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<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Call for papers for the workshop "Usage-based
approaches to language change" at ICHL 2011 in Osaka (Japan).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Conveners: Evie Coussé (Ghent University, Belgium) and
Ferdinand von Mengden (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Workshop description<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Call for papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>As the workshop has been approved and accepted by the
conference organizers of ICHL 2011, a call for papers is launched for
interested speakers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Abstracts of no more than 300 words, including literature
references, should be submitted through the conference website (</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.ichl2011.com/call_for_papers.html"><span lang=EN-US
style='color:windowtext'>http://www.ichl2011.com/call_for_papers.html</span></a></span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>). Please
remember to indicate the workshop title in the appropriate place on the
abstract submission form.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please note that also potential speakers that have reacted
positively to the initial call for participation in October 2010 are required
to send a full abstract through the conference website.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>Important deadlines:<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>15 January 2011: abstract
submission deadline<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>28 January 2011: notification
of acceptance</span></strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>References<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>De Smet, H. (2009) Analysing reanalysis. In: Lingua 119,
1728-1755.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Haspelmath, M. (1998) Does grammaticalization need
reanalysis? In: Studies in Language 22, 315-351.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Keller, R. (1994) On language change. The invisible hand
in language.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>London:
Routlegde.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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