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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The conference DIACON 2022: Towards a diachronic typology of converbs will take place in Verona,
Italy, October 6-8, 2022. It aims at bringing together scholars working on converbs and related categories from different theoretical and methodological angles. Topics may include but are not restricted to the following:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
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<span style="background:white">- Converb as a metalinguistic concept through history and in different traditions</span><br>
<span style="background:white">- The synchronic properties of converbs in typological perspective</span><br>
<span style="background:white">- Converbs and related constructions as areal features</span><br>
<span style="background:white">- Converbs in the context of linguistic families</span><br>
<span style="background:white">- Converbial constructions and competing construction types</span><br>
<span style="background:white">- The diachronic typology of converbs and their source constructions.</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">Keynote speakers:</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Andrea Drocco (University of Venice, Ca' Foscari)</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Anna Pompei (Roma Tre University)</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Krzysztof Stroński (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Carlotta Viti (Beijing Normal University)</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">Organizing & scientific committee:</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Paola Cotticelli (University of Verona)</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Eystein Dahl (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Jelena Živojinović (University of Verona)</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">Contact e-mail: diacon2022gmail.com</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">We invite abstracts for 20 minute talks, which are followed by 10 minute discussions. They should clearly state the research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. They must be anonymized and should not exceed
500 words (including examples, excluding references).</span><br>
<span style="background:white">All abstracts will be subject to a double-blind peer review.</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">Abstracts are submitted via Easychair by June 1, 2022 at the following link:</span><br>
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