[Histling-l] Reminder: CfP -Partitive cases, pronouns and determiners: diachrony and variation University of Pavia, Pavia (Italy) - 2 September 2019

[Silvia Luraghi]

Deadline approaching!

> Workshop
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>> *Partitive cases, pronouns and determiners: diachrony and variation*
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>> *University of Pavia, Pavia (Italy) - 2 September 2019*
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>> Following the Workshop on Partitive Determiners and Partitive Case
>> (Venice, 13-14 November 2017) the second workshop of the PARTE Network will
>> take place in Pavia on September 2nd, 2019.
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>> PARTE (PARTititvity in European languages) is a network of nine research
>> teams from European universities, which combines theoretical linguist,
>> dialectologists, historical linguists, typologists, and applied linguists.
>> It is funded by NWO (the Netherlands Organization for scientific research)
>> and co-funded by the Universities of Zurich, Venice, Budapest and Pavia.
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>> *Aims of the Workshop*
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>> The workshop aims to bring together researchers on partitive cases,
>> including genitives or ablatives used as partitives, partitive determiners,
>> partitive pronouns, and other partitive elements, and focusing on their
>> diachronic development, on dialectal variation, language contact and
>> language acquisition.
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>> *Contact person: Silvia Luraghi, University of Pavia, luraghi at unipv.it
>> <luraghi at unipv.it>*
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>> *Workshop website: http://paviapartitives.wikidot.com/
>> <http://paviapartitives.wikidot.com/>*
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>> *Invited speakers*
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>>    - Michael Daniel, National Research University Higher School of
>>    Economics, Moscow
>>    - Riho Grünthal, University of Helsinki
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>> *Scientific Committee*
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>> Anna Cardinaletti, University “Ca’ Foscari”, Venice
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>> Michael Daniel, HSE, Moscow
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>> Giuliana Giusti, University “Ca’ Foscari”, Venice
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>> Riho Grünthal, University of Helsinki
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>> Tuomas Huumo, University of Turku
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>> Iván Igartua, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz
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>> Tabea Ihsane, University of Geneva
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>> Silvia Luraghi, University of Pavia
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>> Petra Sleeman, University of Amsterdam
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>> Anne Tamm, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary,
>> Budapest
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>> *Call for papers*
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>> Abstracts are invited for oral and/or poster presentation.
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>> Abstracts must be anonymous and no longer than two pages, 12 pt single
>> spaced in pdf format.
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>> Please submit your abstract through Easychair:
>> https://easychair.org/cfp/Partitives2
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>> *Important dates*
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>>    - Deadline for submission: 31 March 2019
>>    - Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2019
>>    - Workshop: 2 September 2019
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>> *Background*
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>> The term ‘partitive’ has been used in linguistic literature in reference
>> to different types of linguistic items (morphemes and/or constructions). In
>> the first place, partitive may refer to partitive nominal constructions,
>> codifying the part-whole relation, as in *I drank some of the wine from
>> that bottle*, or to pseudo-partitive nominal constructions, as in *I
>> drank a glass of wine* (Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2001: 527).
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>> In contrast to these two well-described types of construction, other
>> items that are also referred to as partitives have, until recently, never
>> received a unified treatment, in spite of striking similarities. Such
>> partitive elements include partitive cases, as in Finnish or Estonian,
>> partitive determiners, as in Basque, French and Italian, and partitive
>> pronouns, as in Germanic and Romance languages.
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>> (1)        *Elmeri*   *löys-i                mansiko-i-ta.*
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>>             Elmer    find-3sg.pst     strawberry-pl-par [Finnish]
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>> (2)        *Elmer    ha                     trovato*              *delle*
>> *fragole.*
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>>             Elmer    have.3sg.prs    find.pst.ptcp    art.par.f.pl
>> strawberry(f).pl [Italian]
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>>             “Elmer found some strawberries.”
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>> In (1) and (2) the NPs *mansikoita* and *delle fragole* ‘some
>> strawberries’ refer to an indefinite quantity of not previously identified
>> items, contrary to partitive nominal constructions and do not even qualify
>> as pseudo-partitive nominal constructions (Luraghi/Huumo 2014). Partitive
>> pronouns refer to indefinite quantities, as *ne *in (3).
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>> (3)        *Elmer    ne                     ha
>> trovate*                          *molte.*
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>>             Elmer    par.pron          have.3sg.prs    find.pst.ptcp.f.pl
>> many.f.pl [Italian]
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>>             “Elmer found many (of them).”
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>> A number of recent publications have highlighted cross-linguistic and
>> typological similarities of partitive elements, including cases,
>> partitively used genitives or ablatives, determiners, and pronouns
>> (Luraghi/Huumo 2014, Ihsane/Stark fothc.). Research on the rise of
>> partitive elements has shown their relation to other linguistic items and
>> constructions. For example, the French partitive article is the outcome of
>> the fusion of the genitive/ablative preposition *de* with the definite
>> article, and its diachrony can be traced down in historical sources
>> (Carlier 2007). In in Finnic languages (Wickman 1955: 27), the partitive
>> case ending has been shown to have originated out of older ablative cases
>> or postpositions. The partitive use of the genitive case is typical of
>> Ancient Indo-European languages as well. Remarkably, some of these
>> languages feature a separate ablative case, the development is partly
>> different, and the partitive meaning seems to be directly connected with
>> the genitive, not necessarily involving the ablative (see Luraghi/Kittilä
>> 2014:49-53). Hence, more research on diachrony is needed. Research on
>> language contact suggests that the extension of partitive elements may be
>> an areal phenomenon (Bjarnadóttir/De Smit 2013, Seržant 2015), and that
>> partitive elements may constitute a characteristic but up to now not
>> acknowledged feature of Standard Average European (Luraghi/De Smijt/Igártua
>> forthc.). In the Oceanic area available indefinite partitives show a
>> different extension and possibly different diachronic developments from
>> European partitive elements (Budd 2014), which would also be worth
>> investigating more in depth.
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>> Moreover, dialectal variation in virtually all areas in which languages
>> show partitive elements is under-investigated, and especially non-standard
>> varieties deserve more accurate and in-depth treatment. In several areas,
>> data are missing where native speakers of the dialects are disappearing.
>> Research on contact among languages of different genetic affiliation and
>> contact among varieties, including standard and sub-standard, of the same
>> language is of paramount importance for the understanding of both
>> diachronic change and synchronic variation (e.g. Cerruti/Regis forthc.).
>> Partitive determiners may exist in Luxembourgish, possibly as a contact
>> phenomenon, but available descriptions are superficial, and confuse
>> different constructions. Romance languages possessing partitive determiners
>> also have (clitic) partitive pronominals (Ihsane 2013), but from a
>> comparative perspective it is unclear whether partitive pronominals that
>> also occur in Germanic varieties (cf. Glaser 1992), have the same syntactic
>> distribution and meaning(s) as Modern Romance ones*.* In this
>> perspective, learners’ varieties also deserve attention, as they can help
>> shed light on how interference between languages with and without partitive
>> elements operates.
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>> *Possible topics *
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>>    - The rise of partitive cases, pronouns and determiners: origin of
>>    the development, grammaticalization, constructional change.
>>    - Partitives and indefiniteness: Moravcsik (1978: 272) mentions among
>>    typical semantic correlates of partitives the definitness-indefinitness of
>>    the noun phrase. How does this function of partitives emerge, and how does
>>    it correlate with the morphological status of the partitive element (case
>>    marker vs. determiner, cf. Luraghi/Kittilä 2014: 20-27).
>>    - What is the relation between partitive elements and other markers
>>    of NP indefiniteness, e.g. indefinite articles? Is the relation the same in
>>    different linguistic areas?
>>    - How specific cases (genitives, ablatives, ...) develop into
>>    partitive markers and possible constrains on ensuing syncretism: what is
>>    the relation between the genitive, the partitive and the ablative in
>>    languages that feature distinct cases? Do other cases e.g. locatives, or
>>    other determiners e.g. the numeral one/indefinite article (see Budd 2014 on
>>    Oceanic languages) also develop into partitives?
>>    - Partitive elements deriving from case markers (cases, adpositions)
>>    do not show the typical function of case markers to indicate
>>    grammatical relations (Moravcsik 1978, Luraghi 2003, Luraghi/Kittilä 2014
>>    among others). How does this shift come about precisely?
>>    - Contact induced change and the rise or loss of partitive elements
>>    as documented in historical varieties (e.g. Ibero-Romance, see
>>    Carlier/Lemiroy 2014)
>>    - Dialectal variation, including field studies and documentation of
>>    vernacular and sub-standard varieties of poorly documented languages.
>>    - The acquisition of partitives: bilingual speakers and learners. How
>>    are partitive elements acquired? Do bilingual speakers of languages that
>>    feature different types of partitive elements show interference in their
>>    use of partitive elements?
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>> *References*
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>> Bjarnadóttir, Valgerður and Merlijn De Smit. 2013. Primary argument
>> case-marking in Baltic and Finnic. *Baltu Filologija* 22:1. 31–65.
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>> Budd, Peter. 2014. Partitives in Oceanic languages. Luraghi/Huumo*, *523–561.
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>> Carlier, Anne. 2007. From preposition to Article: the grammaticalization
>> of the French partitive. *Studies in Language* 31(1). 1–49.
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>> Carlier, Anne and Beatrice Lamiroy. 2014. The gramaticalization of the
>> prepositional partitive in Ro- mance. In S. Luraghi e T. Huumo (eds.), *Partitive
>> Case and Related Categories*. Berlino: Mou- ton de Gruyter. 477-519.
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>> Cerruti, Massimo and Riccardo Regis. Forthcoming. Partitive determiners
>> in Piedmontese: a case of language varia- tion and change in a contact
>> setting. In Ihsane/Stark, fothcoming*.*
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>> Glaser, Elvira. 1992. Umbau partitiver Strukturen in der Geschichte des
>> Deutschen. *Sprachwissenschaft* 17:2. 113-132.
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>> Ihsane, Tabea. 2013. *En* pronominalization in French and the structure
>> of nominal expressions. *Syntax* 16(3). 217–249.
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>> Ihsane, Tabea and Elisabeth Stark (eds.). Forthcoming. *Shades of
>> Partitivity: Formal and areal properties*. Special Issue in *Linguistics*
>> .
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>> Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. 2001. „A piece of the cake‟ and „a cup of tea‟.
>> In *Circum-Baltic Languages*. Volume 2: *Grammar and Typology*, Östen
>> Dahl & Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (eds). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins,
>> 523-568
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>> Luraghi, Silvia 2003. *On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases. A Study
>> of the Expression of Semantic Roles in Ancient Greek*.  Amsterdan:
>> Benjamins.
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>> Luraghi, Silvia & Tuomas Huumo (eds.). 2014. *Partitive cases and
>> related categories*. Berlin.
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>> Luraghi, Silvia and Seppo Kittilä. 2014. The typology and diachrony of
>> partitives. In Silvia Luraghi & Tuomas Huumo (eds). *Partitive Cases and
>> Related Categories*. Berlin/New York, Mouton De Gruyter, 17-62
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>> Luraghi, Silvia, Merlijn De Smit and Iván Igártua. Forthcoming. Contact
>> indiced change in the languages of Europe. In Ihsane/Stark, fothcoming*.*
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>> Moravcsik, Edith 1978. On the case marking of objects. In Joseph
>> Greenberg *et al*. (eds.) *Universals of Human Language*, vol IV.
>> *Syntax.* Stanford University Press, 249-290.
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>> Seržant, Ilja. 2015. Independent partitive as a Circum-Baltic isogloss. *Journal
>> of Language Contact* 8. 341–418.
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>> Wickman, Bo. 1955. *The form of the object in the Uralic languages*.
>> Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksell.
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>> Silvia Luraghi
>> Università di Pavia
>> Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sezione di Linguistica Teorica e
>> Applicata
>> Strada Nuova 65
>> I-27100 Pavia
>> tel.: +39/0382/984685
>> Web page personale:
>> http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68
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