From Diana.Lewis at univ-lyon2.fr Thu Dec 2 21:27:00 2010 From: Diana.Lewis at univ-lyon2.fr (Diana Lewis) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 22:27:00 +0100 Subject: IVth Conference of the French Cognitive Linguistics Association, 2nd call Message-ID: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS AFLiCo IV Fourth International Conference of the French Cognitive Linguistics Association, Lyon, France, 24th-27th May 2011 CONFERENCE WEBSITE http://www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/colloques/AFLICO_IV/ SUBMISSION DEADLINES Deadline for general session papers: 22nd December 2010 Deadline for workshops/thematic sessions: 18th December 2010 INVITED SPEAKERS * Danièle DUBOIS (University of Paris 6, France) * Nick EVANS (ANU College of Asia-Pacific, Australia) * Harriet JISA (University of Lyon 2, France) * Maarten LEMMENS (University of Lille 3, France) * Laura MICHAELIS (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) * Ulrike ZESHAN (University of Central Lancashire, UK) CONFERENCE THEME: 'Cognitive Linguistics and Typology: Language diversity, variation and change '. This conference aims to bring together linguists engaged in cognitively-oriented research with those working in a functional-typological framework on cross-linguistic variation and on language description. The emphasis will be on (1) language diversity of both spoken and signed languages; (2) inter- and intra-linguistic variation; (3) language change. The conference will bring together linguists working with various methodological approaches and using various kinds of spontaneous and elicited data, including spoken and written corpora, fieldwork data, and experimental data. Proposals are invited for workshops/thematic sessions, for general session papers, and for posters, on topics related to the theme, and on topics in Cognitive Linguistics generally. Papers that report empirically-grounded research on less-studied languages and on typologically, genetically and areally diverse languages will be particularly welcome. Topics include, but are not limited to: - methods and data in cognitive linguistics and in language typology and description - convergence and divergence between cognitive linguistics and functional-typological linguistics - studies from a cognitive and/or typological perspective in phonetics, phonology, morphosyntax, semantics and pragmatics - language variation within and across languages, both spoken and signed - language change from a cognitive and/or typological perspective - language acquisition - studies and advances in construction grammar - language and gesture in cross-linguistic perspective LANGUAGES OF THE CONFERENCE The languages of the conference are English and French. ORAL PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS Proposals are invited for 30-minute slots (20-minute presentation plus question time) in the general sessions and for posters (A1 size). WORKSHOPS, INCLUDING THEMATIC SESSIONS Proposals are invited for half-day or full-day workshops/thematic sessions. Each workshop proposal should contain the following information: - the names and contact details of two workshop organizers - the title of the proposed workshop - an overview of the topic and aims of the workshop (up to 2 pages) - an indication of the desired schedule (number of slots: 4, 6 or 10; half day or full day; number and nature of presentations, discussions, round tables, etc. that the workshop will comprise). Note that, within a workshop, each presentation, discussion or round table will occupy one 30-minute slot in parallel with one general session slot. - an abstract (consistent with the indications below under 'Submission procedure') for each proposed 30-minute presentation Workshop proposals will be refereed in the same way as general session and poster proposals. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Proposals should be submitted online following the instructions to be found at the following address: http://www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/colloques/AFLICO_IV/ Author information (name, affiliation, email address) will be required on the submission website. An author may submit a maximum of two abstracts, of which at least one must be co-authored. In the case of co-authored abstracts, the first-named author will be the contact person. Abstracts will be anonymously reviewed and notification of acceptance will be sent out from 25th February 2011. The anonymous abstracts should be in 12 point Times or Times New Roman font, formatted for A4 or US Letter size paper with margins of 2.5 cm or 1 inch. The maximum length for the text of the abstract is one page; a second page may be used for figures, glossed examples and bibliographical references. ------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From caterina.mauri at unipv.it Tue Dec 7 16:07:53 2010 From: caterina.mauri at unipv.it (Caterina Mauri) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 17:07:53 +0100 Subject: 2nd Transalpine Typology Meeting - Pavia, 10-11 December Message-ID: *** Apologies for cross-posting *** 2nd Transalpine Typology Meeting 10-11 December 2010, Aula Scarpa, University of Pavia, Italy Promoted by: Università degli Studi di Pavia Dipartimento di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata Dottorato Internazionale in Linguistica Laurea Specialistica in Linguistica Universität Bern Institut für Sprachwissenschaft Description This typology meeting aims at intensifying the contacts between students of linguistic typology on both sides of the Alps and grew out of a collaboration between the linguistic departments of Pavia and Bern. Contributions cover a large variety of topics in linguistic typology, including ideophones, the expression of motion, number marking, adverbs, auxiliaries, alignment and grammatical relations, transitivity, clause combining, and competing motivations. Program 12/10/2010 10.00-11.00 Christa Koenig (Koeln): Marked Nominative: An Exotic Language Type? 11.00-11.30 Coffee break 11.30-12.00 Silvia Luraghi (Pavia): Basic valency orientation in Hittite 12.00-12.30 Arnd Soelling (Bern): Diverging lexicalization patterns of a semantic domain of goal-orientation in two North-American languages: Takelma and Maidu 12.30-14-30 Lunch 14.30-15.00 Deborah Edwards (Bern): Obligatory and Optional Nominal Plural Marking - A Typology Based on Original Texts 15.00-15.30 Pietro Cerrone and Emanuele Miola (Pavia): Auxiliary Selection in Piedmontese 15.30-16.00 Ruprecht von Waldenfels (Bern): Verbal categories across Slavic - a corpus driven study 16.00-16-30 Coffee break 16.30-17.00 Chiara Fedriani and Emanuele Miola (Pavia): From temporal adverbs to discourse markers in the languages of Europe: between cooptation, grammaticalization, and pragmaticalization 17.00-17.30 Caterina Mauri and Andrea Sanso' (Pavia): Reality status and interclausal relations: synchronic and diachronic variation 12/11/2010 10.00-10.30 Ashild Naess (Zurich): Transitivity and word classes in Äiwoo 10.30-11.00 Bernhard Waelchli (Bern): Ištiktukai „happenlings“ – How Baltic linguistics anticipated ideophones and why this is not known in typology. 11.00-11.30 Coffee break 11.30-12.00 Sonia Cristofaro (Pavia): Competing motivations and diachrony: What evidence for what motivations? 12.00-12.30 Erik Van Gijn (Nijmegen): Subordination strategies in South-American languages: an interim report 12.30-13.30 Martine Vanhove (CNRS-LLACAN - Paris): TBA Organizers - Sonia Cristofaro (Pavia) sonia.cristofaro at unipv.it - Bernhard Waelchli (Bern) bernhard.waelchli at isw.unibe.ch For additional information, please contact Sonia Cristofaro or visit: https://sites.google.com/site/transalpinetypologymeeting/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From johanna.barddal at uib.no Tue Dec 7 17:12:09 2010 From: johanna.barddal at uib.no (johanna.barddal at uib.no) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:12:09 +0100 Subject: First CfP: SLE-44 Workshop: Diachronic Construction Grammar Message-ID: First Call for papers SLE-44 in Logroño, Spain, 8-11 September 2011 Workshop title: Diachronic Construction Grammar URL: http://org.uib.no/iecastp/IECASTP/Workshop9.htm Organizers: Jóhanna Barðdal, University of Bergen & Spike Gildea, University of Oregon Description: The theoretical framework of Construction Grammar has by now become an established framework in the international linguistic community, and a viable alternative to more formal approaches to language and linguistic structure. So far, constructional analyses have mostly been focused on synchronic, comparative and typological data, while the emergence of a diachronic construction grammar is a more recent development. The beginning of diachronic construction grammar was marked by Israel's (1996) influential paper on the development of the way construction in the history of English. Since then, work has, for instance, been done on: - The development of case in Germanic (Barðdal 2001, 2009), historical variation in case marking (Berg-Olsen 2009, Barðdal 2011) - Changes in periphrastic causatives in English (Hollmann 2003), future constructions in Germanic (Hilpert 2008), and raising constructions in English and Dutch (Noël & Colleman 2010) - The development of pragmatic particles in Czech (Fried 2007, 2009) - Possessive constructions in the history of Russian (Eckhoff 2009) - Rise of the there construction from Old to Early Modern English (Jenset 2010) - Grammaticalization and construction grammar (Traugott 2007, 2008a?b, Noël 2007, Trousdale 2008a?b, Bisang 2010) - Construction grammar and historical-comparative reconstruction (Gildea 1997, 1998, 2000, Haig 2008, Barðdal & Eythórsson 2009, Barðdal 2010) At the moment, the community is experiencing a boom in the amount of research being carried out within diachronic construction grammar. More generally, a constructional approach to diachronic linguistics and language change may be focused on how new constructions arise, how competition in diachronic variation should be accounted for, how constructions fall into disuse, as well as how constructions change in general, formally and/or semantically, and the implications for the language system as a whole. Another area of focus is the value of a constructional approach to the reconstruction of morphosyntax. Further, the role of corpus data, frequency, language contact, and the interaction between item-specific and more general abstract constructions may also be important ingredients in any diachronic constructional analysis, claiming to do justice to language development and change. This workshop is particularly focused on research where the notion of construction as a form-function pairing is needed to account for the diachronic data and development. We welcome contributions where a comparison between models is facilitated, both with regard to reconstructing grammatical change and to explaining attested grammatical change. The workshop's aim is to promote construction grammar as a viable diachronic framework alongside other linguistic frameworks dealing with language change. Please submit your abstract through the SLE website, not later than January 15th, 2011: http://sle2011.cilap.es/ References: Barðdal, Jóhanna. 2001. Case in Icelandic - A Synchronic, Diachronic and Comparative Approach. Lundastudier i Nordisk språkvetenskap A 57. Lund: Department of Scandinavian Languages, Lund. Barðdal, Jóhanna. 2009. The Development of Case in Germanic. In J. Barðdal & S.L. Chelliah (eds.), The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case, 123-159. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Barðdal, Jóhanna. 2010. Construction-Based Historical-Comparative Reconstruction. To appear in G. Trousdale & T. Hoffmann, Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Barðdal, Jóhanna. 2011. The Rise of Dative Substitution in the History of Icelandic: A Diachronic Construction Grammar Approach. A guest-edited volume ?Semantic Aspects of Case Variation? by K.v. Heusinger & H.de Hoop. Lingua 121(1): 60-79. Barðdal, Jóhanna & Thórhallur Eythórsson. 2009. Reconstructing Syntax: Construction Grammar and the Comparative Method. To appear in H.C. Boas & I.A. Sag (eds.), Sign-Based Construction Grammar. Stanford: CSLI Publications. Berg-Olsen, Sturla. 2009. Lacking in Latvian: Case variation from a construction grammar perspective. In J. Barðdal & S.L. Chelliah (eds.), The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case, 181-202. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Bisang, Walter. 2010. Grammaticalization in Chinese: A construction-based account. In E.C. Traugott & G. Trousdale (eds.), Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization, 245-277. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Eckhoff, Hanne Martine. 2009. A usage-based approach to change: Old Russian possessive constructions. In J. Barðdal & S.L. Chelliah (eds.), The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case, 161-180. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Fried, Mirjam. 2007. A Frame Semantic account of morphosemantic change: the case of Old Czech v??ící. In D. Divjak & A. Kochanska (eds.), Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domain, 283-315. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Fried, Mirjam. 2009. Construction Grammar as a tool for diachronic analysis. Constructions and Frames 1(2): 261-290. Gildea, Spike. 1997. Evolution of grammatical relations in Cariban: How functional motivation precedes syntactic change. In T. Givón (ed.), Grammatical Relations: A Functionalist Perspective, 155-198. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Gildea, Spike (ed). 1998. On reconstructing grammar: Comparative Cariban morphosyntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Gildea, Spike. 2000. On the genesis of the verb phrase in Cariban languages: Diversity through reanalysis. In S. Gildea (ed.), Reconstructing Grammar: Comparative Linguistics and Grammaticalization Theory, 65-105. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Haig, Geoffrey. 2008. Alignment Change in Iranian Languages: A Construction Grammar Approach. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Hilbert, Martin. 2008. Germanic Future Constructions: A Usage-based Approach to Language Change. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Hollmann, Willem B. 2003. Synchrony and diachrony of English periphrastic causatives: A cognitive perspective. Ph.D. dissertation. Manchester: University of Manchester. Israel, Michael. 1996. The way constructions grow. In A.E. Goldberg (ed.), Conceptual structure, discourse and language, 217-230. Stanford: CSLI Publications. Jenset, Gard. 2010. A Corpus-Based Study on the Evolution of 'There': Statistical Analysis and Cognitive Interpretation. Ph.D. dissertation. Bergen: University of Bergen. Noël, Dirk. 2007. Diachronic construction grammar and grammaticalization theory. Functions of Language 14(2): 177-202. Noël, Dirk & Timothy Colleman. 2010. Believe-type raising-to-object and raising-to-subject verbs in English and Dutch: A contrastive investigation in diachronic construction grammar. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 15(2): 157-182. Trousdale, Graeme. 2008a. Constructions in grammaticalization and lexicalization: evidence from the history of a composite predicate in English. In G. Trousdale & N. Gisborne (eds.), Constructional approaches to English grammar, 33-67. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Trousdale, Graeme. 2008b. A constructional account of lexicalization processes in the history of English: Evidence from possessive constructions. Word Structure 1: 156-177. Traugott, Elizabeth Closs. 2007. The concepts of constructional mismatch and type-shifting from the perspective of grammaticalization. Cognitive Linguistics 18: 523-557. Traugott, Elizabeth Closs. 2008a. The grammaticalization of NP of NP constructions. In A. Bergs & G. Diewald (eds.), Constructions and Language Change, 21-43. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Traugott, Elizabeth Closs. 2008b.'All that he endeavoured to prove was ...': On the emergence of grammatical constructions in dialogic contexts. In R. Cooper & R. Kempson (eds.), 143-177. Language in Flux: Dialogue Coordination, Language Variation, Change and Evolution. London: Kings College Publications. -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Jóhanna Barðdal Research Associate Professor Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen P.O. box 7805 NO-5020 Bergen Norway johanna.barddal at uib.no Phone +47-55582438 (work) Phone +47-55201117 (home) Fax +47-55589660 (work) http://org.uib.no/iecastp/barddal _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l