<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; ">** WE APOLOGIZE FOR CROSS-POSTING **</span></div><div><br></div><div>------------------------</div><div><div><div dir="ltr">International workshop on: <br>"GRADUALNESS IN CHANGE AND ITS RELATION TO SYNCHRONIC VARIATION AND USE"<br>Pavia (Italy), 30-31 May 2011</div><div dir="ltr">Workshop URL: <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/workshoppavia2011/">https://sites.google.com/site/workshoppavia2011/</a></div><div dir="ltr">------------------------</div><div dir="ltr"><div><div> </div><div>DESCRIPTION:</div><div>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.</div><p align="">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. </p><p align="">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. </p><div><br>INVITED SPEAKERS:<br>Olga
Fischer (University of Amsterdam): </div><div>---- Topic: On the role of analogy in processes
of language change<br>Béatrice
Lamiroy (University of Leuven): </div><div>---- Topic: The pace of grammaticalization in
Romance languages </div><div><div>Graeme Trousdale (University of Edinburgh): </div><div>---- Topic: Diachronic construction grammar and gradualness in language change</div>Johan van der
Auwera (University of Antwerp): </div><div>----- Topic:
On diachronic semantic maps </div> <br>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.<br><br></div></div></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">CALL FOR PAPERS:<div id="sites-canvas-main"><div id="sites-canvas-main-content"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Authors
are invited to submit a one-page abstract, keeping in mind that the
slot for their communication will last 40 min. including discussion. </div><div>Abstracts should be anonymous and should be sent as
attachments in PDF format to: <a href="mailto:gradualness.workshop@gmail.com">gradualness.workshop@gmail.com</a>. </div><div>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.</div><div><p align="">Besides theoretical issues, the exam of specific examples and the description of general patterns will also be welcome. Topics of interest include:</p><div>• what kind of factors trigger the grammaticalization processes</div><div>• the relation of grammaticalization to other mechanisms of language change such as reanalysis and analogy</div><div>• the relationship between synchronic variation and grammatical change</div><div>• the interaction between frequency, entrenchment and use</div><div>• the possibility of multiple source constructions in language change</div><div>• the role of language contact in grammatical change</div><div>• how particular diachronic phenomena may be analyzed in the light of the most recent linguistic theories (e.g. construction grammar)</div><div>• diachronic explanations for synchronic patterns of variation</div><div>• …..</div></div><p align="">IMPORTANT DATES:</p><p align="">Deadline for submission: 10 February 2010</p><p align="">Notification
of acceptance 10 March 2010</p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">ORGANIZERS AND CONTACT:<br><p align="">Anna Giacalone
Ramat - annaram (at) unipv.it</p><p align="">Caterina Mauri - caterina.mauri (at) unipv.it</p><p align="">Piera Molinelli - piera.molinelli (at) unibg.it</p> For any questions and for submissions, please write to <a href="mailto:gradualness.workshop@gmail.com">gradualness.workshop@gmail.com</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br><br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div>SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:<br><p align="">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)</p></div></div></div></div></body></html>