Call for abstracts: ALT 14 workshop on differential argument indexing
Differential indexing refers to the intra-linguistic variation with regard to the presence of bound verbal person marking (covering phenomena such as ‘optional agreement’, ‘clitic doubling’, ‘anti-agreement’, and ‘hierarchical agreement’), and the semantic, referential, and discoursestructural factors which trigger it.
Language-specific as well as cross-linguistic studies have shown not only that the factors underlying differential indexing differ from language to language, but also that there is often a complex interplay of various factors involved within a single language.
The workshop invites typological studies, presentations focusing on a particular areal or genetic group of languages, as well as language-specific (corpus-based) case studies. It will cover, among other things, the following:
- the operationalization and evaluation of the various (combinations of) factors which trigger differential indexing
- showcasing different methodologies that can be used to account for intra- and inter-linguistic variation
- discussing relevant diachronic scenarios for how differential indexing arises
- investigating and comparing differential indexing for various macroroles
- exploring to what extent differential indexing might be related to other syntactic circumstances
For more information, please contact the convenors:
Pegah Faghiri, p.faghiri@uva.nl
Erika Just, just.erika@outlook.com
Eva van Lier, e.h.vanlier@uva.nl
Katherine Walker, k.walker@uva.nl
You can find the information on submitting an abstract on the ALT 2022 abstract submission page:
https://sites.google.com/view/alt2022/call-for-papers
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