Current Studies on Morpho-Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics: A View from the South American Lowlands and Beyond

Dear Colleagues, 

Although Indigenous languages of the Americas have played an important role in linguistic theory, South American Indigenous languages are still largely under-represented in formal studies of morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. At the same time, a growing number of researchers are combining rigorous language documentation and description with formal analyses of these languages. The purpose of this volume is to showcase this new research, with a focus on languages of the South American lowlands, including the Amazon and Paraná basins, and of the Brazilian highlands (e.g., Baker & Camargo Souza 2020, Clem 2019, Carol & Salanova 2019, Müller & Sanchez-Mendez 2020, Pancheva & Zubizarreta 2020, Salanova & Tallman 2021, Singerman 2019).

Thematically, the volume will contain contributions on the morpho-syntax and semantics/pragmatics of switch reference, evidentiality, subordination, and events. The volume will include manuscripts that advance our knowledge of the target languages, while making significant contributions to linguistic theory in the fields of morpho-syntax and semantics/pragmatics.

The volume should attract a wide readership of researchers and students interested in linguistic theory and in the structure of languages of South America. The research published in the volume should be accessible to any reader with graduate training in formal linguistics.

Tentative completion schedule:

• Abstract submission deadline: 30 March 2022
• Notification of abstract acceptance: 15 April 2022
• Full manuscript deadline: 1 October 2022

References

Baker, Mark and Livia Camargo Souza. 2020. Agree without Agreement: Switch-reference and reflexive voice in two Panoan languages. Natural Language & Linguist Theory 38, 1053–1114.

Clem, Emily. 2019. Amahuaca ergative as agreement with multiple heads. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 37(3):785-823.

Carol, Javier Jerónimo and Andres Salanova. 2019. Los frustativos como aspecto. Un análisis a partir del chorote (mataguayo) y el mẽbengokre (jê). Signo y Seña 36:23-43.

Müller, Ana and Luciana Sanchez‐Mendes. 2020. Pluractionality: the phenomenon, the issues, and a case study. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics, 1-34.

Pancheva, Roumyana and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta (2020). “Temporal reference in the absence of tense in Paraguayan Guaraní”, In In M. Asatryan, Y. Song, A. Whitmal (eds.) Proceedings of NELS 50 265-278.

Salanova, Andrés Pablo and Adam Tallman. 2021. Nominalizations, case domains, and restructuring in two Amazonian languages. In Artemis Alexiadou and Hagit Borer (eds.), Nominalization: 50 Years on from Chomsky's Remarks. Oxford University Press, 363-390.

Singerman, Adam Roth. 2019. Non-witnessed evidentiality in Tuparí and its connection to resultative constructions in the perfect aspect. International Journal of American Linguistics 85(3):401–445.

Prof. Dr. Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
Dr. Guillaume Thomas
Guest Editors

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