Date: 05-Dec-2019 – 06-Dec-2019
Location: Oslo, Norway
Contact Person: Karin Beijering

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2019

Meeting Description:

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.

Call for Papers

Workshop: Variation and Change in the Verb Phrase

The Language Change Research Group at the University of Oslo invites abstracts for the workshop Variation and Change in the Verb Phrase.

Time and Place:
December 5-6, 2019, University of Oslo

Keynote Speakers:

Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete)
Peter Petré (University of Antwerp)

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:

– Benefactive constructions
– Particle verb constructions
– Reflexive constructions
– Resultative constructions

Abstracts of max. 300 words (excluding references, including author information and affiliation) should be sent to karin.beijeringiln.uio.no by September 15, 2019. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by October 1.

Organisation Committee: Karin Beijering, Kari Kinn, Yvonne van Baal & Ida Larsson

Contact: karin.beijering(at)iln.uio.no