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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>The XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>10-15 August 2009<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Radboud
University Nijmegen, Centre for Language Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Invited speakers confirmed so far<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Russell Gray (Auckland, New Zealand)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Giuseppe Longobardi (Trieste)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Shana Poplack (Ottawa)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>John Whitman (Cornell)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Charles Yang (Penn)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>First circular and call for papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Abstracts
are invited for papers of 30 minutes including discussion. Please send in an
abstract of no more than 300 words, including your most important literature
references. <b>The deadline for abstracts is 10 January 2009</b>. The
conference will host a number of workshops and thematic sessions, which are
listed below. Abstracts for these sessions are submitted, like those for the
general sessions, to a separate abstract submission website (under
construction). More details on this will be posted in the second circular
shortly after the summer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>The
second circular will also contain more detailed about registration and
accommodation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Note the conference e-mail address: <a
href="mailto:ICHL19@let.ru.nl">ICHL19@let.ru.nl</a>.</span></b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'> The website
with more information will be up in the course of August.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Local
committee: Ans van Kemenade, with </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Griet Coupé, Marion Elenbaas, Nynke de
Haas, Haike Jacobs, Bettelou Los, Margit Rem and Angela Terrill</span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Workshops include<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>The origin of non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Convener: Jóhanna Barđdal (Bergen) E-mail:
johanna.barddal@uib.no<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Several of the Modern Indo-European languages that have
maintained morphological case exhibit structures where the subject(-like)
argument is not canonically case marked. These are found amongst the Modern
Germanic languages, Modern Russian, the Modern Baltic languages and the Modern
Indo-Aryan languages, to mention some. It is traditionally assumed in the
literature that these have developed from objects to subjects (see, for
instance, Hewson and Bubenik 2006), hence the case marking. Recently, however,
it has been argued for Germanic that oblique subjects in the modern languages
were syntactic subjects already in Old Germanic (Eythórsson and Barđdal 2005).
This raises the question whether these non-canonically case-marked subject(-like)
arguments were objects in Proto-Germanic or Proto-Indo-European, or whether
they may have been syntactic subjects all along, given an assumption of the
alignment system in Proto-Indo-European being a Fluid-S system (cf. Barđdal and
Eythórsson 2008). It is, moreover, possible that the case marking patterns of
different predicate types have different origins in Indo-European. The aim of
this workshop is therefore to gather researchers who work on case marking in
Indo-European, and case marking in general, to a forum where the more general
topic of the origin of this non-canonical case marking can be discussed. By
doing that, we hope to shed light on this important issue within case marking
and alignment, historical linguistics, and Indo-European studies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>So just what IS sound change anyway? Definitional,
conceptual, and empirical issues in the study of change in sound.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Convener: Brian Joseph (Ohio State). E-mail:
Bjoseph@ling.ohio-state.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>The study of sound change is in many ways the foundation upon
which modern (post-18th century) historical linguistics has been built, yet
much about it still remains unaccounted for. Even <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>something as basic as what we mean by the term "sound
change"--- i.e., any change in the realization of the sounds of a word,
only phonetically driven change in sounds, only systemic changes in sound
patterns, only regular (in the Neogrammarian sense) change in sounds, or what?
--- is not agreed upon by all historical linguists, and the respective roles of
social factors as opposed to phonological<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>(systemic) factors as opposed to phonetic (articulatory and
acoustic) factors in sound change are yet to be fully sorted out. The framing
issues for this day-long workshop are how sound change is to be defined, how
sound change achieves regularity (if it ever does), how is sound change to be
separated out from other changes that have similar effects, whether innovation
is to be distinguished from spread in studying and understanding sound change,
and what is at stake in characterizing sound change in a precise way. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Spatial dynamics of language change<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Conveners: Roeland van Hout (Nijmegen) and Gertjan Postma
(Meertensinstituut)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>E-mail:
Gertjanpostma@mac.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>This workshop will focus
on the way we can incorporate space in our models of language variation and
change and how we can shift from static to dynamic interpretations of spatial
relationships. A first step is building in the space factor in quantitative
models of language variation. This is done in gravity models as applied by Trudgill
(1974) in which space is incorporated as a distance factor. Another example is
Hard (1972) who used computer simulations for testing diffusion processes.
Nerbonne & Heeringa (2001) and Spruijt (2008) map dialect distances to
colours on the basis of multidimensional scaling. In language typology we see
new methods of visualizing linguistic distances (clustering, neighbourhood
analysis; Longobardi & Guardiano (2005), Dunn <i>et al.</i> (2005), McMahon
& McMahon 2003), and the question arises how we can relate it to geography.
Is there a way to infer from the space-like dynamics of a change to the
structural properties involved, similar to what Kroch established for the time
dimension? Do related isoglosses spread with similar speed and/or steepness?
For instance, in work dealing with the diphtongization isogloss in Flanders,
Taeldeman (2001) ties the smoothness/ sharpness of a dialect boundary to its
socio-temporal dynamics: only isoglosses that represent active phonetic shifts
proceed smoothly, while in subsequent stages of lexical diffusion, the isogloss
exhibits a sharper edge. One of the challenges of this workshop is to explore
how to tie spatial dynamics to structural properties, parallel to what the
Constant Rate Hypothesis captures in time-dimension (tying properties of the
temporal dynamics to relations in the parameter settings of the varieties
involved).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Kinship terminologies:change and reconstruction<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Conveners: Patrick McConvell (Australian National
University) and Jeff Marck (Cairo)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>E-mail: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'><a href="mailto:Patrick.mcconvell@anu.edu.au"><span
lang=EN-US>Patrick.mcconvell@anu.edu.au</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";
color:black'>Study of kinship terminologies and systems has been one of the
major joint endeavours of comparative linguistics and the social sciences,
especially anthropology. Reconstruction of prehistoric systems has shed light
on the form of the societies of proto-language speakers and the changes leading
to present-day societies. In turn the systematic study of the typology of, and
constraints on, kinship systems in anthropology has assisted linguists in their
reconstruction work. While kinship, particularly diachronic kinship, has
become unfashionable in anthropology in the last 20-30 years, it is now
experiencing a renaissance, with new publications appearing often drawing on
linguistic evidence. There is also significant interest in history in
documented kinship changes in Europe and elsewhere, and this provides a more
detailed source about transitions in meanings and their motivations which can
aid in reconstruction. We are calling for papers on examples of reconstruction
of proto-terminologies in families and sub-groups; change in morphology,
semantics and usage, and borrowing of terms, whether based on prehistoric
reconstructions or written sources. Papers on theoretical and methodological
issues, especially addressing the interdisciplinary nature of this field, are
also welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Language and Migration<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Convener: Rob Howell (Madison) E-mail: rbhowell@wisc.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Historical linguists have long recognized that demographic
shifts can play a major role in language change. Nonetheless, the effects of
migration and the resultant language and or dialect contact are poorly
understood. Despite a surge in research on language contact, dialect contact and
koineisation over the past three decades, the wide range of linguistic outcomes
of migration-induced language- and dialect-contact situations implies that
facile approaches to the issue will prove inadequate. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>This workshop aims to tackle the thorny issues surrounding
the linguistic outcomes of <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>migration. Research dealing with any part of the world and
any period of history<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>is welcome. That said, we are really looking for papers
that are data-heavy on two fronts. On the one hand, we hope that submissions
will be based on extensive linguistic/philological data capturing changes in
progress. On the other hand, the research should present socio-historical data
of sufficient detail to link the linguistic change described to the demographic
change posited as its cause. These requirements for the most part limit
appropriate submissions to the early modern or modern periods, but we are open
to projects dealing with any period in history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Grammaticalization in East Asia<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Convener: Kazuha Watanabe (Cal State Fullerton) E-mail:
kwatanabe@Exchange.FULLERTON.EDU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Previous
research on grammaticalization in East Asian languages mainly focuses on the
individual changes occurring in a specific language as well as comparison
between examples from Asian languages and previous studies in European
languages as an isolated phenomenon. For example, while TAM markers in these
languages have been studied extensively, most of the work concentrates on the
development path of individual markers, rather than change in TAM system as a
whole. In addition, the research data is often collected from the standard
variety of a language, while the dialectal data is often neglected. Therefore,
this section adopts a systematic approach; the emphases will be given to an
example of grammaticalization which triggers paradigmatic change, as well as
typological findings in East Asian languages as a whole, in a specific language
family, or among dialects of one language, which differ from the rest of the
world. The systematic approach to grammaticalization will not only enable us
to amalgamate the previous findings of the individual changes, it will also
evaluate their validity. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Information structure in historical linguistics</span></b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Conveners: Kristin Eide (Trondheim), Roland Hinterhölzl (HU
Berlin), Ioanna Sitaridou (Cambridge)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>E-mail: k.g.eide@ilos.uio.no<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Recent years have seen a growing interest in the study of
information structure in linguistics. Given that information structure is a
fine exemplification of how ‘division of labour’ works between
different components of the grammar it is hardly surprising to see the rise of
numerous works cast within different frameworks (e.g. OT, minimalism,
discourse-oriented models, phonology-oriented models, etc.). However, despite
how well-studied information structure is in synchronic terms, this is hardly
the case in historical linguistics. The reasons are pretty obvious since many
of the methods used to identify information structure in modern languages, such
as laboratory phonology research, are not available to historical linguists.
Nevertheless, it is now becoming imperative to investigate the articulation of
information structure in historical texts given that some of our assumptions
about word order change for instance crucially depend on that. The present
workshop seeks to provide answers to the following questions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>(a) How do we transfer knowledge we have on modern
languages through<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>laboratory research on phonological phenomena such as
sentence intonation and sentence stress/focus stress to historical linguistics?
What methods are available to us for the identification of information
packaging? How reliable are these methods?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>(b) What is the interaction between grammar, and in
particular, between<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>syntax and information structure?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>(c) Is information structure part of syntax, as
suggested by the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>cartographic approach, or is it outside syntax namely the
choice of particular syntactic structures is guided by specific discourse
situations? What insights can be gained with respect to these questions from
the historical perspective?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>(d) Do we have evidence for grammaticalized
information structure in older<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>languages? Or, for reshuffling of information structure
systems through different processes?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>We encourage submission of abstracts for papers addressing
any of the topics mentioned above. Papers should explicitly draw theoretical
implications from their findings regarding the nature of information structure
in the historical context.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>New perspectives on Baltic, Slavic and Balto-Slavic<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Conveners: Imke Mendoza (Salzburg), Eugen Hill (München).
E-mail: eugen.hill@lrz.uni-muenchen.de<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'> “The diachronic relationship between the Baltic and
the Slavic languages is one of the most intriguing puzzles of Indo-European
linguistics. Although these groups of languages constitute two separate
branches of Indo-European, they share an unusually high number of common
innovations concerning the inflectional, derivational and accentual system.
Despite many years of research, the reason for the striking similarity remains
unclear. There are two competing, although not mutually exclusive hypotheses.
One assumes an intermediate Balto-Slavic stage after the break up of
Proto-Indo-European. The other hypothesis seeks to explain the similarities
within the framework of language contact, i.e as a result of their longstanding
geographic relationship. Both positions have been argued, but neither has been
generally accepted. During the last few decades, international research has
concentrated on particular grammatical features of Baltic and Slavic. Most of
these studies while useful, however, focused on either Baltic or Slavic without
taking into account the other language group. The goal of the workshop
therefore is to bring together scholars with expertise in Baltic and in Slavic
and to find some new answers to the old question about the existence of a
Balto-Slavic unity.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Procedural meanings in diachrony<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Conveners: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (Manchester) &
Jacqueline Visconti (Genoa)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>This workshop will be concerned with all aspects
(descriptive, theoretical and/or methodological) of the diachronic evolution of
procedural meanings, understood here as linguistic items/constructions that
provide instructions to hearers on how to integrate the contentful elements of
the message within an evolving mental model of the discourse, at both the
ideational level (including, for instance, temporal or causal relations between
events, or the indexing of referents) and the interpersonal level (including,
prominently, indexing the speaker’s attitudes to the discourse and its
participants, and indexing metatextual relationships between propositions or
between propositions and the extra-linguistic context). Procedural meanings
thus not only include pragmatic items such discourse markers, focus particles,
modal particles, scalar items, interpersonal markers, approximatives, address
terms, markers of information structure, etc., but also grammatical morphemes
and constructions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Discussion of the explanatory value of the competing notions
of grammaticalization, pragmaticalization, and lexicalization, and proposals
for further refinement of those notions, will be at the center of interest, as
will the question of the causes and mechanisms of semantic/pragmatic change. </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Two main objectives of
the workshop will be:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>ˇ<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>to discover whether there are, across languages,
characteristic pathways of diachronic change for grammatical morphemes, on the
one hand, and pragmatic items, on the other;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>ˇ<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>to investigate how meanings that are coded in
language structure arise from language use in actual communication. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Gender
marking<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Convener:
Gunther de Vogelaer (Ghent) E-mail:gunther.devogelaer@ugent.be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Despite several decades of research, our understanding of
grammatical gender systems is still relatively poor in comparison to other
parts of grammar. The present workshop aims at taking stock of current
developments in the field, tackling question including, but not restricted to,
the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>- Patterns of change in gender systems: can we
find any regularity in changes that gender systems can undergo? And to what
extent can we derive answers from such patterns with regard to more fundamental
questions such as the quest for triggers in gender change (deflection, language
contact), the function of grammatical gender, or the structure of gender
systems?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>- Loss or renewal of grammatical gender: in
Indo-european languages, most ongoing changes concern the loss of aspects of
the gender system, such as the decrease of the number of genders or the loss of
gender agreement from parts of the grammar (although there are exceptions, such
as the emergence of a ‘neo-neuter’ in varieties of Italian (Haase
2000). Are there language families where the reverse is observed, i.e. frequent
changes towards more genders or towards more gender agreement? In addition, to
what extent do these innovations match alleged universal pathways such as the
one proposed by Greenberg (1978).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>- The global distribution of grammatical
gender: it appears that gender systems are quite widespread in the world, but
not universal (cf. the WALS). Are there any linguistic properties that
facilitate or inhibit the presence of grammatical gender? And how can such
correlations be explained?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>- Grammatical gender and theories of language
change: recent data, e.g. from Dutch, have shown substantial differences in the
way grammatical gender is acquired in L1 and L2. Hence data on gender change
can be shed some light over the ongoing debate on the role of L1 vs. L2
speakers in language change.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Complementation In Diachrony<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Conveners: Dr. Theodore Markopoulos (Uppsala) and Dr.
Christina Sevdali (Ulster)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>E-mail: C.Sevdali@ulster.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Complementation is an issue encompassing various domains of
linguistic analysis: syntax, morphology, semantics / pragmatics, and therefore,
changes affecting patterns of complementation can have important repercussions
for the whole morphosyntactic frame of a language. In this workshop, it is our
goal to explore aspects of changes in the complementation system(s) of
languages, including: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>The diachronic paths manifested in argument structure of
verbs, as seen in syntactic, semantic / pragmatic as well as morphological
changes related to specific verbs classes or to the overall verbal domain of a
language<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>The clausal complementation system and, more precisely,
issues regarding finite vs. non-finite complements and how such patterns evolve
diachronically. An interesting example is the case of Greek that has passed
from a predominantly infinitival to an almost entirely finite complementation
system, compared to the case of English which shows an increasing restriction
in the use of finite complements between the Old and Middle English periods.
Factors determining such large-scale changes can be of paramount interest for
historical linguistics since among other things, they also relate to the
question of directionality of language change. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>The nominal complementation patterns and their relation to
verbal complementation and the changes affecting the latter. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>We believe that diachronic paths of complementation have
been under-explored despite their obvious significance, and by this workshop we
seek to start redressing the balance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Making the best of bad data in historical contact
linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Convener:
Margot vd Berg (Nijmegen). </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>E-mail: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><a href="mailto:M.v.d.Berg@let.ru.nl"><span
lang=EN-US>M.v.d.Berg@let.ru.nl</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>Even more than historical linguists working on Dutch, Arabic
or Tamil for example, linguists studying contact languages (pidgins, creoles,
koines, World Englishes etc.) from an historical perspective are faced with the
problem of bad data: In addition to a relative paucity of historical documents
illustrating authentic spoken language, the available documents that contain
information in and on the language derive more often than not from authors who
are not native speakers of the reported language. Can these documents still be
regarded as reliable and representative? What methods do historical contact
linguists use these days to make the best of bad data? Can bad data influence
our notion of language formation? This workshop seeks to bring together
scholars working on contact languages world-wide from an historical
perspective, socio-historical as well as linguistic. Contributions are
solicited that a) address (one of) the questions raised above, or b) advance a
theory of contact language formation on the basis of new data-driven
investigations. Thus, this workshop offers its participants a taste of state of
the art historical contact linguistics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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