LINGUIST List 17.507

Thu Feb 16 2006

Calls: Japanese Ling/Japan;General Ling/Denmark

Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows <kevinlinguistlist.org>

Directory         1.    Masao Ochi, The 4th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference
         2.    Ruprecht von Waldenfels, Workshop on Analytic Causatives at the 22nd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics
Message 1: The 4th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference
Date: 14-Feb-2006
From: Masao Ochi <ochilang.osaka-u.ac.jp>
Subject: The 4th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference



Full Title: The 4th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference Short Title: FAJL4
Date: 17-Aug-2006 - 19-Aug-2006 Location: Osaka, Japan Contact Person: Masao Ochi
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www2005.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~fajl4/index.html
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Japanese

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2006

Meeting Description:

We are pleased to announce that the 4th Formal Approaches to Japanese linguistics Conference (FAJL4) will be held on August 17-19, 2006 in Osaka, Japan.


JSPS International Meeting Series:The 4th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference (FAJL4)

August 17-19, 2006Osaka, JapanSponsored by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Invited Speakers:

Cedric Boeckx (Harvard University)Junko Ito (University of California, Santa Cruz)Armin Mester (University of California, Santa Cruz)Junko Shimoyama (McGill University)

Final Call for Papers

Abstract Deadline: March 1, 2006Submission Address: fajl4lang.osaka-u.ac.jp.

The proceedings of FAJL4 will be published by MIT Working Papers inLinguistics (MITWPL).

For further information, please go to our website.


Message 2: Workshop on Analytic Causatives at the 22nd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics
Date: 14-Feb-2006
From: Ruprecht von Waldenfels <Ruprecht.Waldenfelssprachlit.uni-regensburg.de>
Subject: Workshop on Analytic Causatives at the 22nd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics



Full Title: Workshop on Analytic Causatives at the 22nd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics
Date: 19-Jun-2006 - 22-Jun-2006 Location: Aalborg, Denmark Contact Person: Ruprecht von Waldenfels
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.helsinki.fi/~jaaleino/workshop/
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 10-Mar-2006

Meeting Description:

Workshop on analytic causatives at the 22nd SCoL

Workshop description

Recent years have witnessed investigations into analytic causatives in anumber of individual languages. There is research currently done orrecently completed dealing with such constructions in Finnish, Dutch,Swedish, German, English and in the Slavic languages, in frameworksincluding generative, construction grammar, cognitive and functionalistapproaches.

The proposed workshop aims to provide a forum for discussion forlinguists working on analytic causatives from any of these or otherperspectives.

There are two major traditions involving the study of permissivecausatives. In the tradition of the Leningrad typological school,factitive causation (such as eng. make / have / get) and permissivecausation (eng. let) are seen as two main modes of causation, in somesense as the counterparts to the main modal operators of nessecity andpossibility. In most linguistic work done in the West, however, the focushas largely been on factitive causation, with permissive causation beingseen as something related, but separate.

A treatment of analytic causatives that takes both permissive andfactitive causation (or causation proper, as it has been called) intoaccount is called for, among other things, by the fact that in manyEuropean languages, e.g. most Germanic languages, Finnish, Estonian,Czech, the most prominent analytic causative formants express bothpermissive and factitive causa-tion (e.g. Swedish låta):

(1) a. Kungen lät fången gå. (Swedish, permissive) king-DEF let-PST prisoner-DEF go 'The king let the prisoner go' b. Kungen lät halshugga fången. (Swedish, factitive) king-DEF let-PST behead prisoner-DEF 'The king had the prisoner beheaded'

Since permissive causation has not been extensively studied, we would liketo encourage participants to focus on the relationship of permissive andfactitive causatives, as well as on permissives themselves, without,however, limiting the workshop to these topics.

From a historical point of view, the development of permissive tofactitive or underspecified causative formants (or vice versa) in some ofthese languages remains to be fully understood. Both contact-based andindependent accounts have been suggested for different languages. Thereare considerable similarities as well as divergences in the expression ofthese functions in the European languages yet to be put into perspective.

The workshop wants to bring together specialists studying theseconstructions in different languages as well as from different theoreticpoints of view, believing that such an exchange will advance theunderstanding of language specific as well as European areal andtypological factors governing the form and functioning of analyticcausatives.

Workshop home page:http://www.helsinki.fi/~jaaleino/workshop/

Conference home page:http://www.cfl.hum.aau.dk/SCL22.html

We would like to receive initial expressions ofinterest by February 15, and one-page abstracts by March 10.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch with us if you have questions.

Best regards,

Jaakko LeinoUniversity of Helsinki, Finlandjaakko.leino (at) helsinki.fi

Ruprecht von WaldenfelsUniversity of Regensburg, Germanyruprecht.waldenfels (at) sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de