tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83685043401668648342024-03-08T13:56:43.533-08:00Workshop on Verb Valency ChangeWVVC serves as a venue for new and ongoing high-quality work related to the research on verb valency change. The WVVC will take place in Hermosillo, Sonora, on March 21-22, and is hosted by the University of Sonora’s Literature and Linguistics Department.Organizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06627129725479699995noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8368504340166864834.post-31837802838303435902013-01-22T10:43:00.001-08:002013-03-11T18:04:28.158-07:00Dear Colleagues,<br />
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<b>We encourage all linguists to assist to the WVVC next March!</b><br />
We are sure it will be a great workshop.<br />
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The program is now available <a href="http://verbvalencychange.blogspot.mx/p/program.html">here</a><br />
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Best regards,<br />
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WVVCOrganizationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06627129725479699995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8368504340166864834.post-54068768157595213562012-12-11T11:53:00.001-08:002012-12-12T08:45:14.220-08:00Call for papers<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">The workshop aims at bringing together linguists working on morphosyntactic, lexico-syntactic, semantic and pragmatic aspects of verbal valency change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The idea of organizing this workshop is the result of a growing interest in understanding how languages deal with argument realization in the context of verb valency change, and in knowing what types of languages use what kind of constructions involving the valency change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This two-day workshop will allow us to discuss a number of questions about different phenomena related with the increase or decrease in verb valency from different sub-fields in linguistics and different theoretical perspectives.</span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Argument structure and verb alternations</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Morphosyntactic derivations:</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Increase derivations: applicative and causative constructions</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Decrease derivations: passive, anti-passive and middle constructios, syntactic incorporation, syntactic pseudo incorporation, etc.</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Semantic valency changing operations: restriction, thematic unification, semantic incorporation, semantic pseudo incorporation, etc.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Discursive sources of valency change: object demotion and topicalization.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Another important objective for this workshop is to integrate all the contributions in a single volume concerning the topic of change in the verb valency.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Finally, this workshop also pretends to be an opportunity for students in the linguistic field to observe and learn from the work presented and to enrich their own investigation and learning process. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Call for papers</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>We invite candidates to present abstracts for a 40-minute presentation and a 20 page paper on any topic that is within the workshop’s scope.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>The languages of the workshop will be Spanish and English. Candidates must submit abstracts for oral presentations in Spanish or English (although we ask handouts and slides to be in English), and paper contributions, in English only.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Abstracts should not to exceed one page including name(s), affiliation, title and references (using 2.5 cm margins, single spacing, and 12pt font size); even though these may be written in Spanish, we recommend English. Please send your submission as a PDF document electronically to the organization:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><i>Publication of contributions:</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>The output of the workshop will be published in a volume. The submissions will be considered for this purpose and, if your submission is selected, you will be asked for a 20 page paper in English. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>The University of Sonora’s Literature and Linguistics Department offers financial support for the organization, publication of the contributions and diffusion of the event. Each participant will need to cover its own travel, food and accommodation expenses. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><i>Deadline for submissions:</i></b><i> 10 January 2013</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><i>Selected authors are informed:</i></b><i> 01 february 2013</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><i>Workshop</i></b><i>: 21-22 March 2013</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Maria Teresa Espinal (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Jaume Mateu (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Andrej Malchukov (Max Planck Institute Leipzig)</span></div>
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