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<p style="text-align: center;">Call for Papers</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Workshop: Variation and Change in the Verb Phrase</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The Language Change Research Group at the University of Oslo invites abstracts for the workshop
<em>Variation and Change in the Verb Phrase</em>. The focus of this workshop is on syntactic change in the verbal domain, ranging from changes at earlier language stages to recent and ongoing changes in typologically different languages.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Time and Place: December 5–6, 2019, University of Oslo</p>
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<p>Keynote Speakers: Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete)</p>
<p> Peter Petré (University of Antwerp)</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers who work on verbal syntax from a historical perspective from different theoretical orientations. We particularly welcome abstracts related, but not limited, to any
aspects of syntactic change and/or the (interaction of the) following topics:</p>
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<li>Benefactive constructions</li></ul>
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<li>Particle verb constructions</li></ul>
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<li>Reflexive constructions</li></ul>
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<li>Resultative constructions</li></ul>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Abstracts of max. 300 words (excluding references, including author information and affiliation) should be sent to «karin.beijering@iln.uio.no» by September 15, 2019. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by October 1.</p>
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<p>Organisation Committee: Karin Beijering, Kari Kinn, Yvonne van Baal & Ida Larsson</p>
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<p>Contact: <a href="mailto:karin.beijering@iln.uio.no">karin.beijering@iln.uio.no</a></p>
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