CFP
STAS2018: The shaping of transitivity and argument structure: theoretical and empirical perspectives University of Pavia Pavia, Italy, October 25-27, 2018 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/universitadipavia.it/tasf/stas2018-conference-the-shaping-of-transitivity-and-argument-structure |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stas2018 |
Submission deadline | March 31, 2018 |
Submission Guidelines
We invite abstracts dealing with the following or other related issues:
- Theoretical issues and approaches to the study of transitivity-related phenomena over time
- Methodological issues on data collection and analysis of transitivity-related phenomena over time
- Diachronic changes within voice systems and voice-related categories, (in)transitive alternations, and non-finite syntax in individual languages or across languages
- Cross-linguistic analysis of alignment system evolution
- Diachronic corpus-based investigations of argument structure patterns in individual languages
- The frequency, productivity, reanalysis, and distribution of rival argument structure patterns over time
- Competing motivations behind the distribution of rival synchronic argument structure patterns
- The developments of verbs' argument structure patterns across different languages
- Basic valency orientation, its changes over time in individual languages, the limits and perspectives of its reconstruction in proto-languages
- Sources, reanalysis, and patterns of polysemy of valency changing markers
- The role of language contact in the development of transitivity related phenomena
- Issues in the creation and development of electronic resources (digitalized texts, databases, treebanks, tools etc.) for the study of transitivity related phenomena
Local organizing committee
Silvia LURAGHI - luraghi@unipv.it
Sonia CRISTOFARO - sonia.cristofaro@unipv.it
Elisa ROMA - elisa.roma@unipv.it
Chiara ZANCHI - chiara.zanchi02@universitadipavia.it
Invited speakers
Spike GILDEA, University of Oregon
Eitan GROSSMAN, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Paola MERLO, University of Geneva
Venue
The conference will take place at the University of Pavia, on the main campus.
Address: Strada Nuova, 65 - 27100 Pavia.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to chiara.zanchi02@universitadipavia.it