From agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca Wed Jan 5 21:05:09 2011 From: agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca (Greenwood, Audrey) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 21:05:09 +0000 Subject: Now available - The Canadian Journal of Linguistics 55 (3), November 2010 Message-ID: The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique 55(3), November/novembre 2010 is now available at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/toc/cjl.55.3.html Noun incorporation as symmetry breaking Michael Barrie Abstract:This article proposes a novel account of noun incorporation in Northern Iroquoian. It is proposed that there is no special mechanism for noun incorporation and that this phenomenon falls out naturally from the geometry of the phrase structure under Moro’s theory of Dynamic Antisymmetry. In a nutshell, when the verbal head and the nominal head undergoMerge, they form a point of symmetric c-command,which is resolved by the nominal head moving to the specifier of the verb phrase. Further, it is proposed that, in noun incorporation constructions with a full DP double, the incorporated noun and the DP form a constituent, which is merged in theta-position. Résumé:Cet article propose une nouvelle description de l’incorporation nominale dans l’iroquoïen du Nord. Il est proposé qu’il n’y a aucun mécanisme particulier en matière d’incorporation nominale et que ce phénomène découle naturellement de la géométrie de la syntaxe selon la théorie de l’Antisymétrie dynamique de Moro. En un mot, la fusion (Merge) des têtes verbale et nominale forme un point de c-commande symétrique qui se voit résoudre par le déplacement de la tête nominale au spécifieur du syntagme verbal. De plus, j’avance que le nom incorporé dans les constructions ayant un sd double forme avec celui-ci un constituent qui est fusionné en position thématique. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/v055/55.3.barrie.pdf Omission des déterminants : Contraintes d’alternances rythmiques ou contraintes liées aux niveaux supérieurs de la structure prosodique Roseline Fréchette Marie Labelle Résumé:Cet article vise à déterminer si l’omission des déterminants chez des enfants de deux ans est contrainte au niveau du pied ou si elle est contrainte par les différents niveaux de la hiérarchie prosodique. Neuf enfants francophones âgés de 24 à 31 mois ont participé à une tâche de répétition de 54 phrases de quatre ou cinq mots de la forme suivante «Pronomv sn» réparties en trois conditions : a) dét + nom monosyllabique; b) dét + nom bisyllabique; c) dét + adjectif monosyllabique + nom monosyllabique. Les résultats démontrent 1) plus d’omission du déterminant dans la condition b que dans la condition a; 2) plus d’omission du déterminant en c qu’en b. Il est démontré que l’omission du déterminant ne s’explique pas par une contrainte d’alternance rythmique de bas niveau et que le niveau de la structure prosodique auquel doit s’attacher le déterminant joue un rôle dans l’omission des déterminants. Abstract:This article focuses on whether determiner omission by two-year-old children is constrained at the level of the prosodic foot or whether it is a function of the different levels of the prosodic hierarchy. Nine French-speaking children aged 2;0 to 2;7 were asked to repeat 54 four-or five-word sentences of the form “Pronoun V NP” with three conditions: a) det + monosyllabic noun; b) det + bisyllabic noun; c) det + monosyllabic adjective + monosyllabic noun. The results show 1) more determiner omission in condition b than in a; 2) more determiner omission in c than in b. It is shown that determiner omission is not accounted for by a low-level stress-alternation constraint and that the level of prosodic structure to which the determiner is attached plays a role in determiner omission. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/v055/55.3.frechette.pdf Redefining what matters: Syntactic explanation in American linguistics, 1955–1970 Janet Martin-Nielsen Abstract:The postwar decades are well known for having brought dramatic change to American linguistics on many fronts. This paper explores an internally focused aspect of this change: conditions of explanation. The two questions at stake are, firstly, what counts as explanation in linguistics? and, secondly, how is this decided? I argue that transformational grammarians dominated the setting of explanatory criteria in 1960s American syntax, and that this dominance was essential to the overall success of that theory. Importantly, rival grammarians were forced to devote as much time and effort to fitting their theories to the transformational criteria as they were to advancing their own explanatory priorities. By successfully naming the conditions for explanation, transformationalists provided their own supporters with significant questions to pursue and, simultaneously, drew energy away from rivals. This monopoly over explanatory criteria was central to the dominant position transformational grammar established in the American academic linguistics community. Résumé:Les décennies de l’après-guerre ont été caractérisées par des changements importants dans la linguistique américaine. Cet article explore un aspect interne de ces changements : les conditions d’explication.Deux questions sont en jeu ici : premièrement, en quoi consiste l’explication en linguistique? et en deuxième lieu : Comment décide-t-on en quoi consiste l’explication? Je soutiens que les grammairiens transformationnels ont imposé le choix des critères d’explication de la syntaxe américaine au cours des années 1960 et que cette domination était essentielle au succès global de la grammaire transformationnelle. Les grammairiens rivaux ont dû consacrer autant de temps et d’effort à adapter leurs théories aux critères transformationnels qu’à avancer leur propres priorités d’explication. En réussissant à définir les critères d’explication, les transformationalistes ont nourri leur propres partisans de questions importantes à poursuivre en même temps qu’ils ont drainé les énergies de leurs rivaux. Ce monopole des critères d’explication était central à la position dominante que la grammaire transformationelle a établie dans la communauté linguistique universitaire américaine. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/v055/55.3.martin-nielsen.pdf Some remarks on subject positions and the architecture of the left periphery in Spanish Bernhard Pöll This article reexamines the puzzling issue of where subjects, lexical and null, are located in Spanish and offers a novel explanation for the incompatibility of preverbal lexical subjects with fronted focussed constituents. Both Specip and the left periphery appear to be potential landing sites for subjects, according to discourse-pragmatic factors. Assuming that pro is a clitic, it is argued that the aforementioned incompatibility can be captured by a simple rule: Specip must be empty for focus fronting to occur. This is the case with pro, which adjoins to Infl, or with postverbal subjects since they remain in Specvp. From this analysis it follows that: 1) the subject field in Spanish is less articulated than is generally assumed, 2) the differences between Spanish and other null subject languages with respect to the availability of preverbal subjets can be reduced to this rule and a different ordering of focus and topic phrases, and 3) it is unnecessary to posit two different topic positions. Résumé:Cet article examine l’épineuse question de la position préverbale occupée par le sujet lexical en espagnol et offre une nouvelle explication pour la contrainte sur la cooccurrence de sujets lexicaux et de constituants focalisés en position préverbale. S’agissant des positions sujet, il apparaît que tant le spécifieur de si que la périphérie gauche peuvent servir comme cible de mouvement, en fonction de paramètres discursifs. En présumant que pro est un clitique, je soutiens qu’il est possible de ramener la contrainte ci-dessus à la règle suivante : le mouvement d’items focalisés vers la périphérie gauche requiert que le spécifieur de si soit vide. C’est le cas avec pro (attaché à la tête de si) et également avec les sujets postverbaux. Il s’ensuit que 1) la structure des positions sujet en espagnol est moins complexe qu’on ne l’affirme souvent, 2) les différences entre l’espagnol et d’autres langues à sujet nul quant à la possibilité de sujets préverbaux se réduisent à la règle mentionnée de même qu’à une structure différente de la périphérie gauche, et 3) il n’est pas nécessaire de postuler deux positions différentes pour les topiques. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/v055/55.3.poll.pdf The Canadian Shift in Toronto Rebecca Roeder Lidia-Gabriela Jarmasz Abstract:This study provides the first wide-scale, apparent time, instrumental description of the Canadian Shift in mainstream Toronto English. In contrast with some previous findings, the Toronto data suggest that for the last 70 years or more the shift has not affected the high front lax vowel (I). We observe that the movement of the non-high front lax vowels (ε) and (æ) involves both lowering and retraction in Toronto English, although retraction is the primary direction of more recent change and the shift appears to be slowing down. Our findings also suggest that continued retraction of the vowel resulting from the low back merger is involved in the final stage of the shift. We do not find evidence of a chain shift but instead propose that a parallel shift is occurring and make reference to Vowel Dispersion Theory in our discussion. Résumé:Cette étude présente la première description instrumentale en temps apparent de grande envergure du Canadian Shift dans l’anglais courant de Toronto. En contraste avec certains résultats antérieurs, les données de Toronto suggèrent qu’au cours des 70 dernières années ou plus, cette mutation n’a pas touché la voyelle haute antérieure relâchée (I). Nous observons que le mouvement des voyelles antérieures relâchées non hautes (ε) et (æ) implique à la fois abaissement et postériorisation, bien que cette dernière représente la direction principale du changement plus récent; de plus, nous observons que la mutation semble ralentir. Nos résultats suggèrent également que la postériorisation continue de la voyelle qui provient de la fusion des voyelles postérieures basses est impliquée dans la dernière étape de la mutation. Ne trouvant aucune preuve de mutation en chaîne, nous proposons plutôt que le Canadian Shift est unemutation en parallèle. Nous invoquons la théorie de la dispersion des voyelles dans notre discussion. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/v055/55.3.roeder.pdf Honorific agreement in Japanese Hideki Kishimoto http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/v055/55.3.kishimoto.pdf One-replacement and the label-less theory of adjuncts Yosuke Sato http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/v055/55.3.sato.pdf Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and second language acquisition (review) Engin Arik http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/v055/55.3.arik.pdf The locative syntax of experiencers (review) Marco Nicolis http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/v055/55.3.nicolis.pdf L’enfant dans la langue (review) Nelleke Strik http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/v055/55.3.strik.pdf Pragmatics and grammar (review) Dorota Zielinska http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/v055/55.3.zielinska.pdf The Canadian Journal of Linguistics publishes articles of original research in linguistics in both English and French. 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Box 870302 Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 Phone: +1 480 727-9131 Fax: +1 480-965-3451 E-Mail: Robert.Mailhammer at asu.edu https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/1638174 http://lrz-muenchen.de/~mailhammer ------------- Reminder: Call for Papers: Etymology and Reconstruction in the Languages of Australia and the Pacific Session at ICHL 20, Osaka, Japan, 25-30 July 2011 Organisers: Robert Mailhammer (Arizona State University) Harold Koch (The Australian National University) Research in the history in the languages of Australia and the Pacific has been on the rise in recent years also as a result of increasingly reliable databases. In particular, for Australian languages it has become clear that the tools and methods of historical linguistics, in particular the comparative method, are far from useless, and that in fact great advances have been made in reconstructing and subgrouping Australian languages earlier (see e.g. Bowern and Koch 2004 and Evans 2003 for a critical discussion). And the history of Austronesian and Oceanic languages has made giant steps forward in etymological research (see especially Ross, Pawley and Osmond 1998-). The comparative study of the Papuan languages has also begun in earnest in recent years (Pawley 2005a, 2005b). The result of this research has also cast more light on the cultural and linguistic prehistory of the languages of Australia of the Pacific (see e.g. Mailhammer forthc.a). At the same time, the paucity of data and the gigantic time depth (e.g. in the case of Australian languages, see Mailhammer forthc.b) has continued to pose challenges for research. This conference session would like to invite papers addressing issues in etymology and reconstruction in the languages of Australia and the Pacific. Among the questions to be investigated could be the following: - classical etymological research, including toponyms (see e.g. Hercus & Koch 2009 on Aboriginal place names in Australia) - in what way etymology can elucidate cultural history - etymology/reconstruction and its particular significance to issues of subgrouping and Urheimat (cf. e.g. Anthony 1995 on the Urheimat of Proto-Indo-European based on etymologies of wheeled vehicles) - what the reconstruction of key elements can reveal about proto-phonology, -morphology, or -semantics References Anthony, David W. 1995. Horse, wagon & chariot: Indo-European languages and archaeology. Antiquity, 69, 554-565. Bowern, Claire, and Koch, Harold eds. 2004. Australian languages: classification and the comparative method. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 249. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Evans, Nicholas ed. 2003. The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia: comparative studies of the continent's most linguistically complex region. Pacific Linguistics 552. Canberra: Australian National University. Hercus, Luise and Koch, Harold eds. 2009. Aboriginal placenames: naming and re-naming the Australian landscape. Aboriginal history monograph 19. Canberra: ANU E-Press. Pawley, Andrew. 2005. Papuan languages. In The encyclopedia of language and linguistics, ed. Keith Brown, 162-171. Oxford: Elsevier. Pawley, Andrew. 2005. The Trans New Guinea family. In The encyclopedia of language and linguistics, ed. Keith Brown, 17-22. Oxford: Elsevier. Mailhammer, Robert. ed. forthc. a Sprung from a common source? Studies on lexical and structural etymology. Research in language change. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Mailhammer, Robert. forthc. b. Diversity vs. uniformity: Europe before the arrival of the Indo-European languages: a comparison with prehistoric Australia. In: Linguistic Roots of Europe, ed. Robert Mailhammer and Theo Vennemann. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. Ross, Malcolm, Pawley, Andrew and Osmond, Meredith. 1998-. The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic. 3 vols, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics/ANU E-press Abstracts of no more than 500 words (WORD, pdf) to be submitted to ICHL directly INDICATING THAT THE ARE INTENDED FOR THIS WORKSHOP (see http://www.ichl2011.com/call_for_papers.html#papers ). Deadline: 15 January 2011 Please contact the organisers for more information: Robert.Mailhammer at asu.edu Harold.Koch at anu.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Papers from the full range of linguistic and philological subfields, as well as differing theoretical perspectives, are welcome. All abstracts will undergo anonymous review. See for submission guidelines; the deadline is January 15, 2011, and we expect to have made decisions about abstracts by February 15, 2011. Should anything need clarification, send an e-mail to . We hope to see many of you at GLAC! Marc Pierce _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From silvia.luraghi at unipv.it Thu Jan 6 14:24:59 2011 From: silvia.luraghi at unipv.it (Silvia Luraghi) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 15:24:59 +0100 Subject: Reminder: call for papers 20th ICHL workshop "The diachrony of referential null arguments" - Final deadline Jan. 15 Message-ID: Workshop title: The diachrony of referential null arguments Venue: 20 International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka 25-30 July 2011 (see http://www.ichl2011.com ) Convenors: Dag Haug (University of Oslo) / Silvia Luraghi (University of Pavia) Contact: d.t.t.haug at ifikk.uio.no / silvia.luraghi at unipv.it Deadline for final submission: 15 January 2011 http://www.ichl2011.com/call_for_papers.html *Workshop description* Definite referential null arguments are apparently one of the distinctive features of non-configurational languages, see Baker (2001). Even though descriptions are available for various genetically unrelated languages, there are little if any accounts of their diachrony. Our workshop aims to bring together scholars working on different language families and on typologically different languages who are interested in diachronic changes concerning the creation or disappearance of null arguments, with a focus on null objects or other types of null arguments not coreferenced on the verb. The rise of null objects deserves further investigation. Null objects can be the result of incorporation, wherebt object clitics become verb affixes (Baker 2001). Related to incorporation is the Hungarian objective conjugation, whose rise is also a possible topic of discussion. The occurrence of definite referential null objects has been observed in many ancient Indo-European languages. In spite of this, and in spite of the long documented history of these languages, even in their case historical accounts are limited, as are detailed studies of the conditions licensing null objects (Schäufele 1990 on Sanskrit; several studies have been devoted to null objects in Old Icelandic, Sigurðsson 1993). At least in Latin and possibly in Greek, null objects seem to be obligatory in coordinated sentences, unless emphasis or disambiguation are involved (this is possibly a common phenomenon connected to coordination reduction and frequent in non-Indo-European languages as well, Luraghi 2004), as well as in answers to yes/no questions (van der Wurff 1997). Descriptions of increasing use of over objects in Latin and Germanic point to increasing transitivity or emerging configurationality. Papers presented at the workshop should aim to assess: a) the relation between null objects and other parameters of configurationality; b) the relation of null objects to other null argument, in particular to null subjects; c) the relation between null objects and the parameter of head/dependent marking (Baker 2001); d) null objects and the grammaticalization of valency; e) incorporation and the rise of null objects. Papers should have a diachronic orientation; research based on extensive corpora and quantitative approaches to language change are especially encouraged. * * *References* Baker, Mark (2001), ‘Configurationality and polysynthesis’, in M. Haspelmath, E. König, W. Oesterreicher, W. Raible (eds.), *Language Typology and Language Universals . An International Handbook*. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, vol. 2, pp. 1433-41. Luraghi, Silvia 2004, ‘Null Objects in Latin and Greek and the Relevance of Linguistic Typology for Language Reconstruction’, in *Proceedings of the 15th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference**, JIES Monograph 49,* pp.234-256. Schäufele, Steven (1990), *Free Word-Order Syntax: the Challenge from Vedic Sanskrit to Contemporary Formal Syntactic Theory*. Ph. D. dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sigurðsson, Halldór A. (1993), ‘Argument-drop in Old Islandic’. *Lingua *89, 247-280. Wurff, Wim van der, 1994. “Null objects and learnability: The case of Latin”, *Working Papers of Holland Institute for Generative Linguistics*1/4. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Sonja Janssens (VU Brussels, Belgium) Quantitative methods in sociolinguistics: understanding statistics Anita Auer (Utrecht, NL) & Tony Fairman (Independent, UK) The lower orders in their own rites (England, c. 1750-1835) Leigh Oakes (Queen Mary London, UK) Language planning as identity planning: the case of Quebec Jack Chambers (Toronto, Canada) Language and Global Warming and Miriam Meyerhoff (Auckland, New Zealand) with a topic to be confirmed. Further information and registrations forms are available here: http://www.bris.ac.uk/german/hison/summerschool2011 yours nils -- Dr Nils Langer Reader in German Linguistics University of Bristol currently Germanistisches Seminar CAU Kiel Olshausenstr 93 24098 Kiel or School of Modern Languages 21 Woodland Road University of Bristol Bristol, BS8 1TE UK +44 117 92 89841 ---------------------- Dr Nils Langer Reader in German Linguistics School of Modern Languages University of Bristol Bristol, England BS8 1TE 0044-(0)117-92 89841 Nils.Langer at bristol.ac.uk http://www.bris.ac.uk/german weblinks to improve your life: The Historical Sociolinguistics network: http://www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/hison/ The Forum for Germanic Language Studies: www.fgls.ac.uk _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From honohiiri at yandex.ru Fri Jan 7 16:33:48 2011 From: honohiiri at yandex.ru (Idiatov Dmitry) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 19:33:48 +0300 Subject: Final Call for Papers (ICHL20): Stability & borrowability of interrogative pronominals Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop title: Stability and borrowability of interrogative pronominals Conference: 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, Japan, July 25-30, 2011 (http://www.ichl2011.com) Organizer: Dmitry Idiatov (LLACAN-CNRS, Paris) Contact: idiatov at vjf.cnrs.fr Invited speaker: Yaron Matras (University of Manchester) Deadline for abstract submission: January 15, 2011 Abstracts of no more than 300 words, including literature references, should be submitted through the conference website (http://www.ichl2011.com/call_for_papers.html). Please remember to indicate the workshop title in the appropriate place on the abstract submission form. Description: Interrogative pronominals, such as English who? and what?, are usually considered to be among the most change-proof elements in any language. They are believed to be highly resistant to both replacement through borrowing (Haspelmath & Tadmor 2009, Matras 2009:199) and language-internal renewal (Haspelmath 1997:176). In this respect, they strongly resemble personal pronominals. The two kinds of pronominals are also often perceived as good indicators of (long-range) genetic relationships and are regularly included in basic vocabulary lists. However, the view of personal pronominals as highly resistant to borrowing is not uncontroversial (cf. Wallace 1983, Thomason & Everett 2005, Matras 2009:203-208, Law 2009). It has also long been observed that reconstruction of personal pronominals tends to be fraught with difficulties due to their typically short forms and their tendency to undergo irregular changes, such as sound changes specific to them, various kinds of analogical changes and amalgamation with other elements. The workshop aims at assessing the claims on the universality of the extremely slow rate of change and high resistance to borrowing with respect to interrogative pronominals. Particularly welcome are papers on examples of fast changes of interrogative pronominals in families and subgroups, on examples of their borrowing and on the kinds of irregular changes affecting interrogative pronominals. Haspelmath, Martin. 1997. Indefinite pronouns. Oxford: Clarendon. Haspelmath, Martin & Uri Tadmor (eds.). 2009. Loanwords in the world’s languages: a comparative handbook. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Law, Danny. 2009. Pronominal borrowing among the Maya. Diachronica 26(2). 214-252. Matras, Yaron. 2009. Language contact. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Thomason, Sarah G. & Daniel L. Everett. 2005. Pronoun borrowing. Berkeley Linguistic Society 27. 301-315. Wallace, Stephen. 1983. Pronouns in contact. In Frederic B. Agard, Gerald Kelley, Adam Makkai & Valerie Becker Makkai (eds.), Essays in honor of Charles F. Hockett, 573-589. Leiden: Brill. _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From evie.cousse at ugent.be Mon Jan 10 12:28:23 2011 From: evie.cousse at ugent.be (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Evie_Couss=E9?=) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:28:23 +0100 Subject: Final call for papers 'Usage-based approaches to language change' at ICHL 2011 (Japan) Message-ID: Final call for papers "Usage-based approaches to language change" at ICHL 2011 in Osaka (Japan). Conveners: Evie Coussé (Ghent University, Belgium) and Ferdinand von Mengden (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Workshop description Most approaches to language (change) have principally in common that they locate the main explanandum of language in the human mind and that they operate with categories. Change is, implicitly or explicitly, seen as a shift of a linguistic form from one category to another whether across discrete or fuzzy boundaries. A well-know example of this view is the importance of reanalysis in explaining language change in mainstream historical linguistics. Reanalysis is considered to be the underlying mechanism that motivates changing patterns in usage such as contextual extension and increasing generalization / abstraction in meaning. However, alternative views have also been expressed, in which linguistic structure is seen as subject to constant negotiation in communication. Hopper’s (1998) Emergent Grammar or Keller’s (1994) Invisible Hand are prominent examples. Without denying the share that cognition has in the production of utterances and the usefulness of categories for linguistic description, structure is seen as epiphenomenal in these approaches. Structure is in a constant flux across time, area and social strata and, therefore, language use or actual communication are the loci of structure formation and hence of change. In line with this usage-based perspective of language and language change, an alternative for reanalysis has been proposed in which (changing) discourse patterns are directly related to meaning without referring to changes in abstract structures (e.g. Bybee e.a 1994, Haspelmath 1998, De Smet 2009). However, a larger coherent vision of the relation between language usage and language change is still largely missing. The workshop aims at discussing possibilities for such a usage-based framework on language change. We wish to combine case studies with theoretical contributions that help setting up a comprehensive model on language change, in which language use is in the focus and in which the core properties of language are seen in its dynamics rather than in its states. Abstract submission Abstracts of no more than 300 words, including literature references, should be submitted through the conference website ( http://www.ichl2011.com/call_for_papers.html). Please remember to indicate the workshop title in the appropriate place on the abstract submission form. Deadline for submission is 15 January 2011. References Bybee, J., R. Perkins & W. Pagliuca (1994) The evolution of grammar. Tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. De Smet, H. (2009) Analysing reanalysis. In: Lingua 119, 1728-1755. Haspelmath, M. (1998) Does grammaticalization need reanalysis? In: Studies in Language 22, 315-351. Hopper, P.J. (1998) Emergent grammar. In: M. Tomasello (ed.) The new psychology of grammar: cognitive and functional approaches to language structure. Mahwah: Erlbaum: 155-176. Keller, R. (1994) On language change. The invisible hand in language. London: Routlegde. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 verící. 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 From caterina.mauri at unipv.it Fri Jan 14 09:59:39 2011 From: caterina.mauri at unipv.it (Caterina Mauri) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:59:39 +0100 Subject: 2nd call for papers - Pavia, May 2011 - Workshop on "GRADUALNESS IN CHANGE AND ITS RELATION TO SYNCHRONIC VARIATION AND USE" Message-ID: ** WE APOLOGIZE FOR CROSS-POSTING ** ------------------------ International workshop on: "GRADUALNESS IN CHANGE AND ITS RELATION TO SYNCHRONIC VARIATION AND USE" Pavia (Italy), 30-31 May 2011 Workshop URL: https://sites.google.com/site/workshoppavia2011/ ------------------------ DESCRIPTION: The workshop aims to contribute to the discussion on the factors at play in diachronic change and to investigate the relationship between diachronic gradualness and synchronic variation, integrating the current views on linguistic variation and language use. Special attention will be devoted to theoretical and methodological issues concerning i) how the study of language change can benefit from the most recent achievements in linguistic theories and ii) how the explanations of synchronic variation may be found in diachronic processes, discussing whether diachronic gradualness and synchronic variation may be analyzed through the same lenses and by means of the same theoretical instruments. Furthermore, the workshop also wants to address the question of the impact of contact on linguistic change. Language contact may indeed be seen as a special type of synchronic phenomenon that may last in time and may gradually lead to diachronic change, triggering or influencing the development of particular constructions in neighbouring languages. INVITED SPEAKERS: Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam): ---- Topic: On the role of analogy in processes of language change Béatrice Lamiroy (University of Leuven): ---- Topic: The pace of grammaticalization in Romance languages Graeme Trousdale (University of Edinburgh): ---- Topic: Diachronic construction grammar and gradualness in language change Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp): ----- Topic: On diachronic semantic maps The workshop will also accommodate four contributions from the project members (t.b.a) on the effects of contact and interference within the macro-geographic-area of the Mediterranean. CALL FOR PAPERS: Authors are invited to submit a one-page abstract, keeping in mind that the slot for their communication will last 40 min. including discussion. Abstracts should be anonymous and should be sent as attachments in PDF format to: gradualness.workshop at gmail.com. Author(s) name(s) and affiliation should be indicated in the corpus of the e-mail. The abstracts will be anonimously reviewed by two members of the Scientific Committee. Besides theoretical issues, the exam of specific examples and the description of general patterns will also be welcome. Topics of interest include: • what kind of factors trigger the grammaticalization processes • the relation of grammaticalization to other mechanisms of language change such as reanalysis and analogy • the relationship between synchronic variation and grammatical change • the interaction between frequency, entrenchment and use • the possibility of multiple source constructions in language change • the role of language contact in grammatical change • how particular diachronic phenomena may be analyzed in the light of the most recent linguistic theories (e.g. construction grammar) • diachronic explanations for synchronic patterns of variation • ….. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission: 10 February 2011 Notification of acceptance 10 March 2011 ORGANIZERS AND CONTACT: Anna Giacalone Ramat - annaram (at) unipv.it Caterina Mauri - caterina.mauri (at) unipv.it Piera Molinelli - piera.molinelli (at) unibg.it For any questions and for submissions, please write to gradualness.workshop at gmail.com SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Pierluigi Cuzzolin (University of Bergamo), Chiara Fedriani (University of Pavia), Chiara Ghezzi (University of Pavia), Anna Giacalone Ramat (University of Pavia), Gianguido Manzelli (University of Pavia), Caterina Mauri (University of Pavia), Piera Molinelli (University of Bergamo), Paolo Ramat (IUSS Institute), Andrea Sansò (Insubria University - Como), Federica Venier (University of Bergamo) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Certaines questions méritent plus particulièrement l'attention : quels sont, depuis trente ans, les objets linguistiques (catégories, constructions, paradigmes,..) qui ont bénéficié de l'attention prioritaire des linguistes ? Quelles sont les approches théoriques qui se sont montrées les plus efficaces dans la pertinence et la finesse des descriptions, dans la mise au jour des phénomènes de langue, dans leur explication ? Quelles sont les méthodologies qui se sont révélées les plus adaptées au domaine ? Y a-t-il des approches qui ont été abandonnées, soit comme inefficaces, soit comme idéologiquement marquées ? Les thèmes de ce premier colloque seront les suivants : £ Réflexion générale sur la discipline / le domaine £ Etat des lieux : les points forts et les lacunes, les voies les plus récentes £ Questions de méthodologie et d'épistémologie : les méthodes, les objets £ Confrontation et évaluation des approches théoriques £ Les 'grands équipements' (outils, ouvrages, corpus...) pour l'étude de l'histoire du français: état des lieux et besoins. Organisation du colloque Nous envisageons un colloque de 2½ jours avec trois conférenciers invités, deux tables rondes et des communications. Le colloque aura lieu immédiatement avant le colloque de l'Association of French Language Studies. Comité scientifique Bernard Combettes (Nancy), Yugi Kawaguchi (Tokyo), Anthony Lodge (St Andrews), Christiane Marchello-Nizia (ENS de Lyon), Sophie Marnette (Oxford), France Martineau (Ottowa), Yves-Charles Morin (Montréal), Lene Schøsler (Copenhague), Olivier Soutet (Paris IV), Agnès Steuckardt (Toulon) Conférenciers invités (confirmés) Peter Koch (Tübingen) Andres Kristol (Neuchâtel) Tables rondes I : Corpus pour l'étude de l'histoire de la langue française : histoire, état des lieux, perspectives Avec la participation de Céline Guillot (ENS-Lyon), Véronique Montémont et Pascale Bernard (ATILF Nancy), Sophie Prévost (ENS-Paris) II : Cartographie de la zone préverbale en français Avec la participation de Paola Benincà (Padova), Bernard Combettes (Nancy), Corinne Rossari (Fribourg) Modalités Les propositions de communication, qui ne doivent pas contenir plus de 350 mots, sont à envoyer avant le 4 mars 2011 par document attaché à l'adresse électronique suivante : wmb1001 at cam.ac.uk. Une réponse sera donnée début avril 2011. Des informations sur le logement, le programme et les frais d'inscription seront mises sur le site web de la société : http://www.sidf.group.cam.ac.uk/ Pour tout renseignement supplémentaire, contacter la présidente de la société : Wendy Ayres-Bennett (wmb1001 at cam.ac.uk). _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From caterina.mauri at unipv.it Mon Jan 31 15:39:09 2011 From: caterina.mauri at unipv.it (Caterina Mauri) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:39:09 +0100 Subject: Deadline approaching - Pavia, May 2011 - Workshop on "GRADUALNESS IN CHANGE AND ITS RELATION TO SYNCHRONIC VARIATION AND USE" Message-ID: ** WE APOLOGIZE FOR CROSS-POSTING ** ------------------------ International workshop on: "GRADUALNESS IN CHANGE AND ITS RELATION TO SYNCHRONIC VARIATION AND USE" Pavia (Italy), 30-31 May 2011 Workshop URL: https://sites.google.com/site/workshoppavia2011/ ------------------------ DESCRIPTION: The workshop aims to contribute to the discussion on the factors at play in diachronic change and to investigate the relationship between diachronic gradualness and synchronic variation, integrating the current views on linguistic variation and language use. Special attention will be devoted to theoretical and methodological issues concerning i) how the study of language change can benefit from the most recent achievements in linguistic theories and ii) how the explanations of synchronic variation may be found in diachronic processes, discussing whether diachronic gradualness and synchronic variation may be analyzed through the same lenses and by means of the same theoretical instruments. Furthermore, the workshop also wants to address the question of the impact of contact on linguistic change. Language contact may indeed be seen as a special type of synchronic phenomenon that may last in time and may gradually lead to diachronic change, triggering or influencing the development of particular constructions in neighbouring languages. INVITED SPEAKERS: Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam): ---- Topic: On the role of analogy in processes of language change Béatrice Lamiroy (University of Leuven): ---- Topic: The pace of grammaticalization in Romance languages Graeme Trousdale (University of Edinburgh): ---- Topic: Diachronic construction grammar and gradualness in language change Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp): ----- Topic: On diachronic semantic maps The workshop will also accommodate four contributions from the project members (t.b.a) on the effects of contact and interference within the macro-geographic-area of the Mediterranean. CALL FOR PAPERS: Authors are invited to submit a one-page abstract, keeping in mind that the slot for their communication will last 40 min. including discussion. Abstracts should be anonymous and should be sent as attachments in PDF format to: gradualness.workshop at gmail.com. Author(s) name(s) and affiliation should be indicated in the corpus of the e-mail. The abstracts will be anonimously reviewed by two members of the Scientific Committee. Besides theoretical issues, the exam of specific examples and the description of general patterns will also be welcome. Topics of interest include: • what kind of factors trigger the grammaticalization processes • the relation of grammaticalization to other mechanisms of language change such as reanalysis and analogy • the relationship between synchronic variation and grammatical change • the interaction between frequency, entrenchment and use • the possibility of multiple source constructions in language change • the role of language contact in grammatical change • how particular diachronic phenomena may be analyzed in the light of the most recent linguistic theories (e.g. construction grammar) • diachronic explanations for synchronic patterns of variation • ….. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission: 10 February 2011 Notification of acceptance 10 March 2011 ORGANIZERS AND CONTACT: Anna Giacalone Ramat - annaram (at) unipv.it Caterina Mauri - caterina.mauri (at) unipv.it Piera Molinelli - piera.molinelli (at) unibg.it For any questions and for submissions, please write to gradualness.workshop at gmail.com SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Pierluigi Cuzzolin (University of Bergamo), Chiara Fedriani (University of Pavia), Chiara Ghezzi (University of Pavia), Anna Giacalone Ramat (University of Pavia), Gianguido Manzelli (University of Pavia), Caterina Mauri (University of Pavia), Piera Molinelli (University of Bergamo), Paolo Ramat (IUSS Institute), Andrea Sansò (Insubria University - Como), Federica Venier (University of Bergamo) --- Caterina Mauri Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics University of Pavia Strada Nuova 65 27100 Pavia Italy Email: caterina.mauri at unipv.it Homepage: http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=1114 -------------- 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 agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca Wed Jan 5 21:05:09 2011 From: agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca (Greenwood, Audrey) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 21:05:09 +0000 Subject: Now available - The Canadian Journal of Linguistics 55 (3), November 2010 Message-ID: The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique 55(3), November/novembre 2010 is now available at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/toc/cjl.55.3.html Noun incorporation as symmetry breaking Michael Barrie Abstract:This article proposes a novel account of noun incorporation in Northern Iroquoian. It is proposed that there is no special mechanism for noun incorporation and that this phenomenon falls out naturally from the geometry of the phrase structure under Moro?s theory of Dynamic Antisymmetry. In a nutshell, when the verbal head and the nominal head undergoMerge, they form a point of symmetric c-command,which is resolved by the nominal head moving to the specifier of the verb phrase. Further, it is proposed that, in noun incorporation constructions with a full DP double, the incorporated noun and the DP form a constituent, which is merged in theta-position. R?sum?:Cet article propose une nouvelle description de l?incorporation nominale dans l?iroquo?en du Nord. Il est propos? qu?il n?y a aucun m?canisme particulier en mati?re d?incorporation nominale et que ce ph?nom?ne d?coule naturellement de la g?om?trie de la syntaxe selon la th?orie de l?Antisym?trie dynamique de Moro. En un mot, la fusion (Merge) des t?tes verbale et nominale forme un point de c-commande sym?trique qui se voit r?soudre par le d?placement de la t?te nominale au sp?cifieur du syntagme verbal. De plus, j?avance que le nom incorpor? dans les constructions ayant un sd double forme avec celui-ci un constituent qui est fusionn? en position th?matique. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/v055/55.3.barrie.pdf Omission des d?terminants : Contraintes d?alternances rythmiques ou contraintes li?es aux niveaux sup?rieurs de la structure prosodique Roseline Fr?chette Marie Labelle R?sum?:Cet article vise ? d?terminer si l?omission des d?terminants chez des enfants de deux ans est contrainte au niveau du pied ou si elle est contrainte par les diff?rents niveaux de la hi?rarchie prosodique. Neuf enfants francophones ?g?s de 24 ? 31 mois ont particip? ? une t?che de r?p?tition de 54 phrases de quatre ou cinq mots de la forme suivante ?Pronomv sn? r?parties en trois conditions : a) d?t + nom monosyllabique; b) d?t + nom bisyllabique; c) d?t + adjectif monosyllabique + nom monosyllabique. Les r?sultats d?montrent 1) plus d?omission du d?terminant dans la condition b que dans la condition a; 2) plus d?omission du d?terminant en c qu?en b. Il est d?montr? que l?omission du d?terminant ne s?explique pas par une contrainte d?alternance rythmique de bas niveau et que le niveau de la structure prosodique auquel doit s?attacher le d?terminant joue un r?le dans l?omission des d?terminants. Abstract:This article focuses on whether determiner omission by two-year-old children is constrained at the level of the prosodic foot or whether it is a function of the different levels of the prosodic hierarchy. Nine French-speaking children aged 2;0 to 2;7 were asked to repeat 54 four-or five-word sentences of the form ?Pronoun V NP? with three conditions: a) det + monosyllabic noun; b) det + bisyllabic noun; c) det + monosyllabic adjective + monosyllabic noun. The results show 1) more determiner omission in condition b than in a; 2) more determiner omission in c than in b. It is shown that determiner omission is not accounted for by a low-level stress-alternation constraint and that the level of prosodic structure to which the determiner is attached plays a role in determiner omission. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/v055/55.3.frechette.pdf Redefining what matters: Syntactic explanation in American linguistics, 1955?1970 Janet Martin-Nielsen Abstract:The postwar decades are well known for having brought dramatic change to American linguistics on many fronts. This paper explores an internally focused aspect of this change: conditions of explanation. The two questions at stake are, firstly, what counts as explanation in linguistics? and, secondly, how is this decided? I argue that transformational grammarians dominated the setting of explanatory criteria in 1960s American syntax, and that this dominance was essential to the overall success of that theory. Importantly, rival grammarians were forced to devote as much time and effort to fitting their theories to the transformational criteria as they were to advancing their own explanatory priorities. By successfully naming the conditions for explanation, transformationalists provided their own supporters with significant questions to pursue and, simultaneously, drew energy away from rivals. This monopoly over explanatory criteria was central to the dominant position transformational grammar established in the American academic linguistics community. R?sum?:Les d?cennies de l?apr?s-guerre ont ?t? caract?ris?es par des changements importants dans la linguistique am?ricaine. Cet article explore un aspect interne de ces changements : les conditions d?explication.Deux questions sont en jeu ici : premi?rement, en quoi consiste l?explication en linguistique? et en deuxi?me lieu : Comment d?cide-t-on en quoi consiste l?explication? Je soutiens que les grammairiens transformationnels ont impos? le choix des crit?res d?explication de la syntaxe am?ricaine au cours des ann?es 1960 et que cette domination ?tait essentielle au succ?s global de la grammaire transformationnelle. Les grammairiens rivaux ont d? consacrer autant de temps et d?effort ? adapter leurs th?ories aux crit?res transformationnels qu?? avancer leur propres priorit?s d?explication. En r?ussissant ? d?finir les crit?res d?explication, les transformationalistes ont nourri leur propres partisans de questions importantes ? poursuivre en m?me temps qu?ils ont drain? les ?nergies de leurs rivaux. Ce monopole des crit?res d?explication ?tait central ? la position dominante que la grammaire transformationelle a ?tablie dans la communaut? linguistique universitaire am?ricaine. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/v055/55.3.martin-nielsen.pdf Some remarks on subject positions and the architecture of the left periphery in Spanish Bernhard P?ll This article reexamines the puzzling issue of where subjects, lexical and null, are located in Spanish and offers a novel explanation for the incompatibility of preverbal lexical subjects with fronted focussed constituents. Both Specip and the left periphery appear to be potential landing sites for subjects, according to discourse-pragmatic factors. Assuming that pro is a clitic, it is argued that the aforementioned incompatibility can be captured by a simple rule: Specip must be empty for focus fronting to occur. This is the case with pro, which adjoins to Infl, or with postverbal subjects since they remain in Specvp. From this analysis it follows that: 1) the subject field in Spanish is less articulated than is generally assumed, 2) the differences between Spanish and other null subject languages with respect to the availability of preverbal subjets can be reduced to this rule and a different ordering of focus and topic phrases, and 3) it is unnecessary to posit two different topic positions. R?sum?:Cet article examine l??pineuse question de la position pr?verbale occup?e par le sujet lexical en espagnol et offre une nouvelle explication pour la contrainte sur la cooccurrence de sujets lexicaux et de constituants focalis?s en position pr?verbale. S?agissant des positions sujet, il appara?t que tant le sp?cifieur de si que la p?riph?rie gauche peuvent servir comme cible de mouvement, en fonction de param?tres discursifs. En pr?sumant que pro est un clitique, je soutiens qu?il est possible de ramener la contrainte ci-dessus ? la r?gle suivante : le mouvement d?items focalis?s vers la p?riph?rie gauche requiert que le sp?cifieur de si soit vide. C?est le cas avec pro (attach? ? la t?te de si) et ?galement avec les sujets postverbaux. Il s?ensuit que 1) la structure des positions sujet en espagnol est moins complexe qu?on ne l?affirme souvent, 2) les diff?rences entre l?espagnol et d?autres langues ? sujet nul quant ? la possibilit? de sujets pr?verbaux se r?duisent ? la r?gle mentionn?e de m?me qu?? une structure diff?rente de la p?riph?rie gauche, et 3) il n?est pas n?cessaire de postuler deux positions diff?rentes pour les topiques. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/v055/55.3.poll.pdf The Canadian Shift in Toronto Rebecca Roeder Lidia-Gabriela Jarmasz Abstract:This study provides the first wide-scale, apparent time, instrumental description of the Canadian Shift in mainstream Toronto English. In contrast with some previous findings, the Toronto data suggest that for the last 70 years or more the shift has not affected the high front lax vowel (I). We observe that the movement of the non-high front lax vowels (?) and (?) involves both lowering and retraction in Toronto English, although retraction is the primary direction of more recent change and the shift appears to be slowing down. Our findings also suggest that continued retraction of the vowel resulting from the low back merger is involved in the final stage of the shift. We do not find evidence of a chain shift but instead propose that a parallel shift is occurring and make reference to Vowel Dispersion Theory in our discussion. R?sum?:Cette ?tude pr?sente la premi?re description instrumentale en temps apparent de grande envergure du Canadian Shift dans l?anglais courant de Toronto. En contraste avec certains r?sultats ant?rieurs, les donn?es de Toronto sugg?rent qu?au cours des 70 derni?res ann?es ou plus, cette mutation n?a pas touch? la voyelle haute ant?rieure rel?ch?e (I). Nous observons que le mouvement des voyelles ant?rieures rel?ch?es non hautes (?) et (?) implique ? la fois abaissement et post?riorisation, bien que cette derni?re repr?sente la direction principale du changement plus r?cent; de plus, nous observons que la mutation semble ralentir. Nos r?sultats sugg?rent ?galement que la post?riorisation continue de la voyelle qui provient de la fusion des voyelles post?rieures basses est impliqu?e dans la derni?re ?tape de la mutation. Ne trouvant aucune preuve de mutation en cha?ne, nous proposons plut?t que le Canadian Shift est unemutation en parall?le. Nous invoquons la th?orie de la dispersion des voyelles dans notre discussion. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/v055/55.3.roeder.pdf Honorific agreement in Japanese Hideki Kishimoto http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/v055/55.3.kishimoto.pdf One-replacement and the label-less theory of adjuncts Yosuke Sato http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/v055/55.3.sato.pdf Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and second language acquisition (review) Engin Arik http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/v055/55.3.arik.pdf The locative syntax of experiencers (review) Marco Nicolis http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/v055/55.3.nicolis.pdf L?enfant dans la langue (review) Nelleke Strik http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/v055/55.3.strik.pdf Pragmatics and grammar (review) Dorota Zielinska http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/v055/55.3.zielinska.pdf The Canadian Journal of Linguistics publishes articles of original research in linguistics in both English and French. 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Box 870302 Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 Phone: +1 480 727-9131 Fax: +1 480-965-3451 E-Mail: Robert.Mailhammer at asu.edu https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/1638174 http://lrz-muenchen.de/~mailhammer ------------- Reminder: Call for Papers: Etymology and Reconstruction in the Languages of Australia and the Pacific Session at ICHL 20, Osaka, Japan, 25-30 July 2011 Organisers: Robert Mailhammer (Arizona State University) Harold Koch (The Australian National University) Research in the history in the languages of Australia and the Pacific has been on the rise in recent years also as a result of increasingly reliable databases. In particular, for Australian languages it has become clear that the tools and methods of historical linguistics, in particular the comparative method, are far from useless, and that in fact great advances have been made in reconstructing and subgrouping Australian languages earlier (see e.g. Bowern and Koch 2004 and Evans 2003 for a critical discussion). And the history of Austronesian and Oceanic languages has made giant steps forward in etymological research (see especially Ross, Pawley and Osmond 1998-). The comparative study of the Papuan languages has also begun in earnest in recent years (Pawley 2005a, 2005b). The result of this research has also cast more light on the cultural and linguistic prehistory of the languages of Australia of the Pacific (see e.g. Mailhammer forthc.a). At the same time, the paucity of data and the gigantic time depth (e.g. in the case of Australian languages, see Mailhammer forthc.b) has continued to pose challenges for research. This conference session would like to invite papers addressing issues in etymology and reconstruction in the languages of Australia and the Pacific. Among the questions to be investigated could be the following: - classical etymological research, including toponyms (see e.g. Hercus & Koch 2009 on Aboriginal place names in Australia) - in what way etymology can elucidate cultural history - etymology/reconstruction and its particular significance to issues of subgrouping and Urheimat (cf. e.g. Anthony 1995 on the Urheimat of Proto-Indo-European based on etymologies of wheeled vehicles) - what the reconstruction of key elements can reveal about proto-phonology, -morphology, or -semantics References Anthony, David W. 1995. Horse, wagon & chariot: Indo-European languages and archaeology. Antiquity, 69, 554-565. Bowern, Claire, and Koch, Harold eds. 2004. Australian languages: classification and the comparative method. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 249. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Evans, Nicholas ed. 2003. The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia: comparative studies of the continent's most linguistically complex region. Pacific Linguistics 552. Canberra: Australian National University. Hercus, Luise and Koch, Harold eds. 2009. Aboriginal placenames: naming and re-naming the Australian landscape. Aboriginal history monograph 19. Canberra: ANU E-Press. Pawley, Andrew. 2005. Papuan languages. In The encyclopedia of language and linguistics, ed. Keith Brown, 162-171. Oxford: Elsevier. Pawley, Andrew. 2005. The Trans New Guinea family. In The encyclopedia of language and linguistics, ed. Keith Brown, 17-22. Oxford: Elsevier. Mailhammer, Robert. ed. forthc. a Sprung from a common source? Studies on lexical and structural etymology. Research in language change. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Mailhammer, Robert. forthc. b. Diversity vs. uniformity: Europe before the arrival of the Indo-European languages: a comparison with prehistoric Australia. In: Linguistic Roots of Europe, ed. Robert Mailhammer and Theo Vennemann. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. Ross, Malcolm, Pawley, Andrew and Osmond, Meredith. 1998-. The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic. 3 vols, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics/ANU E-press Abstracts of no more than 500 words (WORD, pdf) to be submitted to ICHL directly INDICATING THAT THE ARE INTENDED FOR THIS WORKSHOP (see http://www.ichl2011.com/call_for_papers.html#papers ). Deadline: 15 January 2011 Please contact the organisers for more information: Robert.Mailhammer at asu.edu Harold.Koch at anu.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Papers from the full range of linguistic and philological subfields, as well as differing theoretical perspectives, are welcome. All abstracts will undergo anonymous review. See for submission guidelines; the deadline is January 15, 2011, and we expect to have made decisions about abstracts by February 15, 2011. Should anything need clarification, send an e-mail to . We hope to see many of you at GLAC! Marc Pierce _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From silvia.luraghi at unipv.it Thu Jan 6 14:24:59 2011 From: silvia.luraghi at unipv.it (Silvia Luraghi) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 15:24:59 +0100 Subject: Reminder: call for papers 20th ICHL workshop "The diachrony of referential null arguments" - Final deadline Jan. 15 Message-ID: Workshop title: The diachrony of referential null arguments Venue: 20 International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka 25-30 July 2011 (see http://www.ichl2011.com ) Convenors: Dag Haug (University of Oslo) / Silvia Luraghi (University of Pavia) Contact: d.t.t.haug at ifikk.uio.no / silvia.luraghi at unipv.it Deadline for final submission: 15 January 2011 http://www.ichl2011.com/call_for_papers.html *Workshop description* Definite referential null arguments are apparently one of the distinctive features of non-configurational languages, see Baker (2001). Even though descriptions are available for various genetically unrelated languages, there are little if any accounts of their diachrony. Our workshop aims to bring together scholars working on different language families and on typologically different languages who are interested in diachronic changes concerning the creation or disappearance of null arguments, with a focus on null objects or other types of null arguments not coreferenced on the verb. The rise of null objects deserves further investigation. Null objects can be the result of incorporation, wherebt object clitics become verb affixes (Baker 2001). Related to incorporation is the Hungarian objective conjugation, whose rise is also a possible topic of discussion. The occurrence of definite referential null objects has been observed in many ancient Indo-European languages. In spite of this, and in spite of the long documented history of these languages, even in their case historical accounts are limited, as are detailed studies of the conditions licensing null objects (Sch?ufele 1990 on Sanskrit; several studies have been devoted to null objects in Old Icelandic, Sigur?sson 1993). At least in Latin and possibly in Greek, null objects seem to be obligatory in coordinated sentences, unless emphasis or disambiguation are involved (this is possibly a common phenomenon connected to coordination reduction and frequent in non-Indo-European languages as well, Luraghi 2004), as well as in answers to yes/no questions (van der Wurff 1997). Descriptions of increasing use of over objects in Latin and Germanic point to increasing transitivity or emerging configurationality. Papers presented at the workshop should aim to assess: a) the relation between null objects and other parameters of configurationality; b) the relation of null objects to other null argument, in particular to null subjects; c) the relation between null objects and the parameter of head/dependent marking (Baker 2001); d) null objects and the grammaticalization of valency; e) incorporation and the rise of null objects. Papers should have a diachronic orientation; research based on extensive corpora and quantitative approaches to language change are especially encouraged. * * *References* Baker, Mark (2001), ?Configurationality and polysynthesis?, in M. Haspelmath, E. K?nig, W. Oesterreicher, W. Raible (eds.), *Language Typology and Language Universals . An International Handbook*. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, vol. 2, pp. 1433-41. Luraghi, Silvia 2004, ?Null Objects in Latin and Greek and the Relevance of Linguistic Typology for Language Reconstruction?, in *Proceedings of the 15th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference**, JIES Monograph 49,* pp.234-256. Sch?ufele, Steven (1990), *Free Word-Order Syntax: the Challenge from Vedic Sanskrit to Contemporary Formal Syntactic Theory*. Ph. D. dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sigur?sson, Halld?r A. (1993), ?Argument-drop in Old Islandic?. *Lingua *89, 247-280. Wurff, Wim van der, 1994. ?Null objects and learnability: The case of Latin?, *Working Papers of Holland Institute for Generative Linguistics*1/4. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Sonja Janssens (VU Brussels, Belgium) Quantitative methods in sociolinguistics: understanding statistics Anita Auer (Utrecht, NL) & Tony Fairman (Independent, UK) The lower orders in their own rites (England, c. 1750-1835) Leigh Oakes (Queen Mary London, UK) Language planning as identity planning: the case of Quebec Jack Chambers (Toronto, Canada) Language and Global Warming and Miriam Meyerhoff (Auckland, New Zealand) with a topic to be confirmed. Further information and registrations forms are available here: http://www.bris.ac.uk/german/hison/summerschool2011 yours nils -- Dr Nils Langer Reader in German Linguistics University of Bristol currently Germanistisches Seminar CAU Kiel Olshausenstr 93 24098 Kiel or School of Modern Languages 21 Woodland Road University of Bristol Bristol, BS8 1TE UK +44 117 92 89841 ---------------------- Dr Nils Langer Reader in German Linguistics School of Modern Languages University of Bristol Bristol, England BS8 1TE 0044-(0)117-92 89841 Nils.Langer at bristol.ac.uk http://www.bris.ac.uk/german weblinks to improve your life: The Historical Sociolinguistics network: http://www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/hison/ The Forum for Germanic Language Studies: www.fgls.ac.uk _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From honohiiri at yandex.ru Fri Jan 7 16:33:48 2011 From: honohiiri at yandex.ru (Idiatov Dmitry) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 19:33:48 +0300 Subject: Final Call for Papers (ICHL20): Stability & borrowability of interrogative pronominals Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop title: Stability and borrowability of interrogative pronominals Conference: 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, Japan, July 25-30, 2011 (http://www.ichl2011.com) Organizer: Dmitry Idiatov (LLACAN-CNRS, Paris) Contact: idiatov at vjf.cnrs.fr Invited speaker: Yaron Matras (University of Manchester) Deadline for abstract submission: January 15, 2011 Abstracts of no more than 300 words, including literature references, should be submitted through the conference website (http://www.ichl2011.com/call_for_papers.html). Please remember to indicate the workshop title in the appropriate place on the abstract submission form. Description: Interrogative pronominals, such as English who? and what?, are usually considered to be among the most change-proof elements in any language. They are believed to be highly resistant to both replacement through borrowing (Haspelmath & Tadmor 2009, Matras 2009:199) and language-internal renewal (Haspelmath 1997:176). In this respect, they strongly resemble personal pronominals. The two kinds of pronominals are also often perceived as good indicators of (long-range) genetic relationships and are regularly included in basic vocabulary lists. However, the view of personal pronominals as highly resistant to borrowing is not uncontroversial (cf. Wallace 1983, Thomason & Everett 2005, Matras 2009:203-208, Law 2009). It has also long been observed that reconstruction of personal pronominals tends to be fraught with difficulties due to their typically short forms and their tendency to undergo irregular changes, such as sound changes specific to them, various kinds of analogical changes and amalgamation with other elements. The workshop aims at assessing the claims on the universality of the extremely slow rate of change and high resistance to borrowing with respect to interrogative pronominals. Particularly welcome are papers on examples of fast changes of interrogative pronominals in families and subgroups, on examples of their borrowing and on the kinds of irregular changes affecting interrogative pronominals. Haspelmath, Martin. 1997. Indefinite pronouns. Oxford: Clarendon. Haspelmath, Martin & Uri Tadmor (eds.). 2009. Loanwords in the world?s languages: a comparative handbook. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Law, Danny. 2009. Pronominal borrowing among the Maya. Diachronica 26(2). 214-252. Matras, Yaron. 2009. Language contact. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Thomason, Sarah G. & Daniel L. Everett. 2005. Pronoun borrowing. Berkeley Linguistic Society 27. 301-315. Wallace, Stephen. 1983. Pronouns in contact. In Frederic B. Agard, Gerald Kelley, Adam Makkai & Valerie Becker Makkai (eds.), Essays in honor of Charles F. Hockett, 573-589. Leiden: Brill. _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From evie.cousse at ugent.be Mon Jan 10 12:28:23 2011 From: evie.cousse at ugent.be (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Evie_Couss=E9?=) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:28:23 +0100 Subject: Final call for papers 'Usage-based approaches to language change' at ICHL 2011 (Japan) Message-ID: Final call for papers "Usage-based approaches to language change" at ICHL 2011 in Osaka (Japan). Conveners: Evie Couss? (Ghent University, Belgium) and Ferdinand von Mengden (Freie Universit?t Berlin, Germany) Workshop description Most approaches to language (change) have principally in common that they locate the main explanandum of language in the human mind and that they operate with categories. Change is, implicitly or explicitly, seen as a shift of a linguistic form from one category to another whether across discrete or fuzzy boundaries. A well-know example of this view is the importance of reanalysis in explaining language change in mainstream historical linguistics. Reanalysis is considered to be the underlying mechanism that motivates changing patterns in usage such as contextual extension and increasing generalization / abstraction in meaning. However, alternative views have also been expressed, in which linguistic structure is seen as subject to constant negotiation in communication. Hopper?s (1998) Emergent Grammar or Keller?s (1994) Invisible Hand are prominent examples. Without denying the share that cognition has in the production of utterances and the usefulness of categories for linguistic description, structure is seen as epiphenomenal in these approaches. Structure is in a constant flux across time, area and social strata and, therefore, language use or actual communication are the loci of structure formation and hence of change. In line with this usage-based perspective of language and language change, an alternative for reanalysis has been proposed in which (changing) discourse patterns are directly related to meaning without referring to changes in abstract structures (e.g. Bybee e.a 1994, Haspelmath 1998, De Smet 2009). However, a larger coherent vision of the relation between language usage and language change is still largely missing. The workshop aims at discussing possibilities for such a usage-based framework on language change. We wish to combine case studies with theoretical contributions that help setting up a comprehensive model on language change, in which language use is in the focus and in which the core properties of language are seen in its dynamics rather than in its states. Abstract submission Abstracts of no more than 300 words, including literature references, should be submitted through the conference website ( http://www.ichl2011.com/call_for_papers.html). Please remember to indicate the workshop title in the appropriate place on the abstract submission form. Deadline for submission is 15 January 2011. References Bybee, J., R. Perkins & W. Pagliuca (1994) The evolution of grammar. Tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. De Smet, H. (2009) Analysing reanalysis. In: Lingua 119, 1728-1755. Haspelmath, M. (1998) Does grammaticalization need reanalysis? In: Studies in Language 22, 315-351. Hopper, P.J. (1998) Emergent grammar. In: M. Tomasello (ed.) The new psychology of grammar: cognitive and functional approaches to language structure. Mahwah: Erlbaum: 155-176. Keller, R. (1994) On language change. The invisible hand in language. London: Routlegde. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 (Bar?dal 2001, 2009), historical variation in case marking (Berg-Olsen 2009, Bar?dal 2011) - Changes in periphrastic causatives in English (Hollmann 2003), future constructions in Germanic (Hilpert 2008), and raising constructions in English and Dutch (No?l & 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, No?l 2007, Trousdale 2008a-b, Bisang 2010) - Construction grammar and historical-comparative reconstruction (Gildea 1997, 1998, 2000, Haig 2008, Bar?dal & Eyth?rsson 2009, Bar?dal 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: Bar?dal, J?hanna. 2001. Case in Icelandic - A Synchronic, Diachronic and Comparative Approach. Lundastudier i Nordisk spr?kvetenskap A 57. Lund: Department of Scandinavian Languages, Lund. Bar?dal, J?hanna. 2009. The Development of Case in Germanic. In J. Bar?dal & S.L. Chelliah (eds.), The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case, 123-159. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Bar?dal, J?hanna. 2010. Construction-Based Historical-Comparative Reconstruction. To appear in G. Trousdale & T. Hoffmann, Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Bar?dal, J?hanna. 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. Bar?dal, J?hanna & Th?rhallur Eyth?rsson. 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. Bar?dal & 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. Bar?dal & 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 ver?c?. 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. Giv?n (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. No?l, Dirk. 2007. 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London: Kings College Publications. -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ J?hanna Bar?dal 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 From caterina.mauri at unipv.it Fri Jan 14 09:59:39 2011 From: caterina.mauri at unipv.it (Caterina Mauri) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:59:39 +0100 Subject: 2nd call for papers - Pavia, May 2011 - Workshop on "GRADUALNESS IN CHANGE AND ITS RELATION TO SYNCHRONIC VARIATION AND USE" Message-ID: ** WE APOLOGIZE FOR CROSS-POSTING ** ------------------------ International workshop on: "GRADUALNESS IN CHANGE AND ITS RELATION TO SYNCHRONIC VARIATION AND USE" Pavia (Italy), 30-31 May 2011 Workshop URL: https://sites.google.com/site/workshoppavia2011/ ------------------------ DESCRIPTION: The workshop aims to contribute to the discussion on the factors at play in diachronic change and to investigate the relationship between diachronic gradualness and synchronic variation, integrating the current views on linguistic variation and language use. Special attention will be devoted to theoretical and methodological issues concerning i) how the study of language change can benefit from the most recent achievements in linguistic theories and ii) how the explanations of synchronic variation may be found in diachronic processes, discussing whether diachronic gradualness and synchronic variation may be analyzed through the same lenses and by means of the same theoretical instruments. Furthermore, the workshop also wants to address the question of the impact of contact on linguistic change. Language contact may indeed be seen as a special type of synchronic phenomenon that may last in time and may gradually lead to diachronic change, triggering or influencing the development of particular constructions in neighbouring languages. INVITED SPEAKERS: Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam): ---- Topic: On the role of analogy in processes of language change B?atrice Lamiroy (University of Leuven): ---- Topic: The pace of grammaticalization in Romance languages Graeme Trousdale (University of Edinburgh): ---- Topic: Diachronic construction grammar and gradualness in language change Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp): ----- Topic: On diachronic semantic maps The workshop will also accommodate four contributions from the project members (t.b.a) on the effects of contact and interference within the macro-geographic-area of the Mediterranean. CALL FOR PAPERS: Authors are invited to submit a one-page abstract, keeping in mind that the slot for their communication will last 40 min. including discussion. Abstracts should be anonymous and should be sent as attachments in PDF format to: gradualness.workshop at gmail.com. Author(s) name(s) and affiliation should be indicated in the corpus of the e-mail. The abstracts will be anonimously reviewed by two members of the Scientific Committee. Besides theoretical issues, the exam of specific examples and the description of general patterns will also be welcome. Topics of interest include: ? what kind of factors trigger the grammaticalization processes ? the relation of grammaticalization to other mechanisms of language change such as reanalysis and analogy ? the relationship between synchronic variation and grammatical change ? the interaction between frequency, entrenchment and use ? the possibility of multiple source constructions in language change ? the role of language contact in grammatical change ? how particular diachronic phenomena may be analyzed in the light of the most recent linguistic theories (e.g. construction grammar) ? diachronic explanations for synchronic patterns of variation ? ?.. 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Certaines questions m?ritent plus particuli?rement l'attention : quels sont, depuis trente ans, les objets linguistiques (cat?gories, constructions, paradigmes,..) qui ont b?n?fici? de l'attention prioritaire des linguistes ? Quelles sont les approches th?oriques qui se sont montr?es les plus efficaces dans la pertinence et la finesse des descriptions, dans la mise au jour des ph?nom?nes de langue, dans leur explication ? Quelles sont les m?thodologies qui se sont r?v?l?es les plus adapt?es au domaine ? Y a-t-il des approches qui ont ?t? abandonn?es, soit comme inefficaces, soit comme id?ologiquement marqu?es ? Les th?mes de ce premier colloque seront les suivants : ? R?flexion g?n?rale sur la discipline / le domaine ? Etat des lieux : les points forts et les lacunes, les voies les plus r?centes ? Questions de m?thodologie et d'?pist?mologie : les m?thodes, les objets ? Confrontation et ?valuation des approches th?oriques ? Les 'grands ?quipements' (outils, ouvrages, corpus...) pour l'?tude de l'histoire du fran?ais: ?tat des lieux et besoins. Organisation du colloque Nous envisageons un colloque de 2? jours avec trois conf?renciers invit?s, deux tables rondes et des communications. Le colloque aura lieu imm?diatement avant le colloque de l'Association of French Language Studies. Comit? scientifique Bernard Combettes (Nancy), Yugi Kawaguchi (Tokyo), Anthony Lodge (St Andrews), Christiane Marchello-Nizia (ENS de Lyon), Sophie Marnette (Oxford), France Martineau (Ottowa), Yves-Charles Morin (Montr?al), Lene Sch?sler (Copenhague), Olivier Soutet (Paris IV), Agn?s Steuckardt (Toulon) Conf?renciers invit?s (confirm?s) Peter Koch (T?bingen) Andres Kristol (Neuch?tel) Tables rondes I : Corpus pour l'?tude de l'histoire de la langue fran?aise : histoire, ?tat des lieux, perspectives Avec la participation de C?line Guillot (ENS-Lyon), V?ronique Mont?mont et Pascale Bernard (ATILF Nancy), Sophie Pr?vost (ENS-Paris) II : Cartographie de la zone pr?verbale en fran?ais Avec la participation de Paola Beninc? (Padova), Bernard Combettes (Nancy), Corinne Rossari (Fribourg) Modalit?s Les propositions de communication, qui ne doivent pas contenir plus de 350 mots, sont ? envoyer avant le 4 mars 2011 par document attach? ? l'adresse ?lectronique suivante : wmb1001 at cam.ac.uk. Une r?ponse sera donn?e d?but avril 2011. Des informations sur le logement, le programme et les frais d'inscription seront mises sur le site web de la soci?t? : http://www.sidf.group.cam.ac.uk/ Pour tout renseignement suppl?mentaire, contacter la pr?sidente de la soci?t? : Wendy Ayres-Bennett (wmb1001 at cam.ac.uk). _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From caterina.mauri at unipv.it Mon Jan 31 15:39:09 2011 From: caterina.mauri at unipv.it (Caterina Mauri) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:39:09 +0100 Subject: Deadline approaching - Pavia, May 2011 - Workshop on "GRADUALNESS IN CHANGE AND ITS RELATION TO SYNCHRONIC VARIATION AND USE" Message-ID: ** WE APOLOGIZE FOR CROSS-POSTING ** ------------------------ International workshop on: "GRADUALNESS IN CHANGE AND ITS RELATION TO SYNCHRONIC VARIATION AND USE" Pavia (Italy), 30-31 May 2011 Workshop URL: https://sites.google.com/site/workshoppavia2011/ ------------------------ DESCRIPTION: The workshop aims to contribute to the discussion on the factors at play in diachronic change and to investigate the relationship between diachronic gradualness and synchronic variation, integrating the current views on linguistic variation and language use. Special attention will be devoted to theoretical and methodological issues concerning i) how the study of language change can benefit from the most recent achievements in linguistic theories and ii) how the explanations of synchronic variation may be found in diachronic processes, discussing whether diachronic gradualness and synchronic variation may be analyzed through the same lenses and by means of the same theoretical instruments. Furthermore, the workshop also wants to address the question of the impact of contact on linguistic change. Language contact may indeed be seen as a special type of synchronic phenomenon that may last in time and may gradually lead to diachronic change, triggering or influencing the development of particular constructions in neighbouring languages. INVITED SPEAKERS: Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam): ---- Topic: On the role of analogy in processes of language change B?atrice Lamiroy (University of Leuven): ---- Topic: The pace of grammaticalization in Romance languages Graeme Trousdale (University of Edinburgh): ---- Topic: Diachronic construction grammar and gradualness in language change Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp): ----- Topic: On diachronic semantic maps The workshop will also accommodate four contributions from the project members (t.b.a) on the effects of contact and interference within the macro-geographic-area of the Mediterranean. CALL FOR PAPERS: Authors are invited to submit a one-page abstract, keeping in mind that the slot for their communication will last 40 min. including discussion. Abstracts should be anonymous and should be sent as attachments in PDF format to: gradualness.workshop at gmail.com. Author(s) name(s) and affiliation should be indicated in the corpus of the e-mail. The abstracts will be anonimously reviewed by two members of the Scientific Committee. Besides theoretical issues, the exam of specific examples and the description of general patterns will also be welcome. Topics of interest include: ? what kind of factors trigger the grammaticalization processes ? the relation of grammaticalization to other mechanisms of language change such as reanalysis and analogy ? the relationship between synchronic variation and grammatical change ? the interaction between frequency, entrenchment and use ? the possibility of multiple source constructions in language change ? the role of language contact in grammatical change ? how particular diachronic phenomena may be analyzed in the light of the most recent linguistic theories (e.g. construction grammar) ? diachronic explanations for synchronic patterns of variation ? ?.. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission: 10 February 2011 Notification of acceptance 10 March 2011 ORGANIZERS AND CONTACT: Anna Giacalone Ramat - annaram (at) unipv.it Caterina Mauri - caterina.mauri (at) unipv.it Piera Molinelli - piera.molinelli (at) unibg.it For any questions and for submissions, please write to gradualness.workshop at gmail.com SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Pierluigi Cuzzolin (University of Bergamo), Chiara Fedriani (University of Pavia), Chiara Ghezzi (University of Pavia), Anna Giacalone Ramat (University of Pavia), Gianguido Manzelli (University of Pavia), Caterina Mauri (University of Pavia), Piera Molinelli (University of Bergamo), Paolo Ramat (IUSS Institute), Andrea Sans? (Insubria University - Como), Federica Venier (University of Bergamo) --- Caterina Mauri Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics University of Pavia Strada Nuova 65 27100 Pavia Italy Email: caterina.mauri at unipv.it Homepage: http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=1114 -------------- 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