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<p>Dear colleagues,</p>
<p>This year's Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics
Association will be a thematic volume on "Diachronic Cognitive
Linguistics". While the volume will largely consist of invited
papers, there are a few open slots to fill. We therefore invite
expressions of interest for further contributions (which can be
work-in-progress-reports, see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.dgkl-gcla.de/yearbook/">http://www.dgkl-gcla.de/yearbook/</a>)
to the Yearbook that are relevant to the topic of Diachronic
Cognitive Linguistics (including Diachronic Construction Grammar).
If you are interested in contributing a paper, please send me an
expression of interest (ideally with a preliminary title and a
short description of the proposed paper, not necessarily a fully
worked-out abstract) as soon as possible. Please note the tight
deadline (May 15th!). Early career researchers are particularly
invited to apply. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate
to get in touch!<br>
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<p>Best wishes,</p>
<p>Stefan<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:14.2pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Diachronic
Cognitive Linguistics</b><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:14.2pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:14.2pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Cognitive
linguistics and the study of language change have
cross-fertilized each other
in a number of ways in recent years and decades. For one thing,
many
researchers in the field of grammaticalization, which has been
highly
influential in historical linguistics, have adopted a
cognitive-functionalist
view of language (e.g. Hopper & Traugott 2003). Also, it has
been shown
that cognitive-linguistic theories like Cognitive Grammar can be
fruitfully
applied to the study of language change (e.g. Winters 2020).
Furthermore,
constructionist approaches have become increasingly popular in
historical
linguistics (see e.g. Hilpert 2013, Traugott & Trousdale
2013, Barðdal et
al. 2015, Coussé et al. 2018). And cognitive linguistics in
general has come to
adopt a view of language as a dynamic system, which entails an
increased focus
on synchronic variation and diachronic change.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:14.2pt"><span lang="EN-GB">For
this volume,
we invite contributions that investigate diachronic phenomena
from a
cognitive-linguistic perspective and/or reflect on the
relationship between
cognitive linguistics and historical linguistics. Questions that
can be
addressed include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
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style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"
lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">What, if anything, can
language
change tell us about the cognitive organization of language?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"
lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">How can theoretical
concepts
from cognitive linguistics be operationalized for the empirical
investigation
of diachronic phenomena?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"
lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">How does a
cognitive-linguistic
perspective on language change differ from other theoretical
approaches? Which
predictions does it make, and how can they be tested
empirically?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">In line with the empirical
outlook of
previous DGKL/GCLA Yearbooks, we particularly invite papers that
take a
corpus-based perspective on diachronic linguistics. Also in line
with previous
Yearbooks, we invite work-in-progress papers that are, however,
subject to the
same standards of peer-review as papers reporting on completed
work (see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.dgkl-gcla.de/yearbook/">http://www.dgkl-gcla.de/yearbook/</a>
for more information on the Yearbook in general).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:14.2pt"><span lang="EN-GB">If
you are
interested in contributing a paper, please send a short
expression of interest
to the volume editor, Stefan Hartmann, as soon as possible,
ideally until March 20 (Email:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hartmast@hhu.de">hartmast@hhu.de</a>). The deadline for manuscript submission is <b>May
15, 2021</b>. Full papers should be submitted in an editable
format and
should be no longer than 5000 words. References should be
formatted according
to the Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/unified-style-sheet">https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/unified-style-sheet</a>,
CSL style available at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.zotero.org/styles/unified-style-sheet-for-linguistics">https://www.zotero.org/styles/unified-style-sheet-for-linguistics</a>).
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Hartmann
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Abteilung für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft
Universitätsstraße 1
40225 Düsseldorf
Gebäude: 24.53
Etage/Raum: U1.94
Tel.: +49 211 81-13684</pre>
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