LINGUIST List 21.4031 Tue Oct 12 2010 Calls: General Ling, Typology/United Kingdom 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.    Eva van Lier, Referential Hierarchies in 3-Participant Constructions Message 1: Referential Hierarchies in 3-Participant Constructions Date: 12-Oct-2010 From: Eva van Lier <e.vanlierlancaster.ac.uk> Subject: Referential Hierarchies in 3-Participant Constructions E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Referential Hierarchies in 3-Participant Constructions Short Title: RH3PC Date: 20-May-2011 - 22-May-2011 Location: Lancaster, United Kingdom Contact Person: Eva van Lier Meeting Email: e.h.vanlierlancaster.ac.uk Web Site: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/referential_hierarchies/ Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Typology Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2010 Meeting Description: The workshop is part of the EuroBABEL project on Referential Hierarchies in Morphosyntax. It aims at bringing together language(-family) specialists and typologists. There will be key note addresses by Dr. Andrej Malchukov (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) and Professor Beth Levin (Stanford University). Papers should focus on the effects of referential factors - such as animacy, information structure, definiteness, anaphoricity (pronoun vs. noun), person, and number - on the expression of three-participant events in one or more languages. These effects may target word order, agreement marking, direction marking, case/adpositional marking, and may involve various types of splits and alternations. Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): - Three-participant constructions that deviate from the prototypical 'give' type, in terms of the referential properties of the participants and/or in terms of the lexical verb(s); - The interaction between the referential properties of multiple (i.e. two or three) participants; - The interaction between the effects of referential properties of participants on the one hand, and lexical semantics of verb classes or individual verbs on the other hand; - The relationship between the effects of referential factors on intransitive and transitive constructions on the one hand, and on ditransitive constructions on the other hand; - Differences between the effects of referential factors on different types of marking: word order, agreement, direction marking, and/or case and adpositional marking; - Referential effects in derived three-participant constructions (as opposed to non-derived ones); - Frequency data obtained from corpora of spoken and/or written language; - The effects of language contact and language change on the above phenomena. 2nd call for papers We invite abstracts for 20 minute papers. Abstracts should be maximum 500 words, excluding title, references, and examples. Abstracts should be anonymous, and should be attached in Word and PDF format to an e-mail specifying author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), abstract title, and contact information, and be sent to e.vanlierlancaster.ac.uk. Deadline for submission is 15 December 2010. Notification of acceptance will be sent out before February 1st 2011. For further information, please contact Eva van Lier: e.vanlierlancaster.ac.uk Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 12-Oct-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.