LINGUIST List 22.3209 Thu Aug 11 2011 Calls: General Ling/ Southern African Linguistics and Applied... (Jrnl) Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.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.     Mark De Vos , Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Message 1: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Date: 11-Aug-2011 From: Mark De Vos <m.devosru.ac.za> Subject: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Narrow Bantu Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2011 Call for papers - Special issue Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Volume 30(3),2012 Subject and object marking in Bantu Guest editors: Lutz Marten, Kristina Riedel, Ron Simango, and Jochen Zeller One of the most salient and well-known typological characteristics of Bantu languages is the marking of NP/DP arguments by co-referential agreement morphemes on the verb, often called subject and object markers, found in the vast majority of Bantu languages. The morphological and syntactic analysis of subject and object markers has attracted considerable attention in the Bantu linguistics literature (e.g. Baker 2003, Beaudoin-Lietz et al. 2004, Bresnan & Mchombo 1987, Carstens 2005, Diercks 2010, Henderson 2006, Marten 2011, Morimoto 2002, Riedel 2009, Rugemalira 1993, Schneider-Zioga 2007, Zeller 2008), and empirical evidence from subject and object marking has contributed to the development of different theoretical analyses of clausal relations between verbs and arguments, and the agreement relations holding between them, from a wide range of different theoretical perspectives (e.g. LFG, OT, GB and Minimalism, Dynamic Syntax). Papers are invited addressing different aspects of subject and object marking in Bantu, including detailed studies of individual languages and comparative studies, from descriptive, typological and theoretical perspectives. Among the possible research questions for papers in the special issue are: - the analysis of subject/object markers as either incorporated pronouns or as agreement markers, or whether evidence from Bantu rather points to an analysis which transcends this dichotomy - the co-occurrence restrictions between NP/DP subjects/objects and their agreeing subject and object markers, for example, whether subject or object marking is required with certain kinds of NPs/DPs (e.g. those with animate referents), or disallowed (e.g. with non-dislocated objects) - restrictions on the kinds of NPs/DPs which can be expressed by subject or object markers (e.g. indirect objects or adjuncts), and the behaviour of subject and object markers in specific syntactic environments, such as in questions, relative clauses, or inversion constructions - the use of subject/object markers without co-referring NP/DP, such as in expletive constructions - the choice of subject/object markers in constructions with conjoined subjects/objects belonging to different noun classes - the morphological analysis of subject/object markers and their relation to other aspects of Bantu nominal morphology - morphosyntactic microvariation between different Bantu languages with respect to subject/object markers Timeline: June 2012: Final version of the issue to printers 30 May 2012: Deadline for submission of revised papers April 2012: Anonymised reviewers' comments sent to authors with requests for revisions, if applicable Feb 2012: Papers sent out to three reviewers each with request for review within six weeks 31 Jan 2012: Deadline for submission of completed paper Oct 2011: Papers to be included selected based on abstracts and notification of authors 15 Sept 2011: Deadline for abstract submission Potential authors should send an abstract of maximally 1 page (excluding references) outlining the paper to the corresponding guest editor, Lutz Marten (lm5soas.ac.uk), by 15 September 2011. Papers accepted for inclusion in the issue will be due by 31 January 2012. For further information, contact Lutz Marten at lm5soas.ac.uk Articles must accord with the SALALS policy and will be peer reviewed as per SALAS general policy. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 11-Aug-2011       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.