b. Er kriegt das Paket geschickt. He got the parcel sent NC passives have been reported for e.g. French (Washio 1993), Irish (Nolan 2001), Norwegian (Lødrup 1996), (dialects of) Dutch (Broekhuis & Cornips 1994), and Luxembourg German (Lenz in print). Such passives are often compared to the so-called adversative passives found in East Asian languages (Washio 1993, Huang 1999). NC passives have long been a puzzle for linguists who attempt to account for the differences between them and canonical passives, and to formulate a uniform syntactic theory of passivization, the issue being whether there is more than one way to 'go passive'. In this workshop, we want to investigate the extent to which the key ingredient of canonical passivization (argument suppression, Case absorption, NP-movement) surface also in NC passivization. The following questions will be further examined: i) the similarity between Asian and European NC passives and the delineation of the patterns that fall under NC passives; ii) the status of the auxiliaries in European NC passives and their grammaticalization paths; iii) the NC passive (verb-type and dialectal) distribution and restrictions; iv) the status of dative Case (is it a ''structural case'' or not?); v) the status of the participle in NC passives (eventive or adjectival, cf. Kratzer 2001). We are interested in submissions that deal with the above issues from a variety of perspectives (typological, formal, synchronic, diachronic and experimental). Keynote speakers C.-T. James Huang (Harvard University) Marie Labelle (Université du Québec à Montréal) Abstracts Please submit an anonymous abstract of two pages including examples, with 1'' margins and use no smaller than 12 point font. Send a pdf file to artemisifla.uni-stuttgart.de. The subject of the message should specify 'Abstract', and the body should include the following information: - Author's Name(s)and contact information - Affiliation - Title of the abstract - E-mail address Upon acceptance, authors will be asked to submit a named, camera- ready abstract. Accepted papers will be allotted 30 min. including discussion. Submission Deadline: September 1, 2010 Notification of Acceptance: September 10, 2010 http://ifla.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/mitarbeiter/florian/dgfs/Non-canonical passives.html Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 17-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.