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<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><b>So, what
is it then, this Grammaticalization? – Approaches to Refining the Notion<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Workshop at Freie
Universität Berlin, Germany, 24/25 February 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><u>Organizers: <o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Ferdinand von Mengden
(FU Berlin)<br>
Horst Simon (FU Berlin)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><u>Invited speakers:<o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Ulrich Detges (</span>Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> Munich)<br>
Brian D. Joseph (Ohio State University)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Already the two
classical definitions of ‘grammaticalization’, by Meillet (1912) (“</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language:FR">[l’]attribution du caractère grammatical à
un mot jadis autonome</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">”)
and Kuryłowicz (1965) (“Grammaticalization consists in the increase of the
range of a morpheme advancing from a lexical to a grammatical or from less
grammatical to a more grammatical status […].”), vary considerably in scope.
Even more so today, the label <i>grammaticalization</i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> is used for a great array of phenomena; it
seems in fact that the term has come to be used to refer to virtually anything
that concerns the change or replacement of grammatical forms or constructions. While
this broad scope of the notion makes ‘grammaticalization’ a widely discussed
phenomenon in linguistics, the notion has necessarily become fuzzy: it has
become difficult (perhaps impossible?) to find a consensus in ascribing any
defining property to grammaticalization.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">In this two-day
workshop, we want to take stock of the various conceptualizations and try to
re-focus our notion of grammaticalization in light of the empirical findings
and the theoretical developments in recent years. This is motivated by our
belief that most controversies concerning the properties and the status of
grammaticalization have their origin in the fact that the notion has become
inconsistent or even ill-defined. A further consequence is that a plethora of
new <i>Izations</i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> in
the study of (grammatical) change have emerged, but no harmonious terminology –
not to speak of a consistent model of the emergence and the change of
grammatical forms.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">On the assumption that a
loose use of the term <i>grammaticalization</i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> does not contribute any longer to our
understanding of the mechanisms involved in the emergence of grammatical forms
and constructions, furthermore on the assumption that what Meillet originally
had in mind – the emergence of grammatical forms – <i>is</i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> a relevant cross-linguistic
phenomenon, we would like to raise the question of how to refine the notion
‘grammaticalization’ in a way that is beneficial for our understanding of
language change. Questions for discussion at the workshop include, but are not
restricted to:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">To what extent do additional
concepts (X-<i>izations</i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">) like pragmaticalization, discoursization, (inter)subjectification
etc., which were born out of the context of grammaticalization studies but
which are themselves not defined unanimously, need to be included into (or
excluded from) a framework for the study of changes in grammatical forms. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">What is their relation with
grammaticalization – in Meillet’s sense or in a wider sense? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">What<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>status have past and present attempts to model changes of
grammatical forms, such as the traditional parameters, clines and others?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Are there characteristic features
that can be observed in all instances of grammaticalization processes – whether
in a wider or in a more narrow sense – and can therefore be considered
definitory of grammaticalization? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">We would like to invite
linguists interested in language change to contribute to a discussion which
aims at refining the notion of ‘grammaticalization’ and, ultimately, at
overcoming the current terminological fuzziness.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Please send an anonymous
abstract of no more than 500 words, excluding references, to <a href="mailto:grz2012@zedat.fu-berlin.de">grz2012@zedat.fu-berlin.de</a>.<span style="color:#FFFF00"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">There will be 40-minute
slots, including discussion time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Deadline for submission
of abstracts: 31 August 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Notification of
acceptance: Early October 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%">A conference website will be available soon.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">For further information
please contact: <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><a href="mailto:grz2012@zedat.fu-berlin.de">grz2012@zedat.fu-berlin.de</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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