Workshop: Non-overt Subjects in a Cross-linguistic Perspective Salzburg, Austria 22-Nov-2013 - 24-Nov-2013

The aim of the workshop is to discuss the diachronic and systematic relations between the different types of non-overt subjects from various theoretical and empirical angles. The workshop is hosted by the 40th Austrian Conference on Linguistics (40. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, November 22-24 in Salzburg, Austria). Organisers invite abstracts including the following topics: - Loss of non-overt subjects - Emergence of non-overt subjects - Evidence from pidgins and creoles - Non-overt subjects and language contact - Relations between null subjects resulting from pro-drop and other non-overt subjects - Relations between non-overt subjects and other grammatical phenomena (changes in verbal morphology, voice, word order etc.) - Historical evidence for typological implications concerning non-overt subjects Any theoretical approach, formal or functional, is welcome. Please send your abstract (in English or German; no more than 300 words) by email to: Imke.Mendoza@sbg.ac.at or Bernhard.Poell@sbg.ac.at Deadline for the submission of abstracts: September 15, 2013. Notification of acceptance will be given not later than October 7, 2013.