LINGUIST List 25.2976
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Date: 18-Jul-2014
From: Gisbert Fanselow
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Subject: VO-OV: Correlations
of Head-Complement Order (DGfS Annual Meeting
2015)
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Full Title: VO-OV: Correlations of
Head-Complement Order (DGfS Annual Meeting
2015)
Short Title: VO-OV
Date: 04-Mar-2015 - 06-Mar-2015
Location: Leipzig, Germany
Contact Person: Gisbert Fanselow
Meeting Email:
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Web Site:
http://conference.uni-leipzig.de/dgfs2015/index.php?id=11
Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories;
Syntax; Typology
Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2014
Meeting Description:
Walter Bisang (Mainz) & Balthasar Bickel
(Zürich) & Gisbert Fanselow (Potsdam) &
Hubert Haider (Salzburg)
VO-OV: Correlations of head-complement order in
grammar and lexicon
The distinction between OV and VO order in a
clause is usually taken to be a good predictor
of fur-ther serialization facts, and one can
find several proposal for an explanation of the
corresponding implicative universals in the
literature. Possible further correlates of the
VO-OV distinction in do-mains other than word
order such as the following have been
investigated to a much lesser extent. The data
represented in WALS shows that the percentage
of languages without a morphological system of
case is lower among the OV languages. Likewise,
there are more OV than OV systems among the
languages with an ergative case pattern, while
VO languages are overrepresented among the
languages which position question words at the
clause's left periphery.
Other correlations have been proposed on the
basis of much smaller, non-representative
language samples. Thus, it has been claimed
that free constituent order (scrambling) and
the absence of typical subject-object
asymmetries are concomitant of OV order, and it
has been argued that OV languages have a higher
N:V ratio in the lexicon. There are interesting
proposal as to how such correlations can be
modeled in a theory of language.
Invited speakers are Mathew Dryer and Ad
Neeleman.
Call for Papers:
The workshop invites contributions that
investigate in a cross-linguistically
well-founded style grammatical or lexical
properties correlating with head-complement
order. Relevant topics are, e.g.: Are there
correlates of head complement/modifier order in
domains different from basic serialization?
This prominently includes the SOV syndrome,
that is, the particular grouping of syntactic
properties characteristic of SOV languages Are
there effects outside grammar, e.g., in
frequency patterns in corpora or the lexicon?
Which areal, diachronic, psycholinguistic or
theoretical properties allow us to understand
the correlates of head complement/modifier
order? How can we account for deviations from
the general pattern in individual languages or
language groups?
We welcome bottom-up (descriptive &
analytic) as well as top-down (theoretical
& predictive) approaches, with a strong
preference for a solid empirical basis in terms
of cross-linguistic empirical coverage as well
as a theoretically-informed analysis in each
case. Ideally, the final workshop schedule will
list contributions focusing on tightly
connected properties from different languages
families as well as from different families of
linguistic thought whose joint aim is providing
well-analyzed empirical input and empirically
well-founded generalizations on
cross-linguistically assessed dispositions of
head-final vs. head initial phrases and in
particular sentence structures.
In addition, we solicit abstracts for further
60 minute (45+15) presentations. Abstract
length must not exceed 400 words, excluding
references that must follow the Unified Style
Sheet for Linguistic Journals. Glossings should
adhere to Leipzig Glossing Rules.
Please submit your abstracts (pdf) to
fanselow
uni-potsdam.de no later than Aug
31st, 23.59 (MEST).
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