[Histling-l] CfP - DIACON 2022 Towards a diachronic typology of converbs Verona, Italy, October 6-8, 2022

[Eystein Hambro Dahl]

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:

- Converb as a metalinguistic concept through history and in different traditions
- The synchronic properties of converbs in typological perspective
- Converbs and related constructions as areal features
- Converbs in the context of linguistic families
- Converbial constructions and competing construction types
- The diachronic typology of converbs and their source constructions.

Keynote speakers:
Andrea Drocco (University of Venice, Ca' Foscari)
Anna Pompei (Roma Tre University)
Krzysztof Stroński (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Carlotta Viti (Beijing Normal University)

Organizing & scientific committee:
Paola Cotticelli (University of Verona)
Eystein Dahl (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Jelena Živojinović (University of Verona)

Contact e-mail: diacon2022gmail.com

Final Call for Papers:

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).
All abstracts will be subject to a double-blind peer review.

Abstracts are submitted via Easychair by June 1, 2022 at the following link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=diacon2022




Eystein Dahl

Institutt for språk og kultur/Department of Language and Culture
UIT Norges arktiske universitet/UIT The Arctic University of Norway
Postboks 6050 Langnes
9037 TROMSØ

+47 776 44290

Associated Senior Fellow,
Norwegian Institute of Philology
https://www.philology.no/

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