LINGUIST List 31.261
Tue Jan 21 2020
Calls: General Linguistics/Czech Republic
Editor for this issue: Lauren Perkins <laurenlinguistlist.org>
Date: 16-Jan-2020
From: Jan Židek <jan.zidek
centrum.cz>
Subject: ''Converbs from a cross-linguistic perspective'' Workshop at Linguistics Prague
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Date: 25-Apr-2020 - 25-Apr-2020
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Contact Person: Martina Rybová
Meeting Email:
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http://linguisticsprague.ff.cuni.cz/
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Call Deadline: 29-Feb-2020
Meeting Description:
The aim of the conference is to bring together students and early career researchers whose research addresses any topics relevant to linguistics and is grounded in empirical methods. We encourage presentations of original data oriented research concerned with different aspects of language structure and use, as well as discussions of relevant methodological issues.
The conference takes place at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in the very center of Prague, Thursday 23 April to Saturday 25 April 2020.
The event will consist of 2 plenary talks, 2 tutorial workshops, and a general session for oral presentations and posters.
Workshop ''Converbs from a cross-linguistic perspective'' topic:
In the last twenty years the concept of converbs has been slowly gaining traction and recognition among the wider linguistic community. The term converb is being used in place of several other older terms such as gerunds, deepričastie, adverbial participle, etc. There have been also various attempts to delimit the phenomenon, e.g. Haspelmath 1995, Ross 2016, that, however, do not agree on all aspects of the definition. Broadly speaking, converbs can be understood as adverbial verbal forms, though their actual function can vary both across languages and across constructions. We would like to discuss the following issues:
Converbs as dependent adverbial form or a device for clause chaining?
Coordination vs subordination (co-subordination?)
Converbs on the margins (non-prototypical cases of converb usage)
Use of converbs in mono-clausal multiverbal constructions (MMC)
Is the notion of converbs cross-linguistically a useful label?
Call for Papers:
Abstract Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts must be anonymous and their length should not exceed 400 words (without references). Please use 12 point Times New Roman (Unicode) font, single line spacing and set margins to 2.5 cm all around. Abstracts should be submitted by 29 February 2020 in pdf format using the EasyAbs system at:
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/lp20 Presentation time for papers will be 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
Please clearly indicate your presentation is meant for our workshop.
Important Dates:
29 February 2020: Abstract submission deadline
15 March 2020: Notification of acceptance
23 April - 25 April 2020: Conference
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