LINGUIST List 18.877

Fri Mar 23 2007

Calls: Gen Ling/UK; Lang Description,Syntax,Typology/Germany

Editor for this issue: Ania Kubisz <anialinguistlist.org>


Directory         1.    Peter Budd, 3rd Conference on Austronesian Languages & Linguistics
        2.    Martin Haspelmath, Conference on Ditransitive Constructions


Message 1: 3rd Conference on Austronesian Languages & Linguistics
Date: 20-Mar-2007
From: Peter Budd <psbemail.com>
Subject: 3rd Conference on Austronesian Languages & Linguistics


Full Title: 3rd Conference on Austronesian Languages & Linguistics Short Title: ALL3

Date: 21-Sep-2007 - 22-Sep-2007 Location: SOAS, London, United Kingdom Contact Person: Anthony Jukes Meeting Email: aj4soas.ac.uk , or to

Anthony Jukes ELAP, Linguistics SOAS Thornhaugh St Russell Square London WC1H 0XG England
Message 2: Conference on Ditransitive Constructions
Date: 19-Mar-2007
From: Martin Haspelmath <haspelmatheva.mpg.de>
Subject: Conference on Ditransitive Constructions



Full Title: Conference on Ditransitive Constructions

Date: 23-Nov-2007 - 25-Nov-2007 Location: Leipzig, Germany Contact Person: Martin Haspelmath Meeting Email: haspelmatheva.mpg.de Web Site: http://email.eva.mpg.de/~haspelmt/confditrans.html

Linguistic Field(s): Language Description; Syntax; Typology

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2007

Meeting Description:

This conference will bring together descriptivists and comparativists for an in-depth discussion of the morphosyntactic, semantic and discourse properties of ditransitive constructions in the world's languages.

Conference on Ditransitive Constructions in the World's Languages

Leipzig, 23-25 November 2007

organized by Andrej Malchukov and Martin Haspelmath Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

Invited speakers:

Balthasar Bickel (U Leipzig) Bernard Comrie (MPI-EVA Leipzig) Bernd Heine & Christa König (U Cologne)

Theme:

We especially encourage contributions providing a systematic description of ditransitive constructions in individual, little-known languages (perhaps guided by our Questionnaire; see conference website), based on original fieldwork. But papers dealing with ditransitive constructions in better known languages, or from a comparative or general theoretical perspective, are also welcome. We are hoping to publish an edited volume including a position paper and 20-odd selected surveys of ditransitive constructions in typologically diverse languages on the basis of conference presentations.